Let Her Finish!
Let Her Finish! by Bill Catlette 10.08.20 • memphis Cutting someone off in mid-sentence is not far removed from cutting them off in traffic and forcing hard braking, evasive action, and perhaps hand gestures on their part. Yet, many of us, mostly guys it seems, are too well-practiced at interrupting people, especially women in mid-sentence […]
Leaders, Are You Adding Too Much Value?
memphis • 9.4.20 In his excellent book, “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There”, author and executive coach extraordinaire, Marshall Goldsmith presents a list of twenty performance disruptors that, if left unattended, can derail or diminish a leader’s career. An “oldie but a goody” the book is often required reading for my coaching clients […]
Promote Team Building by Improving the Workplace
by K. Baker With more companies struggling to stay profitable, employers have increased their efforts to build stronger teams. While a capable team isn’t made overnight, it can be created with specific changes designed to improve workers’ job satisfaction and productivity. Besides using team-building exercises, here are some ways to help your employees work more […]
Unjobbed
Bill Catlette 8/7/20 • memphis Bored, Scared, Angry In 2+ decades as a coach and advisor to business leaders, the very worst workplace situations I’ve encountered have almost always been those punctuated by boredom and bad leadership, usually in tandem. That stands to reason as most often, bad leaders concern themselves more with accumulating […]
Leaders… Dancing in the Dark?
by Bill Catlette memphis • 7/26/20 In his 1984 Grammy Award winning song, Dancing in the Dark, a slightly randy Bruce Springsteen bemoans a grinding, dreary daily existence without much well, uh, action. A glance at the lyrics comes uncomfortably close to what a lot of leaders are feeling of late. But let’s start with […]
Two Tips For Better Messaging
by Bill Catlette • 7/23/20 • Memphis Check For Understanding Too often, as busy leaders, we get a little out over our skis in communicating with our teammates, and sometimes – often perhaps, our messaging winds up with sub-optimum clarity or effect. While I don’t presume to understand all the possible causes of the loss […]
Workspace – Comments On The Next Normal
Bill Catlette • 7/12/20 • Memphis “We were ordinary people living ordinary lives” (Bee Gees, 1989),and along comes the Rona. No one knows with any certainty what the post-COVID workspace will be like, or for that matter, if there will even BE such a thing as “post-COVID”. Indeed, as some have suggested, it’s not about how […]
Coaching From a Distance
With the sudden, COVID-inspired shift to WFH, one topic that has come to the fore is productivity. How do we get it? How can we possibly verify and measure it in light of physical separation? How can we coach people to better outcomes? Fair questions. One emergent point of view is that the manager/leader should […]
A Helping Hand for Leaders
memphis, 04.06.20 Life is coming at us pretty hard and fast right now. It’s an especially lonely time for business leaders, who shoulder responsibility for people, process, resource, results. When we can least afford it, many are frozen by uncertainty or fear, longing for insight, direction, a candid, knowing shoulder to lean on. A seasoned […]
Employee Engagement: Two Reasons Why ‘Getting Sticky’ Matters
(This piece generally represents the text of a letter sent to some of our firm’s leadership coaching clients this week.) Too often I see HR professionals and the organizations they are apart of throwing around the expression, “employee engagement” like medical terms used by healthcare professionals, without first clarifying what the term means, and why […]