Eight weeks of posts and articles, built on research published since late July. It runs on the system in the LinkedIn Playbook: you choose and approve, the drafts arrive in your voice, and every figure traces back to a named source.
The playbook's voice rules, formats and approval step all stay. These three things are new for the fall.
A personal post on Wednesdays: a book from your shelf, a question you ask, something the work has taught you. The best current data puts follower growth at its peak at three posts a week, and personal posts are where people decide they like you, not just the idea.
Each Tuesday post opens on something new in the research and links to a full Insights article. Four of the eight titles are already listed as coming soon on your Insights page, so the site and the feed tell the same story.
Posts cite recent studies by name: Gallup, Korn Ferry, Harvard Business Review. Every figure is copied exactly from the original. Your own practice numbers stay as they are: 5,000+ coaching hours and 7+ years.
Tuesday opens a theme with a new finding and the week's article. Wednesday is yours. Thursday carries a visual from the playbook's six formats. Election Day week runs Monday instead of Tuesday, and US Thanksgiving has no post.
| Week | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1Oct 6–8 | Insight + articleThe job outgrew the job description |
PersonalThe three questions I start with |
Quote cardAutopilot |
| Week 2Oct 13–15 | Insight + articlePeople watch their manager |
BookThe Coaching Habit |
CarouselCoach instead of direct |
| Week 3Oct 20–22 | Insight + articleThe blind spot that grows with seniority |
PersonalWhat my own profile told me |
Insight cardTwo separate readings |
| Week 4Oct 27–29 | Insight + articleWhat employers now rank highest |
BookSupercommunicators |
Workshop promoFor HR and L&D |
| Week 5Nov 2–5 | Moves to Mon Nov 2Insight + articleFirst time in the chair |
PersonalThe first time I led people |
Proof cardHours, years, one client line |
| Week 6Nov 10–12 | Insight + articleThe anxiety nobody names |
BookDare to Lead |
CarouselCourage, curiosity, care |
| Week 7Nov 17–19 | Insight + articleEQ doesn't translate word for word |
PersonalLeading in more than one culture |
Workshop promoTeams across cultures |
| Week 8Nov 24–25 | Insight + articleHolding on to your best people |
PersonalWhat my clients taught me this year |
No postUS Thanksgiving |
The opening lines below are working drafts, not final copy. Each post and article is drafted in full the week before, run through the voice check, and sent to you to approve. Personal posts start from your own words; the pink box says what's needed.
Built on Korn Ferry's Workforce 2026 report, 16,000+ professionals in 11 markets, published Sep 8.
"Korn Ferry surveyed more than 16,000 professionals this year, and 61% said they are doing the work of more than one role. The job grew. The way most of us carry pressure did not grow with it, and that gap shows up first as autopilot."
Your three questions, as you wrote them for clients: Who am I as a leader today? What is getting in my way? Who am I capable of being when I lead from my strengths and potential?
Needs from you: which of the three leaders find hardest to answer, and what you notice when they finally do. Two or three sentences.
"Autopilot is how capable people cope when the job outgrows the time to think."
Built on Gallup (Aug 16, 23,717 US workers), Korn Ferry (42% of organizations cut management roles this year), and the September reporting on Uber and Meta rethinking their manager layers.
"When the way work gets done changes, people watch their manager more than the new tools. Gallup found that employees who strongly agree their manager champions the change were more than eight times as likely to say the change had transformed their work: 33% against 4%."
It came out in a 10th-anniversary edition this spring, which gives the post a reason to exist this month.
Needs from you: the one idea or question from it you actually use, and when.
"Three moments a manager can coach instead of direct."
The one-to-one, the mistake, the decision: in each, the question to ask before offering an answer. Closes on the Discovery Session invitation.
Built on Harvard Business Review (Sep 15, 10,000+ professionals and 400 senior leaders) and the American Management Association (Sep 17).
