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What Coaches (and that means you) Can Learn from “The King's Speech”

Next Level Blog

» January 03, 2011 What Coaches (and that means you) Can Learn from “The King’s Speech” There are a lot of great things about the holidays. It’s probably every leadership coach’s fantasy to coach a world leader during momentous times.  It’s what change management experts call a quick win.

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Salty to Sweet: The Transformation of Mount Franklin Foods

Change Starts Here

For Mount Franklin Foods, a candy and snack manufacturer headquartered in El Paso, Texas, the years leading up to 2011 were tumultuous. When CEO Gary Ricco joined the company in May of 2011, the company had struggled for years to turn a profit. A revolving leadership door had ushered four CEOs in and out in two years.

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How to Drive Change with a Leadership Point of View

Next Level Blog

Magazine » December 06, 2010 How to Drive Change with a Leadership Point of View Every so often, The New York Times will run a long feature on the CEO of a large business.    If you’re a leader, how do you develop, share and lead change with a point of view? So it was like two against 300,000 the first day.” 

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Communicating About Change – Connect With Emotions

The Recovering Engineer

Using the handout from this month’s Remarkable Leadership teleseminar as a discussion guide, we talked about some really powerful concepts related to communicating change.

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Leadership Self Examination | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If you find that you lack skill sets and competencies in certain areas seek out mentors and coaches to shore-up your weaknesses, and more importantly, use your professional advisors to assist you in leveraging your strengths. On with the exam… Section I: Character.

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Leadership Inspirations – The Will to Prepare

Strategy Driven

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Thank You For Your Service (My Proudest Guest Post Ever!)

Mills Scofield

Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. The town, “Tehachapi, CA,” was familiar—as it was the town my family and I adopted when we were assigned to Edwards AFB in 2011. “Well played,” I thought to myself…my interest was piqued.