Next Level Blog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Sleep for Success : In spite of knowing better, I fell into some bad sleep habits in the second half of 2021 – the biggest of which was regularly staying up past my bedtime. Looking for ideas on where to start? Check out two of my more popular recent posts – How to Decide Which Meetings to Skip and How to Get Ten Hours of Your Week Back.

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APRIL 4, 2023

Here are five must-do’s: Create Strategic Plans – As an ambassadorial leader, you need to lay out a strategic plan for your remit that supports and aligns with the strategic goals of your company. Incorporate that dynamic as part of your strategic plan and leverage your visibility as an enabling factor in the success of your plan.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 11, 2023

Here’s a non-exhaustive list of essentials that you need to have a traffic enabling culture: Clear communication and understanding of the key goals and why they matter. A leadership team that understands their roles and supports each other’s success. What have you learned about how to make progress on success factors like these?

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Next Level Blog

JULY 12, 2022

If you’re a leader who regularly communicates with your organization’s senior executives, it’s vital to your success and theirs that you communicate in terms of an ongoing narrative and not just give them the random episode of the day. It’s all really more than most human beings are equipped to process in a day or a week.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Showing up with confidence is so important to success and effectiveness that I wrote a whole chapter on the topic in The Next Level (Chapter 2: Pick up confidence in your presence; let go of doubt in how you contribute). Run Your Proven Playbook : You’re in the role you’re in now because you have a track record of success.

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JANUARY 25, 2022

Is it high value-added, meaningful work that clearly contributes to the Purpose and the Picture of what success looks like? The great ones have regular and intentional conversations with their team members about the goals they have for themselves and then align the opportunities with those goals.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 1, 2019

Successful investors in real estate or any other sector think through their goals and then develop a portfolio of investments to align with them. Recruiting new talent from outside the organization can be the right move when you need to rapidly accelerate your performance to meet your goals in a given timeframe.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

Like a lot of organizations, this company has a senior leadership team conference at the beginning of the year – either fiscal or calendar – to lay out their themes, goals and plans for the next 12 months. When done well (and this one was), kick-off meetings are a great way to get the year off to a fast and exciting start.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 11, 2019

From there, you can reverse engineer back to identify what needs to be accomplished this quarter, this month, this week and even this day to create a successful set of outcomes for the year. But if triage is all you ever do, you’re never going to get to the strategic priorities that will enable you to achieve your goals.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The goal each Friday was to cancel 20% of the meetings two weeks out. When they were successful in their pruning, Starner would get around 10 hours of that week back that she could use to do the work during the day that she had been pushing to her evenings.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

What am I trying to do in this next conversation or meeting to support that goal? If I’m completely successful with this next exchange, what happens at the end? That involves thinking through and, in some cases, visualizing. your answers to questions like: What am I trying to accomplish in the bigger picture? What do people know?

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Next Level Blog

MAY 15, 2019

The goal is to lead with a great summary that hooks people’s attention and makes them want to engage and learn more. Who are the different players inside and outside your organization who have a stake in the success of what you and your team are working on? Who does it matter to? Now we’re getting into some stakeholder mapping.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

Your goal is to wrap up and move on. Your goal is to move things forward. Your goal is to learn more about the other party – what they think, what they value and how they feel. You’re basically in transit and not present. How do you know when you’re just hearing and not really listening? You feel distracted or impatient.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 28, 2021

Their goals are to help each other pull the lens back, assess what’s going on in their worlds and identify any steps they need to take or adjustments they need to make to be successful in their roles. And, the good news is that peer coaching is free and widely available.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Listen : One of the best ways to learn what others care most about is to ask them open ended questions like “What would make this year a huge success for you?” or “What’s supporting and what’s getting in the way of your goals?” Yet another is “What could we do together that would make a difference?”

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AUGUST 25, 2020

As he said to me in a call a few weeks ago, “Virtual excellence is always going to be a part of success going forward.” They start their days with a list of objectives for what they’re going to accomplish and are clear about how those tasks relate to and support strategic goals. They adapt their plan to a virtual world.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2019

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. That may be true in terms of the process that you have to work within.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Some of the more common answers include things like goal setting, developing the team, coaching, performance management and setting the organizational climate. How do they support the goal? I ask the leaders to shout out things that come to mind as they consider the question. What progress have you made so far or since the last update?