"The more senior the leader, the more they underestimate how much they dominate the conversation. That’s the finding from research on more than 10,000 professionals and 400 senior leaders, which Harvard Business Review ran in September. The habits that got them promoted are the ones the team works around."
Only if you're comfortable sharing it. If not, the fallback is "the moment in a debrief I've learned to wait for."
Needs from you: one thing your own results surprised you with, or the debrief moment. A short paragraph.
"How you see yourself and how your team experiences you are two separate readings."
Support line: the EQ-i 2.0 measures the first. The EQ 360 adds the second.
Built on ManpowerGroup's Q4 survey (39,878 employers, 42 countries), the Stanford Digital Economy Lab (Aug 12) and IBM's study of 1,500 CHROs (Sep 21).
"ManpowerGroup asked tech employers what they are hiring for. The top answer, at 41%, was “Communication, Collaboration & Teamwork,” ahead of every technical skill on the list. The human skills aren't the soft part of the job anymore."
Needs from you: the idea from it you see play out most with clients.
"You can measure the skills employers rank highest, and teach them to a whole team."
Emotional Intelligence and Effective Communication workshops, grounded in the EQ-i 2.0. Timed for when 2027 development budgets are being set.
Built on Russell Reynolds' CEO and CFO turnover indexes for the first half of 2026 (Aug 13), with Korn Ferry's July survey of boards for context.
"Of the 131 CEOs appointed at major listed companies in the first half of this year, 101 had never led a public company before. Nearly two in three new CFOs are first-timers too. The promotion happens in a day. Growing into it takes longer, and most of that growth happens underneath."
Needs from you: your own story, in a few sentences. Where you were, what you got wrong or learned late.
"I feel like a better Director and person after the last six months."
Verbatim from a LinkedIn recommendation, attributed as it is on the site: Enablement Leader.
Built on MIT Sloan Management Review (Sep 1), a four-year study inside one firm by Fitzsimons and the Petriglieris of INSEAD, and the APA's Work in America survey (Sep 23).
"Researchers spent four years and roughly 760 hours inside one firm, watching its transformation stall. The strategy was sound. What stalled it was the anxiety its leaders felt and would not name, and it came out as blame instead."
Needs from you: the line or idea from it you come back to.
"What steadies a team through change is courage, curiosity and care."
The study's three remedies, credited to the authors. The last slide ties them to what the EQ-i 2.0 measures: stress tolerance and emotional self-awareness.
Built on SHRM's analysis of job postings across 27 countries (Sep 22) and an ICF Coaching World piece on cultural intelligence (Aug 24).
"In France, 34.3% of technical job postings ask for social skills. In Australia, it is 5.7%. Same kinds of roles, a sixfold difference in what counts. Emotional intelligence travels, but it does not translate word for word."
Needs from you: a moment when a signal you read one way meant something else somewhere new. A short paragraph.
"Emotional intelligence workshops for teams that work across cultures."
Built on Ingrid Haegele's study in the American Economic Review (Aug 2026): personnel records from a manufacturer with 200,000+ employees.
"In a study of a company with more than 200,000 employees, three in four managers admitted to holding on to their best people. When those managers moved on, internal applications rose almost 80%. Developing someone sometimes means helping them outgrow your team."
The day before US Thanksgiving. Patterns only, with no names or details anyone could recognize.
Needs from you: two or three things this year's clients taught you, in your own words.
