Tag: leadership
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patience
If you work in a place with a lot of “red tape” or process bureaucracy that prevents or delays what you are trying to accomplish, you know firsthand how your patience at work can be tested. The people you work with can also test your patience if it takes time to gain their buy-in or…
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inheriting a team // kendra@lmk
When you become a team lead or manager, it’s common to be appointed to lead an existing team or a team that someone else has hired. This is often the case if you step into a role at a new company or on a new project. You did not hire or choose the people who…
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delegating
Delegating tasks to others is a skill that can empower your team and improve the quality of the work your team delivers. It is also a skill that can be misused. I’ve seen overutilization of delegation where the manager in charge delegated everything to his team, and provided no direction, instruction, or oversight. When the…
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owning your mistakes
To err is human. We all make mistakes – we take the wrong action, give the wrong direction to someone, say the wrong thing. In work, a mistake can be very small with little or no business consequence, for example, a typo on a presentation, or getting tongue-tied in a meeting. Or, mistakes can be…
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difficult conversations with direct reports
Difficult conversations are part of life (and work). When you are managing the work and careers of others, you will inevitably have to tackle a difficult conversation topic, like negative performance feedback or personality issues, with the people who work for you. If you are nervous when you have these kinds of conversations, your intention…
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improving boss relationships
It is said that people don’t leave bad jobs, they leave bad bosses. However, there isn’t always the opportunity to leave a bad boss. More often, we have to examine our responsibility in this workplace relationship and figure out how to adjust our own behavior. If you have an awkward, negative, or just plain bad…
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chatGPT + your professional development
ChatGPT and other AI language models have been the headline of what seems like every news article or conversation recently. There are some obvious and easy uses of these kinds of tools – gathering information, text and code writing or editing, summarization, translation. What about uses related to your professional development? How can you use…
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workplace courage
You might not think specifically about having courage in the workplace, but navigating the office environment takes a great deal of it. You’ll have to work with new people, ask for advice or help, escalate issues, deliver bad news, raise questions in large groups…the list goes on. For a lot of people, these kinds of…
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chaotic leadership
In honor of April Fool’s Day, LMK presents a quick guide to chaotic leadership. Chaotic Leadership is the latest in workplace leadership and management. It brings together components of traditional leadership styles such as servant leadership, strategic leadership, and coaching leadership – and disregards everything effective, productive, and inspirational in the spirit of unpredictability and…
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managing others
At some point in your career, you become the “Boss.” You get the opportunity to manage the work and the careers of others. There are countless management and leadership articles and books that address this multifaceted topic. A lot of responsibility comes with the position. It is challenging to manage your work and the work…
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