All Episodes

Lead Better - Giving One Last Chance to People Who Aren’t Making the Grade

Lead Better - My Leader Only Gets Soundbites About My Performance

Lead Better - On Personal Decisions of Team Members, Leaders Share Experience, Not Advice

Lead Better - On Becoming a Leader Everyone Roots For

Lead Better - Curiosity Is How Long You Stay in Discovery Mode

Lead Better - Is This Your Best Work?

Lead Better - Clarity Is What Creates Speed

Lead Better - Using Checklists to Teach Quality Standards

Lead Better - Use Audience Projection to Let People Discover Your Feedback

Lead Better - Talk People Out of a New Role Before Talking Them Into It

Lead Better - The Good and Bad of Replaying Conversations in Your Head

Lead Better - If the Team’s Values Truly Matter, Then People Need to Be Evaluated on Them

Lead Better - Failure to Confront Poor Performance for Fear of Demotivating a Critical Team Member

Lead Better - How Generations See Privacy Differently

Lead Better - Adding Default Settings to Increase Compliance

Lead Better - Overloading on the Negative Can Sometimes Be Highly Persuasive

Lead Better - Leaders Who Make Relationships a Task to Achieve

Lead Better - Excellence Is Not a Performance Target

Lead Better - Bonding Through a Common Life Experience

Lead Better - Empowerment Isn’t All-or-Nothing

Lead Better - Less Forceful Ways of Expressing Disagreement

Lead Better - What Leaders Do That Demotivates Talented Team Members

Lead Better - Physically Reducing Your Status in a Room

Lead Better - Stop Calling It Feedback

Lead Better - Showing Others That You Have Heard Them

Lead Better - "Burn the Boats"

Lead Better - Overcoming the Challenges of a Rapidly Expanding Team

Lead Better - Even in the Workplace, Successful Advocacy Sometimes Requires a Crowd

Lead Better - When It Comes to Financial Rewards, Cash Isn’t Always King

Lead Better - The Zero-Sum Rule of High-Performing Teams

Lead Better - Letting Your Language Take the Temperature Up and Down in a Room

Lead Better - Gradually and Then Suddenly

Lead Better - Persuasion and Skin in the Game

Lead Better - Colleagues Who Agree and Then Run a Different Play

Lead Better - What Every Leader Must Commit to Memory About Groups

Lead Better - When High Performance Suffocates a Career

Lead Better - Why Do People Insist on Holding Far Too Many Team Meetings?

Lead Better - Positive and Negative Frames for Justifying a Major Change

Lead Better - To Awaken Your Team’s Ambition, Consider Adding a Zero

Lead Better - Do You Know a Leader Who Is Sleep Deprived?

Lead Better - Busy Leaders Insist a Complaint Must Be Followed by a Solution

Lead Better - Expanding Your Relationship Range

Lead Better - How to Get Better at Not Sweating the Small Stuff

Lead Better - To Get the Most From Your Day, Consider Time Blocking

Lead Better - Preparing to Be Resilient

Lead Better - The Selfishness of Self-Doubt

Lead Better - Encouraging More Contribution in Team Meetings

Lead Better - When Making Requests, Are You Speaking for Yourself or for the Organization?

Lead Better - How Leaders Talk About AI Can Influence Acceptance or Resistance

Lead Better - Don’t Decide for Others by Withholding the Invitation

Lead Better - Call Out and Get Curious About a Team Member’s Improvement

Lead Better - Beyond Praise: Why the Best Leaders Use Higher Forms of Recognition

Lead Better - Good Leaders Say ‘No’ for Those They Lead

Lead Better - How the Best Leaders Normalize Not Knowing

Lead Better - When Selecting Between Internal and External Candidates, Give the Insider the Edge

Lead Better - When Team Members Openly Disrespect Each Other

Lead Better - Leading Team Members Who Are Truth Tellers

Lead Better - Redirecting the Message Toward a Different Audience

Lead Better - Organize Your Relationships by Location and Activity

Lead Better - How Overcoming Adversity Builds Emotional Maturity

Lead Better - Indecisive or Just Waiting Too Long to Make a Decision?

Lead Better - Reciprocity and the Power of Sequential Requests

Lead Better - Why Gratefulness Is a Predictor of Talent

Lead Better - How to Recover When You Lose Track of the Conversation

Lead Better - What Leaders Can Learn From a ‘Snow Day’

Lead Better - Instilling Collective Pride

Lead Better - Think Big, Build Small

Lead Better - Skills Scale Performance While Self-Identity Sustains It

Lead Better - Keeping Small Promises to Yourself Is Foundational for Being Organized

Lead Better - Does Your Team Have Competitive Joy?

Lead Better - Why Setting Boundaries for Assignments Signals Trust, Not Control

Lead Better - What High-Potential Team Members Need Most From Leaders

Lead Better - Practicing Optimism

Lead Better - Why Do Some Leaders Feel More Stress?

Lead Better - The Transparency of Individual Compensation Is Fraught With Danger

Lead Better - How to Interpret the Candor of Things Said in Anger

Lead Better - What Shouldn’t Change About the Culture?

Lead Better - Confronting Conspiracy Theories in the Workplace

Lead Better - The Leadership Skill of Anticipating Resistance

Lead Better - High-Status Leaders Who Do What They Ask of Others

Lead Better - Your Spam is Hiding Important Messages

Lead Better - Tune Into the Five Lead Indicators of Team Health

Lead Better - You Have to Show You Care Before Delivering a Tough Message

Lead Better - When Emotions Run Too High in the Workplace

Lead Better - Are You an Independent Thinker?

Lead Better - Do You Project the Identity You Want To?

Lead Better - How to Create More Commitment to Decisions and Tasks

Lead Better - Identifying the Levels of Team Member Commitment

Lead Better - When Is Conflict a Sign of Team Health?

Lead Better - Make Yourself More Interesting in the New Year

Lead Better - Why Become an Exceptional Leader

Lead Better - Expanding Your Options

Lead Better - An Unhealthy Deference to the Org Chart

Lead Better - How to Lead With Consistency While Adapting to Differences

Lead Better - Don’t Accept the Ignorance Fallacy

Lead Better - The Strategic Use of Emotion

Lead Better - The Greatest Gift a Leader Can Give

Lead Better - Recognizing Opinions That Come From Fear and Insecurity

Lead Better - Leaders Can’t Make People Feel Safe

Lead Better - Incorporating Symbols Into Your To-Do List