The goal isn’t to evaluate — it’s to move forward I remember bringing home report cards as a kid. You’d look at the grades. Focus on what went well… and what didn’t. Maybe explain a few things. Then move on. That’s often how feedback still shows up at work. This time of year, a lot of teams are having performance conversations. Reviews get written. Ratings get assigned. Feedback gets delivered. And too often, it feels like a report card. A look back at what went well… and wha

DFast isn’t always effective. A few years ago, I sat in on a leadership team meeting that ran like clockwork. Agenda timed to the minute. Updates were crisp. Decisions were made quickly. By all appearances, it was a high-performing team. But something felt off. No one challenged anything. No one asked, “Are we solving the right problem?” No one slowed things down long enough to think beyond the next milestone. They were moving fast. Just not necessarily in the right direction

What needs to grow — and what needs to go? March signals change. Longer days. Shifting seasons. A natural reset. Spring is a good time to ask a leadership question we don’t ask often enough: What behavior on my team needs reinforcing? And what behavior needs addressing? Culture doesn’t drift overnight. It shifts slowly, through repeated patterns. The leader who ignores small issues in January often faces bigger ones by June. The leader who consistently reinforces positive beh