Feedback from my first article, How to Become a Better Leader for your Team, directed me to one topic briefly mentioned in the piece – how do we effectively deliver difficult feedback and manage ‘courageous conversations’. Whether you're running your own business or you're responsible for a team in a bigger corporation, at some point, you inevitably have to manage these … [Read more...]
10 Things Your Employees Don’t Want (or Need) To Know About You
Being the boss is hard, being the owner of a small business and the boss is even harder. It’s completely natural to want to dish to your employees about the hardships of your day--you likely have a lot in common with those awesome people you hired, you see them all the time, and they are genuinely interested in the well being of your business. The problem is though, that … [Read more...]