Signs of low performance—missed deadlines, stalled goals, low motivation—aren’t “people problems”; they’re alignment problems. Improve team alignment with clear quarterly goals and frequent 1:1s that build accountability, sustain motivation, and keep performance on track.
Why your comfort zone is holding you back and how aspirational goals can help you grow.
The key to getting big things done is to set up expectations through goal setting.
Stories engage emotions, and emotions make things happen. More often than not, great leaders are great storytellers.
Make your message better with my new mini-course: How to Communicate Anything. No matter what you want to say, using my four-step process for clarifying and improving your message will help you communicate more effectively. As an English teacher, I taught thousands of students how to write. I started teaching at the USC Freshman Writing program when I was in graduate school, and love teaching so much that I continued teaching for another dozen years after I graduate. The more…
Everybody negotiates. Avoid these three negotiating mistakes. We negotiate the big stuff, like salaries and contracts, and we negotiate the little stuff, curfews and who will do the dishes. From my years as an entrepreneur and my coach training, I’ve honed my negotiating skills. I’m not supposed to make negotiating mistakes, but it happened to me recently. In the end, even though I got what I wanted, the whole process left me feeling that I was in the wrong. My…
No one wants to give negative feedback, and you don’t have to. Instead try positive feedback, coaching, and counseling.