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The mission of the Marti Fischer Group is to help organizations and individuals ‘Achieve their Next’.

The Quiet Power of Middle Managers as Coaches

5-minute read   There’s a quiet revolution underway in organizations. It’s not happening in boardrooms or innovation labs. It’s unfolding in one-on-one conversations, team huddles, and Slack threads. At the heart of it all? Middle managers—reclaiming their space not just as task masters, but as coaches. For too long, middle managers have been the overlooked [...]

By |2025-07-08T15:44:18+00:00July 8th, 2025|Recent Posts|Comments Off on The Quiet Power of Middle Managers as Coaches

The Importance of Taking the Shot

5-minute read Lately, I’ve been watching basketball. I’ve never been that interested, but the Knicks got my attention this year. Three pointers, rebounds, layups- it’s all about setting up and taking the shot. Sometimes you score, sometimes you don’t. Not belaboring the obvious, but the importance of taking the shot is an integral part of [...]

By |2025-06-03T15:23:00+00:00June 3rd, 2025|Recent Posts|Comments Off on The Importance of Taking the Shot

5 Tools For Reclaiming Your Mojo When You’re Feeling Overwhelmed

8-minute read   With uncertainty continuing to seep into every aspect of our lives, it is no surprise that many of us feel overwhelmed. Uncertainty thrives in unpredictable times and leads to distraction, a major contributor to overwhelm. So here we are, feeling there isn’t enough time and too much to do. Let’s get straight [...]

By |2025-05-06T14:10:22+00:00May 6th, 2025|Recent Posts|Comments Off on 5 Tools For Reclaiming Your Mojo When You’re Feeling Overwhelmed

Curating You

6-minute read   Calm, decisive, good listener, great communicator, self-aware, trustworthy, strategic, open-minded, respectful, motivational, confident, and a good sense of humor. These characteristics of great leaders were captured in a recent session with a group of high-performing (and delightful!) global emerging leaders. We began the session by expressing the leadership ideal before discussing strategies [...]

By |2025-04-01T15:28:43+00:00April 1st, 2025|Recent Posts|Comments Off on Curating You

Reorgs happen This is how to insulate yourself

“If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.” Tom Peters   There are a lot of confusing and noteworthy messages floating around the news. Among them, the recent slash and burn government layoffs are a cautionary tale worth considering. Taking emotion and politics out of the equation (for this post), let’s consider the larger theme [...]

By |2025-03-04T15:42:52+00:00March 4th, 2025|Recent Posts|Comments Off on Reorgs happen This is how to insulate yourself

Less is More Four Steps to Better Delegation

4-minute read or 7-minute watch When you delegate, you give a gift to your team. Delegating is a form of trust—you trust that your team can perform. Delegation is recognition—a message that you know your team is competent. Delegation is accountable, with you as the accountability partner. Finally, delegation is leadership, freeing you to support [...]

By |2025-02-04T17:48:36+00:00February 4th, 2025|Recent Posts|Comments Off on Less is More Four Steps to Better Delegation

24/7/365 Time as a determinant for achieving your goals

3-minute read or 6- minute watch I have been thinking about why January goals often go unrealized and how we can increase the success rate. As we start a new year, we naturally gravitate toward what we want to do, experience, and achieve in the upcoming months. We set professional and personal goals, and that [...]

By |2025-01-07T15:33:16+00:00January 7th, 2025|Recent Posts|Comments Off on 24/7/365 Time as a determinant for achieving your goals

A Holiday Gift of Empathy, Patience, and Clarity

3-minute read or watch the video below My reflection on 2024 took me through the 15 days of staff and board offsites I was privileged to facilitate. What emerged is that empathy, patience, and clarity are three characteristics teams and boards value in their leaders. Why these three? Individually, each is essential for navigating the [...]

By |2024-12-03T15:22:06+00:00December 3rd, 2024|Recent Posts|Comments Off on A Holiday Gift of Empathy, Patience, and Clarity

Nourish, Nurture, Nudge: Managing Inflection Points in Chaotic Times

3-minute read or watch the video below     Tuesday, November 5th, is an inflection point. It is the eye of this election season’s storm, a moment of individual action (voting or not) and relative calm amidst the swirling chaos leading up to this election and the lack of closure that will likely follow. Whatever [...]

By |2024-11-05T19:41:14+00:00November 5th, 2024|Recent Posts|Comments Off on Nourish, Nurture, Nudge: Managing Inflection Points in Chaotic Times

A Rule of Three for Getting Promoted

5-minute read or 6-minute video (new!)   This summer, we ate a lot of bread from Earth, Sky, Time, a local Vermont community farm. Earth, Sky, Time; three words that beautifully summarize the collaboration of three necessary elements to create the gifts of delicious bread, produce, and farm products. These words got me thinking about [...]

By |2024-10-01T20:52:56+00:00October 1st, 2024|Recent Posts|Comments Off on A Rule of Three for Getting Promoted
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