Next Level Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

While they’re not leading six-year-olds, in the emerging new normal of hybrid workplaces and lots of debate about return to the office policies, I’d argue that they need to be developing their own versions of lesson plans if they want their people to be engaged and enthusiastic.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 13, 2021

The emerging policies on when and how often everyone needs to show up at the office feel, in many cases, arbitrary and ad hoc. These kinds of approaches to developing return to the office policies strike me as missing the bigger picture and whiffing on a huge opportunity to do things differently and better. Instead, do some homework.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ever had a manager who told you they had an “open-door policy?” The open-door policy implies that your team members or colleagues can come to you with anything. There’s a big difference between the two and the example of the leader who has an open-door policy but is never around to answer it explains the difference.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 24, 2020

It’s even more challenging during a much needed but very intense period of protests, conversations and consideration in service of establishing anti-racist policies and practices that ensure equality and dignity for all. It’s more so during a pandemic when work routines and business plans are completely disrupted.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 17, 2020

Next will come conscious competence in which I learn from my mistakes and become incrementally more effective at being an advocate and an activist for anti-racist policies, practices and ways of living.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 26, 2018

Whether you agree or disagree with the policy prescriptions advocated by the students, there are some clear leadership lessons that anyone who is willing to look can take away from what they’ve done and how they’ve done it.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 17, 2019

Another issue provided a handy guide to “Bulling Your Way Through Election Campaigns” where, in true Mad-Libs fashion, you could pick your topic like foreign policy or the economy, choose a pre-written draft of an all-purpose statement and then select two adjectives from columns A and B and a noun from column C.

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