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OCTOBER 31, 2023

Effective pattern recognition is a key learning strategy component for any executive leader. To be an effective coach, I use pattern recognition skills to quickly get up to speed on the context my clients work in and then to help them determine what they need to focus on to be better and better.

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JUNE 12, 2019

What it means is the quality of your technical solution multiplied by the acceptance strategy for your solution equals your overall effectiveness. What usually doesn’t get the same amount of effort is putting together an awesome strategy for stakeholder acceptance of the solution. It’s Q x A = E.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

What’s your strategy for surviving the mad dash? It’s the official start of the mad dash to the end of the year. Even if you already feel like you’re sprinting, there’s going to be a lot of pressure to pick up the pace to get stuff done before December 31. How will you stay focused, sane and healthy, and still get a lot of stuff done?

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The PDF includes graphics that are in the print edition like a summary table of the behaviors leaders need to pick up and let go of when they’re moving to the next level and a Life GPS® worksheet that you can use to map out your strategy for effective self-management. Thanks, and enjoy!

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

His podcast — Inside Mastery — is dedicated to uncovering the proven strategies, tactics and insights of ‘elite performers and experts’ for mastering all areas of your life. Recently, I was honored to sit down with author and mental performance expert Martin Soorjoo for an interview.

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MARCH 23, 2021

So, those four apps, Noom, Healthmate, Oura and Peloton, form the nucleus of my health and wellbeing bio-hack strategy. I’d love to hear your best strategies for managing your health and well-being or I’m happy to answer any questions you have about what I’m doing. I’m also a parttime user of an Apple Watch and the app that goes with.

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MARCH 30, 2021

Lay Down Some Markers and Let People Know About Them : Successfully implementing these proactive time management strategies or any others you come up with on your own will require you to lay down some markers and to let people know about them. What about you? What steps have you taken to proactively manage your time?

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JANUARY 2, 2018

These posts cover strategies and tactics that have worked for both my clients and me so I’m confident they’ll work for you too. Here’s hoping that 2018 is everything you want it to be. To give you some fuel for the journey, here are five quick posts about how to set yourself up for success this year.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

I’d also love it if you’d share your own strategies for pushing the reset button. So, that’s my tool kit for you as you push the reset button. I’d love to hear which post resonates with you the most or offers you the most value right now.

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JUNE 20, 2013

As an executive coach, I’ll be the first to acknowledge that the title of this post may not be the world’s best business development strategy. But, after more than 12 years as a coach, I think I’ve learned when it makes sense to hire a coach and when it doesn’t. I’ll get to the reasons why you should hire a coach next week.

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APRIL 24, 2018

Developing and shaping strategy. This year, I’m writing a series on how to build skills in the leadership competencies that most organizations flag as vital. In the first four months of 2018, I’ve shared tips on building the competencies of: Driving for results. Communicating clearly and openly. Displaying high integrity and honesty.

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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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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

What’s my strategy for engaging them? (In other words, who are the key people or groups involved?) What do they care about? What are their likely objections or concerns? What do they need to know? Who are the supporters? I is about you as the leader who needs to prepare. Now, it’s about preparing yourself to engage.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Respond with your narrative strategy and personal brand in mind. That works to your advantage because it gives you the opportunity to step back and choose a productive response instead of just reacting with understandable frustration or anger (which just further feeds the troll).

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

As an example of his work, check out his recent post on “Ten Strategies for Starting Over.” With his regular posts of 300 words or less, Dan has built a loyal following of tens of thousands of leaders in the past few years.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

There’s lots of speculation about what President Obama will say in his jobs creation strategy speech to Congress on Thursday night. Will he be bold? Will he be meek? Will he seek compromise? Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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MAY 17, 2012

The Eblin Group is a leadership development and strategy firm that supports organizations in ensuring the success of their leaders. I spoke with her recently about what she’s learned along the way. Some of the highlights from our conversation include: Leading Massive. Click headline to continue.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Earlier this year, I wrote a post on how leaders need to have a strategy to deal with the temptations they’ll undoubtedly encounter. As the scandal around former CIA director General David Petraeus unfolds, it’s hard to find anyone who has covered themselves in glory. It’s all pretty discouraging.

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JUNE 18, 2018

Try one or more these strategies that will help reduce the pressure and allow you to lead and live at your best. That helps clear away the stress hormones that build up from grinding on a problem. When you do that, you rest your perspective and things that previously felt hard seem a little easier. Don’t be the cheese in the panini!

