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JANUARY 28, 2011

My guess is you weren’t expecting to see the two topics in the title of this post strung together. Here’s the back story. As I was scanning the headlines this morning, I read the New York Times. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

One of the big differences between leaders who shape the bigger picture for a company and those that hit a ceiling and stay stuck in their functional roles is that the big picture leaders are way better at influencing their colleagues.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

The publication date of this post, December 1, 2020, marks the 20 th anniversary of our leadership development company, The Eblin Group. And, by the way, that guy is now Senior Vice President and Treasurer of his Fortune 500 company. There’s a lot to say and share about that for sure – more than one blog post can address.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Most of these will be day-long offsites for client company leadership teams to help them make sure they step back from the day-to-day swirl three times a year to set a course, assess their progress, and ensure that their time and attention are focused on the things that matter most.

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JULY 13, 2021

Other than the ones who have said that everyone can work remotely, I haven’t talked with or heard of any companies that have really figured it out yet. Is it because it’s what’s best for them and the company or is it because it’s what easiest and most comfortable for you? Instead, do some homework.

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JUNE 14, 2022

Years ago, when I was a rising leader in corporate-land, I worked for a company president who regularly asked a thought-provoking question, “Are we engaging in an adult-to-adult conversation or a parent-child conversation?”.

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APRIL 12, 2022

national sales leader for a line of business in a global company I work with. For the past six months, he’s been an awesome participant in a cohort of the Next Level Leadership® group coaching program I’ve been leading in his company. I had the opportunity to ask that question of a highly skilled executive leader a few weeks ago.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

I asked Joe how he did it and it really came down to systematizing some simple things around the way he communicated with his team of indirect reports and how he shared their results within his company. The systematic routine of walking his dog became the cue for checking in with his teammates. That served multiple purposes.

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MARCH 12, 2019

A few months ago, I was in conversation with a group of senior director and vice president level leaders in a client company. I had been the vice president of HR at my company for about 18 months when I extended an offer to everyone in the department to join me for a short duration discussion group on a book I really liked.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

Based on the plans of companies like Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, Aetna, Mastercard and others, it looks like a lot of people are going to continue working from home well into 2021 and, in some cases, forever. In case you’ve lost count, you may be one of the many of us who are in month eight of working from home.

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APRIL 26, 2021

A few weeks ago, I had an online Q&A session with a senior executive following a keynote presentation I did for her company’s annual senior leadership summit. What, she asked me, do the best companies do to sustain their momentum on their annual plans in the months after the leadership kickoff meeting?”.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

For a lot of companies, productivity actually increased during the pandemic. Thanks to virtual work and meeting technology, we learned that a lot of the content work we never thought we could do remotely we could actually do better that way.

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JULY 24, 2019

One of the stories I tell in The Next Level is about the CEO of a very well-known company who, in speaking to a meeting of the top 200 executives there, spontaneously riffed out loud about how “We could use more employees with the skill set and approach that Competitor X has.” The answer was, “You told us to at the top executive conference.”

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

All of this came to mind last week when I had the opportunity to listen to an accomplished executive leader speak about his journey during a coaches conference sponsored by one of my client companies. He’s the leader of a team that’s running some very challenging and game changing technology initiatives for the company.

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MARCH 4, 2020

In retrospect, Welch’s legacy at GE looks mixed but that doesn’t change the fact that I indirectly learned a lot from him when I was developing as a corporate leader that served me, my teams and my companies’ well. That was how Welch saw his first job at GE – making the final calls on where the company would place its biggest bets.

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MARCH 8, 2022

Four or five years ago, she developed an easy and systematic way for her team leaders to leverage the regular cadence of meetings that she has with senior stakeholders in the company.

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APRIL 11, 2013

The title of this post was inspired by a conversation with Bill, (not his real name) a friend of mine who works in a well known company. In his current company, he’s noticed that career success is all about how quickly you put points you on the board. If you’re a manager in the company, the same thing applies to your team.

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AUGUST 23, 2017

Here are some examples: In a high-potential workshop I was leading a couple of years ago, everyone was lamenting about how, between their personal smartphone and their company-issued smartphone, they were always available, always expected to be on call and always on alert for emails they needed to answer. I gave it back.”

