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Unemployment is a State of Mind
A successful executive with a sterling reputation as a gifted manager is asked to leave his position. He grapples with having to "look" for a position, something he has never done. After working through the emotional process of losing a job, he reconnects with what is most important to him, and by doing so, creates a new and exciting business venture.

Executive Level Skills = Internet Marketing Success
Many skills typically associated with an executive-level position will prove extremely useful in launching and running an Internet marketing enterprise. Although there are substantial differences between a small, home-based venture and a large corporation, the underlying principles of business management and operation are alike.

Today's Employees Hold Leaders More Accountable
Times have changed, leadership has evolved. The days of the "Lone Wolf" leader at the top who dominates with power are gone. Successful privately held organizations have gone through the leadership evolutionary process. They understand that today's leader must create change in the organization to meet the needs of their customers, to meet the needs of their vendors and most importantly to meet the needs of their employees. Today employees hold leaders more accountable for their actions. They ask tough questions; sometimes very quietly, sometimes boldly. They want to know where you are leading them. Do you have a vision? Can they trust you? Do you respect and trust them? Will you empower them? As a leader in your organization you are held accountable by a variety of people on a regular basis.

Abject Executive Poverty
If you, as an executive are not happy, then you might want to read my story of round trip rags to riches. I, as an executive, was not happy either with all that "stuff" that money could buy. There was an emptiness that expensive suits, business class travel, and four or five star hotels could not fill. Yet, as an aftermath of Global Financial Crisis that cost my tiny company $180,000, I realized what real happiness was all about.

Leaders: Get Off Your Butts
My favorite saying is "The highest calling for any leader is to grow other leaders." Observation: There are too few outstanding leaders in this world because of the lack of great mentors to bring them along. Top level leaders are so consumed with trying to optimize performance in a frantic and messy world, that often they do not take the time out to nurture the next generation of leaders. I believe that is a huge mistake.

Why is there a growing interest in managerial and executive onboarding?
Research shows up to 40 per cent of promoted leaders fall short of expectations in the first eighteen months and the figure is higher for newcomers to the organisation. There is a growing awareness that the cost of failure is too great to leave successful transitions 
to chance. Executive onboarding programs improve retention and reduce the risk by providing a formal process beyond orientation, giving new leaders the best start possible.
An Antidote for Executive Stress
There is too much stress in the executive suite these days. I believe it is unhealthy. For sure it is not much fun. One antidote is to spend some time changing the culture. This article has a description of the problem and the benefits of an improved culture.
The Tipping Point of a Great Leader
What does the movie Coach Carter, the book The Tipping Point, and great leadership have in common?

What do I like about being a contract executive?
Sheila Hamilton, Managing Principal discusses the benefits of working as a contract executive

What are the attributes of a contract executive?
Sheila Hamilton, Managing Principal describes the attributes of a contract executive.
How Top Management Views Performance Appraisal Systems
How important is your leadership team's support of the performance management system in your organization? A recent study into the views of HR professionals towards their appraisal system sheds interesting light on the value of top level endorsement.
Executive Blind Spots
Blind spots can severely impact an executive's strategic vision, their course of action, and their rate of success. They impact decision-making and creativity (or lack thereof) in solving problems and they act to limit the strategic initiatives we are willing to consider. They even affect how we relate to others - hampering our leadership effectiveness, our political adeptness, and our executive presence.
Fractional Leadership – Strategy for leading the 21st century organization
As the world begins to climb out of what some are now calling the Great Recession, organizations are beginning to learn how to deal with unemployment, underemployment, and a growing self-employment sector. Organizations have learned along the way to do more with less and many have found that there are benefits to a leaner operation. In many cases, organizations have seen sizable drops in revenue that have forced them to downsize and in some cases resort to outsourcing and contract labor in an effort to stay lean, flexible and competitive.

Energy Assessment
A discussion on energy

Tips for the Executive Blogger
Are you an executive thinking about starting a blog? It is a great way to educate the public about yourself, your company, and your products/services. Before you start, there are some things to consider...
Your Business Plan - Keeping Your Executive Summary Clear and to the Point
An executive summary is a short, sharp snapshot of the key points contained in your business plan. Find out how to prepare an effective executive summary to make it easier for the reader to gain a good understanding of what your detailed business plan will cover.
Executive Effectiveness: Becoming Highly Productive
For an executive to be highly effective, they need to become highly productive. In addition, how they attain high productivity is as important as the productivity itself. High productivity is essential for executives because it serves three important purposes.

