Founder Sara Scharlau has a professional background of over 15 years in communication design, specializing in Human-Centered Design Principles. She has spent the last eight years honing her management style and helping new managers find their footing using the same Human-Centered Principles that made her successful as a designer.
Sara has developed a framework for making management less intimidating and more Human-Centered. This has helped hesitant new managers excel sooner and experienced managers take their skills to a new level.
If you are interested in how to upskill your current management capabilities for the future of work using authenticity, empathy, and adaptivity connect with Sara and see how Lux Leadership Coaching could help you reach those goals.
What does Centered Design have to do with being a manager?
Learn more about how Human-Centered Principles can be applied in a customizable but repeatable way to create authentic and powerful relationships with your direct reports.
Can you train Leadership or is it an inherit trait that you either have or you don't?
Sara Scharlau is on the show sharing how human design in the creative space translates into the management and leadership zone. When you care about people and seek to understand their needs, you can serve them while they help you build your company by design.
A deeper dive into what are the differences between Leadership and Management. Or are they the same?
Sara has been an amazing mentor and manager to me over the years and she is continuing to help me along the way. Things haven't been easy for me since December and she's been a huge part of helping me professionally to identify some of my personal hurdles. Her honesty and empathy have kept me going. Thank you Sara for caring so much and helping me get through the rough stuff.
Sara encouraged me to have an honest conversation with each of my direct reports during our first check-ins about me, my expectations, how I like to give and receive feedback and how my direct reports like to give and receive feedback. By taking that approach, I was able to better understand each of my direct reports and how I could be the best possible resource for them. Having those conversations demonstrated that no two people are exactly alike, so I knew right off the bat that I would have to customize each check-in.