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AUGUST 23, 2012

He’s a business unit leader who has integrated an acquired company into his organization over the past year. His company has grown a lot through acquisitions and his CEO always says to his execs “Don’t break it,” when they’re folding the acquired company into their operations. He had bought it so he didn’t want to break it.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2015

If that sounds intriguing if not a little harsh, check out my latest article for Fast Company for more details on a mindful way to develop your key players this coming year. Here’s some food for that thought process. Throw some of them into the deep end of the pool.

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MARCH 28, 2022

I heard some great strategies recently from two high potential leaders in my Next Level Leadership® group coaching program who spent a day virtually shadowing a senior executive in their company as she moved through ten different 30-minute online meetings.

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APRIL 25, 2016

This week I wrote a piece over at Fast Company about a “minor work habit” that is leading to burnout for countless workers, from junior team members to executives. What’s the habit? Or rather, answering work e-mail after 7 or 8 PM.

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MARCH 7, 2013

They’re either executives in Federal agencies or executives in companies that do a lot of business with Federal agencies. A lot of my clients work in Washington, DC.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It came up again recently in a conversation with a highly accomplished and experienced executive who’s new to her company. She shared how much she’s been thinking and worrying about the challenge she’s having in mastering the ins and outs of her new company’s product line.

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MARCH 11, 2020

As a professor at Columbia University, a counterterrorism research fellow for the Department of Homeland Security and a consultant to Fortune 500 companies, Jennifer has spent her career helping people get out of seemingly endless conflict loops.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

As far as what peer coaching can do for you, here’s what some of my clients have told me peer coaching has done for them: “Peer coaching gives our senior staff a reason and permission to develop deeper, long-lasting and helpful relationships across our company.” – Susie Bonvouloir, Chief People Officer, GCOM.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Rypple is a web-based social performance management platform that helps companies improve performance through social goals, continuous feedback and meaningful recognition. I recently spoke with Rypple’s Nick Stein to learn more about the company and get his tips for giving – and getting – effective feedback.

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

I’ve been thinking about Covey’s line lately because I’ve been teaching leadership coaching to students at Georgetown and to executives in a few different companies in the past month. He definitely had a way with a phrase. One of the things we’ve been talking about is establishing behavioral practices that lead to more effective leadership.

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JUNE 19, 2012

It was 7:30 on a Sunday night on the campus of one of the world’s best-known companies, and I was the guest speaker for a group of about 70 of the company’s top high potentials. They had just finished the first week of a two-week program that had wrapped up with a weekend project two hours earlier. Week two was.

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APRIL 6, 2011

Last month, I did a customized webinar for about 70 managers in a client company on “How to Build Executive Presence.” To prep the content for the session, we asked about a dozen C suite and direct. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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JULY 10, 2014

That happened again recently when a senior vice president in a Fortune 500 client company stopped by for a lunch conversation with participants in our Next Level Leadership® development program. One of the things I love about my work is getting to meet and learn from some very talented top executives.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

That happened a few months ago when I was talking with a top executive of a Fortune 500 company to get his feedback on a colleague who was one of my executive coaching clients. During that period, my company has run over a thousand 360 degree leadership assessments based on the success behaviors I highlight in my book, The Next Level.

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JULY 25, 2013

He''s been working with the top executives of a company and has developed strong relationships with each of them. A few days ago, I got a call from a coaching colleague who was looking for some advice.

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MARCH 22, 2017

Last week, Fast Company ran a story called “6 Ways to Become a Better Listener,” for which I was interviewed. It found that the average attention span has fallen to eight seconds. Are you still with me? Attention span (or lack thereof) is a major issue not only in our culture, but in the workplace.

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APRIL 12, 2021

This very topic came up last week in a small group coaching session in a program called Leading While Working from Home that I’m delivering for one of our client companies. One of the leaders in the program asked for ideas on how he could better manage the deluge of incoming and outgoing.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Alanson is a senior executive in a financial services firm and a longtime mindfulness practitioner who''s also doing some leadership coaching inside his company. Last week, a friend of mine, Alanson Van Fleet, sent me a note to share how some of Hanh’s work is making a difference for leaders in corporate America. Click headline to continue.

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JUNE 14, 2012

Last week I had the opportunity to spend a day helping new executives in a Fortune 50 company improve their delegation skills. As I’ve written here before, effective delegation is a critical skill for leaders who need to make the shift from being the go-to person to someone who creates teams of go-to people. The goal of our day together.

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