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How to Coach for SMART Goals

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They then spent the day in conversation with President Obama’s former aide and “body man”, Reggie Love ; learning how to build their personal brands, getting career development advice from a panel of black executives, and coaching each other on setting actionable goals. He immediately suggested that there be a session on setting SMART goals.

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From Yearly Goals to a Decade of Purposeful Growth

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As the new year begins, most of us have goals or resolutions for 2024, but how many of us are working on a 10-year plan? For more than two decades, my wife Diane and I have been very intentional and consistent about visualizing our goals for the coming year and outlining the routines and actions that we think will best help us achieve them.

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How to Prepare for Performance Management Conversations

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For lower performers, the line of sight to the next set of goals is likely shorter and more focused, and the support from you is likely more directed. – This question is at least as important as what you want them to think because the actions that people take flow much more directly from how they feel than what they think. Appreciated?

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Five Must-Do’s to Lead Like an Ambassador

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Here are five must-do’s: Create Strategic Plans – As an ambassadorial leader, you need to lay out a strategic plan for your remit that supports and aligns with the strategic goals of your company. Commit to your customers and commit to your community as if you were going to be there for the rest of your life.

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Give Yourself the Gift of Unconscious Thought

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And, then, in a couple of weeks, we’ll wipe the slate clean and start pursuing the goals of 2020. Before you officially shut things down for the holidays, frame up a short list of goals, opportunities or challenges you want to take on in 2020. Here’s some advice (for myself as much as anyone) before you dive into next year.

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What’s Better for You? Peer Coaching or Mentoring?

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If you’re committed to getting better and better, I’d suggest you both get and be a great peer coach. Their goals are to help each other pull the lens back, assess what’s going on in their worlds and identify any steps they need to take or adjustments they need to make to be successful in their roles. Peer Coaching.

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Preparation Is the New Leadership Differentiator

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They book somewhere between 45 and 90 minutes every couple of days to do the reading, thinking or writing they need to do to be ready for the commitments on their calendar in the next 48 hours. They have a clear point of view on the tasks and initiatives that are the highest and best uses of their time and attention and commit accordingly.