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How to Get Out of the Executive Meeting Spin Cycle

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The number one complaint I hear from my senior executive coaching clients is the number of meetings they find themselves in every day. Their calendars are so racked and stacked they feel like they’re stuck in a spin cycle of conversations which leaves little to no time for strategic thinking or action. If this condition sounds familiar, here are seven simple steps you can take to get yourself out of the executive meeting spin cycle: Demand Clear Objectives : When you’re asked to attend a meeting

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How to Lead with Socratic Questions

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During the ten years that I taught leadership coaching at Georgetown University, one of the biggest points all of us on the faculty wanted our students to learn was that coaching isn’t about offering answers or advice. It’s about asking the kinds of questions that help leaders come up with their own answers and insights. As an executive leadership coach, I often see the same dynamic playing out with my clients.

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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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Why Leaders Need a Lesson Plan

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My son Brad’s girlfriend Renee is a brand new first grade teacher this year. In addition to her commitment to setting little kids off on a strong path for their lives, I’m really impressed by how much thought and effort Renee puts into her work every day. It takes a lot of planning plus improvisational skills to keep a roomful of six-year-olds engaged and learning from 8:30 in the morning to 2:30 in the afternoon.

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How to Get Promoted to Vice President

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It depends on the industry, but in most large organizations, a promotion to vice president is the entry point to the executive ranks. I’ve written before about what it takes to get promoted in general and have written a book on what’s usually expected of you once you reach the next level. Today, I want to write specifically about how high potential leaders get promoted to vice president or to whatever the entry level executive role is in their company.

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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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Ten Reasons You Should Have a Peer Coach

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Consider this post a public service announcement. If you don’t have a peer coach, you need to go recruit one. It will be one of the best things you do this year for yourself and your newly recruited peer coach. How do I know that? Because I’ve had scores of leaders tell me so. As I’ve written here before, peer coaching is an important component of just about every leadership development program we offer at the Eblin Group – whether it’s the Next Level Leadership® group coaching program, the Next

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