Leaders: Learn how to manage your feelings at work.

Eliciting a fear response inherently means you’re not getting the best from your team members.

Your role as a leader is to learn these preferences and model the best approach based on the context.

You must do your inner work to maintain groundedness, hope, and clarity.

Vulnerability we demonstrate when we allow others to know us more deeply brings both exposure and understanding.

Communicating up is a key part of managing up. However, it can feel like an extraneous task to write an email or put a deck together for work that is already done.

How to respond to an employee who wants a promotion involves integrative thinking, understanding their real need, and acknowledging their strengths.

We do business with those we know, like and trust.

Relationships matter, and breaking up with your employer can be challenging but if you tear out of there leaving chaos in your wake, it may come full circle years later when you arrive at a burned bridge.

Small town USA is defined by their humanity and other lessons I learned growing up in rural New York.