April 13th, 2017
Leadership Training Blog
March 28th, 2017
Is This a Legitimate Use of Authority? Take This Quiz!
We love quizzes, don’t we? If my Facebook feed is any indication, most folks just can’t get enough of them. […]
March 14th, 2017
Welcome to Leadership! Good…Luck?
It’s as predictable as a Spring leap forward, dyed water in the Chicago river, Girl Scout cookies, and shamrocks—St. Patrick’s […]
February 15th, 2017
“I Win, You Lose”: A Case Study in Method I Leadership—We’re Seeing the Results Every Single Day
Less than four weeks into a brand new American presidency that’s taking an approach to executive power that’s widely recognized […]
January 24th, 2017
“Managing Up” versus Effective Communication: Is There an Actual Difference?
“Managing up.” It’s a phrase that first crept into my personal consciousness sometime in the early 2000s, during the dot-com […]
January 9th, 2017
Needs and Leadership: The Costs of Using and Abusing Power
It’s January, and I find myself reflecting on new beginnings, for fairly obvious reasons. And as I do so, it […]
December 13th, 2016
Having Trouble Talking About the Election? (A tutorial on GLOP)
Well. OK then. No matter which side you were on (or even if you were one of nearly half the […]
November 15th, 2016
Active E-Listening: Is That Even a Thing?
Leader Effectiveness Training developed in an era when the bulk of workplace communication happened face-to-face. And most workplaces continued in […]
October 24th, 2016
I-Messages in the No-Problem Area: They’re Not Just for Confrontation
We spend a lot of time, when we do Leader Effectiveness Training, thinking about the top and the bottom of […]
October 17th, 2016