Is Your Privacy Worth 50 Foiled Terror Plots?
Postal Service Eyes Cuba
Tangherlini As GSA's Mr. Fix-It?
Lew Cleans Up Signature for the Nation's Currency
The Plan to Open More Military Jobs to Women
Should Leaders Ever Lie?
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Scott Eblin
Executive Coach
Executive coach Scott Eblin’s goal is to help you succeed at the next level of leadership. Throughout the week, he’ll offer his take on the leadership lessons in the news and his advice on your most pressing leadership questions. A former government executive, Scott is a graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and is the author of The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success.
Three Steps to Avoid an E-Mail Disaster
July 12, 2012 We’ve all been there. You get an e-mail that makes you angry, disappointed or just generally torques you out. Before you even realize it, you’re typing out a reply that will bring swift justice and retribution to the offending party. It’s at this point that you need to cue the ...
How to Get Your Message Out
July 11, 2012 One of the key tasks of a leader is to make sure that everyone on the team is pulling in the same direction. Getting the message out so that everyone on the team hears it at the same time in the same way is critical to achieving that unity of ...
Their Perception Is Your Reality Revisited
July 5, 2012 Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of colleague feedback reports for new executive coaching clients. I just finished one a little while ago actually. Most of the time when I deliver the feedback to the client it goes pretty well. They may have a few surprises but, being the high ...
Why Leaders Need to Go on Holiday Instead of Vacation
July 3, 2012 One of the most memorable conversations I’ve had in 12 years of leadership coaching came about six years ago this month when I was talking with a client who was a World Bank country manager in Africa. Since he was a French citizen and August was approaching, I asked him ...
Leadership Lessons from the UVA Controversy
June 28, 2012 Early last month, I had the opportunity to be in a small group conversation with the president of one of the world’s great private universities. During the session, one of us asked the president what issue she was most concerned about and she immediately answered that it was the pressures ...
Learning from Superstar Conductors
June 22, 2012 Way back in the day, I was a part-time announcer for my college radio station, WDAV. My favorite shift was the late night show, Flipsides, but I spent many a Sunday afternoon spinning the primary staple of the station, classical music. That was when I learned the names of many ...
Are You Headed Toward Burnout?
June 19, 2012 It was 7:30 on a Sunday night on the campus of one of the world’s best-known companies, and I was the guest speaker for a group of about 70 of the company’s top high potentials. They had just finished the first week of a two-week program that had wrapped up ...
One Size Does Not Fit All
June 14, 2012 Last week I had the opportunity to spend a day helping new executives in a Fortune 50 company improve their delegation skills. As I’ve written here before, effective delegation is a critical skill for leaders who need to make the shift from being the go-to person to someone who creates ...
Leadership Ain’t Rocket Science
June 12, 2012 On the way home from visiting a U.S. Department of Defense client organization today, I heard a story on NPR that I have to share with you. It’s about how a community college counselor named Catherine Morris took it upon herself to help veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan get the ...
Find Out What’s Really Going On
June 8, 2012 I’m on the road for the rest of the week working with new executives on delegation skills today and delivering colleague feedback to a senior executive coaching client on Friday. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been conducting a lot of colleague interviews for that client and two others. ...
