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Leaders, Your Rocks Roll Downhill

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The way it works is the leaders in my programs or workshops review the highest and lowest results they’ve scored on behaviors in The Next Level 360 or self-assessment. I position it as a “no-fabulous-prizes” competition for the team that comes up with the T-shirt slogans that generate the most laughs in the room.

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Why Leaders Should Focus on Outcomes Instead of Solutions

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Yesterday morning, before delivering a workshop on how to lead and live at your best , I had the privilege of sitting in as a roomful of high-potential managers shared what they’ve learned so far during their company’s multi-month leadership development program. That’s his team’s job. Of course, it’s not.

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What Are You Grateful For?

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Back in the days when I led leadership workshops in physical rooms, I would illustrate the power of transformational listening by having my leaders break out into groups of three and take five minutes each to answer the question, “What are you grateful for?”. Would you have ever thought a team offsite was a reason to be grateful?

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Sharing My Dream to Help You Achieve Yours

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Three editions later, tens of thousands of leaders have read The Next Level , thousands more have completed our group coaching program, Next Level Leadership® and related programs and workshops I’ve led, and, I’ve been privileged to coach hundreds of individual executive leaders on succeeding at the next level.

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Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Developing Leaders

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I love hearing that because it means we’re making an actionable difference for leaders, their teams and their organizations. I remember one Fidelity Investments program manager back in 2006 or 2007 who had multiple opportunities to watch me deliver one of my early workshops on leading at the next level.

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What Makes It So Hard to Let Go?

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Earlier today I was presenting a Leading Next Level Teams workshop to about 70 senior leaders in a global financial services company. It was a fun session made even more so by the use of a cool interactive technology called SpotMe where everyone could use special iPads to answer a few questions I was interested in.

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Are You Leading the Room or Is the Room Leading You?

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The company ran the program four times a year and my role was to come in each time they did to deliver a half day workshop for managers on the behaviors they needed to either pick up or let go of to lead at the next level. However a leader shows up is completely predictive of how their team will show up.

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