This month’s coaching conversation is between Tom and Courtney, another executive coach. What traits, they wonder, do effective executives share? If rising leaders wanted to reverse engineer what it means to be executives, what would they put in the mix? The five qualities Tom and Courtney identify are: Resilience -- get over hurts and setbacks Influence ... Show More
Jul 9
The Three Elements of Effective Delegation
With her company on the brink of disaster, a leader hungrily tackles the art of delegation, learning three models on the way. The episode frames delegation as being primarily about getting your people ready.To get people ready, screen each delegated task against three filters:Ski ... Show More
23m 22s
May 2017
4 Behaviors of Top-Performing CEOs
Elena Botelho, partner at leadership advisory firm ghSmart, talks about the disconnect between the stereotype of the CEO and what research shows actually leads to high performance at that level. She says the image of the charismatic, tall male with a top university degree who’s a ... Show More
29m 24s
Sep 2024
Leading from the inside-out: Why CEOs must make time for self-reflection
The greatest CEOs are necessarily driven, decisive, and confident. But McKinsey senior partner Ramesh Srinivasan, senior partner emeritus Hans-Werner Kaas, and coauthors of their new book, The Journey of Leadership: How CEOs Can Learn to Lead from the Inside Out, say CEOs must we ... Show More
17m 41s
May 2023
What Top Performing CEOs Really Do
Popular stereotypes of successful CEOs as charismatic white men with Ivy League degrees, who never falter under pressure, are misleading. Elena Botelho, who co-leads the CEO Genome Project and advises top leaders, says actual success in the C-suite has more to do with being decis ... Show More
31m 23s
Apr 2023
5 Questions Every Resilient Leader Asks Themselves
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Today you are in for quite a treat because one of our Maxwell Leadership Thought Leaders, Valorie Burton, is going to teach you about how to coach yourself by asking five questions. These questions are ones that ... Show More
56m 12s
