Leaders’ role is to create psychological safety in their team, encourage curiosity, empathy and learning and help employees develop new skills to work alongside technology.
Leaders: Build resiliency and role model learning from failure
Leaders often hold onto control when they should be letting go. Being a leader means not getting into the weeds of operational tasks and giving your employees the autonomy to do their work.
Lead with Learning Series: Leader Control
Leaders often hold onto control when they should be letting go. Being a leader means not getting into the weeds of operational tasks and giving your employees the autonomy to do their work.
Lead with Learning Series: Technology & Constant Change
This is Part Five - the final - in a series where I explore how a Lead with Learning approach to team development addresses many of the challenges organizations and leaders face. I’m writing my next book, Lead with Learning, and admittedly, I am using this newsletter...
Lead with Learning Series: Competition for Talent
This is Part Three in a series where I explore how a Lead with Learning approach to team development addresses many of the challenges organizations and leaders face. In this issue, I’m exploring leaders' challenges in hiring and retaining the team members they need to...
Lead with Learning Series: Employee Engagement
This is Part Two in a series where I explore how a Lead with Learning approach to team development addresses many of the challenges organizations and leaders face. I’m writing my next book, Lead with Learning, and admittedly, using this newsletter to write different...
Leader’s role in employee development
A recent conversation I had with a Senior Manager of Learning and Development for a national organization went something like this: “Our leaders need to be accountable for people development in our organization. It can’t be HR’s responsibility because it’s the leaders...
Lead with Learning Series: Organization resiliency and adaptability
This is Part One in a series where I explore how a Lead with Learning approach to team development addresses challenges organizations and leaders face. I’m writing my next book, Lead with Learning, and admittedly, using this newsletter to write different chapters....
Looking back and ahead
This was a challenging year for me, with the natural ups and downs of self-employment and some personal challenges. I started the year busy with work and trying to stay on top. My spring was quieter, so I took a course through Sauder School of Business. I realized in...
Short-term results at the expense of learning
I want to start this month’s newsletter with a cautionary tale. In creating the Model T in 1908, Henry Ford proclaimed that he wanted to “build a motor car for the great multitude.” He achieved his vision, and by 1921, he was producing 56% of all passenger...