Articles, tools, and books for you and your team

 
 
Welcome to my newsletter, in which I curate resources including articles, reports, books, and more for those interested in people development.
 
 
Tapping into the Potential and Greatness of Your Team Members
 
Early on in my development as a leader, I recall meeting with everyone on my new team and asking them one by one, “what can I count on your for”? The question was so vague I received only muted responses. Over the years I’ve honed the skill of assessing the unique skills and abilities of my team members and have learned to challenge them to assess and consistently offer up their strengths.
 
In order to unleash greatness in your team members, it must start with trust. Trust them to make mistakes and learn from them, trust them to balance autonomy and teamwork, and trust them to make decisions aligned with mission, vision, and purpose. Your job as their leader? Take an interest in who they are as people, care, get curious about who they are and what they are working on. Fiercely advocate for the resources your team needs to be successful, role model accountability, and then get out of their way.
 
- Cranla
 
 
 
Recommended Articles and Resources
 

How to Elevate People to Boost Business

In this report, Accenture details a new research-based framework based on six dimensions that will help organizations build trust and enhance employee potential.
 
Based on 2020 employee engagement analysis, Gallup proposes three areas of employee development to organizations so they can create a high-performance workplace.
 

Career Development During the Pandemic

This SHRM article shares advice for leaders and managers on how to incorporate coaching into their one-on-ones. The author provides sample questions and guidelines to practice.
 
COVID-19 and the Employee Experience

McKinsey advises leaders to use the return phase of this crisis to strengthen the trust they've built, focus on wellbeing, and take a personalized approach to enabling change.
 
 
From My Library
 

Untamed by Glennon Doyle
 
 
 
Glennon Doyle, Carry On, Warrior, and Love Warrior, is one of my favorite writers of the 2000’s. Doyle is personal, honest, gritty, sincere, and poetic in her memoir-styled writing. In her latest book, Untamed, Doyle is both author and activist, and galvanizing warrior for social action balanced with peaceful guru.
 
Using her life and family as a backdrop, Glennon Doyle provides an intimate, honest look at sexism, racism, and gender-bias. This book is about trusting ourselves enough to make peace with ourselves. The stories woven throughout challenge us to examine our brokenness or wholeness as human beings as not dependent upon some external prescribed script of what our lives must be. Instead our very existence is about blazing our own trail and showing up as ourselves, fully.
 
Through the dichotomies of raw and tender, Untamed provokes us to break free from societal prescriptions and live a life of personal agency, joy, and “deep knowing”. “Because once we feel, know, and dare to imagine more for ourselves, we cannot unfeel, unknow, or unimagine. There is no going back." – Glennon Doyle
 
 
 
Stay Updated
 
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