Blanchard LeaderChat
A Forum to Discuss Leadership and Management Issues
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Read ArticleAre Your Creatives Making You Cranky? Ask Madeleine
Dear Madeleine, I head up one of several R&D teams at a global consumer goods company. My team is amazing—brilliant, eccentric, creative, fun people who are blowing away their goals. (It takes a...
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Read ArticleServant Leadership: It’s Time for a New Leadership Model
Too many leaders have been conditioned to think of leadership only in terms of power and control. But there is a better way to lead, says best-selling business author Ken Blanchard—one that...
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Read ArticleIs One of Your Direct Reports Out of Touch with Reality? Ask Madeleine
Dear Madeleine, I am a new manager. I have twelve folks reporting to me and it is going perfectly, except for one person (I will call him “A”). There seems to be a fundamental disconnect between...
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Read ArticleA Coach Approach to Giving Feedback – 4 Lessons Learned from a Coaching Perspective
Those of us who work with or are followers of Ken Blanchard have all heard the expression “Feedback is the breakfast of champions.” We’ve also read dozens of examples of when and how to give...
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Read ArticleNo Support for Hiring New People? Ask Madeleine
Dear Madeleine, I am a mid-level manager with a large team in a low-profile but significant government agency. I say significant because substantial numbers of citizens depend on us for critical...
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Read Article10 Ways Leaders Aren’t Making Time for their Team Members (Infographic)
Performance planning, coaching, and review are the foundation of any well-designed performance management system, but the results of a recent study suggest that leaders are falling short in...
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Read ArticleDon’t Know What to Do with an Insubordinate Employee? Ask Madeleine
Dear Madeleine, I started a new job about six months ago. My boss warned me about one of my direct reports—he said she was argumentative and difficult. For the first few months I thought she was...
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Read Article4 Tips for Mastering the Most Difficult Performance Management Conversation
In a recent article for the July edition of The Ken Blanchard Companies’ Ignite! newsletter, senior consulting partner Ann Phillips describes three types of conversations managers need to...
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Read ArticleDon’t Over- or Under-Supervise: 4 Steps to Getting Management Just Right
“I don’t want to be a micromanager!” I hear that statement all the time from my coaching clients. I get it—no one wants to be known as a boss who hovers over people and tells them what to do all...
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Read ArticleAfraid You’re Becoming Boring? Ask Madeleine
Dear Madeleine, I have been with the same organization for eight years. My company offers anyone who has been here for seven years a reduced pay, three-month sabbatical. My boss keeps pestering me...
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Read Article3 Conversations All Managers Need to Master
Managers don’t have enough high quality conversations with their direct reports, according to Ann Phillips, a senior consulting partner with The Ken Blanchard Companies. This deficiency has a...
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Read ArticlePeople Aren’t Using their Paid Time Off? Ask Madeleine
Dear Madeleine, Our company went to “unlimited PTO” about 16 months ago. The idea was to try it out for a year and re-evaluate. The re-evaluation period was moved to the 18-month mark, so it...
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Read ArticleLeadership Lessons from Sir Paul McCartney
I am one of the millions of people who has recently enjoyed a 24-minute video escape into happiness—also known as Paul McCartney Carpool Karaoke. The video is fun, it is revealing, it is touching,...
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Read ArticleBoss Keeps Making Bad Hires? Ask Madeleine
Dear Madeleine, I work for a great manager at a nonprofit. My manager is wildly committed, super passionate, and really seems to care about his employees. I have reported to him for seven years,...
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Read ArticleThis TV Show Illustrates The 3 Fundamentals of Effective Performance Management
My wife is a big fan of TV cooking shows. You name it, she likes to watch it: IronChef, TopChef, Great American Food Truck, and MasterChef, just to name a few. Since she owns the TV remote control...
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Read ArticleDon’t Like a Suggested New Hire? Ask Madeleine
Dear Madeleine, I manage a large team of accountants and other kinds of finance experts. We recently posted a job for a senior budget analyst. One of the applicants is a person who was in the...
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Read Article3 Ways Coaching Can Impact New Leader Development
How many times have you wondered who the future leaders will be in your organization? When I listen to organizational sponsors express their needs for leadership development, it can be framed as a...
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Read ArticleFeeling Overwhelmed as A New Manager? Ask Madeleine
Dear Madeleine, My long-time boss recently left and I finally got a chance to be a manager. But soon after I stepped into the role, upper management informed me I needed to cut at least three...
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Read ArticleHR professionals identify key attributes of a servant leader you may be missing
What are the attributes of a modern servant leader in business today—someone who puts the interests of others on equal footing with their own? The Ken Blanchard Companies recently completed a...
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Read ArticleCan’t Promote Your People? Ask Madeleine
Dear Madeleine, I am a senior manager in a large government agency that has been decimated and paralyzed by our current administration. Don’t worry, I am not going to get political. But I do need...
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