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APRIL 4, 2023

Ideally, everyone who works for a company would act as an ambassador for that organization to the public at large. When the senior executives act like ambassadors they also act as role models for everyone else in the company. When the senior executives act like ambassadors they also act as role models for everyone else in the company.

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DECEMBER 7, 2010

to recognize "Top Small Company Workplaces" that have built corporate cultures that foster a productive work environment and satisfied employees. Magazine Winning Workplaces is collaborating with Inc. In addition winners will be featured on Inc.'s Your comment has not yet been posted. Your comment could not be posted.

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DECEMBER 24, 2010

Posted by Scott Eblin on December 24, 2010 in Personal Presence | Permalink Technorati Tags : Peanuts Christmas TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Holiday Lessons Learned from Charlie Brown and Company : Comments 2010 has been good and somewhat regretable in some ways. Click Here.

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JULY 17, 2019

Their editors and writers were ruthless in leveraging “the way we do things around here” for laughs whether it was a mock catalog of worthless junk sold through direct mail, a take-down of the power and light company or any number of other absurdities you encounter in everyday life. That’s a big part of life and leadership isn’t it?

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

Today, I want to write specifically about how high potential leaders get promoted to vice president or to whatever the entry level executive role is in their company. The post is prompted by a conversation I had last week with a small group of leaders in one of our Next Level Leadership® group coaching cohorts.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

I’ve been doing a lot of that lately for both individual executive clients and for the high potential leaders in a couple of cohorts of our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program. Historically, Joe has been in leadership roles that were more about authority than influence. Great leadership usually isn’t.

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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. Fourteen months later, he and his leadership team have done just that. Seth is the U.S.

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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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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

  As I was walking through this ancient city searching for dinner tonight, I started thinking about the kind of leadership that must be required to start a project you won't live to see the end of.    That doesn't mean, however, that your leadership can't build a legacy that outlives you. . 

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DECEMBER 6, 2010

Magazine » December 06, 2010 How to Drive Change with a Leadership Point of View Every so often, The New York Times will run a long feature on the CEO of a large business.    I love those articles because they’re great opportunities for data mining on leadership.  A strong leadership point of view is memorable. 

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

  In the meantime, here are some of the leadership lessons Feld has learned that stuck with me: Know Yourself:  Feld learned the circus by traveling around the world with his father searching for acts.    For Kenneth Feld, CEO of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, it must be hard to resist that feeling. 

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DECEMBER 17, 2010

Check out DDI's list of the Top 20 Leadership Blog Posts of 2010. Compiled by Dan McCarthy, author of the widely read Great Leadership blog, the list includes my take on the leadership lessons we can learn from how the Chilean miners organized themselves in the weeks they were trapped underground. Click Here.

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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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AUGUST 3, 2021

And what if that resource not only helped strengthen your leadership but could even help improve the quality of your life? I’m offering How to Get and Be a Great Peer Coach because I believe it’s a basic building block of great leadership that everyone should have. And what if that powerful resource was free and yours for the asking?

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JULY 21, 2010

Thats Not Leadership. Posted by Scott Eblin on July 21, 2010 in Current Affairs , Leadership , Personal Presence | Permalink Technorati Tags : NAACP , Shirley Sherrod , under the bus , USDA TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Thrown Under the Bus. Thats Not Leadership.

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MARCH 4, 2020

In case you’re not familiar with it, the Pit is the well at the bottom of an amphitheater style room that seats about a hundred people on GE’s Crotonville leadership development campus in the Hudson River Valley. 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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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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JANUARY 24, 2023

For a lot of companies, productivity actually increased during the pandemic. That’s where leadership lesson plans come in. 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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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

When you’re new to a leadership role or new to an organization it can be a challenge to project the right amount of grounded confidence that you belong and can contribute. It came up again recently in a conversation with a highly accomplished and experienced executive who’s new to her company. Be curious. Ask questions. How about you?

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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. Strong communication skills have always been an important factor in leadership effectiveness.

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MAY 5, 2020

While it wasn’t his intention in sending it out, he was flooded with replies, many of which said that his email had made the recipient shed a few tears of gratitude that they worked for a company where people matter so much. I still laugh every time I think of that story and I imagine everyone on that extended leadership team does too.

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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. Retail vs. Wholesale – I’ve long been a proponent of the idea that leadership communications can be either retail or wholesale. Retail communications is one to one.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Some companies have been successful in pivoting quickly, while others have found it more challenging. It’s really more of a macro cultural play than a micro individual play and, because it is, when organizations are successful in creating a permission structure for innovation, it starts with top leadership.

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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. Here they are: General Leadership Improving Communications executive decision making productivity hacks'

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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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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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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

I think that appeals to me so much because it defines what I’ve been doing as a leadership coach for over two decades. One of my favorite definitions of life purpose is that you find it when your great joy meets a great need. Doing that work led, in 2006, to my book, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success.

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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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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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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

with a group of senior leaders in a client company and asked this question for consideration – “What if we’re still working this way six months from now?” Flexibility Was an Underrated Leadership Behavior – Finally, if there’s one thing we’ve all learned since March 2020 it’s that there’s a lot we don’t control.

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APRIL 26, 2022

My book, The Next Level , had been out for about a year and I was asked to be a regular speaker at a companywide leadership program for a major investment firm. After watching me grind it out around the fifth time I delivered the program, the company’s director of leadership development asked me if I wanted some feedback.

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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. General Leadership Personal Presence Leader as coach' Click headline to continue.

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APRIL 9, 2018

The idea is to not over-invest in one particular company or class of investments but to balance your portfolio across different types of assets. And, by now, you may be asking yourself, “I thought this was a leadership blog. There’s a connection and it comes from a client I’m working with in one of our leadership development programs.

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APRIL 14, 2020

He, his leadership team and everyone else in their financial services company have been working overtime these past four weeks to take care of their customers and each other. As it happens, this is also the period that in normal times a lot of people would be taking Spring Break trips with their families.

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MARCH 8, 2012

Ken Blanchard is the co-founder and chief spiritual officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies, an international management training and consulting firm. One of the most influential leadership gurus in the world, he is the author or co-author of dozens of books, including the international bestseller “The One Minute Manager.”

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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.

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MAY 26, 2020

As I wrote about back then , my biggest and most valuable takeaway from that trip was being able to see how much time and effort the leadership and crew spent in preparing for things that could happen. About nine years ago, I had the opportunity to spend the weekend on a Coast Guard cutter off the Florida Straits.

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