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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? For more than two decades, my wife Diane and I have been very intentional and consistent about visualizing our goals for the coming year and outlining the routines and actions that we think will best help us achieve them.

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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. That means being fact-based in terms of sharing with the people that need to know the goals, the progress against the goals, and the obstacles overcome to achieve the goals.

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How to Prepare for Performance Management Conversations

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This question is about identifying the important facts about the team member’s performance and organizing the facts in a way that provides insight into what they accomplished or didn’t and how they did what they did or didn’t do. Here they are: What Do I Want Them to Think?

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How to Lead with Socratic Questions

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There is simply too much to do and too many things to fix in large organizations for senior executives to provide all the answers. What questions do you have about how to practice or encourage Socratic questioning in your organization? That’s a great thing until it’s no longer a great thing.

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How to Keep Your Team Focused on What Matters Most

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My suggestion was to use the grid as a template for a monthly meeting where they take a near-term look at the highest and best uses of their time and attention against the goals they’re trying to accomplish.

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What Have You Done for Me Lately?

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They want to know what’s happening now that’s going to get the organization to the next. Make sure that what you’re working on is relevant to the overall agenda and goals of the organization. They’ve delivered great work in the past but that was the past. Senior executives are often impatient people.

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Don’t Let Your Deficiency Overwhelm Your Proficiency

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When you’re new to a leadership role or new to an organization it can be a challenge to project the right amount of grounded confidence that you belong and can contribute. It can be an even bigger challenge when you’re experiencing both at once – new to the role and new to the organization. You’ve proven it out over time.