Posts by Robin Pou

Being a leader can be exhausting, but it shouldn’t be a burden. With everything going on in the world, how do we remind ourselves that leadership is a gift?

Challenging events like a recession or layoffs can trigger leaders to question their next strategic move, their leadership and ultimately their professional identity. Can leaders maintain the confidence they’ve fought so hard to gain?

Not everyone learns the same way, and not everyone’s teaching method has the same effectiveness. What improvements can you make to increase your team’s knowledge retention?

Knowing what you believe and why you believe it allows you to stand firm on the foundation of your hard-fought leadership wisdom.

What is the Silver Bullet definition of leadership? How does your definition of leadership compare?

Micromanagement is where managers feel the need to control aspects of their employee’s work & decision-making to an extreme degree – more than is necessary or healthy for a usual working relationship.

Day-to-day leaders are looking to solve as many problems as possible to keep the trains on the track and running on time. In their haste, leaders unwittingly make assumptions about how they can be helpful. Pausing momentarily to ask your team what they want (or need) in a given situation is a good practice to assure alignment and effective problem solving.

Bad leadership is a universal experience. While it’s true that these experiences wreak havoc on its professional victims, there is a silver lining. Those negative experiences can be redeemed as useful to leaders who are on the journey of becoming confident leaders.