Stewart Leadership Insights Blog

Fight, Flight, Freeze: Our Brains on Feedback

By Peter Stewart

August 09, 2022

Coaching, Feedback

2 young professional womenf sitting across the table from each other talking

The words “performance review” can be enough to make our skin crawl. Hearing the phrase “I need to talk to you later, '' or preparing to give someone else feedback can be enough to trigger a pit-in-the-stomach feeling. Although the rational part of...

7 Strategies to Develop New Managers

By Daniel Stewart

April 04, 2022

Leadership, Management Development, Coaching, Executive Coaching

Professional man and woman sitting at a computer while he points to the screen.

Rising from the level of individual contributor to manager is a big challenge—one that requires shifting mindsets in several key ways. As a leader who manages other leaders, you’ve had to make those shifts, and you may still be refining and...

7 Ways Leaders Develop Themselves and Others

By Nolan Godfrey

March 22, 2021

Listening, Personal Development, Coaching, Team Building, Valuing Others, Ego Management, Time Management

Think about the leader that has helped you develop and grow the most. What was it about who they were and how they led that supported your development? I know for me these great leaders were exceptional at many things - and at the root of it all,...

Four Keys to Creating Accountability

By Nolan Godfrey

October 19, 2020

Leadership, Coaching, Focusing on Results, Accountability

Boss asking employee to hold themselves accountable

I recently sat down with a senior executive that we’ll call Mike. He had just held a team meeting to address poor performance and to point out which individuals were not pulling their weight. He knew he had exploded, but the frustration had been...

Eight Skills of Great Coaching Managers

By Daniel Stewart

February 19, 2018

Leadership, Leading Teams, Coaching, Valuing Others

Beneath every leader’s ID badge is a hidden layer with a very important message. While some recognize and embrace this message, too many others have no idea it is there or choose to ignore it. This often unseen message defines a leader as much as...

7 TRENDS IN DEVELOPING GREAT MANAGERS

By Daniel Stewart

September 08, 2017

Leadership Development, Coaching, Talent

The following seven trends highlight what the best organizations are doing today to effectively develop managers. We’ve gathered these top ways to develop management teams from our work with many clients and best practice research.

Six Factors for Great Impromptu Coaching

By Daniel Stewart

August 10, 2017

Leadership, Talent Development, Coaching

Imagine the following three scenarios: You are leaving a meeting with one of your employees who just did a great job at presenting a new idea.

The Five Steps of Great Coaching

By Daniel Stewart

July 15, 2017

Leadership, Coaching, Valuing Others

I have a friend who is a talented musician and educator. He teaches high school choir and music to hundreds of students every year. As we were catching up one evening, he asked me a powerful question: What is the one thing that leaders need to do...