I'll call you from the car

The important decisions you'll make as a boss — or a human — need to be made in the midst of very loud and poorly-timed chaos.

Hot goal summer

The opportunity in July (or whenever your mid-year review period lands) is to go back to the whole point of the exercise.

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleJuly 26, 2023Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, accountability, reflection, flexibility, power, performance, goals, psychological safety, business strategy

Before your next offsite

The best thing you can do. The magical transformative thing you can do to improve your odds that something amazing will happen. Is to think ahead.

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleApril 19, 2023Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, reflection, performance, business strategy, goals, startup, connection

Once more with feeling

It's early April, which means the first quarterly review for a lot of teams. If you haven't done yours yet, now's your chance.

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My milkshake brings all the orgs to the yard

Someone else's goals might be eloquently written, but that doesn't mean they matter to you. Someone else's values statement might seem so clear-eyed and attractive, but that doesn't make it yours.

When meetings are outlawed, only outlaws will hold meetings

While collaboration, alignment, decision making, and unit cohesion can all happen outside of meetings, well-run meetings are a very useful and effective place to accomplish those things.

You need more of it than you think

When your brain learns that there are blocks of time when it can reliably expand and take on bigger things, it's astonishing what happens.

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Year of the pulse

When you look back at the last month, or the last year, what patterns do you see? What are those habits, and are they serving you, as you are now?

The strategists, the smugglers, and the silent

Effective strategic planning is an alignment tool. Alignment as in the whole team. Everyone.

Let us feed you

Delegation fails at work when the hand-off is incomplete, and also when the hand-off is too complete. And once you know that, you can get better at this fast.

You've changed

The solution is to acknowledge and process the change. To integrate it and come back to something newly coherent. And the way you do that is reflection.

The little con and the big con

This Quiet Quitting thing may be the topic du jour, but it's not universal. There are people out there doing engaged, enthusiastic work. There are organizations shining bright and without burning out. If you're sweating it, worried that it's happening with your team, here's our advice.

You don't want to drink that

Threats. Dismissiveness. Burnout. Micromanagement. Yelling. Every bad boss behaviour is going to come out of the woodwork in the next few months.

The opposite of coherent

So here we are. Faced with this disastrous ruling. And it makes us wonder: how coherent are your organization's actions on this one? We heard about the relocation policy, what other actions are they taking? Do they line up?

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleJune 29, 2022Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, business strategy, community, power

Okay, but what about managing up?

What's to be done about the boss above me who doesn't know this stuff but needs to? How do I get them to show up for me so I can show up for my own team?

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleJanuary 26, 2022Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, business strategy, performance, managing up

Bad advice you shouldn't take

Resignations. Competitive talent markets. The structure of the org chart. All of these things can feel bigger than you, as an individual leader trying to get things done in your organization. We get that. But be skeptical of any advice that takes them as fixed.

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleJanuary 12, 2022Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, COVID, COVID-19, business strategy, hiring, The great resignation

How to predict the future

Assumptions and predictions are two tools to get at the same thing. Both try to crystallize how you think about the world today, in case it changes. But writing down an assumption is passive, it's descriptive. Making a prediction is active.

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleDecember 29, 2021Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, COVID, COVID-19, remote, business strategy

That rattling sound is your Q4

There's an adage in business that any decision is better than no decision. Because even if you're wrong, you can always make a different decision further down the road.

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But how do I know they're working?

There’s a lot of bosses trying to figure this one out right now. Their people aren’t where they can see them. So they ask the very silly, surface level, unexamined, first-time-working-with-remote-folks question. How do I know they’re working?

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The end of the beginning

Your ability, your team's ability, your organization's ability to survive a crisis like this starts when you accept it for what it is.

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