Leveraging Leadership

with Amy Burkett

Before Promoting a High Performer: Watch for 3 Warning Signs avoiding promotion mistakes challenging leadership advice growth mindset promotions high performers aren's always leaders professional growth promotion tools promotion traits Mar 07, 2026

I’m kicking today’s blog off with story time.  

Once upon a time, long, long ago, I worked with an extraordinary director.

His production skills were remarkable. His standards were incredibly high. ...

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The Five Beliefs that Change Everything for Leaders challenging leadership advice challenging status quo command-and-control growth mindsest professional growth trust and inspire Feb 22, 2026

Today we’re digging into the differences between command-and-control leadership and trust and inspire.  Before you discount the concept and say command and control is outdated nobody uses that anymore...

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Spotting Misalignment and Tips to Fix It challenging leadership advice keeping teams aligned professional development readjusting teams spotting misaglignment teamwork Jan 31, 2026

So much of what we do as leaders lives in subtlety which makes recognizing problems early really hard.  Most alignment problems don’t announce themselves loudly.

They don’t start with missed deadline...

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The Leadership Balancing Act advanced leadership challenging leadership advice leadership balancing act personal growth professional development professional growth Aug 17, 2025

Does this seem familiar to you? You’ve set the vision, you’ve laid out the plan, and your team is… moving. Just not quite fast enough. Or in quite the right direction.

Now comes the hard part—do you ...

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How to Spot and Stop Negativity challenging leadership advice help for leading during tough times helpful leadership advice human centered leadership stopping negativity Aug 03, 2025

You can feel it before anyone says a word—resistance, worry, and doubt settle into the room like fog. In times of organizational change, it doesn’t take long for uncertainty to invite negativity throu...

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