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How to Show Confidence and Vulnerability at the Same Time

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Leaders need to be confident! Leaders should show vulnerability! Yes, and yes. In a LinkedIn pol l I conducted this week, 100% of the respondents at the time I wrote this post said it’s possible to exhibit confidence and vulnerability at the same time. So, how do you do it? I think it depends on what your confidence is based on. If it’s the force of your personality that you’re relying on, the sizzle more than the steak so to speak, it’s probably impossible to show both confidence and vulnerabil

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Three Ways to Get and Keep Your Colleagues’ Buy-In

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One of the great truths of life is that things never stay the same. It doesn’t matter if it’s a good thing or a bad thing; it’s going to change. It’s just as true in your professional life as it is in your personal life. For instance, you can work really hard to build a great team and then things change. Someone leaves or someone joins and the dynamics change as a result.

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The Transformative Power of Systematizing Simple Things

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One of my favorite things I do as an executive coach is sharing with my clients the progress they’ve made as demonstrated in the closing colleague feedback I solicit for them at the end of the coaching engagement. I’ve been doing a lot of that lately for both individual executive clients and for the high potential leaders in a couple of cohorts of our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program.

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Three Essential Rules for Influencing Your Colleagues

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One of the big differences between leaders who shape the bigger picture for a company and those that hit a ceiling and stay stuck in their functional roles is that the big picture leaders are way better at influencing their colleagues. I’ve had some amazing big picture leaders and influencers as executive coaching clients over the years and was talking with one of them last week.

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

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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. 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 n

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How to Get Your Team the Recognition They Deserve

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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. In the absence of a thoughtful and methodical process for sharing what your team is contributing to achieving results, many senior executives simply have too much on their radar screens to notice and acknowledge the good work that’s being accomplished.

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What Have We Learned So Far?

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Here’s something that might make your head spin. Next week will mark 20 months since the day we all learned that Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson were quarantined with COVID in Australia and the NBA shut down its season on a dime when a player was diagnosed with COVID during pre-game warmups and the arena was cleared of fans. In the United States, March 11, 2020 was the day the pandemic got real.

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