5 minutes with lisa
Welcome to my blog! Five minutes with Lisa is your chance to get quick bursts of some of my best thinking. You might also enjoy downloading my free leadership resources.
5 Minutes on the Self-Awareness of Emotional Intelligence
Think of a leader who you really admire.I would be willing to bet you a cup of coffee that person was emotionally smart.
5 Minutes on Learning To Welcome Feedback
One day as I was working in my role as chief financial officer of a national nonprofit, my deputy director blurted out, “Well… we know you don’t like to receive feedback.” I was shocked. I thought I was just fine with feedback. I gave her an uncomfortable laugh and asked, “Really? I come across that way?”
5 Minutes on Fostering Shared Leadership On Your Team
Are you managing a team where only a few dominate and others seem to be just watching the clock? Or is your team just a collection of individuals who report to the same manager?
5 Minutes on Simple Agreements for Emergent Landscapes
In emergent landscapes we can’t rely on usual ways of planning. Uncertainty, change, and unpredictability all abound. Making it hard, and ineffective, to focus on planning. But we do have other tools at our disposal.
5 Minutes on Leading Through Failure in Emergent Landscapes
Emergent landscapes are, to say the least, tricky.It can be hard to even see you are in one!It can be so uncomfortable to stay in the uncertainty and just pay attention.
5 Minutes on Leading in Emergent Landscapes
There are some clues that tell us we are in an emergent landscape. For example, the tools we are used to using just aren’t working. Things feel uncertain. Even uncomfortable. We can’t quite see what we need to do next.
5 Minutes on Emergent Landscapes
Emergent landscapes are spaces where we can sense the old pattern needs changing. Something new is emerging but we don’t quite know what it is yet. Emergent landscapes often require new ways of thinking and adapting.
5 Minutes on Tips For Coaching As A Supervisor
We now know that coaching can have a profound impact on organizational culture. We also know that coaching is different from when we act as a boss, mentor, or teacher.
5 Minutes on What Coaching Is And Is Not
Think of a time you really learned something … Was someone coaching you?
5 Minutes on Impacting Organizational Culture With Coaching
What do you think of when you hear the term "coach"? Maybe you think of coaching an employee with a problem. Maybe you think of a life coach or an executive coach. Maybe you think of Ted Lasso.
5 Minutes on Performance Improvement Plans
A Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) is a document and process to help an employee clearly understand the expectations they need to meet to perform their job satisfactorily.
5 Minutes on Exploring Where One-On-One Conversations Go Wrong
I think it’s time to get real about where one-on-one conversations can go wrong. We’re going to explore two scenarios that are all too common. Ready to play along?
5 Minutes on Preparing For A One-On-One Conversation
We’ve covered what can go right and wrong with a one-on-one conversation. And we’ve taken care of the nuts of bolts of what a one-on-one conversation is and why it’s important.
Now we’re going to talk about how to prepare for your conversation.
5 Minutes on The What And Why Of One-On-One’s
One-on-one conversations are a dedicated and focused time to hold a private meeting between a supervisor and supervisee.
5 Minutes on One-on-One Conversations
One-on-one conversations between a supervisor and supervisee are an important part of building a strong, working relationship based in trust and communication. They are your best opportunity for guidance, support, providing/receiving feedback, collaborating, listening, problem solving and going deeper.
5 Minutes on Turnover And Retention
Turnover rates are high. In fact, in the nonprofit sector the voluntary turnover rate is nineteen percent. This is higher than the labor market as a whole, which has a turnover rate of twelve percent. This is alarming for a few reasons.
5 Minutes on How To Help With Burnout
As Adam Grant so wisely puts it, “The core of burnout is emotional exhaustion – feeling so depleted and drained, you just don’t have anything left to give your job.” I’m guessing many, if not most of us, have been there at some point in our lives, if not in the last few years.
5 Minutes on Meaningful Employee Self-Evaluations
Whether you are an employee or a supervisor, you might be rolling your eyes when I mention employee self-evaluations. Fifteen to twenty years ago, when self-evaluations were all the rage and being added to performance evaluations, they often missed the mark.
5 Minutes on Feedback Support
Chances are, you, like me and most people I know, struggle at times to give and/or receive feedback. I’ve been there when receiving hard feedback. The shock. The uncomfortable laugh. The defensiveness. Recovering from the hurt. Taking it all too personally.
5 Minutes on Transitioning to Performance Learning
There are a lot of reasons to make the shift from an annual performance evaluation to Performance Learning. But here’s the real heart of the matter: Annual performance evaluations are a static tool.