Leadership coach and consultant.
In an environment dominated by the inverse equation of shrinking resources and increasing demands, the chance for sustained organizational success accelerates when there is a performance multiplier effect. Managers can create these by delivering concrete resources to their teams that help individuals elevate their capacity for independent performance improvement. The question is, what kind of […]
This book is kind of like a couples therapist for managers and employees. Through chapters such as “Seeing Your Job-Within-a-Job” and “A Guide to Team Navigation” author Jesse Sostrin gives advice to help avoid frustration and friction between employees and managers. The book will help employees step up to the individual contributions expected of them […]
If you are a manager concerned about turnover, employee engagement, or the high costs of chronic employee under-performance, then you need to think carefully about why people really stay in a job or why they choose to leave their position and their organization. In my experience, people do not leave organizations to seek out other […]
“What if I told you that your entire working life was based on a myth? Let me explain…Remember back to your first few days in a new job. Whether you were an experienced professional or new to the workforce, you quickly discovered that the “job description” that explained your role was quite different from the […]
This has been an exciting week to officially launch my new book, Beyond the Job Description.The book hit shelves on December 17th and the feedback has been inspiring. Below are a few recent highlights I wanted to share. Yesterday I taped a segment with host JJ Ramberg for the show “Your Business” on MSNBC. That […]
“The employee and manager relationship should be a two-way street. Both should benefit from each other in order to have a productive and healthy workplace. In order to learn more about how both employees and managers can work together to mutually achieve success, I spoke to Jesse Sostrin. Sostrin is the author of Beyond the […]
Most small businesses and nonprofit organizations start with a strong vision. The founder or owner then blazes the startup trail by taking bold steps to convince the world of its potential value. Whether your business exists to respond to a social need, or to deliver a product or service that solves problems for the market, […]
People are your organization’s greatest asset. This phrase is spoken so often that it is almost a cliché and very few leaders would disagree with it. But if everyone knows that people – your organization’s combined human capital – are potentially its greatest asset, then is it really a competitive advantage? In order to truly […]
The ability to hire, manage, and retain great employees is a requirement of any successful organization. Although every organization faces the challenge of finding and keeping great employees, small businesses and nonprofit organizations face a unique set of issues. Although the scale is smaller, the same personnel concerns that arise in large companies exist and […]
Most leaders identify the skill of “change management” as a key competency for their managers and employees. More than just nice to have, it is almost considered a survival skill in today’s rapidly changing world of work. Rather than “reacting to change,” which only the slow, flat-footed dinosaurs would do, we assume that managing change […]