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Connect with Donna on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube Hi Reader, With Halloween around the corner, I've been thinking about something that scares even experienced leaders, and it has nothing to do with ghosts or haunted houses. I'm talking about those uncomfortable conversations we rehearse over and over but somehow never get around to having. Imagine a manager whose employee has missed three deadlines. She's already practiced what she'll say, but every time they meet, she puts it...
Connect with Donna on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube Hi Reader, The other day, I created a post about three signs your team may be overthinking everything. I started thinking about it because overthinking at work rarely announces itself as overthinking. It can look like a team being thorough. It can sound like people asking smart questions. It can even feel responsible to keep discussing an issue before moving forward. But there comes a point when careful thinking stops improving...
Connect with Donna on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube Hi Reader, I was thinking recently about a manager who spent nearly twenty minutes reviewing an email one of his employees had written. The employee had done a perfectly good job, but before the email could go out, he changed a few sentences, questioned some of the wording, and eventually found himself discussing whether a semicolon should have been a period. If you had asked him whether he was a micromanager, I’m pretty sure he...