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JUNE 7, 2012

I’m on the road for the rest of the week working with new executives on delegation skills today and delivering colleague feedback to a senior executive coaching client on Friday. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been conducting a lot of colleague interviews for that client and two others.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

They would spend around 15 minutes reviewing her two-weeks-out calendar for meetings she could cancel, decline, delegate or postpone. Recognizing that her calendar and life was becoming overwhelmed with more work than any human could reasonably do, Starner started a Friday afternoon routine with her administrative assistant.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The meeting was held in an amphitheater in Finland with delegates from 30 countries. Make time for deeper and fresher questions: One thing I’ve learned from conducting hundreds of leadership workshops over the past couple of decades is that most people don’t need a ton of time to establish a personal connection with the people they work with.

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MARCH 29, 2012

What are you holding on to that you need to let go of? That’s a question I ask a lot when I’m working with leaders who need to get different results. These days just about every leader needs to get different results on a continuous basis. When was the last time you even heard the phrase that “someone is resting. Click headline to continue.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

A few months ago my client was in a leadership workshop I conducted where I talked about an executive I interviewed for Overworked and Overwhelmed who has a weekly calendar reduction ritual with her assistant. They’re looking for meetings that can be cancelled, shortened, pushed out or delegated to someone else.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2010

    Learn to delegate – do the things only you can do and delegate the rest.    A long time ago, in a more bipartisan age, I helped organize a week long orientation program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government for the freshman congressional class of 1986.  Click Here.

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JUNE 17, 2015

In my 15 years of executive coaching and running leadership development programs, I’ve worked with thousands of leaders charged with getting different results. Earlier this month, I wrote a post titled What Makes It So Hard to Let Go? A number of scenarios can drive the demand for new results. How many of these apply to you?

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DECEMBER 8, 2010

Magazine | Main | 2010 Has Been A Pretty Good Year for Elon Musk » December 08, 2010 Requirements for Earning Your Leadership Merit Badge Last week, while teaching at Georgetown’s leadership coaching program ,  I was reminded of something that shaped me as a kid and a leader that I haven’t thought of in a long time. 

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JANUARY 31, 2012

A big part of my work as a coach involves working with high-potential leaders in workshops, keynotes and webinars. One of my favorite questions to ask these audiences is, “How many of you think of yourselves or have been referred to by others as the ‘go-to person?’ ” Usually, about every hand in the room goes up. I asked that.

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