Dealing With an Employee You “Can't” Fire: 2 questions every leader needs to ask
Talented jerks and people who game the system just need to go. The value they bring through their technical skill is massively outweighed by the damage they do to the rest of the team.You can't motiva...
9 Kesä 37min
Moment 176. Don't Lose Your Most Talented People!
Your best people know they have plenty of options, so if they don’t feel the work they’re doing is valuable, challenging, and impactful, it doesn't matter how much you pay them. In this Moment, I give...
7 Kesä 4min
Nailing Your Formal Performance Review
Most leaders DREAD the formal performance review; because they don’t prepare and they don’t know what to expect. Today I go deep on how to control the dialogue, so that your review becomes a career ac...
2 Kesä 17min
Moment 175. Don’t Let Weakness Ruin Your Empathy
Empathy is a critical leadership capability: without it, you’ll never get the best out of your people. But if you’re not strong enough to hold the standard, that empathy will blow up in your face. Emp...
31 Touko 4min
8 Surprising Ways to Reduce Unwanted Turnover
Most leaders think high turnover is a retention problem. But it’s not; it's a leadership problem. And the fix is the exact opposite of what most leaders do.Staff turnover is still widely misunderstood...
26 Touko 20min
Moment 174. Want to Lift Performance? Manage Better!
If you think great leaders don't need to be great managers, you've probably got a blindspot…and it's costing you more than you know.To lift performance, you have to put desirable leadership attributes...
24 Touko 4min
Don't Be Sucked In By Player-Coach Leadership!
When CEOs cut management layers, they often kid themselves that they're building leaner, faster companies. But what they're actually doing is destroying accountability and weakening performance. Hidin...
19 Touko 19min
Moment 173. Why the Participation Trophy is Killing Your Team
In business, it’s an indisputable fact that stronger competition results in better outcomes for everyone. Why are we so reluctant, then, to increase competitive pressure within our teams?One of the mo...
17 Touko 5min
