Admire Blog
Covering skill-based management: how leaders set clear expectations, observe skills on the job, coach from evidence, and build high-output teams. Written by Admire's founders, Payam Moghaddam Keith Cerny.
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Stop Extinguishing High Performance
Managers who only react when things go wrong slowly extinguish the high performance they want. Recognizing it is the fix.
I have a parallel to the “If a tree falls in the forest, but no one is around, does it make a sound?” phrase that I keep in mind when managing: If an employee works hard, but no one recognizes it, did the hard work…
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Systems Thinking Foundations
A practical primer for leaders who need to see feedback loops, delays, and leverage points before they try to change a team or organization.
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What Admire Means
One of Admire's co-founders shares his perspective on what Admire is to him.
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Skills are for People too
Organizations build skills, docs, and playbooks for their AI, then skip it all for their people. Skills, not goals, should be the unit of management for both.
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Deadlines are not for High Performance
Deadlines quietly train people to deliver as late as possible. Why that happens, and what to do instead.
Release Highlights
What changed in Admire
New in the product each month, with a link to the guide for every feature.
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Release Highlights: August 2026
Practice any skill in your organization with your AI coach, and keep the notes and history you need inside every Meeting.
In August our AI Coach now lets you practice any skill in your organization, not just the ones assigned to you. Meetings were also upgraded to bring the notes and history you need into the 1:1. Here are the highlights.
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Release Highlights: July 2026
A redesigned Admire, dark mode in preview, commitments you can track and report on, and one-click self-assessments from your dashboard.
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Release Highlights: June 2026
Import expert-curated skillsets from the redesigned Skills Vault, learn and assess in one AI coaching flow, and find answers at our new help center.
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Release Highlights: May 2026
Connect your own AI to Admire, get more personal coaching, organize your notes, and see where your team's skills stand.
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Release Highlights: April 2026
Meet AI Coaches, capture quick notes between sessions, plan careers, and run meetings beautifully on any device.
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Release Highlights: March 2026
Admire now connects skills to real business outcomes. Bring in your own data, build dashboards, set role metrics, and coach with AI.