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FEBRUARY 16, 2015

I went to a local CarMax with him to start the process and, within a couple of hours, got a great lesson from Brad on managing your expectations and not getting too attached to outcomes. Mindful Mondays managing expectations' The process of a private sale would have taken too long so he decided to sell it to a dealer.

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APRIL 14, 2014

Mindful Mondays Jim Collins Laura Vanderkam mindful choices Personal time management' As the title implies, my premise is that being somewhat more mindful in your approach to work and life is an effective alternative to being overworked and overwhelmed. Click headline to continue.

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JULY 17, 2012

We see enough aberrant behavior on the part of people in leadership positions that it seems worth asking the question – how do you stay clear about the fact that you’re a manager and not royalty? Everybody knew it and worked together to sweep it under the rug. Here are three ideas: Click headline to continue.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

If you’ve got someone on your team who is clearly a star but regularly disrupts the chi and makes life difficult for others on the team, you’ve got a tough problem as a manager. So, how do you manage the superstar that has a penchant for stirring things up? What have you learned about managing difficult superstars?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Fortunately, Marc Effron and Miriam Ort are here to save us from ourselves with their book, One Page Talent Management. I like their book a lot because their process of applying some basic design principles to common processes is one that has application far beyond the realm of talent management and human resources.

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MARCH 16, 2011

The New York Times recently ran an article about what Google has done lately to share the practices of its best managers throughout the company. Being Google, a bunch of statisticians started looking. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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MARCH 12, 2015

There''s a very high likelihood that you''ve heard the counsel to spend your time on the things that are important but not urgent. Easy to advise, hard to do, right? It''s all too easy to end up spending your day reacting to things that are both urgent and important or, worse, not that important to you but urgent to someone else.

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APRIL 4, 2024

I started doing yoga in late 2010 because a knowledgeable friend of the family encouraged me to take it up to help manage the multiple sclerosis I had been diagnosed with in 2009. Our friend was right.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Earlier this week, I was leading a workshop for a group of leaders in a company that’s been around for a long time. They’re at the beginning of an enterprise wide, top to bottom reimagining of the. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

Based on your lessons learned from 2023, what are your keep, start, and stop doing personal routines for self-management this year? What’s the optimal cadence and purpose of meetings with your team and other key internal and external stakeholder groups? None of these questions are particularly profound.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In more than 20 years of executive coaching, I long ago lost count of the number of conversations I’ve been in about the challenges of personal time management. Here then, is my highly abbreviated 10-point ultimate guide to personal time management: Accept that you can’t do it all. – Ten quick hits that you can put to work this week.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

A few weeks ago, I was in a conversation with a group of senior managers when one of them told a story that put what has come to be known as The Great Resignation in sharp relief. The exhaustion and burnout have an impact on everyone – executives, managers and team members alike. Where do you fit in?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Earlier this week, I was leading a workshop for a group of leaders in a company that’s been around for a long time. They’re at the beginning of an enterprise wide, top to bottom reimagining of the. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

If you want to be promoted to VP, let key senior leaders, including your managing executive, know that that’s your goal. Nine times out of ten, the best advocate is going to be your executive manager. Cultivate other sponsors : Most of the time, your manager isn’t the only person involved in the decision to name you a VP.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

As the situation changes, people’s perceptions can change and the stories they’re telling themselves and each other about the initiatives can lead to problems unless you’re actively managing those perceptions and stories. You have to stay engaged in managing the narrative of change.

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MARCH 23, 2021

During a conversation on resilience and stress management, the presenter asked us to rate our satisfaction with our physical routines – movement, sleep, and nutrition. In this past year of a global pandemic, we’ve all become more aware of the need to manage not just our physical health but our mental, relational and spiritual health as well.

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

Sometimes it comes up with a manager who wants advice on how to answer that question from an ambitious team member. Your manager should be in a position to advocate for you but they’re not going to make the decision by themselves. I’ve been in a lot of conversations about that question over the years.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

Your manager wants to give you some performance feedback and wraps it up in so much blah, blah, blah that you aren’t really sure what the message is or what you’re supposed to do with it. If you’re a manager (or a coach for that matter) delivering tough feedback is sometimes part of the job. We’ve all been there.

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MAY 7, 2019

As I’ve written here before , one of my favorite games to play with high potential managers and executives is called, “What’s on Your T-Shirt?” The recurring theme in the T-shirt game is that, on paper at least, most leaders are pretty good at managing others and aren’t that good at managing themselves.

