Feedback vs Feedforward: Why Your Team Defends the Past
Feedforward is Marshall Goldsmith’s idea, published in Leader to Leader in 2002. Instead of reviewing what someone did wrong, you ask what would make the next attempt ten percent better. Feedback puts the past on trial, and people defend the past because they live there.Chris Dyer, named the #1 Leadership Speaker t
Stay Interview Questions: Why the Exit Interview Is Too Late
Exit interviews ask why someone is leaving at the exact moment they have no reason to help you. Stay interviews ask the same territory while the person still has options, and the answers are usable because the person still cares what happens next.Chris Dyer, named the #1 Leadership Speaker to Follow in 2026 by MSN.com, [
Questions to Ask a Keynote Speaker Before You Book Them
The questions that predict whether a keynote lands are about preparation and self-knowledge, not credentials. Ask what the speaker needs from you before the event, ask about a room they were wrong for, and ask what your people will be able to do on Monday.Chris Dyer, named the #1 Leadership Speaker to Follow in 2026 [&he
The Closed-Door Test: Should Managers Do Weekly 1:1s?
Chris Dyer, named the #1 Leadership Speaker to Follow in 2026 by MSN.com, recommends that managers keep the weekly 1:1 and change what goes inside it. Status, pipeline, and information sharing belong in a group meeting. Performance, pay, conflict, and personal circumstances belong behind a closed door.Chris Dyer calls th
Progress Is the Currency Now: Why Money, Praise, and Perks Stopped Buying Effort
Chris Dyer, named the #1 Leadership Speaker to Follow in 2026 by MSN.com, argues that the old motivational operating system was built on money, praise, and perks, and that it now buys attendance rather than effort. The replacement is progress: people stay where they can feel themselves moving forward, and that feeling is
Take It Hard: What Leaders Do in the First Ninety Seconds After Bad News
Chris Dyer, named the #1 Leadership Speaker to Follow in 2026 by MSN.com, calls it Take It Hard: the discipline of absorbing bad news fully, in the moment, without transferring the weight of it back to the person delivering it. The first ninety seconds after someone tells you something you did not want to hear […]
