Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Strong communication skills have always been an important factor in leadership effectiveness. It’s just that some of the skill sets are different now. That means this is a good time to take a look at where you can up your game as an online leader and communicator.

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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. Instead, we need to do what economists call “satisficing.” When you satisfice, you accept an available option as “good enough.”.

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APRIL 24, 2019

They moved back there even though Dad had the skills and background to set up shop in a city where he could have made a lot more money. Dad’s skill, warmth and compassion were neatly summarized in a letter we found in his papers from a gentleman in the Columbus, Ohio area named Gary Sheets. My dad, Dr. Jack C.

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JUNE 14, 2012

Last week I had the opportunity to spend a day helping new executives in a Fortune 50 company improve their delegation skills. As I’ve written here before, effective delegation is a critical skill for leaders who need to make the shift from being the go-to person to someone who creates teams of go-to people.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 1, 2019

When you’re developing your team, you first need to assess the mix of talent and skills you’ll need to succeed. 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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APRIL 12, 2022

I had the opportunity to ask that question of a highly skilled executive leader a few weeks ago. It could easily be all three of those at once. So, what should you focus on first when your job is to lead a turnaround? Seth is the U.S. national sales leader for a line of business in a global company I work with.

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JUNE 4, 2015

One of the early questions was "Which is harder, picking up new skills and behaviors or letting go of old skills and behaviors that used to work for you but likely no longer do?".

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

This guide is so skilled and experienced at what he does that he can approach an 18,000 pound bull elephant with no fear of being charged. A client who frequently travels internationally told me a fascinating story recently. My client is a regular visitor to Africa and told me about a safari tour guide he met in Botswana.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 7, 2012

I’m on the road for the rest of the week working with new executives on delegation skills today and delivering colleague feedback to a senior executive coaching client on Friday. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been conducting a lot of colleague interviews for that client and two others.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 18, 2012

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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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

His job is to make sure they’ve got the information, perspective, skill sets and motivation to do that. He’s also learning that his job isn’t to come up with or prescribe solutions for how to get to the outcome. That’s his team’s job. I love that distinction between solutions and outcomes.

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APRIL 20, 2012

This week, I’m highlighting tweets and links on our stressful relationship with our smartphones, whether CEOs deserve privacy, the importance of listening, developing your leadership skills and a story of a great comeback. Click headline to continue.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

That usually involves picking up some new skills and mindsets and letting go of others even if they used to work for you in the past. The big idea behind my book, The Next Level, is that to get different results, leaders take to different actions.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

It’s leveled the playing field for those that weren’t as skilled at or just didn’t play the appearances game. At the same time, it’s devalued the sizzle of appearances and raised the value of the steak of getting stuff done. In the process, it’s enabled them to contribute more because substance now matters more than style.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 16, 2016

Build new skills – On Sunday evenings, Stanley usually makes his own dinner. In assessing his culinary skills, he says “You wouldn’t hire me to be your chef, but I’ve learned enough and have confidence in myself to make a decent meal.”. They talk about books they’re reading. After Rima died, he learned to cook for himself.

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APRIL 6, 2012

Business Skills and Buddhist Mindfulness The No-Hour Workweek: Reinventing Employee Expectations For The Modern Economy The Hard Science of Teamwork 5. Click headline to continue.

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MAY 19, 2020

They drew on their skills and life experiences to attend to each other’s needs in all dimensions of life – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

It was humbling to realize that skills and knowledge I take for granted now are things that I literally couldn’t imagine doing three years ago. Over the past three years, I’ve written a number of posts about what I’ve learned from yoga. I spent some time reviewing them last week and, honestly, I got a little choked up.

