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MARCH 8, 2022

I love Norma’s process because it’s a perfect example of one of my favorite pieces of advice, follow routines that are relatively easy to do and likely to make a difference. After each senior executive meeting, she sends her leaders an email that summarizes the feedback, requests and comments from the executive.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

If you want to see a great example of that, take a look at the letter that former Secretary of Defense and retired Marine Corps four-star general Jim Mattis wrote to his Marines the day before they crossed the Line of Departure in the 2003 Gulf War. The chapter title is Pick Up Defining What to Do; Let Go of Telling How to Do It.”.

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JULY 21, 2020

To use a COVID example, a Thought might be, “We’re going to have to completely reinvent the way we do business to get results this year.” I’ll share a couple of real-life examples. So, that prompts another question, where do Actions come from? Well, they start with a Thought or a set of thoughts.

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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. What are they doing differently?

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Before you have the conversation, think through what you’re trying to accomplish, gather a few substantive examples that illustrate the performance gap, and what kind of suggestions and support you can offer. Trying to wing your way through a tough feedback conversation never ends well.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For example, a couple of weeks ago I was leading an online check-in for about 40 organizational leaders in the Leadership Health and Resilience program and I asked them what was making the most difference for them in strengthening their own health and resilience.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Take, for example, the story of a client I’ll call Joe. What makes them even more fun is hearing their stories about how they made such dramatic improvements over the course of six months. More often than not, my most successful clients have tapped into the transformative power of systematizing simple things.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

It’s an inspiring example of how an organization that’s done things a particular way for a long time – since 1973 in the case of the Food Bank – can pivot and scale to meet vital needs. Together, they’ve been key components of the team that had to scale their leadership to meet the critical increase in demand for their services.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

Sadly, the leadership failures this year have been historic but there have been others that are shining examples for the future. There was a wonderful example of that results and relationships Level 5 approach in last weekend’s deeply reported Wall Street Journal article on how the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

For example, a friend of mine recently wanted to gift some of my time to a friend who could use a few coaching sessions. That’s one example of leveraging what you have to offer. Guidestar.org is a great resource for finding reputable and effective non-profits that need your contributions of both.

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JUNE 29, 2015

In the United States over the past two weeks, we have witnessed remarkable example after remarkable example of love triumphing over fear. In a first century A.D. epistle to believers in Ephesus, John the Evangelist wrote that “perfect love casts out fear.”

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

This week’s Federal government shutdown is the latest in a series of sad and maddening examples of a leadership class that’s disconnected from the people it’s supposed to lead and serve. Well, here we are again.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

There’s a big difference between the two and the example of the leader who has an open-door policy but is never around to answer it explains the difference. You might think the two words mean more or less the same thing. They do in the dictionary, but they don’t in the realm of leadership. Accessible and Available. Not the same thing.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

What a beautiful and impressive example these men are of leaders who share the work of leadership. Posted by: Scott Eblin | September 03, 2010 at 07:42 AM Great, great examples of leadership. Very courageous; and a potent, relevant example. Today was not one of those days. Appreciate it! Trust in the Lord.

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APRIL 4, 2023

As an example of how this can play out to everyone’s benefit, one of the GMs in the program I mentioned earlier was his company’s number one person in Egypt. That’s something that you’re best positioned to do as your company’s local ambassador so you’ll want to invest your time in it.

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DECEMBER 12, 2014

You don''t have to look very hard in any given week to find examples of leaders behaving badly. This week had a couple of doozies. First, we had the story of Heather Cho, the vice president of inflight customer service for Korean Air.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Here are some examples of what was on the list and the point values assigned to them. It was a list of activities you could do either indoors or outdoors that would lower your stress. Each activity has a point value assigned to it. The goal is to get in 100 point points worth of de-stressing activities a week.

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APRIL 9, 2018

As a simple example, it makes sense for many people to invest in both stocks and bonds since when one of the two is up the other is often down. My client provides a great example of how to diversify your happiness. You don’t get crazy high returns when you invest this way, but you usually avoid catastrophic losses.

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JUNE 28, 2022

As a tactical example, you may have the strength of being able to quickly identify the next steps for action. Dial Them Down : Conversely, there are times when you need to dial your strengths down. Over the years, I’ve seen that as an opportunity for leaders in both tactical and strategic ways.

