Self-Improvement Archives

Responding to Feedback: Tips for Managers

What is the best way to respond to co-workers’ feedback? How do you overcome defensiveness in the face of negative feedback? Requesting feedback from your colleagues is the first step to improving your management skills, but that feedback means nothing if you don’t know how to respond to it. You need to resist the urge to become defensive and instead, figure out what you can do to improve. Here is how you should go about responding to feedback from your colleagues.

The Coaching Habit: Change the Way You Lead

How can you form a coaching habit? What difference would it make in your leadership? The Coaching Habit teaches you how to turn coaching into an informal, effective daily habit by asking team members seven essential questions. Listening instead of speaking for just 10 minutes a day can refresh and revamp your interactions with your team members and ultimately transform the way you and your team work. Keep reading to learn the fundamental principles of The Coaching Habit.

Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Test as You Fly

What does the book Think Like a Rocket Scientist mean by “test as you fly”? How might you use this principle in your life? In Think Like a Rocket Scientist, Ozan Varol explains how rocket scientists test equipment in space-like conditions. Similarly, successful people test ideas and products. Varol shares three criteria for successful tests and two suggestions for testing your ideas rigorously. Keep reading to learn how to think like a rocket scientist and apply the test-as-you-fly principle to your own life, career, or business.

A Leader’s Guide to Managing Resistance to Change

Are you stuck in your ways at work? Have you received negative feedback about your performance but are resistant to change? In his book What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, Marshall Goldsmith says that many leaders and managers tend to resist change for a number of reasons. However, if you are receiving negative feedback about your performance, it’s important to make changes and improve, or else you may never move up the ladder. Here is Goldsmith’s advice on managing your resistance to change.

The 4 Steps to Becoming a Visionary Leader

Leadership: What are the Major Traits of a Good Leader

What is visionary leadership? What are the key qualities of a visionary leader? People expect a visionary leader to be forward-thinking. A forward-thinking leader creates a positive vision—one that engages people’s imaginations and emotions—and then works to make it happen. Visionary leaders are not born, they are made, and there are specific steps you can take to make one of yourself.

No More Mr. Nice Guy: Review, Context, and Reception

Are you looking for a review of No More Mr. Nice Guy by Robert Glover? What is the context behind the book? How was it received? Throughout his time as a marriage and family psychotherapist, Dr. Glover noticed a trend among dissatisfied men: Although they consider themselves kind, generous people, they fail to see their efforts turn into a fulfilling life. In No More Mr. Nice Guy, Glover guides you through understanding and overcoming the Nice Guy mindset. Keep reading for a full review of No More Mr. Nice Guy, including context and reception.

No More Mr. Nice Guy: Exercises for Nice Guys

Are you looking for exercises from No More Mr. Nice Guy? Do you often feel insecure and underconfident in your romantic life and career? In his classic self-help book, Robert Glover shares his step-by-step plan to go from an insecure “nice guy” to a confident “integrated male.” Completing the following exercises from No More Mr. Nice Guy will help you put Glover’s powerful lessons into practice. Keep reading for the most helpful exercises from No More Mr. Nice Guy.

Coaching Tips: How to Ask Questions More Effectively

Looking for some coaching tips to make you a better coach, manager, or leader? How might you take your coaching skills to the next level? As a coach, you already know some great questions you can ask to move your clients or team members forward. But you probably could benefit from some coaching tips on the best way to ask those questions. Continue reading to get a few coaching tips to take you to the next level.

The 2 Steps to Assuming Personal Accountability

How do you understand personal accountability? What does it really take to assume ownership of your life and hold yourself accountable for its outcomes? Personal accountability means understanding that you control your own fate. To hold yourself accountable, you have to become comfortable examining the part you play (through action or inaction) in getting into or remaining in negative situations. There are two steps to this: 1) face the facts, or evaluate problems without flinching from difficult realities, and 2) Admit your role by being honest about how your actions affected the problem. We’ll discuss both of these principles below.

How to Become Happier (The Happiness Advantage)

Do you want to know how to become happier? What science-backed tips can help you become happier? In The Happiness Advantage, author Shawn Achor offers his tips for how to become happier, based on research in positive psychology and neuroscience. He shows how happiness can dramatically improve your health, personal relationships, and career. Here are some great tips for how to become happier.