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Managing Well is our weekly series, offering practical tools, real-world strategies, and thoughtful reflections to help you navigate the complex aspects of leadership. From building trust by giving honest and clear feedback to having the necessary conversations, we provide guidance on creating teams that work well and feel well.

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Get practical tools for the hard parts of leadership.

Managing Well is our weekly series, offering practical tools, real-world strategies, and thoughtful reflections to help you navigate the complex aspects of leadership. From building trust by giving honest and clear feedback to having the necessary conversations, we provide guidance on creating teams that work well and feel well.

Grounded in emotional intelligence and psychological safety, each post offers perspective and guidance for accountable, human-centered leadership.

Because managing others well always begins with managing ourselves.

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Link to  When the world feels heavy, work feels different
Confidence, Events, General, Leadership, News

 When the world feels heavy, work feels different
I’ve found myself spending hours on social media under the guise of staying informed, but it has slowly drifted into doomscrolling. I know I’m not alone in looking for information and some sense of connection when everything feels overwhelming. A lot of people aren’t okay right now. They’re exhausted, distracted, worried about layoffs, drinking…
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Link to When the world is on fire, we still have to work together
Confidence, Events, General, Leadership, News

When the world is on fire, we still have to work together
When my marriage was unraveling, I kept asking myself, “How did I get here?” Over the past few weeks, I’ve found myself asking the same question again, but on a much larger scale, “How are we still here?” Six years later. Sixty years later. Still protesting for basic human rights. Still repeating conversations we…
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Link to When what’s happening outside of work shows up inside it
Confidence, Events, General, Leadership, News

When what’s happening outside of work shows up inside it
This month has already started heavy. In recent days, many people have watched videos of Renee Nicole Good being killed. For some, this has triggered memories of George Floyd’s murder in Minnesota six years ago. Fear, anger, grief, and numbness are present in conversations and in the ways people show up or pull back…
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Stay As Long As You Can Be Kind: EQ Skills to Navigate the Holidays
The workplace and family structures aren’t so different. Both have rules, often unspoken, that we must follow to feel included, connected, and valued. Because we have a deep human need for belonging, it’s easy to find ourselves engaging in behaviors that don’t always serve us, from laughing off inappropriate jokes to staying quiet when someone…
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Your best coaches might not look like you
“How do you give feedback in a culture that prioritizes niceness?” An attendee asked during last week’s webinar, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it. While niceness sounds good, comfortable, polite, and conflict-free, it often masks something else entirely. Nice-nasty. Agreeing publicly, then undermining privately Smiling in meetings, then bad-mouthing the idea (or person) later…
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