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Leadership Effectiveness: A Technique You Might Not Think of to Boost Performance

Leadership Effectiveness: A Technique You Might Not Think of to Boost Performance

Why do organizations agree with their team coaches that it is a good idea to create Team Agreements? Two reasons: to drive performance and to eliminate the dysfunctions of teams. Creating Team Agreements (or recommitting […]

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Executive Vitality™: Boundaries on Vacation

Executive Vitality™: Boundaries on Vacation

How far should we go to satisfy our boss, customer, peer, or our own ambition? If we take a vacation, should we call the office, get on just one conference call with our team, constantly […]

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Leadership Effectiveness: Oh, Yeah, I Forgot! We Are Here for Our Customers

Leadership Effectiveness: Oh, Yeah, I Forgot! We Are Here for Our Customers

With all the focus on social media, trade wars, bottom line, diversity, operational efficiencies, and so on … we can sometimes forget about the customer. Just look at your leadership agenda. Do you know who […]

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Executive Vitality™: The Power of Vulnerability

Executive Vitality™: The Power of Vulnerability

Just type “The Power of Vulnerability” into your browser and see what you get; results will probably start with Brené Brown. Watch her fun and thought-provoking TED Talk: Brene Brown on Vulnerability. Here is what […]

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Leadership Effectiveness: The Agenda Defender

Leadership Effectiveness: The Agenda Defender

Most leaders report feeling they attend too many meetings and that the meetings are too long. This overabundance of meeting time adds up to six hours per week for the average worker and 23 hours […]

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Executive Vitality™: Business Travel VS Relationships

Executive Vitality™: Business Travel VS Relationships

According to the Global Business Travel Association, the average number of days an experienced business traveler is away from home on business travel per year is 48. That is more than 20% of annual workdays […]

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Leadership Effectiveness: Feedback. Good or Bad?

Leadership Effectiveness: Feedback. Good or Bad?

We know our readers are smart, independent thinkers and will evaluate any assertions made by an author, teacher or coach. Our caveat is that readers tend to take Harvard Business Review as “the truth” and […]

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Executive Vitality™: Blood Sugar and Decision Making

Executive Vitality™: Blood Sugar and Decision Making

Have you ever been in a meeting and become so hungry that you would agree to just about anything to have the meeting end? Being aware of the things you might say or do when […]

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Leadership Effectiveness: Providing Clear Feedback

Leadership Effectiveness: Providing Clear Feedback

It always amazes me how often leaders have strong opinions about a direct report, yet do not give those direct reports clear enough feedback for them to take action. Often direct reports are confused: “Did I […]

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Executive Vitality™: Plan to Improve Yours

Executive Vitality™: Plan to Improve Yours

At EXCN we take seriously the vitality of our executive coaching clients.  What is vitality? The Oxford Living Dictionaries say: “The state of being strong and active; energy.” I will take that definition gladly! A […]

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