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Next Level Blog
MAY 16, 2022
Now it begins. After two plus years of working from home (or somewhere else), more and more folks are heading back to the office for at least a few days a week. And, guess what? They like it! That’s the story from the Wall Street Journal , anyway.
Next Level Blog
MARCH 15, 2022
The one thing that I think all of my clients agree on is that they’re sick of meetings. That tracks back to the quantity of meetings they have in a day or a week – way too many, and to the quality of the meetings they attend – too often, they’re tortuous and inconclusive.
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Next Level Blog
APRIL 12, 2022
Lead long enough and, at some point, you’ll face the challenge of leading a turnaround. It could be about getting a team back on track, putting a key initiative back on the rails or reviving a business or line of business that has lost its momentum. It could easily be all three of those at once.
Next Level Blog
MARCH 28, 2022
One of the impacts of the shift to working virtually is an increase in the number of topics we find ourselves dealing with on a daily basis.
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Next Level Blog
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
In over thirty years of either working for senior executives, being a senior executive, or coaching senior executives, I’ve come to a few conclusions. One of them is that, too often, there’s an overemphasis on strategy and an underemphasis on culture.
Next Level Blog
JANUARY 25, 2022
There are lots of reasons for what’s come to be known as the Great Resignation or, lately, the Great Reassessment. From what I’m seeing and hearing, most of those reasons can be summed up with two questions: Do I matter? Does what I do matter?
Next Level Blog
APRIL 20, 2022
If your ambitions are big enough, you’re eventually going to reach the limit of the effort you can deploy to attain them.
Next Level Blog
DECEMBER 13, 2021
This isn’t the first time I’ve written about when things have to be perfect and when “good enough” is good enough. It probably won’t be the last.
Next Level Blog
MAY 3, 2022
I love it when I learn from the people I’m coaching. Fortunately, that happens a lot including as recently as a few weeks ago when I was talking with Rishi, a country manager on a leadership team I’m coaching.
Next Level Blog
MARCH 8, 2022
One thing I’ve written about a lot over the years is that if you’re in a large organization, your team’s good work doesn’t speak for itself; you, as the team leader, have to speak for the work.
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Next Level Blog
JANUARY 18, 2022
One of the many challenges of leading during the pandemic is that the constant stream of changing circumstances can make work feel really episodic. When that happens, it’s natural that people feel some degree of disconnection from their work.
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Next Level Blog
APRIL 26, 2022
Back in the early days of my public speaking career, I got some invaluable feedback that eventually changed everything for me. My book, The Next Level , had been out for about a year and I was asked to be a regular speaker at a companywide leadership program for a major investment firm.
Next Level Blog
OCTOBER 26, 2021
We’ve all been there. Your manager wants to give you some performance feedback and wraps it up in so much blah, blah, blah that you aren’t really sure what the message is or what you’re supposed to do with it. The technical term for what you got is the feedback sandwich.
Next Level Blog
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
The question in the title of this post isn’t about you as the reader. You’re awesome. However, “What have you done for me lately?” could be the question your senior executive is asking about you. That’s never a good thing.
Next Level Blog
OCTOBER 5, 2021
A few weeks ago, I was in a conversation with a group of senior managers when one of them told a story that put what has come to be known as The Great Resignation in sharp relief.
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Many companies are embracing objectives and key results (OKRs) as the best practice for committing to goals and following through. Objectives are outcomes that reflect current company priorities. Each employee should write OKRs that roll up to larger company goals.
Next Level Blog
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
This past Saturday, I had the privilege of sharing an auditorium with dozens of motivated young college men from the HBCU North Carolina Central University and other institutions.
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. You may be right about that but it can often be hard to find a good mentor. If that’s the case for you, what are your options?
Next Level Blog
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
When you’re new to a leadership role or new to an organization it can be a challenge to project the right amount of grounded confidence that you belong and can contribute. It can be an even bigger challenge when you’re experiencing both at once – new to the role and new to the organization.
Next Level Blog
AUGUST 3, 2021
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Next Level Blog
JULY 13, 2021
If there’s one topic that’s a common denominator in many of the conversations I’ve had with senior executives over the past few months, it’s how to handle the issue of employees returning to the office.
Next Level Blog
JANUARY 4, 2022
In the last month of 2021, Wharton professor Adam Grant wrote a widely-read and quoted column for the New York Times titled There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing. As is his gift, Grant described something many were feeling but couldn’t quite articulate.
Next Level Blog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
Last week, I ran a poll on LinkedIn on one of the biggest things I coach executives about – making the shift from being the go-to person to building and leading a team of go to people. When I asked, “Which works better for you? Being a go-to person or building a team of go-to people?”,
Next Level Blog
JUNE 29, 2021
Occasionally, I get to work with an executive coaching client who’s exceptional at communicating with their colleagues.
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Next Level Blog
JUNE 2, 2021
Burnout can be like the weather. Everyone talks about it but no one does anything about it. I’ve been thinking and talking about burnout for a long-time. It’s one of the reasons I wrote my book, Overworked and Overwhelmed , back in 2014.
Next Level Blog
MAY 25, 2021
It seems like every week I speak with executives who tell me they’re burned out or exhausted. And why wouldn’t they be? Everyone has been on a full out sprint for the past year as we’ve run the biggest business social experiment in history.
Next Level Blog
APRIL 20, 2021
In my role as an executive coach, I’m used to being the one who asks the questions. I’ve often said that one of the biggest things I do as a coach is give my clients the space to think out loud. Asking the right questions is a great way to create that space.
Next Level Blog
MARCH 23, 2021
Last week I had the pleasure of spending some extended time online with a group of coaching and leadership development colleagues. During a conversation on resilience and stress management, the presenter asked us to rate our satisfaction with our physical routines – movement, sleep, and nutrition.
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Next Level Blog
MARCH 9, 2021
It was one year ago this week that COVID brought things to a screeching halt in the United States. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson announced they were sick with COVID and quarantined in Australia. The NBA and other professional and collegiate sports leagues were suspended.
Next Level Blog
MARCH 2, 2021
It almost always happens. Whenever I work with a group of high potential leaders, we eventually get to the conversation about agency. Someone will start talking about all the organizational dynamics that seem to be getting in the way of progress and then others will join in.
Next Level Blog
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
This is the week when Diane and I are taking our annual personal planning retreat together. We’re not quite sure when we started this tradition but it was at least 25 years ago.
Next Level Blog
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Here’s something that might make your head spin.
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Next Level Blog
APRIL 12, 2021
One of the things I’ve seen a lot of leaders struggling with during this extended period of leading from home is how to stay on top of all the communications they have to do with different stakeholders – their team members, their managers, their peers, other colleagues and external partners.
Next Level Blog
JANUARY 19, 2021
One of the big themes I’m already working on with my leader clients this year is how to keep their teams energized and engaged as we all push through this pandemic.
Next Level Blog
JANUARY 12, 2021
Over the weekend, I saw a Tweet from preventive medicine doctor, James Hamblin that read, “This concludes the first week of 2021.”. Following a week of record COVID deaths and a deadly riot in the halls of the U.S. Capitol, Hamblin succinctly summed up the way a lot of us feel.
Next Level Blog
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
One of my favorite definitions of life purpose is that you find it when your great joy meets a great need. I think that appeals to me so much because it defines what I’ve been doing as a leadership coach for over two decades.
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