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JUNE 7, 2022

What other strategies do you have for sustaining your resilience as your schedule starts to pick back up? What matters more is what you do next. If, after your trip, you need to compensate for the choices you made while you were away, the good news is you get to do that starting today.

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MAY 1, 2019

When you’re thinking through your strategy and approach to team development, it can help to think like a real estate investor. One of the keys to successfully leading at the next level is to develop and leverage a team of go-to people.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Applying any of these make it better principles is a low-risk strategy because you’re not placing big bets. Since then, I’ve seen that principle play out in so many aspects of my life and the lives of my clients that I’ve lost count. How do you make things better? Gradually, then suddenly. If it seems to be working, keep going.

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AUGUST 24, 2015

The strategies and advice she offers in the rest of the book apply equally to both women and men. She is also an expert and has conducted extensive research on the particular challenges that professional women face in managing the many demands on their time and attention.

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MARCH 13, 2018

People get kind of resistant to being sold a strategy. He offers a lot of wisdom on the difference between selling and enrolling in this quote from the book: “One thing I constantly coach people on is enrolling others. Your job as an executive is not to sell ideas; it’s to enroll people in ideas.

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JUNE 22, 2010

» June 22, 2010 Video Book Club: The Discipline of Market Leaders One of the things that makes a strategy book really useful is when it introduces a model that you can use to organize your thinking for years to come. This week’s VBC feature did that for me. It’s The Discipline of Market Leaders.

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JUNE 27, 2017

Visualizing What and How: One of the standard things I cover in any Lead at Your Best; Live at Your Best workshop is to share tactics and strategies that will help the participants show up at their best more often than not. That’s a lot of leverage off a five minute daily routine.

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APRIL 9, 2018

What’s up with the investment strategy tutorial?” Not super sexy rates of return, but rates in which you can have some degree of confidence. And, by now, you may be asking yourself, “I thought this was a leadership blog. There’s a connection and it comes from a client I’m working with in one of our leadership development programs.

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MAY 4, 2021

In next week’s post, I’m going to share three of my early strategies for doing that. To keep their people feeling essential and engaged, leaders and organizations are going to have to innovate and invest in creating connection experiences that are of much higher quality and impact than what we’ve done up until now.

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MAY 11, 2021

This week I want to build on that post by offering three strategies that foster what I could see us calling “connection equity.” 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.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

It’s not a long-term strategy for success. Admit to Yourself That You’re Exhausted – This is the key starting point. Instead of putting your head down and grinding on even though you’re exhausted, cry uncle and acknowledge that you can’t keep doing things this way. In fact, it’s exactly the opposite of that. You’re not creative.

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JUNE 19, 2019

We were talking about time management strategies and she shared how she organizes her week. For example, I recently talked with an assistant general counsel during a leadership workshop that I was doing for the big company she works for.

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MARCH 19, 2020

As you organize and execute on your communications strategy, consider using William Bridges’ Four P’s checklist: Purpose – what are we trying to do, why are we doing it and who are we doing it for? Picture – what will success look like in the timeframe we can envision?

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

Coach them in developing their own strategies. Make sure the group spends time understanding how the strategies hang together to create the bigger picture. Set expectations that they will support each other’s strategies. Be the Strategist: Develop and communicate an overall picture and plan for your organization.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Just winging it from meeting to meeting is not a great success strategy. You may have just noticed that that’s not a ton of preparation but it’s way better than what a lot of leaders are doing to prepare which is nothing.

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AUGUST 20, 2018

One of the questions that new arrivals to the top job get the most is some variation of “What’s your strategy?” That makes an enormous difference to the people on your team. How do I get from here to there? It may be tempting to answer, “How the hell should I know? I just got here!” Probably not your best choice.

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JULY 27, 2015

Following this strategy will allow to relax without worrying about the 1,000 emails you’ll have to plow through when you get back. Wait on people to follow up with you when you get back. Only access the folder when you have to follow up on something someone is asking you about. After you’ve been back a month, delete the whole folder.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

The ninety minutes with him was like a masters class in business strategy and leadership. He has a gift for strategy and execution that not everyone has. So, let me say this about Ted Leonsis after listening to him speak.    He has a genius for connecting the dots and seeing around corners.

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