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Leadership and one-on-ones
269 links saved from 2006 to 2026; 259 with a note, 213 in a Weekly Thing.
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- leadershipfreak.blog 24, hbr.org 15, larahogan.me 13, mattnorman.com 13, medium.com 12
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2023
- How to Avoid the 3 Biggest Mistakes Leaders Don’t Need to Make
- Business questions worth asking - Gabriel Mays
- How to Boss Without Being Bossy – Holy Ghost Stories
- The Seven Meetings You Hate
- How to Spot Leaders with Great People Management Skills
- Leadership Development is About One Thing We Often Miss
- A Short 100-Question Diligence Checklist
- 4 Tools for Self-Reflection Every Leader Needs
- Leading From The Heart
- The 4 Steps of Coaching Someone to Improve a Skill
- 7 Relationship Building Rules for Results-Driven Leaders
- Pay Attention to the Little Things that Signal Big Trust
- Owning your Professional Development Journey
- Dealing with the Anxiety That Comes from Leadership
- Internal comms for executives.
- My 8 Best Techniques for Evaluating Character
2022
- Three Star Leadership | Wally Bock | How to Make Better Decisions
- Company, team, self.
- The 7 Habits of Highly Overrated People
- 3 Reasons Smart Leaders Tell Stories - How You Can Too
- Most “Leaders” are actually Drivers – Here’s Why That’s a Problem
- 12 Things Self-Confident People Do that Insecure People Avoid
- 33 Behavioral Interview Questions to Ask Candidates
- The Best Leaders Know 3 Things Average Leaders Don’t
- 28 Words Every Leader Needs to Thrive
- There are three types of meetings.
- Stop Overcomplicating It: The Simple Guidebook to Upping Your Management Game
- A Simple Reusable One-On-One Plan
- Three Dynamics Shaping Leadership for the Future
- The 3 Secret Blunders Leaders Make
- One-on-ones with executives.
- Bar raisers, hiring committees, and other complex ways to improve hiring quality.
- Why People Go to Silence and How to Help Them Open Up
- How To Say No
- Is Management Burnout Inevitable?
- 4 Hard Things Leaders Do
- How To Be Successful
- Collaborate with kindness: Consider these etiquette tips in Slack
- Why Tension Spreads Through Relationships and Organizations
- Coaching vs. Mentoring
- How Busy Managers Practice People Development
- 5 Energizing Conversation Starters for One-on-Ones
- How to Lead a Work-from-Home Workforce
- Managing people 🤯
- When to delegate, when to say no
- The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones
2021
- How to Become an Awesome Hybrid Leader
- Get your OKRs out of my GEMs – Kathy Keating
- Don't soften feedback.
- The Psychology Behind Meeting Overload
- Working on your emotional intelligence? Try these CIO tips
- How to Act Like the CEO when You’re Not
- 12 Things Smart Leaders Don’t Say
- I Just Don’t Want to Be Busy Anymore by Elena Salaks
- High-Performance-Organizations-Reading-List: Ideas for creating and sustaining high performance organizations
- Are you sure you are ready for hybrid meetings?
- The 25 Micro-Habits of High-Impact Managers
- Can senior leaders make friends at work?
- Listening is the Overlooked Tool of Leadership
- The Cold Hard Truth About Self-Regulation’s Role in Leadership and Influence
- Questionable Advice: “What Should I Say In My Exit Interview?”
- High quality audio makes you sound smarter
- LeeAnn Renninger: The secret to giving great feedback
- The Director Series- Board Topics of Today - Insights from a Professional Board Member Part 2
- The Director Series - Board Topics of Today - Insights from Professional Board Member Sven Wehrwein
- Handling the Emotional Weight of 1:1s
- Three Star Leadership | Wally Bock | Hard Things Effective Leaders Must Do
- Make Virtual Meetings Great for Everyone
- Things your manager might not know
- Set future performance reviews up for success now
- The Unifying Theme of Strong Leadership
- Book recommendations for business leaders: 2/8/21
- Strategy and tactics and Powerpoint
- Tough love for managers who need to give feedback
- How to Lead When Your Team Is Exhausted — and You Are, Too
- Successful People Have Rules For Themselves That They Take Very Seriously | by Thomas Oppong
2020
- The Ultimate Skip Level Meeting Guide for Leaders
- Barack Obama shares his approach for making tough decisions
- 40 One-Sentence Communication Tips
- 5 second feedback – Mike Crittenden
- The Importance of Leader Humility in a Downturn
- Managers: what do you do when your teammate shares their grief?
