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Trail Lessons with a Taylor Tune
15 in all, the whole of which might not be terrible guidelines in business. Finish easy. When finishing on the downhill, another loop is enticing.…
Your 6 Most Important Issues Right Now
With business emergence and growth – more robust than some clients anticipated, sometimes significantly so – I’m working in 6 key areas right now: Bench…
Last Call! 4/28 Legacy on Purpose Workshop Registration
Email me today to claim your spot: sarah@sarah-levitt.com This is gonna be good! It seems that many of you are keenly interested in “Legacy on Purpose” and…
Talent’s Gonna Move – Get Out in Front
Talent is going to start moving more than it has over the last year. I’m seeing things loosen up, and as we roll into summer,…
3 Essentials for Eliciting Employee Feedback
Put vehicles in place for information gathering (anonymous surveys come to mind, as one) from various levels throughout the organization Review the feedback Report back…
Important Update: Legacy on Purpose Workshop
It seems that many of you are keenly interested in “Legacy on Purpose” and want to attend with your team members. I’ve gotten requests that…
Unique and New Ways of Working Together this Spring
New! Strategic Audits If you are not re-identifying and reassessing goals, client satisfaction, and capacity for growth, you risk missing substantial opportunity from the current…
- Mindset ·
I Don’t Know What’s Going to Happen Next
Can either be fear-inducing or full of possibility. We choose.
Editorial Calendar
What do you want to be reading about here in Q2? I’m assembling my editorial calendar, write and let me know: sarah@sarah-levitt.com Planning Your Conference? …
Necessity Births Innovation
Have you identified and deconstructed what went right last year so you can replicate the process that created created your success? Crisis drove innovation for…
Micro Adjustments
It’s said that outdoor trail running requires making constant, small adjustments that treadmill running does not. The uneven, and sometime unpredictable, terrain simply asks it.…
He’s Doing it Again
Launching, beginning, making a difference. Transcarent is Glen Tullman’s newest endeavor, his fourth time running a company as CEO, and the second time in just…
Now is the Time
Momentum is here. It’s happening now. And it’s gaining speed. I’m seeing it among clients across industry – construction, professional services, tech, pharma, etc. If…
- Music ·
Taylor, Continued
I’ve heard your enthusiasm about yesterday’s blog, so I’m sending a few more favorite live performances. “Holy Ground” in Austin is most often on repeat,…
- Music ·
Taylor Tunes
Nominated for 6 Grammys this year. The first woman to win Album of the Year three times. Has a variety of fans, among them, this…
Committing to Committing
Going all in with our word, saying that we’re going to commit to something, can be intimidating. What if we change our minds? Want to…
Beethoven, Malcolm X, and Eleanor Roosevelt
Not an obvious thread. Unless you’re Brad Wilson, CEO Emeritus of BCBS of NC, who joined me Friday afternoon for a 5 Year Retrospective Interview …
When We’re Knocked Off Center
Some people think that because I do what I do professionally, I’ve got it all together, all the time. But I get knocked off center…
- 360 ·
Across, Up, and Down
Many of you have been interested in hearing more on the topic of 360 conversations: I suggest up to 8 key stakeholders If you are…
Are You Telling Stories?
In your presentations at conferences? When you talk about your mission and vision as an organization? To lead your team? When marketing? To draw a…
3 More 360 Suggestions
Send out an email to each stakeholder selected for the 360 conversation, copy your coach Tell the stakeholder that you’re working with this coach and…
Confidence Forgives
Any number of minor faux pas. Fear enhances them. But confidence sometimes gets confused with arrogance or contemptuousness or grandiosity. It is none of those…
This Morning
I got up and headed straight for the woods. The outdoors was calling, and although there was much to be done, much that was pulling,…
Your Coach
If what I’m seeing in Q1 is any indication, there is a pent-up demand for executive coaching. If you’re looking, consider the following 9 criteria:…
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