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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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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. Share your goal : People are much more likely to help you if they know what you want. It’s not bragging.

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How to Coach Your Team to High Performance

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Here’s how Rishi does it: Establish ground rules and goals : Rishi begins each coaching conversation by setting the parameters for what’s in and out of scope and what the goal of the conversation is. It’s a simple but highly effective process that any leader can and should use to coach their team to high performance.

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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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How to Make the Move to Enterprise-Wide Leader

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Enterprise-wide leaders start with the bigger picture and reverse engineer their way back from those goals to determine how to shape and execute on their functional agenda in a way that adds the broadest value. Enterprise-wide leaders think long-term and consider how their initiatives fit into the longer-term game plan.

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A Framework for Leadership Action in the VUCA of the Pandemic

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As a starting point, simpler frameworks make it easy to focus a conversation and align people around a goal. Now that we’re all definitely in the early days of the most VUCA situation we’ve ever had since the term was invented, I want to share it with you in the hope that it can help you identify some next steps.

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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.