Next Level Blog

JULY 11, 2018

This post is adapted from the forthcoming third edition of my book, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success. Research shows that moving to the executive level is among the toughest transitions of any career. Have 40 percent of all new executives simply risen to their level of incompetence? That seems unlikely.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 7, 2011

One of the most popular aspects of my company’s group coaching program, Next Level Leadership™ for high potential leaders is the senior executive guest speakers who come in for a lunch time “what. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 19, 2020

A few weeks ago, I received a nice comment on LinkedIn about one of my blog posts from David Hoey who shared that he’s been a regular reader since 2010 when I wrote about the leadership lessons offered by the Chilean mine rescue. Perhaps that’s one more leadership lesson we can all draw from their story.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 27, 2017

with a couple of hundred executives from around the world. Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to speak over the course of several programs in the U.K. During those sessions I was struck by the commonalities of what helps high capacity people lead and live at their best.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 19, 2020

When I talk about the ideas in my book, The Next Level , one of the first things I usually say is that the next level is any leadership situation which requires different results. The ideas I’m sharing in this post are the basics of a crisis leadership playbook that is something of a work in progress. When I was writing the 3 rd.

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Next Level Blog

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. The point of meetings like this is to get the leadership team aligned with the goals and position them to excite and engage their functional teams for the coming year.

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APRIL 3, 2014

In a recent conversation with Scott Saslow of the Institute of Executive Development, I got an inside look at some of the common mistakes boards of directors make on executive succession planning. General Leadership Next Level Podcast Organizational Development audio Scott Saslow succession planning talent development'

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

When I’m doing colleague feedback interviews for an executive coaching client, I’ll sometimes hear that person described as accessible. On rare occasions, I’ll hear that the executive is both accessible and available. They do in the dictionary, but they don’t in the realm of leadership. Accessible and Available.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The Next Level Find out what insiders know about executive success in Scott Eblin’s new and expanded book, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success. The Next Level Blog is where he shares "news you can use" to raise your leadership game.   There are some caveats in answering the question, however. 

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2019

In watching and working with top executives and their teams over the past few years, I’ve come to a fresh conclusion. Preparation is the new leadership differentiator. Here are three best practices that I see my best prepared executive coaching clients follow: Book the time: The best prepared leaders book the time to prepare.

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APRIL 9, 2015

It’s common for leaders who want to make a bigger impact to work on building their executive presence. It’s so common, in fact, that my company offers a seven month group coaching program for high potential leaders slated for executive roles. General Leadership Personal Presence executive presence'

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 27, 2019

In 20 years of working as a leadership educator, speaker and executive coach, I’ve seen a lot of data points on leadership development programs and definitely see some patterns. Here, then, are five principles that I’ve become convinced are essential to designing great leadership development programs.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 12, 2022

One of the leadership communications distinctions I’ve been thinking about a lot this year is the difference between communications that are episodic and those that are longitudinal. Here are three things to pay attention to when you’re creating a narrative to connect with senior executives.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 25, 2017

Join me as I interview Lolly Daskal , Founder and CEO of Lead From Within, as we discuss The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness. In this book, Lolly lays out her life’s work and shares a system she’s used for nearly 30 years coaching executives from around the world.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

While the process varies and is customized for each executive, there are some core questions that I almost always pose. What are the personal leadership levers you want to use the most this year? How do you want to leverage and enable your leadership team this year? What audiences do you most need to engage?

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JANUARY 24, 2013

So, the Super Bowl this year is guaranteed to have a winning coach named Harbaugh when John of the Baltimore Ravens and Jim of the San Francisco 49ers square off against each other. It’s the first time brothers have ever faced each other in the big game. It should be a good one and is bound to be entertaining if. Click headline to continue.

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OCTOBER 16, 2013

Here’s an interesting one that I heard recently from an experienced senior executive who was a guest speaker in one of our Next Level Leadership® group coaching programs for high potential leader. General Leadership effective leadership' There are a lot of theories on what it takes to be an effective leader.

