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From Yearly Goals to a Decade of Purposeful Growth

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As the new year begins, most of us have goals or resolutions for 2024, but how many of us are working on a 10-year plan? My hope is that you’ll be inspired to join me on this journey towards living a long and purposeful life. My hope is that you’ll be inspired to join me on this journey towards living a long and purposeful life.

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How to Keep Your Team Focused on What Matters Most

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The long and ever-changing list of things competing for their time and attention can cause a sense of swirl and churn that leaves everyone frustrated and exhausted. If there’s one topic I hear about all the time from the leaders I work with, it’s the challenge of keeping themselves and their teams focused on what matters most.

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How to Lead with Socratic Questions

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What are the long-term implications of this decision? Since, in most companies, learning is a means to an end rather than an end in itself, questions like the ones I just shared usually need to be preceded with questions that help establish the goals around the problem that’s being solved or the opportunity that’s being addressed.

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How to Make the Move to Enterprise-Wide Leader

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The problem is, in the long-run, that approach doesn’t scale. What’s harder and more value-added over the long-run is to consider the full range of stakeholders and engage them in your problem-solving process. Enterprise-wide leaders think long-term and consider how their initiatives fit into the longer-term game plan.

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Preparation Is the New Leadership Differentiator

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Most of them do that through three lenses of time – short-term, medium-term and long-term. Their short-term preparation is focused on the next one or two days. Their medium-term preparation is focused on the next one or two weeks. Their medium-term preparation is focused on the next one or two weeks.

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Are You Hearing or Listening?

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One of the things I’ve said for a long-time as an executive coach is that if you get colleague feedback that you need to be a better listener, take the feedback and start working on it. Your goal is to wrap up and move on. Your goal is to move things forward. You’re basically in transit and not present.

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How to Make Your Performance Review Process Suck Less

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That may be true in terms of the process that you have to work within. It’s not true, however, in terms of how you can use the annual review process to set you and your team up for success. Talk about their work and personal goals and connect them with the goals and the work of your group as a whole.