Have you heard the expression you can’t fit a square peg in a round hole? Well, you can. You can get creative and smash it in there or fill up the edges with other items. In other words, you can make it work temporarily. But, what if you are that square peg? What does that [...]
Leading, Coaching, & Innovating with Trish McFarlane
Tag Archive: management
Do-It-Yourself Tools for Leaders
Using the idea of a do-it-yourself deck, I’d love to create a tool for leaders so they could pull out a card, a recipe of sorts, to find ideas on how to handle situations that arise.
Leaders’ Categorical Imperatives vs. Free Will of Employees
As long as you work, there will always be someone telling you what needs to be done. The message today is that regardless of how urgent and categorical a request sounds, keep your perspective and realize that you have more power and control than you think.
3 Techniques For Giving Feedback To The C-Suite
Real change in behavior, regardless of who is receiving it, is more likely to come from a delivery that is sincere and made in a respectful way.
HR Does Not Own Talent
HR does not own talent. HR only owns HR talent. Leaders need to understand that they own the care, feeding, incenting, and development of talent.
Effects of Visual Spacial Skills on Leader Performance
In the workplace, we’re given problems to solve and projects to lead. Can you imagine that the type of thinking the leader has will have a direct impact on your solution? It certainly will. And, the team that the leader puts together will also have a strong impact on the method used to find that solution in addition to contributing to the creativity (or lack of) of the solution.
Anticipatory Fear: Don’t Let Your Team Be Paralized
When I think about anticipating something, I am immediately struck by strong feelings. It can be strong feelings about memories around anticipating something wonderful or it can remind me of a time when my anticipation about an event filled me with dread. Either way, the very act of spending time thinking about things in advance and trying to guess how it will all turn out is something we experience universally.
Passion On Purpose and the Communication Revolution
HR leaders can inspire and capture passion in our employees so that we bring it into our organization every day.
