People Management

6 Ways to Turn Managers into Coaches Again

Keith Ferrazzi

Managers do not always have the time to undertake the coaching of all their staff themselves. It is better to try to develop a culture of coaching and mentoring within your teams.

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Use Gratitude to Counter Stress and Uncertainty

Christopher Littlefield

Beyond the known effects of acknowledgement over staff engagement, this article focuses on its virtues to help them through stressful and uncertain times.

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The Last Dance

Michael Tollin, Jon Weinbach

By following the journey of the Chicago Bulls football team during the 1997-98 season, we can see how coach Pil Jackson manages his team's stars.

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Make Your Meetings a Safe Space for Honest Conversation

Paul Axtell

Encouraging frank exchanges through an attitude of questioning and openness.

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How to Give Your Team the Right Amount of Autonomy

Deborah Ancona, Kate Isaacs

A few pieces of advice to increase the margins of maneuver of your teams while giving them the right reference marks to focus their efforts. 

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Managers Can’t Be Great Coaches All by Themselves

Among the different manager-coach approaches, that of the “connector”, capable of introducing the employee to a subject-matter expert, seems to be the most effective.

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Delivering through Diversity

Vivian Hunt, Sara Prince, Sundiatu Dixon-Fyle, Lareina Yee

A complete report on the state of diversity in companies, its challenges and its obstacles.

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The Two Traits of the Best Problem-Solving Teams

Alison Reynolds, David Lewis

The behaviors you should encourage in your team to set up an atmosphere of psychological safety.

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Complicating the Narratives

Amanda Ripley

How can we better present controversial topics, so as to avoid providing sustenance to excessively polarized positions? An article intended for journalists, but that can easily inspire executives as well.

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Great Teams Are About Personalities, Not Just Skills

Dave Winsborough, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

Good teams get built based on the competencies of their members. Exceptional teams are based on their members’ personalities.

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