Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

That said, I’d offer three leadership principles to consider as you think about how to keep the playing field level in your organization as work continues to change: Familiarity Matters More Than Proximity – One thing the pandemic has made clear is that proximity should matter less when determining which opportunities are assigned to which people.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 23, 2021

Last week I had the pleasure of spending some extended time online with a group of coaching and leadership development colleagues. If you’re wearing a bio-monitoring device like an Apple Watch, Fitbit or Oura ring, API’s can pull data on your heart rate, daily step count and sleep quality into the mix as well.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Exercise your agency, improve your leadership effectiveness, and strengthen your health and well-being by taking back some of your overscheduled time. While quantity is great, quality has more leverage. This blog post on how to decide which meetings to skip has solid tips on how to get started on that.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

Words that might come to mind could include qualities like supportive, encouraging, clear, calm, inspiring, directive, engaged, open, generous or any number of others that fit their needs. These are the qualities that represent you when you’re operating in the sweet spot that leads to positive outcomes.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 9, 2021

What have I stopped doing during the pandemic year that has improved the quality of my life and work? Your keep-doing list may include quality time with your immediate family, working out more frequently or pursuing a hobby you took up during the pandemic. The coaching, the workshops and the speeches could all be delivered online.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 21, 2020

Gary Burnison , the CEO of recruiting and leadership development firm Korn-Ferry writes a weekly email every week which I subscribe to. You can probably see the leadership implications of all of this pretty quickly and clearly. Not surprisingly, a lot of his notes the past several months have focused on leading during the pandemic.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

After all, if you need to pivot your business model and set yourself up to succeed in whatever environment presents itself next, you need to have those two qualities embedded in your culture. Most of the organizations I’m talking to and observing during the pandemic recognize the need to up their levels of innovation and agility.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 14, 2019

As I’ve written here before , effective leadership communications involves two distinct activities – transmitting and receiving. For your leadership communications to be inspirational and influential, you need to do both as well. Too many people in leadership roles overemphasize the transmission and underemphasize the reception.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 7, 2019

If you’re in a leadership role, what’s on your t-shirt doesn’t just have an impact on you, it affects the entire organization. From there, your rocks keep on rolling with impacts on the health of your people and their families and the quality of their connections to the broader community.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 27, 2020

You might consider those questions to be a bit weird or out there, but if you stop and examine the nature of your language and the quality of your thinking, you may find they’re more relevant than you’d initially think. That’s why it’s so important to pay attention to the connection between leadership and the time frames of mind.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Yesterday morning, before delivering a workshop on how to lead and live at your best , I had the privilege of sitting in as a roomful of high-potential managers shared what they’ve learned so far during their company’s multi-month leadership development program.

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JUNE 12, 2019

When you stop and think about it a big part of leadership is about convincing people to do things differently. What it means is the quality of your technical solution multiplied by the acceptance strategy for your solution equals your overall effectiveness. It could be persuading customers to buy your product or try your service.

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APRIL 18, 2016

Earlier this month, when I was speaking on mindful leadership to the Latino Leadership Summit of one of my client companies, I shared the graphic that accompanies this post. And any of them can serve as the foundation for simple routines that will help you put the pieces together to improve the quality of your leadership and your life.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 17, 2011

So what can you do to improve the quality of your decision making?  What do you notice about the quality and process of your own decision making?   What gets lost is a thoughtful consideration of the opportunity cost of pursuing one decision over another. Click Here.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 17, 2011

I thought you might appreciate this post I ran last year on six qualities that made MLK such a great speaker. I thought you might appreciate this post I ran last year on six qualities that made MLK such a great speaker. The Next Level Blog is where he shares "news you can use" to raise your leadership game. Click Here.

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JANUARY 21, 2011

There are probably a lot of leadership lessons to be gained from how the meetings and dinners were handled by the principals.   I’m sure he was speaking from prepared remarks but the quality of the delivery had a different impact because of the enforced breaks in the speaking. (Hu Click Here.

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APRIL 3, 2019

For simplicity’s sake, I’ll define that as possessing two particular qualities – awareness and intention. I recently heard a brilliant example of how to do that in real life from a leader (whom I’ll call Susan) who was a participant in our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

If small acts of kindness can help change the world, they can almost certainly improve your own quality of life and that of those you live and work with. Shevardnadze made it a point to show him a cherished stack of Christmas cards that Schultz and his wife had sent him over the years.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

While your reward may be different than Susan’s, you can improve the quality of your work and your life by proactively reclaiming some of the time you’re losing by clicking in for meeting after meeting all day long. We both agreed that reading an old-school analog book was a much better pre-bedtime routine than answering one more email.

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

As a result, productivity, quality of outcomes and health and well-being all suffer. At that point, their calendar gets shredded and they have a fight or flight inducing crisis on their hands as they try to address the surprises while keeping everything else moving.

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JANUARY 11, 2016

Last week, I heard two great ones from my friend and colleague, Jeff Smith of Voltage Leadership Consulting. It’s made a big difference in the quality of our relationship.”. One of the biggest dividends of a radio-free ride for Jeff has come in the evening when they both get home. And that leads to the overall point of this post.

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JULY 18, 2016

Heck, tuning into the rhythmic repetitive quality of this brief video is a good place to start. Anything that involves some rhythmic, repetitive motion is going to help you get back to your sweet spot by activating your rest and digest response. Try this one too.). Lord knows we could use some more peace and calm in the world these days.

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MARCH 6, 2017

By staying mindful, I mean exhibiting two specific qualities that you’re bringing to the moment: awareness and intention. Stay mindful : Once the event starts, stay mindful. Be aware of what’s going on around you and, equally important, be aware of how you’re reacting or responding to what’s going on around you.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Competence : Of course, it’s one thing to deliver on time, it’s another to deliver quality results on time. By doing this, you’ll likely establish a pattern of performance that builds trust with the micromanager. A key word here is perceived.

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