Why Your 360 Feedback Isn't Working
Most 360 feedback fails not because leaders don't try to change, but because changed behavior doesn't automatically update other people's mental models.
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Stop Solving Everyone’s Problems. Coach Them To Solve Their Own.
Your value as a manager isn't measured by problems solved, but by problems your team can handle without you. Learn coaching over fixing.
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A One-On-One Document Template You’ll Actually Use
A practical one-on-one template for managers who want useful conversations instead of empty recurring meetings.
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Thoughts on giving feedback
What good feedback is for, how to deliver it without blame, and how it shapes team culture.
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The basics of one-on-ones
A practical guide to one-on-ones: what they are for, how to run them well, and the mistakes that make them pointless.
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You're Coaching Too Much
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Stop Fixing, Start Leading: How Coaching Changed My Leadership Style
3 min readA tech leader shares four counterintuitive lessons from professional coaching that transformed their leadership style. Learn how stepping back, asking better questions, and trusting your team leads to better outcomes
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Mentoring Made Easy: A Beginner's Framework for Success
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How to stop winning arguments
10 min readWe tend to treat arguments as fights or zero-sum games which hinders their original purpose. We should stop doing that.
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Questions vs. directions
4 min readAsking questions is a basic coaching technique but doing it properly is a matter of practice, finding a good balance and avoiding some common pitfalls. As with most of the things in life.
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