You’ve just been promoted to first-time manager. Congrats! It’s an accomplishment that deserves recognition. It’s also one of the most significant shifts you’ll make in your career. Yesterday, your job was to get stuff done. Today, your job is to get stuff done through others. And that takes a completely new skill set than you’ve developed to date. Being an effective leader requires you to do the following: Set vision, direction and strategy Align people Communicate goals Mot

Conflict. Some of you may have cringed just reading the word. It’s not a favorite topic for many, but the truth is, it exists in every organization. Why? Because organizations are run by diverse people with differing personalities, opinions and ways of doing things. What to do? How to do it? Why? Which to prioritize? According to what timeline? Conflict is any situation in which one person’s concerns or desires differ from those of another person. Many of us have developed mo