Explainers Resilient Leadership: The Power of Presence Success at work relies on your capacity to cope and even thrive when faced with stress. The good news is that resilience is a skill, and that practice can help you manage your presence.
Explainers How to Make Your Ego Work for You as a Leader Ego is your sense of self. Everyone has one, and it’s critical to self-esteem. But when your ego gets too big, we call that narcissism. If you know you have a big ego, you can avoid the problems related to narcissism with self-development.
Tools Anticipate Problems With Scenario Planning At the start of any project, this exercise can help you predict what might go wrong as well as creating a culture where addressing new challenges is safe.
Explainers Why Behavior Beats Attitude when Introducing Cultural Change If you want people to act differently, focus on behavior, not attitude.
Tools Why a Quick “Check-In” Makes Meetings More Effective At the beginning of the meeting, we ask, “What are you bringing with you?” This simple ritual builds psychological safety and actually keeps meetings running on time.
Misc Get to “Skateboard”: How to Start Solving Complex Challenges To solve complex problems, start with the simplest solution and make it “safe to try”
Explainers Who Writes Things Down in Your Organization (and Why It Matters) Taking notes during meetings is a critical and often unappreciated role. Evaluate how your team decides who to take notes to run more equitable and effective meetings.
Tools Increase Resilience with a Leadership Retrospective Resilience is a critical skill for any leader in turbulent times—and just like any skill, it can be practiced and improved. Use this activity to reflect on your performance and the year ahead.
Tools Defining a Strategic Approach to the Employee Experience This comprehensive view of key milestones for employees at your organization can help identify opportunities to increase retention.
Explainers Why Cynicism Matters When You’re Making Change Cynicism has the potential to stop your change movement cold. But don’t despair—beneath every cynic is a disappointed idealist.
Tools Memo Mori: Define Your Legacy to Revitalize Your Present What impact do you want to leave behind? Set aside time to write your own obituary, and use it to guide your day-to-day.