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 11, 2016

Jeff is a former financial services executive, runs a very successful business and is a member of our Conduit program for coaches and our Life GPS® certification program. We were talking about 2016 goals in our monthly Conduit call last Friday and Jeff shared that his goal for this year is to be more mindful in day to day life.

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APRIL 21, 2020

As a starting point, simpler frameworks make it easy to focus a conversation and align people around a goal. A series of successful five percent solutions usually work a lot better than delaying action in favor of fully baking a 100 percent solution.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 14, 2019

What’s helping you accomplish your goals? What kind of help do you need to be successful? Some of my road-tested favorites include: What will make this a great year for you? What difference would that make for you? What’s getting in the way? What’s going on that has you excited? What’s going on that has you concerned?

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 27, 2019

Before you do anything else on your program, get clear about your goals. Who gets a say in defining success? How will you know if you’re successful? You can convey a picture of success in a one or two day program; it takes time for people to groove the behaviors that actualize the picture. What do they think?

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2019

They book about 30 to 60 minutes a week to scan their calendar for the next couple of weeks with the goal of flagging commitments that they need to start preparing for further in advance. Their medium-term preparation is focused on the next one or two weeks. Finally, long-term preparation is focused on three months ahead.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

It’s not a long-term strategy for success. She was cutting corners on her 10,000 steps a day goal. For some ideas on how to set your trend in the right direction, check out my post from a few months ago on simple physical routines for successful stress management. In fact, it’s exactly the opposite of that. You’re not creative.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The great leaders stand alone, indomitable in the face of adversity, accomplishing their goals in the face of all obstacles. His willingness to ask for help, he believes, was a critical factor in his team’s success. There’s a hero myth that can build up around leaders. The last thing they need is help from anyone else.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 4, 2016

Many of us have a long list of goals. Personal improvement, better health, professional accomplishments, stronger relationships, big projects, financial goals – any or all of those and others could be on your list. What difference would it make if you could boil all of that down to one simple and memorable goal?

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 15, 2021

It’s all about the behaviors and mindsets you need to pick up and let go of to be successful in bigger and bigger roles. 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.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

In this post, I want to focus on one big idea about how to make them successful. Baby steps, when focused on a goal and consistently taken, lead to big results. There’s a lot of research and opinions out there about why resolutions fail. It’s baby steps. Celebrate them. Revel in them.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

  While it takes its inspiration from the Global Positioning System, GPS in this case stands for Goals Planning System. Over the past 10 years, hundreds of my executive coaching clients have used the Life GPS® to help them reach their goals in their lives at home, work and in the community. Click Here.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

During that period, my company has run over a thousand 360 degree leadership assessments based on the success behaviors I highlight in my book, The Next Level. Share Perspective and Information – The best leaders inspire their team’s performance by connecting their work with the bigger goals of the organization.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 17, 2011

  What impact do these facts have on our goal?   What other options do we have for reaching our goal? 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. What might we be missing here? 

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

.  Here are some thoughts about how to push back on your boss when that happens: Ask, "What's your goal?" "   Do your best to understand the goal or motivation behind the boss's request.    Offer alternatives. Click Here.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 18, 2018

Examples of these things include goal setting, resource allocation, team selection and development, information flows and relational access. Focus on the things that only you can do: When you’re in a designated leadership role, there are certain opportunities that accrue to you because you’re the incumbent in the role.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

  My goal was to share a process for mapping out your goals and actions in a way that is realistic and achievable. In my own life and in working with leaders over the last 10 years, I’ve learned that the success rate for big promises made without a process of ongoing support and follow through is pretty low. 

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NOVEMBER 19, 2010

  The research shows that most new executives have about 18 months before they’re deemed a success or failure.      Set strategic goals and use them to guide critical early decisions such as budgeting and staffing.   There’s a lot of sound advice there.  So, those are some basic first steps. 

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JULY 7, 2010

Some of their goals conflict with yours even though you share common interests on other fronts. 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. It's just the nature of things. Click Here.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

  There must have been some glitch in the succession plan that got you onto this team.    The goal is to get through that period as quickly as possible so you can confidently do what you’re expected to do.   Your goal should be to form some outside-in impressions.  Click Here.

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