You’re Not Responsible for How They Feel
Caring about how someone responds is healthy. Believing you must control their response can keep you silent when something needs to be said.
Why the best leaders learn to turn the dial
Most leadership tensions show up as either/or, and most of us pick a side and call it a style. The best leaders know which dial to turn, and when.
What Your Unsolicited Qualifiers Are Telling You
A counselor called me ‘the king of unsolicited denials.’ Turns out, the things we deny and rationalize before anyone asks point to what we’re protecting.
From Rigid to Real: An Engineer's Decade-Long Lesson in Feedback and Leading People with Derek Stake
Derek Stake, VP of Operations and Engineering at The Cleveland Vibrator Company, joins the Leaders Rising Podcast to talk about moving from managing process to leading people. In this episode Derek Stake came up as an engineer, and for years he ran his teams the way he ran a production line: manage the variation, follow
Eliminate These Three Hedge Phrases for Greater Confidence and Influence
Three small hedge phrases (kinda, sorta, a little bit) quietly make confident statements sound tentative. Cut them, and let a pause do the work.