Next Level Blog

MARCH 19, 2020

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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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. That, after all, is what pretty much every team is charged with getting. You can probably see the leadership implications of all of this pretty quickly and clearly. The R stands for Results.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

That one was about why leaders should be decisive in exiting high performing but totally disruptive members of their team. In every case, the leader said their biggest lesson learned was they should have made key changes in their senior leadership team sooner than they did. Click headline to continue.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

This exec loved my client and compared him quite favorably to his predecessor who, the exec said, regularly “inspired his team to underperformance.”. The essence of his answer was that the predecessor leader didn’t set high enough expectations for his team and failed to even follow through on the low bar that he did set.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 14, 2022

What she was looking for instead was a leadership approach that kept people fully informed and engaged so they could make intelligent decisions and choices while doing their best work. In any case, from a leadership standpoint, what would you add to the list of markers? What do you agree with? What do you take issue with?

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2020

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? That’s exactly the question that Los Angeles Regional Food Bank CEO Michael Flood and his team had to answer and act on this year.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 11, 2018

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. These sets of behaviors break down into three primary components of executive presence: personal presence, team presence and organizational presence.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The open-door policy implies that your team members or colleagues can come to you with anything. They do in the dictionary, but they don’t in the realm of leadership. Available leaders: Put team members and colleagues on their list of priorities. This is especially true for regularly scheduled team meetings or team one on one’s.)

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2019

That doesn’t just apply to other people; it applies to you and your team too. If everything has to be perfect, not much gets done and the growth of your team stagnates. By following these steps, you’ll get more done and grow your team. What about the impact on the development of your team?

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

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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Next Level Blog

MAY 19, 2020

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. Perhaps that’s one more leadership lesson we can all draw from their story.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

This is the time of the year when I spend a day with my C-suite clients to give them some space to get up on the balcony to consider what success will look like 12 months from now and what they and their teams need to focus on to make those outcomes more likely. What are the personal leadership levers you want to use the most this year?

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Next Level Blog

MAY 1, 2019

One of the keys to successfully leading at the next level is to develop and leverage a team of go-to people. When you’re thinking through your strategy and approach to team development, it can help to think like a real estate investor. One other thought on developing and leveraging your team – you’re never done.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 15, 2018

One of the things I love about leading our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program is hearing leaders’ stories about how they’re following through on their most important development opportunities. When a member of her team asks her to dive deep on helping them solve a problem, she now asks them, “Who else have you asked for help?”

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 12, 2022

It could be about getting a team back on track, putting a key initiative back on the rails or reviving a business or line of business that has lost its momentum. For the past six months, he’s been an awesome participant in a cohort of the Next Level Leadership® group coaching program I’ve been leading in his company. Seth is the U.S.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2019

In watching and working with top executives and their teams over the past few years, I’ve come to a fresh conclusion. Preparation is the new leadership differentiator. You might argue that preparation has always been important. I would agree with you on that but would contend that preparation is in shorter supply than it used to be.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 18, 2013

My friend and Georgetown leadership coaching colleague sent a thought provoking email to his friends and clients last week on the recent crash of an Asiana 777 jet liner at San Francisco International Airport. Current Affairs General Leadership Leadership Lessons Communications Leadership teams Working together'

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Next Level Blog

JULY 11, 2023

If you put yourself in the position of controlling the traffic, you’re adopting a leadership model that doesn’t scale. If you choose the role of traffic enabler, however, that’s an imminently scalable approach to leadership. A leadership team that understands their roles and supports each other’s success.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 27, 2019

In 20 years of working as a leadership educator, speaker and executive coach, I’ve seen a lot of data points on leadership development programs and definitely see some patterns. Here, then, are five principles that I’ve become convinced are essential to designing great leadership development programs.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2016

OK, now that you’ve watched it, we need to draw some leadership lessons from what happened there. Great thanks and props to my client Brian Schools who CC’d me on an email he sent to his leadership team at Chartway Federal Credit Union in which he shared the video and some similar lessons.) Coast Guard cutter, the Venturous.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

One way to go is to hire an experienced leadership coach that can help you take an objective look at your performance and guide you in the process of making adjustments that will make a positive difference to you, your team and your organization. Don’t have the budget for a leadership coach?

