Author: Jason Evanish

Jason Evanish has been researching and writing about leadership for over 10 years and a startup founder leading teams since 2008. He has a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s in Technological Entrepreneurship both from Northeastern University. As the founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, Inc, Jason and the Lighthouse team have helped managers grow their leadership skills in dozens of countries around the world. They’ve worked with a variety of companies from non-profits to high growth startups, and government organizations to well known, publicly traded companies. Jason has also been featured in publications including NPR, the Wall Street Journal, and Fast Company.

37 Key Questions to Ask a Mentor to Transform Your Career

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Have you found the perfect mentor, but are unsure of what steps to take next? What questions can you ask them to get the most out of the time you have together? What areas should you focus on to accelerate your growth? Recently, we wrote a post on everything you need to know about where […]

Building an Unconventional Career as a Leader with Mike Pretlove

Building an Unconventional Career as a Leader

What do you need to know as a first time manager? What are the biggest pitfalls to avoid? How can you pick the right job and opportunity to break into management? To answer these questions, and more, we sat down with Mike Pretlove, who has been a leader now for over 15 years. He’s led […]

Why You Should Lead From the Heart (And How to Start) with Mark Crowley

Why You Should Lead from the Heart

What does it mean to lead from the heart? How can it help you get the best results and performance from your team? In this episode of Creating High Performing Teams, we welcome long time friend of the Lighthouse blog and leadership expert Mark C Crowley to the show. He talks about why he chose […]

How to Work Remotely Like a Pro: Advice from a Veteran

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Have you recently shifted to working remotely? Has it been a smooth process, or more of a bumpy ride? Getting into remote work is tricky. Making the switch from a regular co-located team to a fully remote team as many of us recently have had to do is particular difficult. Fortunately, these are well-known issues […]

3 Steps to Give Feedback: The Prepare - Listen - Act Model

Give Feedback that Makes a Difference

How do you give feedback that makes a difference? How do you improve your team so that they make real changes, instead of getting defensive when you bring feedback? In this episode of our podcast, Creating High Performing Teams, we talk about one of our favorite approaches to giving feedback when you need to improve […]

The Most Important Skills for Managers to Master

Skills for Managers

What are the key skills for managers like you to master as you start leading a new team? In this episode of the Creating High Performing Teams podcast, we give you a run down of the most important skills to master as a new manager, and why they matter.