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MARCH 19, 2020

The first thing I’m sure of is that effective leadership in this new era begins with effective self-management. edition of The Next Level in 2018, I summarized a lot of what I’d learned in the 6 years since writing the 2 nd edition with three leadership imperatives: Manage Yourself Leverage Your Team Engage Your Colleagues.

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MARCH 2, 2021

In my work with high potential leaders over the past two decades, I regularly see managers and more junior executives who overestimate the risk of speaking up and acting and underestimate the reward of doing so. If you’re a manager yourself, here’s how you can check yourself on that. What’s yours?

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I’ve been inspired lately by reading Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. Instead, I’m talking about microdosing the way you manage calendar. Even if you worked 24 hours a day for seven days a week, you wouldn’t get it all done. There’s simply too much to do.

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NOVEMBER 29, 0002

This week, I’m highlighting tweets and links on innovation, managing younger workers, and improving your listening skills, among others. Every week, I share a recap of some of the best things I’ve seen on Twitter. Click headline to continue.

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JULY 11, 2023

One of my sources of entertainment on a recent trip to Los Angeles was watching a traffic cop masterfully manage a very busy Melrose Avenue intersection while a work crew replaced the stop lights. Hiring and performance management processes that reward team players who take accountability for delivering on their scope.

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APRIL 12, 2021

One of the things I’ve seen a lot of leaders struggling with during this extended period of leading from home is how to stay on top of all the communications they have to do with different stakeholders – their team members, their managers, their peers, other colleagues and external partners.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

If you think you might resemble that remark, here are some things you can do to keep your head clear and calm in the weeks ahead: Raise Your DOSE – There’s a huge physiological component to stress management that begins with raising your DOSE.

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APRIL 10, 2019

There’s a reason why I make such a strong connection between the leadership imperatives of managing yourself and leveraging your team. As I’ve written here and in the new edition of The Next Level , effective self-management is a pre-requisite to leveraging your team in effective ways. In short, she was a micromanager.

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JULY 11, 2018

I’ve come to think of those three leadership imperatives – manage yourself, leverage your team, engage your colleagues – as layers of a pyramid in which one layer is the prerequisite to the next. Managing yourself is at the base of the pyramid. Establishing a sustainable life rhythm is at the heart of managing yourself effectively.

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JUNE 19, 2019

What you can do, however, is manage your week in a way that gives you the best chance of living and leading at your best. We were talking about time management strategies and she shared how she organizes her week. That’s a proactive rather than a reactive approach to calendar management.

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MARCH 6, 2019

If my terrible bosses in New York managed by fear, intimidation, uncertainty and pitting people against each other, I was going to be friendly and forthcoming, share information and try to build a one for all, all for one kind of team. Unpredictable : There’s so much that goes with this one. It can stem from emotional outbursts.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

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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JULY 14, 2020

For instance, as I write this post it’s Monday morning and it feels like it was only a day or two ago that I was writing last week’s post – also on a Monday morning – on the connection between strong relationships and managing your stress. It can all leave you feeling a little disconnected.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

First, is that being in chronic fight or flight causes you to think, make decisions, and manage relationships in suboptimal ways because, as stress increases, the prefrontal cortex of your brain – known as the executive functioning center – shifts from intentional self-regulated responses to reactive automatic responses.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ever had a manager who told you they had an “open-door policy?” Being available is mainly a function of time management. Who knows, maybe you’ve even declared that yourself. The open-door policy implies that your team members or colleagues can come to you with anything. That desire to be a transparent and open leader is admirable.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

If that sounds like you or someone you know, here are three things to keep in mind that will help you manage your mojo: Believe You Should Be There : It’s highly unlikely that you were selected for your role through some crazy fluke or accident. Over-rotating on our gaps can overwhelm all the things that make us great in the first place.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

This is the time of year that instills fear and loathing in the hearts of managers everywhere. Organizational Development performance management Performance reviews' The good news is that you may be planning on taking some extended time off during the holiday season. Click headline to continue.

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MAY 12, 2020

Right now, we’re dealing with the beginning of Phase 2 which is what the late, great change management guru, William Bridges, described as “the neutral zone.” In his classic book, Managing Transitions , Bridges pointed out that there are three phases of major change – the ending, the neutral zone, and the beginning.

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