Preparing for Your Next Season
When you are in the heat of the battle as a corporate executive, it’s hard to imagine what’s on the other side. Your life is consumed with phone calls, meetings, travel, dinners out, presentations, explanations, expense reports and budgets. There are endless requests for your
An Opportunity to Reset
When executives transition out of a corporate role into their next season, the three things they most need are their health, openness to a newly defined purpose and companionship on the journey. Ironically, their fulfillment of corporate duties compromises each of these. Health.
Reactivating Muscle Memory
Transitioning from an intense, all-on corporate leadership role to retirement requires executives to alter well-entrenched patterns of behavior. The most obvious and often most feared change is around time and deciding where to channel energies. Download article here.
Corporate Loyalty
One pattern well entrenched in the current generation of senior executives is corporate loyalty. If we consulted a dictionary, we would read such words as willing to do whatever it takes, devotion, faithfulness, allegiance, trustworthiness and dependability. Download article here
What’s Your Encore?
Like many of your peers, the finish-line years of your corporate career have been spent leading others and managing key programs. You are at the top of the pyramid. People want to know you and care what you think. Your approval is routinely sought. You feel important because your
Hitting Reset for Your Health
As an executive, you’ve spent sleepless nights mentally preparing, planning, or worrying about big meetings, big
Reinvent Yourself
Transitioning out of a corporate role necessitates re-invention, as few of the routines that dominated your career will continue into the next phase. It’s also easy to feel stressed. What will you do? How will you spend your time? This is where re-invention is… Download artic
Personality Assessments and Retirement
On a golf trip to Hilton Head South Carolina I was paired with a recently-retired executive who lived in the area.
The Learning Curve . . . Again (Part 5 of 5)
How does it feel to be in charge…of yourself? For better or worse, you are now managing your own calendar.