Team & People Leadership

  You know you need help. But can you afford to hire someone yet? The real question isn’t whether you can afford another person. It’s whether you know what problem that person is supposed to solve. Hiring in a panic doesn’t fix overwhelm. Hiring on purpose does. If you keep saying “I need help” but

  How many times has your leadership team fixed the same problem this year, felt great about the meeting, and then found themselves back in the same conversation three months later? It’s not that your team is bad at solving problems. It’s that they’re too good at it – someone gives a fast, confident answer,

  When was the last time someone on your team pushed back on you, and how did you respond? It’s not the resignation letter that costs you your best people. It’s the eight months before it, back when they were still bringing you the problem and you didn’t do anything with it. By the time

 Why are you still reminding the same employee about the same thing for the third week in a row? It’s not that they don’t understand what you asked them to do. It’s that somewhere along the way, you taught them it was fine to wait for the reminder instead of just doing it. This

  This one keeps coming up in coaching calls, so we’re bringing it back. The advice hasn’t aged a day. There’s a name for the feeling you get when you imagine one specific person walking into your office to quit. If your stomach drops and your mind starts racing through everything that would fall apart…

  Your one-on-one meetings are not producing what you want them to… and it’s probably not the meeting’s fault. I break down why status-focused one-on-ones plateau, and I share the three judgment questions that turn a routine check-in into a real development conversation. In This Episode [02:04] The Same Meeting Every Time Picture your next

  Your manager keeps checking in before making the calls you think they should own. You hired them so you could stop being in everything. Instead, you’re in everything, just with an extra step. You keep telling yourself they need to grow into their role. But here’s the question nobody asks: did you ever actually

You said it as a thought. They heard it as a decision. And now there’s tension, confusion, and maybe a project that was never supposed to happen actually happening. Sound familiar? In this episode, I’m joined by Joel Fortner for a conversation about one of the most overlooked leadership blind spots we see on coaching

  You finally had the hard conversation. You were calm, you were clear, you were fair. And somehow you ended up feeling like the problem. If that’s ever happened to you, this episode is for you. I want to talk about one of the most disorienting things that happens to leaders who are actually doing

  You’re probably one of the most caring leaders your team has ever worked for. And that might be the exact thing that’s slowly costing you the most. I see this more than almost any other leadership challenge I work with. The leaders who struggle most with accountability aren’t the cold ones, the disconnected ones