- Rise Above Lousy Teamwork: 7 Competencies of Teams that Work
- How to Talk With a Struggling Adolescent
- Recognize your management wins
- 7 Tips for Effective 1:1 Meetings with Direct Reports
- Five Essentials to Land Your First Corporate Board Seat
- Leaders: You Must be Present to Win
- Where Leadership Starts – The Surprising Practice You Can Begin Today
- How any Manager can Increase Influence and Fuel Peak Performance
- Taking On Too Much
- 5 Things Great Leaders Don’t Do
- Presentation Rules
- Commit to Action
- White Guyde To The Galaxy
- White Supremacy Culture
- Corporate statements that do and don't work amid the #BlackLivesMatter protests
- Black Professionals Are Going Through A Lot
- Your defining moment
- To lead, you have to follow.
- The Keys to Deeper and More Trusting Relationships
- Ad Aged: Good writing is a business advantage. (An advertisement for myself.)
- Why remote meetings don’t feel the same - The Keyword
- 20 great questions to ask instead of “How are you doing right now?”
- How to Talk to People Who Are Frustrating You
- How to Never Waste a Good Crisis
- The hard way
- what's reasonable for managers to expect of parents working from home?
- Nick Saban Just Got Email - Study Hacks
- Bill Gates: Here’s how to make up for lost time on covid-19
- COVID-19: How to Manage Remotely with Confidence
- Skill Stacking: Instead of Mastering One Skill, Build a Skill Set
- Working from home – things no one talks about
- A Few Small Things You Can Do as a Leader
- The (only) three corporate messages that make sense right now
- Leading in Challenging Times
- Toolkit for a Successful Manager
- Your Credibility Depends Upon How You Make People Feel
- 1on1-questions: Mega list of 1 on 1 meeting questions compiled from a variety to sources
- The Making of a Corporate Athlete
- Coaching - Happiness
- Nothing Changes Until You Do
- Present From The Head Of The Table
- Socially visible progress
- Clear and Present Leadership
- My Approach to 1-on-1s
2019
- Operations and Internal Communication Strategies For Effective CEOs
- Roleplaying Difficult Conversations
- How to create a good onboarding experience for new hires
- A guide to distributed teams
- Yes! and… How to be effective in the theatre of work
- How to cultivate a lifelong network when you suck at networking
- Skip level meetings: What they are, and exactly how to run them
- How to Become Comfortable Being Vulnerable
- Which Way Do You Run?
- The 5 mistakes you’re likely making in your one-on-one meetings with direct reports
- Why the Most Productive People Don’t Always Make the Best Managers
- Brainstorming techniques, ideas & rules for group brainstorming
- What do executives do, anyway?
- What interview questions really mean
- The Founder’s Guide to Discipline: Lessons from Front’s Mathilde Collin
- How to manage up with your boss
- Tim Harford — Article — What we get wrong about meetings – and how to make them worth attending
- How to manage up effectively - Know Your Team | Blog
- The Power of Performance Reviews: Use This System to Become a Better Manager
- How do you delegate to a group of people?
- A different kind of new manager checklist: The 4 essential questions to ask yourself as a leader
- Google Tried to Prove Managers Don't Matter. Instead, It Discovered 10 Traits of the Very Best Ones
- Rethinking Brand You
- One-on-ones are my most valuable meetings; here’s how I run them
- How to Create a Great Team Culture (and Why It Matters)
- Refuse to Rule
- 10 questions I wish I’d asked more to turbocharge my career
- Your boss is 90% of the 'Employee Experience'. Nothing else comes close.
