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How to Prepare for Performance Management Conversations

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For a number of my executive coaching clients, it’s the time of year when they’re wrapping up annual performance review conversations. Whether they’re part of an annual cycle, or much more useful, a timely pull-up on recent performance, performance management conversations are a fact of corporate life.

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Eight Executives Offer Their Best Advice on Building a Team of Go-To People

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Last week, I ran a poll on LinkedIn on one of the biggest things I coach executives about – making the shift from being the go-to person to building and leading a team of go to people. Here’s the best advice from each of the eight executives on how to build a go-to team: Create a Safe Environment. Remember, It’s Not About You.

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What Is Executive Presence?

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During the past couple of months, I’ve been in four or five conversations with leadership development professionals who are looking for a way to build executive presence in their organization’s high potential managers. Executive presence is one of those terms that’s often used but rarely clearly defined.

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Three Things Executives Around the World Tell Me Always Work

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with a couple of hundred executives from around the world. To help manage all of that gear shifting, you can adopt a simple self-coaching method that I teach my workshop clients. Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to speak over the course of several programs in the U.K.

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Four Ways to Be More Proactive and Less Reactive in Your Time Management

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I think that’s likely the reason why so many of the executives in my team engagements are choosing to work on behaviors related to pulling the lens back and being more strategic in their approach to work and leadership instead of getting sucked into the swirl of the day-to-day churn. What steps have you taken to proactively manage your time?

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How to Get Promoted to Vice President

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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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A Key Question for Executive Leaders

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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.   There are some caveats in answering the question, however.    For starters, it’s not about being indispensable. Click Here.

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