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MARCH 1, 2016

If you’re a coach or someone who relies on coaching skills to lead (and if you’re not, you should be), you’ll want to give this a listen. I recently had a lively conversation with Michael and recorded it so you can listen in. It’s packed with a lot of actionable wisdom from Michael.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2015

The high achievers have spent most of their lives learning and mastering new skills. Most people that are talented enough to reach next level scenarios in their careers are pretty good at picking things up. That''s primarily a cognitive exercise of learning to do something new. Picking up isn''t a problem for them.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 29, 2019

Sure, you’ll need to have particular skill sets and knowledge to go your job, but there are ways you can position your work so you build the trust that will make your micromanager boss comfortable with backing off. Sincerity means acting with and demonstrating positive intent. If you don’t have that, I can’t coach you for that.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Something else I’ve really enjoyed in the last few years is tracking the career path of my Next Level alums who have leveraged the team leadership and colleague engagement skills I cover in Next Level Leader into positions like senior vice president, executive vice president, president of their business units or CEO of their companies.

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JULY 24, 2019

One of the stories I tell in The Next Level is about the CEO of a very well-known company who, in speaking to a meeting of the top 200 executives there, spontaneously riffed out loud about how “We could use more employees with the skill set and approach that Competitor X has.”

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MAY 15, 2018

Another leader in the program is working on the Next Level 360 behavior of spending less time using her functional skills and more time encouraging others to use theirs. All of that from repeating the simple mantra of, “No, no you go first.”.

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JUNE 17, 2020

The final stage of the learning journey is unconscious competence in which the new knowledge and skills become almost second nature or automatic. I don’t think I want to reach that stage in this case because I don’t want to ever assume that I know enough about how to make society more just.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

One is to find a position that’s a better fit for your skills and experience. On the other hand, maybe you’re not really there yet. If, after some honest self-assessment, you conclude that’s the case, you have some options. Another, and perhaps better option, is to acknowledge your gaps and ask for help.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

My wife, Diane, is highly, highly skilled at assessing her own problems and then taking simple, practical steps to bring herself back to being at her best. Sometimes we get so exhausted that we can’t find the bandwidth to make the simple choices that will help us feel better and be better.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 17, 2019

The magazine’s writers were also highly skilled at conveying a lot with a few words. On the other hand, I can see how Mad started shaping my 10 to 13 year old brain in ways that, for the most part, have been useful influences on the way I’ve engaged with and led others over the years.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

There was a lot there that I think anyone could learn about how to handle yourself as life catches up with your talents and skills. Personally, I don’t have strong feelings about him either way but I found a lot to admire in Manning in how he conducted himself in preparing and playing for the Super Bowl and what he said after it was over.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

If it’s a planning meeting, bring a skilled facilitator in to assist with meeting design, running the flow of the meeting and documenting the follow up. We did some research last year and found that meeting sponsors said a skilled outside facilitator/ meeting design is the highest value spend they made on meetings.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

It’s fun to learn new skills and create something that you’re interested in. A bunch of reminders and ah-ha’s about the value of uninterrupted time to think without the deadline pressures of getting ready for a particular meeting. They include: 1. You can be more creative when you have open blocks of uninterrupted time.

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MARCH 1, 2022

Hold Steady : In their book, Heifetz and Linsky write, “Holding steady in the heat of action is an essential skill for staying alive and keeping people focused on the work. The pressure on you may be almost unbearable, causing you to doubt both your capacities and your direction.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

In their book, Anytime Coaching , my colleagues Teresa Kloster and Wendy Swire provide the framework, tools, exercises and tips that you need to build or improve your coaching skills. In addition to talking about why I like Anytime Coaching in this video clip, I actually show you why I like the book.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Most everyone agrees that with his skill, moxie and common guy from Latrobe, PA demeanor, Palmer made the previously elite game of golf of interest to millions of average people. At age 87, Arnold Palmer left much more quietly when he passed away in Pittsburgh after being admitted to the hospital a few days earlier for tests on his heart.

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JANUARY 7, 2011

The lowest-rated behavior in our research on leaders is the skill of pacing oneself by building in regular breaks from work. What are some typical habits you have seen that entrepreneurs need to let go of? That can be a particular challenge for entrepreneurs who are trying to do it all.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

Seizing those bigger opportunities is one of the differences between being a leader with management skills and just managing. .”  When managers are in that mode, they become blind to the bigger opportunities around them. A lot of my coaching engagements with high potential leaders focus on that distinction. 

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

It once again demonstrates that good leadership skills are applicable (necessary) in a wide range of activities and contexts if one is to bring about success. It’s not just for CEOs.

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