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 21, 2020

With that in mind, here’s a simple framework for getting started with VUCA leadership that I came up with last year when I was working with a group of global general managers. That’s why the first step in my simple VUCA action framework is for leaders to focus first on creating space for themselves and their teams to think.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

What I mean by that is pulling the thread of the story about why you and your team are doing what you’re doing through everything you do. When you do that, leadership becomes longitudinal, not episodic. So, how do you pull the thread through to keep your team energized and engaged? You have to pull the thread through.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

I’ve been doing a lot of that lately for both individual executive clients and for the high potential leaders in a couple of cohorts of our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program. Historically, Joe has been in leadership roles that were more about authority than influence. Great leadership usually isn’t.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2011

This guest post was written by Jason Monaghan with University of Notre Dame Executive Online Education: As any seasoned business leader can tell you, creating an exemplary team takes knowledge, perseverance, and a little leadership magic. The “magic” of a great leader is developed over time and through years of professional awareness.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 5, 2020

Again and again, they share moments or emails that demonstrate how tough times can bring out the best in leaders and their teams. I’m struck by how the moments that matter most are the ones in which leaders share themselves as human beings and encourage their team members to do the same. Why is that?

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 28, 2022

Between the leaders I’ve worked with in our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program and the individual executives I’ve coached over the last 20 plus years, I’ve delivered around 2,000 colleague feedback reports. That’s a path to limiting your opportunity to grow and take on leadership roles that don’t just play to your strengths.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

I loved it when I heard a brilliant answer to that question a couple of weeks ago from a leader in one of our current Next Level Leadership® group coaching cohorts. It doesn’t matter that he has a big and competent team, whenever the client has a question or problem on any issue – big or small – he’s the go-to resource.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Knowing how and when to satisfice is an important skill to have not just for driving productivity but for keeping yourself and your team sane. If something is important enough to rank as a 10, he’s all in on making it as good as he and his team can make it. It probably won’t be the last.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

It was an awkward, bizarre and, ultimately, inspiring moment that was handled with as much grace as possible because of the leadership exhibited by Jordan Horowitz. If you replaced the word “producer” with “leader”, you’d have a pretty good working definition of leadership. That’s leadership presence in action.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The group had a good time with it and one leader said one of his takeaways for the day was that he was going to introduce stretching into his team meetings.   Leadership lesson learned? .    Leadership lesson learned?   Leadership lesson learned?   It just felt like the thing to do. 

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 28, 2011

He had just had a conversation with an important customer who said his team wasn't showing up like they used to and didn't have. Last week, I got a call from an executive in a client organization. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

The leadership team lays out a plan and goes to work. And, for me, that’s become a metaphor for life. I find it’s true as much on the organizational level as the individual level. Take large scale organizational change for example. With luck, there are some quick wins. And, almost always, there are setbacks and failures.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 21, 2015

If you’re a leader in your organization, there will be multiple times in your career when you have to get a new team off to a strong start. One of the critical steps in that process is when you bring the team members together for the first time. Like they say, you only get one chance to make a first impression.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2020

What followed next was a quick real-time distillation of long-held thoughts and observations on the nature of true leadership. As we look back on a year when we’ve seen the impact of both stellar and dismal leadership take center stage this feels like a good time to step back and set our bearings for 2021.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

You owe it to your team member, your organization and yourself to deliver straight-up meaty feedback that can be understood and acted upon. Offer hope – My favorite definition of leadership is that it’s a two-part job. Here’s some of my best advice on how to avoid delivering the dreaded feedback sandwich. What else would help?

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 28, 2022

I heard some great strategies recently from two high potential leaders in my Next Level Leadership® group coaching program who spent a day virtually shadowing a senior executive in their company as she moved through ten different 30-minute online meetings. Instead of giving answers, she asks, “What do you need from me?

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