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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…
- Sarah Levitt·
- March 9, 2021 11:55 am·
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…
- Sarah Levitt·
- March 7, 2021 12:40 pm·
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…
- Sarah Levitt·
- March 3, 2021 2:13 pm·
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,…
- Sarah Levitt·
- March 2, 2021 11:21 am·
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:…
- Sarah Levitt·
- February 28, 2021 10:08 pm·
Incorporating Intuition
I was talking with several clients recently about the topic of intuition in decision-making and possible opportunities to use it in conjunction with reason and…
- Sarah Levitt·
- February 28, 2021 7:45 pm·
My Favorite Question for 360 Conversations?
The last: “Is there anything else you’d like to add?” The Magnificent Leadership® Ascension program is designed specifically for bold leaders who want to create a lasting imprint of meaningful…
- Sarah Levitt·
- February 25, 2021 11:15 am·
What Happens When Buddhism Meets Romantic Love?
I don’t know, but we’re going to find out. Straight from my wish list, Polly Young-Eisendrath, author, TED-talker, and couple therapist, is joining me for…
- Sarah Levitt·
- February 24, 2021 9:17 pm·
Archimedes Takes a Tub
You know the story, yes? Mathematician and scientist Archimedes gets into the bathtub and comes out with the formula for volume. Earlier this month in…
- Sarah Levitt·
- February 23, 2021 10:59 am·
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Repetition is Reputation
What are you repeating? Come in from the cold for a brief application conversation to join 2021 Magnificent Leadership® Executive Forum. It’s cozy in this vibrant, trusted learning…
- Sarah Levitt·
- February 22, 2021 12:54 pm·
Raising the Barre — Again
The first time I wrote about barre class and my favorite teacher, Maureen, was pre-pandemic. Two months in, I’d begun to get the gist of…
- Sarah Levitt·
- February 21, 2021 1:55 pm·
Le Week-End
A bit fatigued? Frayed around the edges? Know that you’re in good company. Just about everyone I spoke with this week is talking about it. …
- Sarah Levitt·
- February 19, 2021 1:56 pm·
Rapt Attention
A few of the many nuggets from Glen Tullman’s chat at the Magnificent Leadership® Executive Forum last night: There is more innovation in business model…
- Sarah Levitt·
- February 17, 2021 11:47 pm·
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Chapter 7
I once heard a presenter at a conference, a consultant, declare without reservation or hesitation, that they were smarter than their clients. My first thought…
- Sarah Levitt·
- February 16, 2021 10:45 am·
Congruity
Congruity is alignment, authenticity its expression. Something that puts them both under a high beam, electron microscope? Leadership. A few things: Do I know and…
- Sarah Levitt·
- February 15, 2021 6:52 pm·
Wish List
Below is an initial interview wish list for On Love and Relationships℠, my new podcast. If you have suggestions for how to contact someone, please…
- Sarah Levitt·
- February 14, 2021 6:13 pm·
A Valentine
When this was posted in December of 2019, there would be one more visit. And then a year – and counting – without return. More…
- Sarah Levitt·
- February 14, 2021 1:34 pm·
Sex is Another Planet
That was one of the observations that Ian Kerner, renowned sex and relationship specialist, shared during this afternoon’s taping of the inaugural episode of my…
- Sarah Levitt·
- February 12, 2021 4:01 pm·
Spring is Coming
Even if you’re sitting in a place looking out the window to snow and icicles, like many of my clients. I saw robins – lots…
- Sarah Levitt·
- February 11, 2021 5:02 pm·
3 Questions When Delegating
What role/initiative/project would you like to take on? What do you see on my plate that you would like to be responsible for? What do…
- Sarah Levitt·
- February 10, 2021 11:10 am·
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What Clients are Reading
Fiction and Non. History. Biography. Business books, not so much. The pages I’m turning these days, some still months later: A Promised Land by Barak…
- Sarah Levitt·
- February 9, 2021 2:18 pm·
2 Essentials for Managing Up
Be able to convey your value in the context and language of the organization’s strategy. How is what you do advancing those initiatives? Integral? Use…
- Sarah Levitt·
- February 8, 2021 10:24 pm·
- Talent ·
Connection During Disconnection
Many clients are telling me that despite the challenges of WFH, they’re feeling connected to their team in ways they hadn’t before. As we Zoom,…
- Sarah Levitt·
- February 8, 2021 1:43 pm·
Manolos for Meetings
Of the few newsletters that I subscribe to, two of them arrived this morning with similar messages about combating pandemic fatigue. Which was exactly what…
- Sarah Levitt·
- February 7, 2021 12:55 pm·