Fresh Perspective

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

Companies are Failing Their Teams

By Wendy McManus | April 10, 2025

The Top Five Excuses for Not Developing Talent Companies are in a crisis of their own making right now. At…

New Managers Aren’t Trained in Leadership

By Wendy McManus | April 4, 2025

Addressing the Leadership Skill Gap “When I first went from regular employee to manager, I knew exactly how to step…

Control Kills Motivation

By Wendy McManus | March 27, 2025

How To Motivate Without Micromanaging Many newer managers tend to swing wildly in one direction or another in terms of…

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…