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Is Your Approach Parent-Child Management or Adult-to-Adult Leadership?

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What she rightfully had a problem with was a paternalistic management approach that assumed that the top people had all the information and answers to be shared as they saw fit. The “worker bees” should be given what management thought they needed when they needed it. What do you agree with? What do you take issue with?

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How to Develop a Great Strategic Leadership Offsite Agenda

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Over the course of this year, I’m going to develop the agendas and facilitate around a dozen strategic offsites for C-Suite executives and their senior leadership teams. With all that experience, I’ve learned a lot about how to develop and write an agenda that gets a leadership team engaged to create meaningful insights and outcomes.

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How to Create Your Leadership Scorecard

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Like a lot of my executive coaching clients, I believe that you can’t manage what you don’t measure. When it comes to leadership development, measuring your progress doesn’t have to be complicated or burdensome. You can drive a lot of change and hold yourself accountable by creating a simple leadership scorecard for yourself.

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My Crisis Leadership Playbook

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When I talk about the ideas in my book, The Next Level , one of the first things I usually say is that the next level is any leadership situation which requires different results. The ideas I’m sharing in this post are the basics of a crisis leadership playbook that is something of a work in progress. When I was writing the 3 rd.

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Simple Physical Routines for Successful Stress Management

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Leadership is always challenging. This week, I want to start with three basic physical routines that are essential to stress management – eating, moving and sleeping. So, there you have it – some best practices for eating, moving and sleeping that will help you manage your allostatic load during these unusually stressful times.

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

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Over the past year, I’ve had the opportunity to coach the members of a couple of different corporate senior leadership teams. The coaching approach I use for leadership teams is a lot like the one I use for individual leaders. What steps have you taken to proactively manage your time? What about you?

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How Strong is Your Leadership Pyramid?

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For example, a study conducted by the Center for Creative Leadership shows that 40 percent of new executives fail within eighteen months of being named to their positions. Managing yourself is at the base of the pyramid. Establishing a sustainable life rhythm is at the heart of managing yourself effectively. Manage yourself.