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How One Successful Senior Executive Juggles All the Balls

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In my work, I’ve observed that’s especially true for senior executives. How do the best executives keep their focus and add value while they’re juggling all those balls? She expects and encourages an open and honest recap of what the team has been doing, what they’ve accomplished and what remains to be done. How can I help?”.

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How to Get Your Team to Think Like You

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

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How to Develop a Great Strategic Leadership Offsite Agenda

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Over the course of this year, I’m going to develop the agendas and facilitate around a dozen strategic offsites for C-Suite executives and their senior leadership teams. They should clearly communicate to the team why the meeting is relevant and serve as a reference point and reality check before and during the meeting.

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Ten Questions to Keep You on Track This Year

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This is the time of the year when I spend a day with my C-suite clients to give them some space to get up on the balcony to consider what success will look like 12 months from now and what they and their teams need to focus on to make those outcomes more likely. What are the personal leadership levers you want to use the most this year?

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How Strong is Your Leadership Pyramid?

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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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How to Stop Inspiring Your Team to Underperformance

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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. This exec loved my client and compared him quite favorably to his predecessor who, the exec said, regularly “inspired his team to underperformance.”.

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My Crisis Leadership Playbook

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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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