Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

More often than not, my most successful clients have tapped into the transformative power of systematizing simple things. Like a lot of leaders in highly matrixed organizations, Joe is currently in a role where his effectiveness depends on influence more than authority. Take, for example, the story of a client I’ll call Joe.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Your organization’s culture is the leading indicator of whether or not your strategy is going to be successful. In this post, I want to share a short checklist of things senior leaders need to think about and do to shape and drive cultures that make strategies successful. Culture needs constant attention.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

Ideally, everyone who works for a company would act as an ambassador for that organization to the public at large. Build Relationships – Undoubtedly, the success of your strategic plans will depend on your success in building strong relationships with the key influencers and stakeholders in your market.

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Next Level Blog

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.

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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

MAY 1, 2019

Successful investors in real estate or any other sector think through their goals and then develop a portfolio of investments to align with them. 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.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 12, 2022

If you’re a leader who regularly communicates with your organization’s senior executives, it’s vital to your success and theirs that you communicate in terms of an ongoing narrative and not just give them the random episode of the day. It’s all really more than most human beings are equipped to process in a day or a week.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Sleep for Success : In spite of knowing better, I fell into some bad sleep habits in the second half of 2021 – the biggest of which was regularly staying up past my bedtime. That’s been my experience as well and why, for over 10 years now, my calendar has been organized around making sure I get an hour to exercise at the end of the workday.

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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. This is what success looks like. Here’s some of my best advice on how to avoid delivering the dreaded feedback sandwich. These are the strengths you have that you can leverage to be better.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

After that much experience, I’m convinced that peer coaching is at least two things – a game changer and the most underutilized resource in most organizations. I hope you’ll enroll in How to Get and Be a Great Peer Coach today, share it with colleagues who can benefit from it, start peer coaching and share your success stories with me!

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In this post, I want to share how they organize their thinking around three essential components of strong preparation. If I’m completely successful with this next exchange, what happens at the end? How do they do it? I shared some of their time management hacks in the post I just linked to. The components are It, Them and I.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As a public service to both groups, I’ll share my own observations drawn from a few decades worth of experience as an executive, executive coach and someone who’s written a book about what it takes to be successful at the next level. Then spend your time and effort on actually creating those proof points.

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Next Level Blog

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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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

APRIL 11, 2013

We were talking recently about what he’s learned in a long and successful career that has spanned some of the top organizations in the private and public sectors. That’s a big factor in his success. In his current company, he’s noticed that career success is all about how quickly you put points you on the board.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 12, 2019

In each of these examples or a dozen others that you could come up with, success depends on getting people to change their behaviors. Here they are and what you can do to increase your odds of success: Too much solution, not enough acceptance : Years ago, I learned a simple little equation about change management developed by leaders at GE.

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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

MAY 15, 2019

That’s not true in large organizations full of busy people all focused on their own agendas. Who are the different players inside and outside your organization who have a stake in the success of what you and your team are working on? A lot of us grew up with the idea that if you just do good work, it will speak for itself.

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Next Level Blog

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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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Doing that work led, in 2006, to my book, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success. I’d love to include your story of growth and success as a leader when I look back on the difference that Next Level Leader: A Proven Plan to Increase Your Influence and Impact has made for the people who took the course.

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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. Picture – what will success look like in the timeframe we can envision?

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2019

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. Then the slope gets slipperier as a culture of poor preparation flows from the top down into the rest of the organization.

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OCTOBER 4, 2013

If you''re a leader in a large organization, this is especially important because your team''s success depends on how good a job you do as their Chief Marketing Officer. That''s what leadership and career expert Dan Schwabel teaches you how to do in his new book, Promote Yourself: The New Rules for Career Success.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

That trend was predicted for years and, now, suddenly, it’s a reality that will likely permanently alter the way work gets done in organizations. Listen : One of the best ways to learn what others care most about is to ask them open ended questions like “What would make this year a huge success for you?”

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 19, 2019

We were talking about time management strategies and she shared how she organizes her week. So, her story is just one example of how one leader organizes her week to live and lead at her best. She manages a pretty large team of corporate attorneys and, like most managers, has a lot of meetings she needs to participate in.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 25, 2020

The National Geographic reminds us that “in evolutionary theory, adaptation is the biological mechanism by which organisms adjust to new environments or to changes in their environment.” As he said to me in a call a few weeks ago, “Virtual excellence is always going to be a part of success going forward.”

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Next Level Blog

MAY 17, 2012

The Eblin Group is a leadership development and strategy firm that supports organizations in ensuring the success of their leaders.

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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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Next Level Blog

JUNE 2, 2021

When I was writing that book, I interviewed several dozen highly successful people from the CEO of Hilton to the former Commandant of the U.S. I’ve organized them in three categories based on your self-assessed level of burnout – singed, fried or extra crispy. Coast Guard, to learn about how they managed themselves.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Third, in many organizations, the annual review process is directly tied to the compensation process. If you’re a leader in an organization that puts a lot of effort into the annual performance review process, a lot of this probably sounds familiar. It’s more like, “Let’s just cut to the chase. Am I getting a raise or a bonus or not?”.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 27, 2019

Who gets a say in defining success? How will you know if you’re successful? You can convey a picture of success in a one or two day program; it takes time for people to groove the behaviors that actualize the picture. For your program to be successful, it needs to feel clearly relevant to your participants.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

If your organization is like most of the ones I coach in and speak to, you’re likely undergoing some kind of significant change that affects the way people work, who they work with or, perhaps, whether they’ll keep working there at all. What changes doe your organization need to make to successfully meet those challenges?

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APRIL 26, 2022

It immediately crystallized what I had to work on if I was going to be a consistently successful public speaker. Since most leaders have to speak in public either inside or outside their organizations or both, I want to share three steps to take to lead the energy of the room.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

During that period, my company has run over a thousand 360 degree leadership assessments based on the success behaviors I highlight in my book, The Next Level. The long-term nice move is to be straight up about what’s expected and coach them to get there so they grow as the organization grows.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

What a great case study in how an organization can go from king of the mountain to yesterday's news. The same thing that any organization that wants to survive and win needs to do these days - ask tough questions. It doesn't take long these days. There are a lot of good questions you can ask. Click Here.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2010

   A long time ago, in a more bipartisan age, I helped organize a week long orientation program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government for the freshman congressional class of 1986.  A lot of what they’re facing is similar to what faces any new leader coming on board in a large, complex organization. 

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

If you haven’t already done so, you must read the front page article by Alexei Barrionuevo in the New York Times on how the 33 Chilean miners trapped in the copper mine have organized themselves to survive. Through multiple acts of leadership they have organized themselves to take care of their bodies, minds and spirits.

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