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JULY 10, 2019

As an example, she called me up one afternoon about three weeks after the funeral to run an idea by me. The car trade is one example out of dozens from her over the past three months. My answer is pretty much always the same, “She’s doing amazing.” A year or so ago, my dad had bought a super nice but extremely large SUV.

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DECEMBER 11, 2013

Here’s just one example of what he might have learned. If, through some miracle of time travel, the two were able to have had a conversation about the practice of leadership, I think Machiavelli could have learned some things from Mandela. Click headline to continue.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 3, 2019

I recently heard a brilliant example of how to do that in real life from a leader (whom I’ll call Susan) who was a participant in our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program. By lengthening the gap, you can give yourself space to compose yourself and create a picture of how you want to respond (as opposed to react).

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NOVEMBER 6, 2012

For example, a top executive at Apple, Scott Forstall, was fired last week because, according to all of the reported accounts (here's a good summary on GigaOm), all of the drama he had created over the years finally came to a head. One specific thought is that in the 2008 campaign, the soon to be President's nickname was "No Drama Obama."

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

For example, an NBC News poll from last week found that around 70 percent of Americans are worried about safety during the days around the election. On this Monday before Election Day in the United States, it feels like a good theme to return to for a week. When people are that scared and stressed, they’re in fight or flight hyper-drive.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Working from home and in other distributed locations away from the office is probably the most prominent example. In certain aspects of work and life, it suddenly seems like 2030 instead of 2020. That trend was predicted for years and, now, suddenly, it’s a reality that will likely permanently alter the way work gets done in organizations.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Some examples are: What do you think about this? Here are three best practice action steps they follow that you can use to create an environment in which everyone is comfortable engaging in open and honest dialogue. First, ask open-ended questions that surface what people are really thinking. What’s working for you? What’s getting in the way?

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JUNE 19, 2019

For example, I recently talked with an assistant general counsel during a leadership workshop that I was doing for the big company she works for. So, her story is just one example of how one leader organizes her week to live and lead at her best. There’s way more to do in any given week than you can possibly do.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2013

For example, the journal I just finished spanned from January 2010 to October 2013. If you’ve doing the math, you’ve probably figured out that I’m not a very consistent journal keeper. Some weeks I’ll write every day in a row and other weeks not at all. I’ve even taken entire years off.

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MAY 16, 2022

Family, friends, fitness, hobbies, helping others – they’re all examples of life priorities that have come to the fore for many people during the past two years. You likely have some big rocks that you don’t want to give up as you return to the office.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

A number of them have brought me back to work with them again as they move to their next level like from CFO to COO or, in another example, several times over the years as the leader moved from VP to SVP to business unit president to, finally, CEO of his company. I have so many examples of how that works so I’ll share just one.

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MAY 20, 2013

As an example, there are three songs on my mindfulness playlist that I come back to again and again. One of those is the capacity they give you to carry around a mindfulness playlist in your pocket. Having one can be very useful when you need some help in refocusing on a more mindful approach to leadership and life.

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AUGUST 15, 2012

Inspired by Hyde’s example, Richards writes of getting rid of some of his own stuff and what he’s learned by doing so: Click headline to continue. In it, he tells the story of a guy named Andrew Hyde who, in preparing for a trip around the world two years ago, sold everything he owned except for 15 things. Here’s his list.)

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JANUARY 11, 2012

Daley is a high profile example of the oft cited statistic that anywhere between 25% and 40% of newly hired or promoted executives don’t last. You may have missed the story with all of the coverage on the New Hampshire primary, but White House chief of staff, Bill Daley, resigned this week after just about a year on the job.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

For example, The New York Times offers a nice analysis of the issues at hand in its article, Successor to Benedict Will Lead a Church at the Crossroads. Considering that the last time a pope resigned was 600 years ago, his announcement qualifies as a pretty big story.

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AUGUST 8, 2011

For example, the strength of confidence, when overused, looks like arrogance. One of the great truisms in leadership coaching is that a strength when overused becomes a weakness. The overconfident. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Take the Michelin-starred chef Daniel Boulud as an example. Question Assumptions : The most agile and responsive organizations are using the crisis to question assumptions that have been so long-held that they weren’t even recognized as assumptions.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

As an example of his work, check out his recent post on “Ten Strategies for Starting Over.” If you want to read a blogger who gives, gives, gives and never takes, check out Leadership Freak by Dan Rockwell. With his regular posts of 300 words or less, Dan has built a loyal following of tens of thousands of leaders in the past few years.

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