by Robyn McLeod | Feb 29, 2024 | Personal growth
Often we assume poor leaders and bad bosses are hopelessly stuck in their worst behaviors. Yet a recent post, Bad Leaders Can Change Their Spots, at HBR.org shares research that shows that, with clear developmental focus, the lowest-rated leaders can show significant...
by Robyn McLeod | Nov 16, 2023 | Team Development
My mother-in-law had a saying about people who could be really great and then would do something that totally negated the good that they did. “He’s like a cow that gives a good bucket of milk – and then kicks it over,” she would say. I dubbed...
by Robyn McLeod | Oct 19, 2023 | Team Development
When I resigned my job as a general manager, the hardest part was leaving a great team of people who exceeded their goals and worked well together. But it was not always that way. When I took on the role, I quickly learned that the managers who reported to me were far...
by Lisa Kohn | May 4, 2023 | Self-Care
I’ve noticed a crisis recently, a crisis of trust. I’ve noticed how seldom and little many of us trust ourselves. I’ve noticed it with many of my clients. They have an inkling, a sense of a choice that is best for them or their team, but instead of...
by Robyn McLeod | Apr 27, 2023 | Communication
“I tell my team all the time how great they are,” one leader recently told me. Yet, I knew from conversations with her team members that they felt their leader did not see them as competent and did not trust them with high-level work. While she said how...
