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Consult Your Inner Diplomat to Resolve Workplace Conflict

May 10, 2022 By Lisa McKale

If there’s one common thing that frustrates women leaders, it’s coping with on-the-job conflict. You aim to keep your department or workplace free of drama, bickering and insubordination. But inevitably, petty encounters and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Communication Tagged With: Communication, conflict, diplomat, feedback, leadership style, Negotiation, Strategic thinking

Could You Be Too Flexible? 3 Ways to Tell

March 22, 2017 By Lisa McKale

Businesspeople gathering at water cooler

What’s the highest compliment someone could pay you about your leadership style? Would it be that you’re confident? Hard-charging? A good listener? How about: you’re flexible? Most of us consider it good news if an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: flexibility, flexible, leadership style, Supervising, training

Fight Negative Energy (Before It Fights You): 6 Key Ways

March 15, 2017 By Lisa McKale

Angry at Meeting-edits

Negative energy can take over fast if we’re not paying attention. And once it has a grip, it’s that much harder to break. It might not be outright bullying or shouting matches. Nevertheless, you might sense that misery has … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Communication Tagged With: behaviors, conflict, emotional contagion, Emotional Intelligence, leadership style, negativity, rudeness, Supervising

Are You Coaching, or Fixing? Let Employees Solve Their Problems

March 1, 2017 By Lisa McKale

coaching skills-edits 2

Ever look up at the end of the week and think, Where’d all that time go?? I worked over 40 hours and I still have things left undone! Forget checking your calendar--yes, everything you needed to do was on there. What … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership Skills Tagged With: coaching, conflict, decision making, leadership style, mentoring, problem solving, resolution, teamwork

Want Answers? Make Sure You’re Asking the Right Questions

February 15, 2017 By Lisa McKale

Thinking business woman with many questions in bubbles above

“So, what have you got for me today?” Wish you had a dollar for every time you heard that vague question from your boss? But admit it, on occasion you’ve lobbed one of those inane queries at your own team. Good leaders … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Communication Tagged With: answers, Communication, leadership style, questions, Strategic thinking, Supervising

Managing Millennials: Winning Over the Next Generation of Leaders

January 27, 2017 By Lynn Varacalli Cavanaugh

Managers, mind your millennials. The so-called “trophy generation” may present some challenges, but these tech-savvy employees have a lot to offer and are fiercely loyal, once you fully engage them. Millennials are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership, Leadership Skills Tagged With: empowering, leadership style, Millennials, motivating team, multi generational team

Stop the Bleeding: The 4 Key Steps to Owning a Mistake

January 18, 2017 By Lisa McKale

Sad businesswoman

An inadvertent insult. A well-intentioned (but wrong) comment. A simple misunderstanding. We all make mistakes that can at first seem small, but can blow up if not addressed. What sets good leaders above the rest is our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Communication Tagged With: career advice, conflict, leadership style, mistakes

Inside the C-Suite: Meet Marillyn Hewson, CEO, Lockheed Martin

January 13, 2017 By Lynn Varacalli Cavanaugh

Marilln Hewson CEO

Growing up in Kansas with a dad who worked at Fort Riley army base and a mom who was an army nurse during World War II, Marillyn Hewson felt right at home when she interviewed at Lockheed Martin, one the country’s biggest … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Inside the C-Suite Tagged With: C-Suite, career advice, CEO, female CEO, female leader, leadership style, lockheed martin, marillyn hewson

3 Approaches To Step Up Your Managerial Game in 2017

January 4, 2017 By Lisa McKale

Teachers will tell you that while it’s great to be well-liked by students, you have to be careful you aren’t too well-liked. If you are, that probably means you’re heaps of fun in the classroom and a marshmallow when it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: career advice, leadership style, Managing, Supervising

When YOU’RE the New Boss: Keys to Starting on the Right Foot

December 21, 2016 By Lisa McKale

It’s important to start off on the right foot with a new boss. And if you’re that new boss, it’s up to you (at least in part) to make the inroads to getting to know your team. First impressions count—but you’ve been up … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership Skills Tagged With: Assertive, Boss, career advice, feedback, leadership style, Supervising

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