Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The complete success of the rescue effort bears out how important it was for the miners to lead themselves and each other to survive so well underground for 70 days. They managed expectations and created the margin they needed to prepare the rescue attempt in the most thorough way possible. They didn’t. Click Here.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Don’t create information vacuums:   In the run up to the body scan and pat down changes,  the TSA declined to comment on what is different about the pat down procedure or how agents were trained to conduct them. There are definitely security procedures that need to be protected in this case, but no comment is a comment. 

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Next Level Blog

JULY 21, 2010

Our leaders need to be better than they were in the case of Shirley Sherrod. Comments Your blog says “Our leaders need to be better than they were in the case of Shirley Sherrod.” We control information - we need to stop letting it control us. Thats Not Leadership. Its not right. Thats Not Leadership.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 23, 2010

REQUEST: Perhaps, as a public service, we should all collaborate on a list of the behaviors that leaders need to exhibit to build an environment where its safe to speak up. Alternatively, we could come up with a list of what to do if you want to create an environment where people are afraid to say what needs to be said. Click Here.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Brad is the second driver my wife and I have trained after teaching his older brother a few years ago. Anyway, Brad and I were practicing in the empty parking lots of a large government office center  It’s a great place for driver training because the lots are connected by marked two lane roads with stop signs at intersections.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

  On a trip to see a client in 2005, I flew into Newark and took the trains to Lower Manhattan.    As the PATH train emerged from underneath the Hudson, I realized that we were coming up through the foundation of what used to be the World Trade Center.    You can only connect them retrospectively.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

In an era where lots of people claim to be leaders but don’t deliver, here is a whole group of leaders doing what needs to be done to facilitate their own rescue.    Yonny Barrios has taken the lead on ensuring the physical health of the crew by drawing on six months of nursing training he took 15 years ago. Many thanks.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

  Or do you consider it too much trouble to advocate for resources they need or too personally risky to battle idiocy from on high?” " Being watched or not, they need to maintain control and act in a professional manner. Why wasn't any "leadership" exercised onboard? Not jump out of a plane with a couple beers.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Provide training and development to help employees achieve their goals. Provide the materials and equipment employees need to do their work. Not only consider mentoring and classroom instruction but investigate online training. A lign Individual Goals with Organizational Goals. R eward, Recognize, and Develop. K now Your Values.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

But our experience shows that achieving this requires planning and training prior to launch, as well as good communication and rapid learning in space. They determine what material and intangible means of disease and trauma prevention, diagnosis, and treatment are needed for each mission. Training crew members to manage their care.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Provide training and development to help employees achieve their goals. Rather than having just a replacement mentality, human resources needs a more strategic approach to the situation—one that finds answers to the coming high turnover. A lign Individual Goals with Organizational Goals. R eward, Recognize, and Develop.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2010

They’re very well trained around the approach to yoga that the owner of the studio believes in. They each exhibit their own personality and lead the classes in their own way but there is a consistent framework that they all follow and a common language and approach that they’ve all been trained in. Leadership need not be competitive.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2018

MGM employees needed to be engaged with the company’s aspiration so they would deliver on it. Then they showed those leaders how to train their direct reports, cascading the desired culture throughout the organization, so that after eight months all 77,000 employees would be trained personally by their managers.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 20, 2009

Many new leaders are promoted to the role of ‘boss’ with very little advanced training or support; and some of those not-so-new bosses get easily stuck in an old mindset that views coaching as an alien concept with few redeeming features. What do you need from me to do your best work? What do you need to learn?

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 11, 2012

Mistake #3 – No data exists on the state of communication and what needs to be improved from employees’ perspective. Accountability must be built in at multiple levels so leaders know what is expected of them, understand what “success” looks like, and can perform effectively to meet the stated expectations.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

  You need to earn 21 merit badges for Eagle so you learn the drill over the years.)  support a learning activity (training, coaching, mentoring, journaling, etc.) assess change in person's performance and impact on organization f.   (Graham was an Eagle Scout as it turns out.    Me too. 

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Be it a ‘necessary evil’ or not, corporate imaging activity can be accomplished with skill and success…provided that organizations follow the advice of professional communicators. In image building, the following ideas should be considered: Your company and profession fill essential needs of society. Statements.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2018

What’s more, winning increases testosterone and dopamine hormones, which, in turn, increases our confidence and willingness to take risks, and thus our chances of further success. At the same time, the need to win can blind us to ethical considerations. Train for reflection. Further Studies. Make ethics part of culture.

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