Manager as Coach
At Reverb, we love helping managers hone their coaching skills. Manager as Coach is something we want to help nurture in all people leaders. What we mean by this is that your role as a manager is less about managing the time and tasks of your direct reports, and more about being curious, and enabling […]
The More Inclusive New Normal: A DEI Series for People Leaders
People leader surveys show that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work is a top priority in 2021. And, people leaders’ biggest barrier to reaching their goals is a lack of time. Most people leaders are not DEI experts and have limited knowledge and comfort leading DEI initiatives along with their daily responsibilities. At the same […]
Virtual Teams: How To Be Productive From Home
In a survey of more than 500 tech companies, a study showed that remote work is a rising trend that will grow as we move toward the next decade. Attitudes among executives about how work can be accomplished have shifted. The mentality that employees must “come to work” and be in the same building as […]
You’ve Heard About SMART Goals, but What About CLEAR Feedback?
Performance reviews are an important aspect of a business that provides a structured time for a conversation about what employees are doing, how they are doing it, and how the business can help them do it better. Employees often dread this meeting due to past experiences where they get beat up during reviews, but that […]
The future of hiring and up-skilling top tech talent
Re-Post from: https://www.educative.io/blog/enterprise/the-future-of-hiring-and-up-skilling-top-tech-talent Hiring and retaining employees may be difficult in today’s candidate-driven market, but it is even tougher when it comes to technical roles. In today’s world, enterprises are strapped for resources and struggle to balance new challenges such as: Candidates being increasingly in control during the interview process. Recruiting and hiring teams no longer […]
What A Car Can Teach Us About A Successful Career
I was talking to Andrea, a leader in a big corporate here in the Seattle area. Very smart and hardworking she was, her resume spoke for itself. As a senior director role in this new job, she was facing some challenges. The main feedback was, others didn’t know what value she was bringing to the […]
Having A Hard Time Getting Your Voice Heard In Meetings?
Tim is an engineering leader at a local hi-tech company. He is very good at his trade, has a very deep understanding of the technology stack and has decent ideas about the current industry trends. All his career he has been very successful, got promoted fairly quickly up to this level, and now his next […]
Raised Funding? Now Raise Leaders.
Proof points? Check. Funding? Nailed it. Development? Underway. Team members led? Errr…maybe??? Before you dive too far into the startup or scaling vortex, consider the importance of raising leaders while you grow your company. Raising leaders with as much vigor and determination as you apply to the rest of your business will pay off as […]
Navigating the transition from peer to manager
Being promoted to lead a team of former peers is an exciting career milestone that can come with some pitfalls. It can be awkward to find yourself in a position of authority over teammates used to collaborating on equal footing. One of your first management tasks when moving from peer to manager is shifting the […]
Improve Your Chances of Getting the Raise You Deserve
Employees no longer wait until review time or the beginning of the year to ask for a raise. The current generation, yes millennials, asks for promotions and raises when they think they deserve them. Asking for a raise is tricky, but can be worth-while when done right. You want to be well prepared when facing […]
