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Change at the Top: How to Succeed with a New Boss

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So, third, there’s usually a period of time when they spend a good bit of energy strategizing about how they can keep that power and influence. So, answering how they can help their boss achieve those goals is usually clear if they create the space to think about it. That’s understandable but it’s almost always the wrong move.

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How to Develop a Great Strategic Leadership Offsite Agenda

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The goal is to establish an atmosphere of safe vulnerability and a positive tone for the day. Ask the principal officer for their thoughts on goals for the day and then solicit early input from others. Meetings like this require a lot of participant energy and brain power. The diminishing returns accelerate after mid-afternoon.

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How Successful Leaders Use Both Retail and Wholesale Communications

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Adjust Your Energy Dial – As a general rule, the bigger the room, the bigger your energy needs to be. My natural energy setting is friendly but low key. She said, “I notice that when the group has a lot of energy, you have a lot of energy. Make your points for sure, but keep them short and memorable.

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You’ve Got to Leave the Launchpad If You Want to Get to the Moon

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When you step back and look at your list are there any goals that scare you or just seem like a huge stretch? And, now, we’ve got a list of 2020 goals that put us on a trajectory to where we want to be in 2023. It’s just been a reminder that big goals are achieved by taking small steps. What do you want to accomplish this year?

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Don’t Let Your Deficiency Overwhelm Your Proficiency

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At the same time, even though she’s only been there a few months, she’s already making a major impact in raising the bar for her team, prompting them to think and act in new ways and bringing a fresh energy to an organization that has been set in its ways and needs to innovate. You’ve proven it out over time.

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How to Maintain Your Mojo This Year

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And because all of us have limited bandwidth, picking up new stuff that’s good for us requires making space by letting go of other stuff that isn’t the highest and best use of our time, attention and energy. Looking for ideas on where to start?

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Why You Should Pay Attention to Trump’s Leadership Style

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To make that point with my audience, I projected a 2×2 matrix on the screen that measured energy on two different scales: low to high and negative to positive, resulting in four categories of energy: High Positive, Low Positive, High Negative and Low Negative. And then someone wrote TRUMP.