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From Smart to Wise: Transformative Insights for Leaders

Next Level Blog

As a senior executive coach, I get to work with a lot of really smart people who have serious processing power upstairs. That’s what happens when your lizard brain (the amygdala) regularly overrides your executive functioning brain (the cerebral cortex). Smart, however, doesn’t always mean wise.

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Find Your Voice As A Leader

Lead Change Blog

As the late Stephen Covey said, “Leadership is a choice, not a position.” Paul Larsen, certified executive coach and an engaging leadership consultant and speaker, has developed a common-sense model to help you uncover your leadership brand and put it into action. So why do you choose to lead?

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Leadership Development as a 5 Year Journey

Great Leadership By Dan

A proven best practice to improve as a leader is to create and follow-through on an Individual Development Plan (IDP). So what would a five-year leadership Individual Development Plan look like? That way, you can get your request in before budgets are developed and finalized (or start saving your own money). Continue to journal.

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7 Strategies To Lead With Abundance

Tanveer Naseer

The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. Covey About four years ago, I made the decision to shift careers from school leadership to that of executive coach and consultant.

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Disrupt Your Thinking

Coaching Tip

Executives are expected to set concrete objectives and create details, step-by-step plans to reach them. This approach may satisfy short-term considerations like quarterly earnings reports, but it produces modest innovation and evolutionary development at best. Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide , Ask the Coach .

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How Having an Accountability Partner Can Accelerate Your Personal and Professional Growth

Great Results Team Building

Embarking on the path of personal and professional development is a journey marked by challenges, triumphs, and the continuous pursuit of excellence. Covey “We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots.” ” – Helen Keller “Accountability breeds response-ability.” – Stephen R.

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Trust

Lead on Purpose

Covey teaches 13 Behaviors of high-trust people and leaders worldwide. Study Covey’s book and practice the principles he so eloquently teaches. To effectively work with development, sales and other teams in your organization you must gain their trust. Trust is built or destroyed by behaviors.

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