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Paper tools you can use alone or with your team: map your values, skills and passions, lead with your strengths, ask better questions, tell your story and make feedback a daily habit. Each one ends with an exercise.
Values, Skills and Passions: Find Where You Add the Most Value
Three overlapping circles, one sheet of paper and thirty minutes: a practical way to find the work where your values, skills and passions meet, and where you add the most value.
Understand and Leverage Your Strengths (and Your Team's)
A strength is more than something you are good at. Here is how to find yours with a simple two-week log, map your team's strengths and design your work around them.
WIFThem: What's in It for Them?
Before you ask, pitch or give feedback, answer the question the other person is silently asking. WIFThem is a simple habit that changes how requests land across generations.
Deliver Your Story to Connect: Brand Yourself on Purpose
If you do not shape your story, others will shape it for you. Here is how to define your brandstamp and build a short, honest story that connects with every generation.
The Power of the Question: Ask Before You Tell
Most conversations are two monologues taking turns. Asking five to ten genuine questions before you talk about yourself builds trust faster than any pitch, at any age.
Feedback365: Make Feedback a Daily, Two-Way Habit
Waiting a year to tell people how they are doing helps no one. Feedback365 turns feedback into a small daily habit that flows both ways, plus a five-day log to get started.
Articles and essays
More to read about managing and engaging every generation at work.
Four Reasons You Probably Need a Coach
Most of us rarely push ourselves outside our comfort zone. Here are four practical reasons a coach can help managers see their blind spots, follow through and lead better.
Read moreSports Betting Apps and the Young Professional
Since Murphy v. NCAA, betting apps have moved into the same pocket as banking and food delivery. Here is what managers notice, and why bankroll basics belong among adult life skills.
Read moreHow to Win the Millennial Race (and the Gen Z One)
A restored talk outline, updated for Gen Z: the trends that define younger generations, how to bridge youth and experience, and how to stay relevant as things keep changing.
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