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My Crisis Leadership Playbook

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Along with testing our public health and economic systems in unprecedented ways, the COVID-19 pandemic will test leaders at all levels in all organizations as never before. 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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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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When Leadership, Ingenuity and Humanity Won the Day

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A few weeks ago, I received a nice comment on LinkedIn about one of my blog posts from David Hoey who shared that he’s been a regular reader since 2010 when I wrote about the leadership lessons offered by the Chilean mine rescue. I appreciated David’s note for both the kindness he showed and for bringing the memory of the rescue back to mind.

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When Scaling Your Leadership is a Matter of Life or Death

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What would you do if your customer base tripled almost overnight and their lives depended on you scaling up your leadership and your organization to meet the sudden surge in demand? Their experience provides a case study that holds lessons for any organization in any sector.

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How to Sustain Your Leadership Team’s Momentum Throughout the Year

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A few weeks ago, I had an online Q&A session with a senior executive following a keynote presentation I did for her company’s annual senior leadership summit. The point of meetings like this is to get the leadership team aligned with the goals and position them to excite and engage their functional teams for the coming year.

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Preparation Is the New Leadership Differentiator

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Preparation is the new leadership differentiator. As pretty much every organization continues on its quest to do more with less, it’s become common for executives and managers to show up for meetings and conversations only partially prepared or even fully unprepared. You might argue that preparation has always been important.

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How to Manage Your Workload So You Have Time for the Unexpected

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Here are three action steps you can take to manage your workload so you have time for unexpected problems or issues. It’s really not a big investment of your time if you look at it that way but the return on that investment can be huge for you, your team and your organization.