Fresh Perspective

Weekly wisdom to help you lead with intention and elevate your team’s results

Is This Killing Team Creativity?

By Wendy McManus | March 21, 2025

The Hush Around Conflict Earlier this year, the hottest debate on LinkedIn was centered around something extremely trivial: the em…

One-on-one Took a Negative Turn?

By Wendy McManus | March 14, 2025

5 Tips to Salvage the Meeting With so much uncertainty in the world right now turning up the heat and…

30 Second Rule

By Wendy McManus | March 3, 2025

A Networking Plan That Works You’re at an event. You see an industry leader that you really want to connect…

Get My 3-step Networking Framework for Events

By Wendy McManus | March 3, 2025

More Conversations, More Connections You probably have at least one business event on your calendar right now. Have you thought…

Learning to Lead Through Connection…

By Wendy McManus | March 3, 2025

Not Just Authority “Why won’t they just do their jobs?”  I think we’ve all had a frustrated moment like this…

Our Brains Love an Easy Button

By Wendy McManus | March 3, 2025

But It’s Making Your Work Harder “What is important is seldom urgent, and what is urgent is seldom important.” Those…

We All Use the Same Excuse

By Wendy McManus | March 3, 2025

Isn’t it weird how we all know the basics of self-care—but we still have so much resistance to it? I…

Why Doesn’t Your Team Care?

By Wendy McManus | March 3, 2025

Connecting Purpose to the Personal Sometimes teams go through periods of exhaustion. They’re just showing up, checking off boxes, and…

The Real Reason You’re Too Busy

By Wendy McManus | March 3, 2025

I have a simple question for you: “Who else on your team can take on the project you’re consumed by…