On holding center for connected leadership. Since my earliest memories, I needed to be on stage.
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Self-assessment requires self-love.
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While I’m as proud a member of Bachelor Nation as any millennial who survived lockdown single, this is not why I use the phrase. We can consciously choose words to encourage more generative ways of thinking.
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A wonderful/ impossible moment on your connected leadership path comes in the form of the question, “Should I stay or should I go?”
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Real conversations happen when we listen and build, rather than oppose or agree.
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While affective empathy is understanding how others feel, cognitive empathy is understanding how they think.
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How can we feel it all and be strong? A horrible thing happened this morning. I asked for feedback and got it.
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We're democratizing coaching via Success Circles peer coaching programs. My mission is for you to become your own best coach. Great coaching is about great questions, starting with the ones you ask yourself. Let's begin.
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Many in the Next Level Leadership community have recently advanced. Of our seven latest programs, 31% were promoted within the 6-month program alone. A common fear at this time is lost connection. And, as we chart the course of our careers, we see the cyclical nature of our web. The right people return. New people expand possibilities.
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Why self-neglect is selfish, and your great pause. When we neglect ourselves, we become unable to regulate our emotions, sending negativity across our webs. We lose our cool in a meeting; the room turns ice cold. We speak curtly to a direct report; they shove that disrespect off on a new hire. Through self-neglect, we create toxic cultures. Through self-care, we create caring cultures.
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Success Circles create communities of inviters. They're built both fast and slow.
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Boundaries are hard. Boundaries are really hard when you work for your mom. Boundaries are extremely hard when you work for your mom on your first job out of college.
Cut to, I’m 22 years old. I’m assisting mom on a women’s leadership program at a major manufacturer. My job is to help demo the exercises. We’re standing in front of 30 high-profile women and their boss, who's paying us.
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Ditching the leadership training playbook.
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Grounded confidence is needed to say “yes” to growth opportunities.
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Are you indecisive… or not asking questions? A doubt is a question you haven’t asked. It can be easier to sit in doubt rather than ask questions. It’s also paralyzing. In bridging the gap from doubt to decision—- translate your doubt into a question(s).
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With NLL in the capable hands of “next gen leader” Lucia Brizzi, I guess you could say my role as CEO is really- Chief “Celebration” Officer.
What am I celebrating? The generosity of women helping the next generation of leaders thrive by sponsoring Success Circles in their organizations. Our business has been built from the loyalty of program alumnae. To highlight a few of our most recent examples….
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Women leaders: In your contradiction is your unique contribution. Here's a high-drama survival story- and an invitation to "name and claim" the strengths no one can diminish.
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Leadership storytelling is the buzz we’ve have been “buzzing” about as a key strategy for women leaders for 30+ years. Today, we celebrate NLL alumna Christi Shaw (CEO, Kite) for her groundbreaking FDA approval- a big win in a career working to cure cancer. Learn how she embodies the “leader storyteller”- and how you can own your narrative to live your why.
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