Executive Effectiveness: Becoming an Effective Leader
Recently on LinkedIn I posed three questions that resulted in some very interesting conversations. Here they are: 1) An executive is only a leader if people choose to follow. How can you tell whether people are following or just doing their job? 2) Everyone says leadership is important, but why does it make a difference? 3) If an executive...
Servant Leadership: A Way To Authentic Power and Prosperity
Do you believe you can effortlessly ride the path to prosperity - living in a state of wealth, balance and ease? Over the past few months, I've been actively working on my signature keynote and book, A New Path To Prosperity, which is the first book to explore the psychological and social conditioning that causes destructive leadership behaviors (including CEO greed), while offering 7 concrete practices for transcending strife, and becoming a powerful leader that drives positive change.

The Value of a Trustworthy Executive Assistant
Being trustworthy is about how you conduct yourself. It goes without saying that you should always default to being trustworthy from the get-go. It will take diligence and personal integrity to know where the line is and to remain always on the right side of it. The line is not vastly wide as though it could accommodate any number of methods of living. Trustworthiness doesn't accommodate on again-off again vacillating activities. People who know where the line is will work hard to build trustworthiness. They will not cut corners or take rash chances with trust.
Feeling Lonely At The Top? It May Be Time For An Executive Business Coach!
Have you heard or ever spoken the words, “It is lonely at the top!”? This was a much used phrase in an organization I worked with some years ago. And it really is true! Many executives and top business leaders experience that feeling and many executives arriving in a new company and/or position will often fail. Some of the most common reasons why they fail include: unclear and misunderstood expectations; failure to build strong and effective relationships with key stakeholders; failure to understand the company culture; failure to manage change; and failure to gain the confidence and commitments from the management team. Each of those failures could be addressed if the executives had the benefit of an executive business coach with thirteen (13) major characteristics that define a good executive business coach.

Access Your Unrealized Leadership Potential
So how does a leader raise consciousness, and move to higher levels of self actualization? Based on my research and personal experience, the steps can be aggregated into three non-linear practices.

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Executive Coaching For The Whole Person - Your Key To Success Satisfaction
Executive coaching is used by many top entrepreneurs to sharpen their skills and increase their productivity. But the best of executive coaching includes a focus on your whole person - not just your business activities. Find out how an executive coach can release your potential to the next level when they include a whole person approach.
Develop Your Executive Presence
Individuals in an executive position should develop their executive presence (a person’s manner of carrying themselves) if they want to be more successful. Certain characteristics and behaviors are signs of executive presence and can be developed.
How to Succeed in Your Career and Life
As an executive coach, I’m often asked for my best thoughts on what it takes to become a career and life success. I always tell my executive coaching clients to think systematically, to break success down into some manageable components. This article is a bullet point summary of what I tell my executive coaching clients on how to become a career and life success. Put these points to use and you will succeed, just like my executive coaching clients.

How to Gain Access to that Executive You Simply Must See
To get in the door in new accounts at the executive level, you must first establish your value with the executive. There in lies the challenge.
The ROI of Executive Coaching
Executive coaching helps key individuals in the organization thrive not just survive. The executive coach helps executives focus and adjust to new organizational realities as they occur. The executive coach helps anchor the executive being coached to focus on… and achieve specific business/organizational outcomes…resulting in a good ROI.
It Gets Lonely at the Top
Being a President, CEO or the owner of a company can get lonely at times. This is true even if you are an excellent leader and have developed a top notch executive staff. Often times you face decisions, challenges or just thoughts that you can't even divulge to your most trusted employee. Some CEOs use executive coaches to help them during these times. I personally do some executive coaching. Often times coaching is just affirmation and validation of one's own thinking but it is important to have that outlet.
How to choose your executive coach -1
Executive Coaching centers around the learner on the job. An executive coach helps the learner in identifying key areas of focus and helps in developing an action plan. Executive Coaching deals with the person, the job challenges, and the skills needed. Therefore executive coaching is very effective in developing leadership skills. The question is how to select a good executive coach? The "How to choose your Executive Coach?" series deals with this crucial question.
Sales Proposal Executive Summaries: Don¡¦t ¡K Unless
Your proposal can make or break your sale. It can get you in to see the customer or keep you out. When you do include an Executive Summary in a proposal, it¡¦s the first thing most customers read. More importantly, it may be the only thing executives/key decision-makers read at all. Executive Summaries establish that all-important first impression. They can draw customers in ¡X or turn them away. Unfortunately, many Executive Summaries are neither a summary nor executive.

Developing Executive Presence - What Really Matters
I've found that the term executive presence can mean different things to different people. Asking penetrating questions to gain more clarity for both the client and executive coach is critical to the executive coaching process when coaching a leader to cultivate their executive presence.

Building Executive Presence - Storytelling for Professional Success
The term executive presence can mean different things to different people. Asking penetrating questions to gain more clarity for both the client and executive coach is critical to the executive coaching process when coaching a leader to improve their executive presence.

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