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Why Your Team Doesn’t Tell You The Truth (And How To Create Psychological Safety
Your team doesn’t tell you the truth. Not because they’re dishonest. Not because they don’t care. But because somewhere...
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How to Know If You’re Actually Leading (Or Just Managing with a Better Title)
Nearly 30 years ago, I was promoted to senior leadership at a major PR agency. I had the title,...
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The Real Reason Your Best People Keep Leaving (And It’s Not Money)
Last month, a communications VP told me she’d lost her third high performer in six months. “I don’t get...
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Five Signs Your Team Has Stopped Following You (And How To Win Them Back)
Twenty-five years ago, a coach asked me a question that I still think about: “When you turn around, do...
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Why Your Managers Struggle To Become Leaders
Here’s what I see happening at PR and communications agencies and within corporate communications departments: talented individual contributors get...
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What’s the Difference Between Coaching and Consulting?
Many agency leaders and senior executives ask me “What’s the difference between coaching and consulting?” The short answer: consultants...
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The Leadership Gap No One’s Talking About
Here’s what’s happening right now at agencies across the Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing and Communications industry: It’s a leadership...
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Leading Leaders: 10 Practical Points To Do So Effectively
Leading leaders is one of the biggest challenges leaders face. (Boy that’s a mouthful!) Here’s my guest post published...
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Don’t Help Your Managers Become Better Managers. Help Them Grow From Manager To Leader
In working with agencies and their senior teams, I see them focused on helping their staffers become better communications...
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How Business Coaching Differs From Consulting and Mentoring
I was excited a few months back to see that Gini Dietrich, illustrious leader of the Spin Sucks community, wrote...