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MARCH 22, 2023

This question is about identifying the important facts about the team member’s performance and organizing the facts in a way that provides insight into what they accomplished or didn’t and how they did what they did or didn’t do. Here they are: What Do I Want Them to Think? From there, it’s about support and expectations.

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AUGUST 2, 2023

There is simply too much to do and too many things to fix in large organizations for senior executives to provide all the answers. What questions do you have about how to practice or encourage Socratic questioning in your organization? That’s a great thing until it’s no longer a great thing.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The framework is a repurposing of a now classic model for reducing decision making bottlenecks in organizations called DAI. First, find out what’s expected to happen in the meeting by asking the organizer to tell you. You may be afraid of offending the organizer. The D stands for Decision. The A stands for Advice.

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JULY 28, 2021

You want to accelerate your development as a leader in your organization and think having a mentor to guide you could be a really good thing. Peer coaching is when two colleagues at roughly similar levels in their organization agree to spend regular time in coaching conversations with each other. So, first, what’s the difference?

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MARCH 2, 2021

Before you know it, everyone is talking about what “they” need to do to make things better and by “they” the group usually means the more senior executives in the organization. That can be hard to remember when you’re in the middle of a complex organization with a lot of opportunities and challenges. You have agency. I have agency.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Most of the organizations I’m talking to and observing during the pandemic recognize the need to up their levels of innovation and agility. It’s a lot of things, actually, but one of the big ones is whether or not the organization has created a permission structure for innovation. What’s the difference between the two groups?

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Of course, answers will vary from organization to organization and leader to leader. That means leaders will need to cast a broader net and invest more time learning about what’s going on across the organization. What are you seeing in your organization? What other principles would you add to the level playing field list?

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

They want to know what’s happening now that’s going to get the organization to the next. Make sure that what you’re working on is relevant to the overall agenda and goals of the organization. They’ve delivered great work in the past but that was the past. Senior executives are often impatient people.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

When you’re new to a leadership role or new to an organization it can be a challenge to project the right amount of grounded confidence that you belong and can contribute. It can be an even bigger challenge when you’re experiencing both at once – new to the role and new to the organization.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

Take time to build relationships across your organization – up, down, and sideways. Invest your time and attention in connecting the dots on where the overall business is going from a strategic perspective and then find the ways that your own agenda can both support and be enabled by the bigger agenda.

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JANUARY 3, 2023

Morning review – If you use a Life GPS® or some other personal planning framework to organize your life, review it a few mornings each week and just ask yourself, “How am I doing?” This practice organizes your thinking while creating a record of your year. If things feel like they’re on track, keep doing what you’ve been doing.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Like a lot of leaders in highly matrixed organizations, Joe is currently in a role where his effectiveness depends on influence more than authority. He doesn’t have any solid line direct reports in his current job, but has to continuously mobilize a lot of colleagues from across the organization to come together and drive results.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The first is, “What are we trying to accomplish in this organization?” If you ask your people how they feel about working for your organization, you can begin to do a gap analysis on how well the culture supports your strategy. Every leader in your organization needs to be accountable for role modeling the culture.

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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? Their experience provides a case study that holds lessons for any organization in any sector.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It’s highly unlikely that you have leaders in your organization who are as egregiously toxic as Dan Snyder was but if you have leaders who are on that spectrum, you need to move them out. If you have toxic leaders in your organization, move them out now. Yes, absolutely no question. Don’t let that happen to you.

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JULY 26, 2022

The other key question is where do one or more of them need to intervene in the broader organization to start something that would help, stop something that’s not helping, or make sure something important continues?

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Next Level Blog

MAY 19, 2020

I went back and reviewed my two posts from 10 years ago and pulled the following lessons from back then that I think clearly apply today: Leaders keep the whole person in mind – One of the most remarkable things about the time the miners spent trapped underground was the way their leaders organized the group to take care of each other.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 26, 2020

To recap, Phase 1 lasted for about 8 weeks, depending on where in the world you live and, for large organizations at least, was about quickly reinventing how work was going to get done with many people working from home. agendas that can help us reimagine the future for our ourselves, our customers and our organizations.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Likewise, when it comes to broader initiatives that you’re driving or leading in your organization, you can never take your eye off the ball. Because the team is always changing in one fashion or another, that work never ends. Just because you’ve received approval to proceed, it doesn’t mean that you’re good to go forever.