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

It depends on the industry, but in most large organizations, a promotion to vice president is the entry point to the executive ranks. 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.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It’s interesting to me how trends come in waves when I coach executives. The question has come from members of senior leadership teams, individual senior executives, and mid-level leaders. You scale your leadership. Lately, the trend has been leaders asking, “How do I get my team to think like me?”

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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. One of the things we’ve been talking about is establishing behavioral practices that lead to more effective leadership.

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AUGUST 2, 2023

During the ten years that I taught leadership coaching at Georgetown University, one of the biggest points all of us on the faculty wanted our students to learn was that coaching isn’t about offering answers or advice. As an executive leadership coach, I often see the same dynamic playing out with my clients.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

One of my favorite things I do as an executive coach is sharing with my clients the progress they’ve made as demonstrated in the closing colleague feedback I solicit for them at the end of the coaching engagement. Historically, Joe has been in leadership roles that were more about authority than influence.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2013

In a recent conversation with Bob, we talked about the research he’s done in more than 20 years as an organizational psychologist and advisor to senior executives. General Leadership Next Level Podcast Personal Presence audio Bob Rosen books Grounded podcast' Grounded" is the summation of all he’s learned.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In over thirty years of either working for senior executives, being a senior executive, or coaching senior executives, I’ve come to a few conclusions. Back in my own days as an executive, I was hugely influenced by a book called The Discipline of Market Leaders. You couldn’t have two or three, you had to pick one.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 1, 2012

So, here’s the scenario: You’re the newest member of a leadership or management team. Today is your first regular leadership team meeting. Click headline to continue.

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JUNE 28, 2022

Between the leaders I’ve worked with in our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program and the individual executives I’ve coached over the last 20 plus years, I’ve delivered around 2,000 colleague feedback reports. And there’s one thing I’ve seen again and again in so many of those feedback conversations. Don’t get me wrong.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2011

This guest post was written by Jason Monaghan with University of Notre Dame Executive Online Education: As any seasoned business leader can tell you, creating an exemplary team takes knowledge, perseverance, and a little leadership magic. The “magic” of a great leader is developed over time and through years of professional awareness.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 4, 2011

If you've been around organizations for any length of time, you don't need a research study to tell you that newly hired or promoted executives often struggle in their new roles. You've likely seen. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

Since my compulsion is to look at most things from a leadership angle, here are a few lessons I've learned so far from the practice of yoga that seem to apply to the practice of leadership.   Leadership lesson learned? .    Leadership lesson learned?   Leadership lesson learned?

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Through multiple acts of leadership they have organized themselves to take care of their bodies, minds and spirits. Here’s some of what we can learn from the miners: Leaders share the role:   You might assume that the miners’ shift supervisor would take over the sole leadership role. Today was not one of those days.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In a phone conversation with a senior executive last week, he greeted me by exclaiming, “Happy January 39 th !” Exercise your agency, improve your leadership effectiveness, and strengthen your health and well-being by taking back some of your overscheduled time.

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JUNE 29, 2021

Occasionally, I get to work with an executive coaching client who’s exceptional at communicating with their colleagues. When I talk with the client’s colleagues about what makes them exceptional, one of the big differentiators is that the executive shares with them what they need to know before they need to know it.

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APRIL 4, 2023

When the senior executives act like ambassadors they also act as role models for everyone else in the company. I first started thinking about this when I helped run a leadership development program for country general managers of a global company. And, as is true with any culture (good ones or bad ones), it starts at the top.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2010

The Next Level Find out what insiders know about executive success in Scott Eblin’s new and expanded book, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success. The Next Level Blog is where he shares "news you can use" to raise your leadership game. Click Here.

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APRIL 20, 2021

In my role as an executive coach, I’m used to being the one who asks the questions. The normal roles were reversed a couple of weeks ago, though, when a senior executive client asked me the thought-provoking question, “How do you combine patience and urgency?”. And, of course, this executive is not alone in his thought process.

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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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OCTOBER 5, 2021

The sense of overwork and overwhelm that comes with poor work-life balance makes the three most important factors harder to deliver for managers and executives and harder to feel for the employees they’re charged with leading. The exhaustion and burnout have an impact on everyone – executives, managers and team members alike.

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