The First Ninety Days in a New Leadership Role
The first ninety days in a new leadership role disproportionately shape everything that follows. Here’s how to approach this window deliberately.
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Leadership
Leading a Team Smaller Than It Used to Be
A team that’s shrunk, through layoffs or attrition, needs a genuinely different kind of leadership than it did before. Here’s how to lead it well.
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The Leader’s Own Learning Curve With New Technology
A leader who’s genuinely behind on new technology their team uses daily faces a specific credibility challenge. Here’s how to navigate it well.
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When a Leadership Team Itself Is Dysfunctional
A dysfunctional leadership team creates ripple effects throughout an entire organisation. Here’s how to recognise and genuinely help address it.
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Leading Through a Product Failure or Public Misstep
A visible product failure or public misstep tests a leader’s genuine composure and accountability. Here’s how to lead through it well.
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Leading a Team That’s Lost Faith in the Company’s Direction
A team that’s genuinely lost confidence in leadership’s direction needs honest, specific engagement, not forced positivity. Here’s how to lead it well.
Management Skills
Managing a Team You Inherited, Not Built
An inherited team comes with existing dynamics, habits, and history a manager didn’t create. Here’s how to lead it well rather than fight against it.
Management Skills
Managing Someone Who’s About to Resign
The period between a resignation announcement and departure deserves genuine care, not disengagement. Here’s how to manage it well.
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Building Followership Without Formal Authority
Genuine influence without a formal title requires a different skill set than positional authority. Here’s how to build real followership without it.
Management Skills
Handling a Direct Report Who Goes Over Your Head
A direct report bypassing you to your own manager stings, and how you respond matters more than the incident itself. Here’s how to handle it well.
Communication
Communicating Bad News Up the Chain, Not Just Down
Delivering difficult news to a manager or executive requires a genuinely different approach than delivering it to a team. Here’s how to do it well.
Communication
Communicating When You Don’t Have All the Answers Yet
Pressure to sound certain, even before you genuinely are, produces communication that erodes trust once the gaps eventually show. Here’s a better approach.
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The First Time You Have to Deliver Bad News to Your Whole Team
Delivering hard news to an entire team for the first time as a leader is genuinely different from any individual difficult conversation. Here’s how to do it well.
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Reading Team Morale Before It Becomes a Problem
By the time low morale shows up in obvious complaints, it’s usually been building quietly for months. Here’s how to read the earlier, subtler signals.
Management Skills
Managing Someone Who’s Better at the Job Than You Are at Managing Them
Managing someone whose technical skill exceeds your own is genuinely uncomfortable, and it’s also common. Here’s how to do it well without pretending otherwise.