People often ask me, what I mean when use the phrase “awkward leadership”
If you’ve wondered that yourself – this is for you.
HR and AI – Candidate Personality Tests
Recently I talked to a sales person from a firm that offered AI personality tests to prospective job candidates so that organizations could filter the right people to hire. What do I think of that?
Continue readingWhat Does Great Work Look Like?
Are you a leader who wants consitently great work from your employees?
You may want to ask yourself a simple question first: What does great work actually look like?
“It’s Not About You”: A Leadership Lesson from an Awkward Mistake
What do you do when you mess up in front of your team or a candidate?
Continue readingPeople Are Messy: It’s a Feature Not a Bug
Have you ever thought to yourself, “Wow, this leadership role would be so much easier if people were just logical and had some common sense”?
Well, I think we all have.
But here’s why that train of thought is SO flawed.
The Leadership Magic Trick: Why Knowing Isn’t Enough
Ever feel like leadership is part logic, part performance, and part mystery? You’re not wrong.
Continue readingPeople Leadership: Can you be TOO nice?
Can you be too nice as a leader? The short answer is yes, especially if “nice” means avoiding uncomfortable truths.
Continue readingManaging Fear During Change
Is change today different than it was 30 years ago? It sure is. And that’s why YOUR view of change may depend on your age.
Continue readingAvoiding Assumptions as Leaders
For many organizations, workplace accommodation is still treated as something complex, expensive, and bureaucratic—something that requires committees, policies, meetings, and binders full of documentation. But sometimes, the barrier isn’t complexity at all. Sometimes it’s assumption. Early in my management career, I encountered a situation that permanently changed how I think about accommodation, leadership, and assumptions. […]
Continue readingWhen Leadership Gets Awkward (And Why That’s a Good Thing)
By Jason Reid –Vulnerable Leadership, Storytelling and Human Connection Recently, I did something that made me cringe: I sent the wrong video link in a batch of important conference submissions. Yes, the guy who makes a living teaching strategic storytelling and leadership forgot his own setup. (Cue the facepalm.) But instead of pretending I’d done the right […]
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