When you find yourself in an unexpectedly stressful situation-whether your CEO questions your decision-making or a colleague simply isn’t taking your feedback on board and you feel ignored or undermined-how do you react? You might lose your temper and raise your voice or perhaps you find yourself wishing you could…

How to identify your role in workplace drama and make positive changes — In our workplace relationships, we may often find ourselves playing a role-even if we don’t realise it at the time. Perhaps some of these scenarios sound familiar: One of your team members gets stuck, so you step in to help them and provide a solution. Forces outside your control, like…

Don’t let these 3 limiting beliefs stand in your way The concept of leadership — similar to Product — is widely discussed and popularised these days in countless blogs, podcasts, articles, books, videos, you name it. …

Using 360 Feedback to Identify Blind Spots and Grow as a Leader While 360 feedback is a powerful tool for identifying blind spots and increasing self-awareness, it can be overwhelming to receive raw feedback without any context or guidance for interpretation. …

In my French lesson this morning, I learned that the word “réseau” means “network.” Giles, my teacher, used examples like telephone network and computer network to provide some context. My mind immediately went to networking — like what we do here, or more and more these days, in real life…

Product leaders face uncertain and ambiguous decisions every day. To list just a few: Is this the right person to hire? When is the right time to scale my teams? What is the best way to share with my team news of unexpected changes in the organisation? Have we over-or…

I feel like I’m sitting right in the middle of a few frenzied spaces: product management, leadership and coaching. Every day I browse Twitter and LinkedIn, I see more people identifying themselves as product coaches, or getting in touch to ask how they too can start their own coaching business. …

My older brother recently passed away. It was very sudden and unexpected. As I ride the waves of grief over the past several days, I’ve started to think about all the memories and stories from growing up with someone who I consider a remarkable human. …

Find out by taking a look at your Sphere of Influence Originally published at https://www.kateleto.com on December 6, 2023. Illustration by artinker.com for Kate Leto In a recent coaching session, a director of product was telling me about the re-org that her organisation was going through. Again. It was the third re-org that had taken place in as many months. Not…