Everything below was published between July 24 and September 24, 2026, and checked against the original source. Importance is how directly it supports your work and how strong the evidence is. Visibility is how widely it has been read and covered. The list is ranked on the two together.
| # | Finding | Importance | Visibility | Used in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strongest: each carries a week | ||||
| 1 | 61% of professionals are doing the work of more than one role. 42% of organizations cut management roles in the past year, and 55% of the managers who remain are exhausted.Korn Ferry, Workforce 2026 · Sep 8 · 16,000+ professionals, 11 markets | Weeks 1, 2 | ||
| 2 | Where employees strongly agree their manager champions the new tools, 33% say their work has been transformed, against 4% elsewhere. Half of CHROs doubt their managers can guide people through the change.Gallup · Aug 16 · 23,717 US workers | Week 2 | ||
| 3 | The more senior the leader, the more they underestimate how much they dominate conversations and micromanage. Peers notice it before direct reports say it.Harvard Business Review, Matviak and Gardner · Sep 15 · 10,000+ professionals, 400 senior leaders | Week 3 | ||
| 4 | A firm's transformation stalled when its leaders lost the capacity to name, share and manage anxiety. Denied anxiety turned into blame. The authors' remedy: courage, curiosity, care.MIT Sloan Management Review, Fitzsimons and Petriglieri · Sep 1 · four years, 760 hours of observation | Week 6 | ||
| 5 | 101 of the 131 CEOs appointed in the first half of 2026 had never led a public company. 88% of S&P 500 appointments were internal.Russell Reynolds, CEO Turnover Index · Aug 13 | Week 5 | ||
| 6 | Tech employers rank “Communication, Collaboration & Teamwork” (41%) above every technical skill. 62% of employers who are hiring say it's because roles and skills are changing.ManpowerGroup, Q4 Employment Outlook · Sep 8–22 · 39,878 employers, 42 countries | Week 4 | ||
| 7 | Jobs built on codified knowledge are shrinking for early-career workers, while roles that run on experience are growing.Stanford Digital Economy Lab · Aug 12 · ADP payroll data, millions of workers | Week 4 article | ||
| 8 | Inner resources separate who holds up under the same pressure: 51% of people low in "psychological capital" plan to look for a new job, against 19% of those high in it.American Psychological Association, Work in America · Sep 23 · 2,009 US workers | Week 6 article | ||
| Widely seen news: good hooks, not proof | ||||
| 9 | Uber cut its managers by 20% and halved teams of one or two reports.Bloomberg · Sep 2 | Week 2 article | ||
| 10 | Meta asked former managers to volunteer to manage again, months after cutting about a tenth of its staff.Business Insider, Fortune · Sep 10–12 · anonymous sources | Week 2 article | ||
| Supporting evidence | ||||
| 11 | 71% of CHROs call judgment the workforce's most essential skill. Only 29% of employees rank it as important.IBM Institute for Business Value · Sep 21 · 1,500 CHROs, 8,800 employees | Week 4 article | ||
| 12 | 64% of new CFOs are in the role for the first time.Russell Reynolds, CFO Turnover Index, via CFO Dive · Aug 13 | Week 5 | ||
| 13 | 72% of Gen Z professionals feel disconnected from people who could help their careers. Fear of being judged is one of the top barriers.LinkedIn · Sep 2 · 18,050 workers, 12 markets | December | ||
| 14 | Women are 27.6% of new US CEOs this year, and 114 founders have stepped out of the CEO role.Challenger, Gray & Christmas · Aug 31 | December | ||
| 15 | 75% of managers admit to holding on to their best people. When a manager moved on, internal applications rose almost 80%.American Economic Review, Haegele · Aug 2026 · peer-reviewed | Week 8 | ||
| 16 | 62% of managers say their engagement rose this year. Most of their employees saw no change, and 20% saw it fall.American Management Association · Sep 17 · 1,088 professionals | Week 3 article | ||
| 17 | Social skills appear in 34.3% of technical job postings in France and 5.7% in Australia.SHRM with Lightcast · Sep 22 · 27 countries | Week 7 | ||
| 18 | Cultural intelligence as emotional intelligence's partner when a team spans cultures. A blog post passing on earlier research, so the original gets checked before it's cited.ICF Coaching World · Aug 24 | Week 7 article | ||
The drafts arrive for your approval as the playbook describes, about fifteen minutes each. The Wednesday posts are different: they start from your words, because nothing is written in your name that you didn't say.