by The Nelson Team | May 24, 2025 | Article Posts
Managing Up! Are you in a sticky position? Are you defending your Team while trying to gain the confidence of your Leader? You may be feeling as if you are caught in the middle between competing needs of your Team and demands of your Leader. Mid-level Managers are...
by The Nelson Team | May 24, 2025 | Article Posts
Keeping calm and focused on the issue when a conversation becomes heated is a key skill for all Leaders to master. Easy to say, not so easy to achieve. Even though I am typically calm and patient, I have been know to ‘lose it’. I regret not...
by The Nelson Team | May 24, 2025 | Article Posts
New leaders often say yes too often and do too much of the work of others. I know, I’ve been there! But it doesn’t work, you come up short on the tasks that only you can do as a leader. We do it out of sincerity and to be seen as a ‘good’ sport. For some...
by The Nelson Team | May 24, 2025 | Article Posts
If you read my latest Sandbox article, you will know that I have had experiences that keep me humble when it comes to my leadership performance. Like most challenges and failures, they teach us something important, that we might not have learned had we not encountered...
by The Nelson Team | May 24, 2025 | Article Posts
How often do you ask about the needs, interests and aspirations of your Team Members and Direct Reports? Do you ask once a year at the annual performance review or maybe the last time was during the hiring interview? When I ask this question of Leaders, I notice they...
by The Nelson Team | May 24, 2025 | Article Posts
Do you seek to understand others’ perspectives? This question comes from the Trust Self-Assessment Questionnaire that I use when working with senior leadership teams. Like many of the questions, there is often a significant difference between the rating the leaders...
