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How to End Meetings

Friday, May 18th, 2012

Too often lead­er­ship teams are really blow­ing it with how they end meet­ings. We invest all this time and money into our meet­ings, and then we miss the mark when we leave.

When coach­ing lead­er­ship teams, I’ve observed one com­mon prac­tice that helps them get more from their meet­ings and improve their execution.

They end their meet­ings with these three steps.

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6 Steps to Improve Your Thinking (Increasing Your Leadership Capacity Series — Step 3 of 8)

Friday, January 6th, 2012

As we work on how to best increase our lead­er­ship capac­ity, we must be aware of how our think­ing either helps or hin­ders our lead­er­ship effec­tive­ness. You see, our think­ing impacts our beliefs, our beliefs impact our actions, and our actions impact our results. Note: This post is part of a series on Increas­ing Your Lead­er­ship Capac­ity. Click here for the pre­vi­ous step.

As an exec­u­tive coach at Build­ing Cham­pi­ons, I have seen count­less break­throughs with busi­ness lead­ers as the result of them work­ing to improve how they think.
Here are 6 tips for you to improve your think­ing.
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Be Healthy (Increasing Your Leadership Capacity Series — Step 2 of 8)

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

In order to increase our lead­er­ship capac­ity, we must truly believe that self lead­er­ship pre­cedes our abil­ity to effec­tively lead oth­ers. I am sim­ply call­ing this step Be Healthy. Note: This post is part of a series on Increas­ing Your Lead­er­ship Capac­ity. Click here for the pre­vi­ous step.

A healthy leader repli­cates and attracts healthy fol­low­ers. And the con­verse is true as well: an unhealthy leader repli­cates and attracts those who are unhealthy.
In order to be effec­tive, we as lead­ers must be healthy in how we think, how we process, how we care for our­selves and those clos­est to us, how we treat our teams, how we deal with chal­lenges and how we communicate.

Here are some ques­tions to ask your­self to help you iden­tify where you might be able to improve your health — and ulti­mately your abil­ity to lead.
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Leadership Moment — Strive to Simplify

Monday, December 12th, 2011

What is sim­ple is under­stood — and what is under­stood gets done. Lis­ten as Daniel encour­ages lead­ers to find ways to sim­plify their processes to improve their leadership.

Leadership Moment: Make a Lunch Date

Monday, December 5th, 2011

How are you using your lunches? In this Lead­er­ship Moment, Daniel talks about how he uses his Mon­day Lunch Dates to invest in him­self and his mar­riage — mak­ing him a bet­ter leader for it.