In last week's post, The Judge in Your Head, I talked about the universal Saboteur that afflicts us all, the Judge. The Judge spends all...

I woke up the other morning and my daughter was sick, which meant she was staying home from school. I work from home and had a four-hour...

Earlier this year I was in the hospital for a week with a double ear infection and meningitis. (If you're offered the opportunity to do...

Tip number eight of eight - use a predictable template when giving feedback. I've learned and taught a lot about feedback over the years,...

Tip number seven (of the eight ideas I originally shared) is to prep your feedback before you give it. Now you might be saying, "Kate,...

Tip number six (out of the eight I originally outlined) is that to make feedback useful, it has to be delivered while there's still time...

Tip number five (out of the eight originally shared) is to make sure that giving feedback is not a rare occurrence. When we think about...

Imagine you're about to give some unpleasant critical feedback to someone who is definitely going to have a hard time taking it. What's...

Tip number three (out of the eight I originally outlined) is that to make feedback useful, it needs to be specific and not a vague or...

Let's say that you want to give your direct report some feedback on the meeting they just ran. You have the idea of the behavior you...

When I was acting, I got a lot of feedback that really wasn't helpful. "You're too tall for this role." "We need someone older." "We...

When I first started managing people, I knew I was going to have to give feedback. I was nervous because the only real first-hand...

In a world filled with constant change, the way you approach new opportunities can make all the difference. Your mindset impacts the way...

It's becoming increasingly more apparent that HR teams are facing challenges that other teams just don't face -- challenges that are more...

If you've never worked in HR, you just can't know what it's like to be an organization's therapist, coach, statistician, legal...

My fellow coach, Ian Lopez, has contributed this fantastic post -- check him out at www.cambioleadership.com As adults, we have the...

Good listening is key to all kinds of things -- understanding what's being asked (and what isn't), building relationships and trust, and...

I went to my college reunion this past weekend and was struck by how many of my classmates were doing incredible work -- projects they...

In yesterday's HR Swap, we focused on how to deal with the high volume and wide variety of problems people bring to HR without taking on...

In last week's HR Swap, we had a fantastic conversation about what it means to be "strategic" and how the participants decide where to...