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MARCH 18, 2024

She never held big, prominent roles in large organizations. At the same time, Judy established herself as a pillar of the Huntington community as an active participant and leader in her church and countless community service organizations. I’ve been writing about leaders and leadership for more than 20 years. She shunned the spotlight.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 29, 2021

And, for the organization, the ahead of the curve communications make big change initiatives easier to manage and go more smoothly. in your communications is a big step in being viewed as an MVP in your organization. As a result, the colleagues feel valued by and appreciative of my client.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For instance, a recently published study by McKinsey shows that the top three reasons why employees leave is they don’t feel valued by their organization, they don’t feel valued by their manager and they don’t feel a sense of belonging. Poor work-life balance was fourth on the list after those three. Why does it matter? Where do you fit in?

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As I write about in The Next Level , as a designated leader in your organization, you have a unique perspective that is informed by the information flows, decision making chains, and relationships that you’re exposed to simply because you’re in the role you’re in.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

You need to spend time and effort on assessing the patterns in the external environment, but you also need to continuously assess the internal patterns of performance within your organization. That analysis is much more meaningful when you set a baseline in time that serves as your reference point for all your analysis going forward.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 20, 2018

That’s not just true for first time executives; it’s also true for more senior executives who are promoted into the top job in their organization. He’s assumed the top role in a prominent organization after spending a number of years there in other senior executive roles. How do I organize myself? How do I leverage my role?

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 12, 2021

One way to organize your wholesale communications strategy is to batch the people you’re working with into affinity groups such as your broader functional team, the senior executive team of your organization, and project team members.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 1, 2019

You can: Buy : When you need experience or skills that don’t already exist in your organization, you may need to go out in the market and buy it. Recruiting new talent from outside the organization can be the right move when you need to rapidly accelerate your performance to meet your goals in a given timeframe.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 4, 2021

For organizations to be fully successful in the emerging hybrid world of work, every worker will need to feel essential – like they and their work matter. The risks of not getting it right are high for both the organization and the people who work within it.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 26, 2018

Like many of you, I’ve marveled at and been inspired by the initiative of a group of high school students who have organized themselves to lead a nationwide movement to curb gun violence. They took authorship of their story. They moved beyond being survivors of a school shooting by taking control of their narrative.

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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. If you’re burned out, stressed out and frantic from not getting enough sleep, not exercising and not getting enough time away from work, then your team or organization is going to reflect that.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I love hearing that because it means we’re making an actionable difference for leaders, their teams and their organizations. It’s so rewarding to do that kind of work and see the impact that leaders make in their organizations and communities. Our client organizations have also been amazing partners in helping us get better and better.

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MARCH 19, 2020

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. and, ultimately, the Customers and Citizens that rely on your organization. However you show up is completely predictive of how your team shows up.

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APRIL 26, 2021

Like a lot of organizations, this company has a senior leadership team conference at the beginning of the year – either fiscal or calendar – to lay out their themes, goals and plans for the next 12 months. Part one is that the best organizations have an annual management calendar that drives planning, assessment and accountability.

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JUNE 17, 2020

In the past couple of weeks, I’ve heard about and had the opportunity to attend online panel discussions that my corporate clients have organized for their team members to listen to and learn from the life experiences of their black colleagues. They’ve been both illuminating and extremely moving.

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MAY 11, 2021

By connection equity, I mean that everyone on a team or an organization has equal opportunities to feel connected to and included in the work no matter what they do or where they do it. This week I want to build on that post by offering three strategies that foster what I could see us calling “connection equity.”

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MAY 15, 2018

Here are a couple of examples of what they’re saying and the difference it’s making for them and their organizations. It’s great because it can establish you as a vital resource in the organization. Email me and let me know what leadership mantra you’ve come up with and the difference it’s making for you and your organization.

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JULY 12, 2022

Start with What and Why – When you’re taking on a major initiative, it’s vital to invest time up front in developing a clear explanation and picture of what you’re working to accomplish and why it matters to the organization. That’s the North Star you’ll keep coming back to.

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