- Executive Presence when declining a meeting
- How to Be a Good Board Member
- Coaching Tools - The One on One
- Executive coach: 7 secrets to lasting career satisfaction
- Leaders, doing what you're good at hurts your team.
- The simple hack to make meetings better
2018
- What Leadership Really Feels Like
- We Wasted Ten Years Talking About Performance Ratings. The Seven Things We've Learned.
- Workplace Collaboration: Do People Actually Want to Work with You?
- I hate manager READMEs – Camille Fournier
- When is someone ready to manage managers? – Camille Fournier
- Skill Stacking: A Practical Strategy To Achieve Career Success
- The five types of mentors you need in your life
- Some possible career goals
- New zine: Help! I have a manager!
- Dean Hager Shares Leadership Strategies To Improve Your Company’s Culture
- Advice for a new executive
- Breaking Bad News
- We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made.
- 7 Leadership Qualities That Make for an Awesome Leader
- Why Great Employees Leave “Great Cultures”
- With Goals, FAST Beats SMART
- How To Prepare For A One-on-One Meeting As a Manager
- Emotional Intelligence Has 12 Elements. Which Do You Need to Work On?
- How Women Can Succeed by Rethinking Old Habits
- Feedback Equation
- The P Rules
- Leadership Style Colors
- 9 Tips To Better Networking (Even For Introverts)
- The 4 One-on-One Meeting Questions You Should *Not* Ask Your Employee
- Say the Hard Thing
- Be a Better Scrum Master: 10 Practices to Take to Heart
- How to Organize a Working Group
- Laziness Does Not Exist – E Price
- Leadership Principles
- How to be a Manager
- Management and Leadership Worksheets & Tools
- 7 Tips to Overcome Fear of Failure in Business
- The 3 Things Employees Really Want: Career, Community, Cause
- Reaching Peak Meeting Efficiency
- Incident Management at Netflix Velocity [video]
- How to give feedback effectively: A guide for managers
- The Most Common Type of Incompetent Leader
- The Indispensable Document for the Modern Manager
- The 8 best questions to put on your next one-on-one meeting agenda
- Old School Management Techniques That Still Matter | Robert Blogs Here
- If You Multitask During Meetings, Your Team Will, Too
2017
- Checklist for Plain Language
- One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meetings waste time
- If You Aspire to Be a Great Leader, Be Present
- CEOs Don’t Steer
- Culture is the Behavior You Reward and Punish
- How your boss does their 1-1s tells you a lot about what they think their job is | Phil Wicklund
- What men and women think about their partners’ careers and help at home
- 8 things remote CEOs do differently
- Proof that the pronouns "I," "we," and "you" improve not just your writing, but your stock price
- How do I improve my storytelling?
- How to hire executives – Brian Armstrong
- 4 Things That Set Successful CEOs Apart
- 7 Ways Leaders Maintain Their Composure in Difficult Times
- Leading with GTD —Next Action Associates
- Top Skills for an Incident Commander —PagerDuty
- Intercultural Development Inventory
- The Culture Map
2016
- Five Leadership Hacks
- Are you intentionally designing your leadership relationships?
- 3 reasons to stop hating one-on-one meetings
- The Fine Line Between a Collaborative Employee and One Who Doesn’t Get Enough Done
- A User Manual To Working With Me
- GTD-Q® Assessment
- This Is How You Identify A-Players (In About 10 Minutes) During An Interview
- 9 Things Out of Touch Leaders Do
- A 10-Year Study Reveals What Great Executives Know and Do
- The 10 Practices of the Coaching-Leader
- Want to Be an Outstanding Leader? Keep a Journal.
- 3 Things Extraordinary Leaders Do
2015
- Leveling Up Your Organization With System Reviews
- Radical Candor — The Surprising Secret to Being a Good Boss
- Cultivating great distributed teams — Towards a remarkable career
- 5 Quick Tips to Make Sure Your Presentation Doesn’t Suck
- See and Manage Your Organization's Culture
- being PM from Nat Brown on Twitter
- 21 management things I learned at Imgur
- The Keys to Employee Retention
- Become a Stronger Leader by Asking Yourself These Three Questions
- Elad Blog: Career Decisions