Why develop confident employees when you can reduce them to quivering puddles of self-doubt? Follow these time-tested techniques for turning competent professionals into second-guessing, approval-seeking zombies.
When people get nervous or ask for support, accuse them of not being “leadership material.”
How to create anxious overthinkers…
It’s funny we celebrate Labor Day by taking the day off. We honor work with hot dogs and hammocks.
Labor Day is the national “do nothing” award for doing something.
Don’t focus on what you do. Reflect on what your work does.
Unintentional sabotage is still destructive. Lousy coaching personalities create confusion during development conversations. They use words like “coaching” but really mean instructing.
Don’t be:
Fix-It Freddy
Leaky Linda
Vague-asaurus Rex
Support-Me-Not Susan
Bad coaching isn’t a mistake. It’s a catastrophe.
Included here are 5 ways to improve your coaching.
The modern approach to solving stress is some form of escape. The trouble is, sometimes that’s good advice.
Forget your troubles.
Take vacations.
Clear your mind.
Say no.
Research says vacations don’t work.
How leaders find strength?
Vulnerability restores the vitality that faking drains.
Everyone wears a mask when leaders aren’t vulnerable.
Make learning more important than looking good. Replace perfectionism with progress.
Move from who to blame to what are we learning?
Shift from proving to improving. Here’s how!
If you want to teach people, give them a reason to need a lesson.
Learning is the engine of progress. Stagnation kills potential. When learning stops, growth stops. Talent without development leads to frustration, disengagement, and missed opportunity.
Build future-ready people by making development necessary.
