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Guest Writers Wanted! We’re Growing!

To all my followers over the years, I sincerely want to thank you for your support and engagement with my content. It fuels me to continue this work which lead me to form Media3L, the media component of The Drop In CEO brand. With that stake in the ground, I need to scale and I’m in search of creatives who want to share their insights on my platform. I will continue to create, but periodically I need to recharge or spend my energy in further growing this part of my business.

Full transparency, this is an uncompensated role at this time as we’re piloting growth of The Drop In CEO brand into more copy and potentially a digital magazine. There is a name for it, but keeping it close to the vest until the concept is fully vetted. Based on the response to the article, it may lead to guest appearances on the podcast or joining me on my weekly show; Deb Coviello-Live Talk Media.

Benefits of this offer is access to 9600 followers on LI and 1300 people on my mailing list and publication on my website indefinitely. As we grow, so does your access to my audience.

If you are interested , please DM on Linkedin or email me at [email protected].

I’m excited to meet you and grow this brand together!

-Deb

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Help Wanted: Ideal Clients, all others need not apply…

Job Title: Ideal Client

Job Description: You must be a highly aware leader who is open to new ideas and responds to your gut when you know you need some help. The perfect client is one that sees the landscape changing and realizes that unless you course correct now, you will sink the ship and everyone in it. With this important responsibility, you must also be people centric; knowing that with any improvements, you must also improve the capability and capacity of your team. If you don’t move fast, they will sink the ship for you. Finally, you are keenly customer focused and everything you do is in service to them and everyone has their back whether it is quality, service or safety. Cost is secondary.

Additional Qualities: You’ve come to a cross road where you know you can only see the trees and that’s okay. You realize you need an external view to give you the perspective of the long term strategy needed to not only fix your concerns, but manage them sustainably. That takes a trusted partner whether you call them a Consultant, Advisor, Fractional Leader or a new category, a Drop In CEO who will partner with you during this time.

Desired Skills: An open mind, agility, strategic thinker, good listener, good communicator, steadfastness for the greater good and always seeking to improve themselves and the people in their care.

Fine print: This is not a pitch for services, but a humorous attempt to get you to think differently about yourself and how you lead. I do of course want to work with my ideal client and have those tremendous feelings of vibrating off their energy and achieving amazing results. But it’s also a message to CEO’s/Presidents/CxO’s to assess if you would be an ideal client for someone who might be able to support you during a challenging time.

How to apply: We are an equal opportunity employer of The Ideal Client and seek diversity in all aspects of your thinking, background, culture and leadership. We do not discern with physical attributes, but for those who are diverse in all other aspects. Reach out to us at [email protected] or DM me on Linkedin or my website; I’m here 24/7 and ready to take your call!

And until we meet and discuss how we can partner, I wish you well and much success in applying for your next opportunity!

-Deb

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Awareness Without Action Weakens Organizations

I was 5 months pregnant with my 3rd child as I saw the world collapse in front of my eyes. I called the nanny who wanted to know if she should pick up the kids from school and I said yes and then I departed home to be with my family.

My husband was busy getting supplies from his company and sending them to NYC.

Fast forward to October 2023, my son was rounding up supplies from his military resources and arranging to get them to medics he knew in Israel.

These events; many in the past and more to come in the future are ones to reflect that the balance between peace and crisis is very delicate.

Today is a day of remembrance, but also a sign for the earth, our nation, your business, your families and yourself to realize that awareness of crisis & risk is a constant; yet awareness is not enough.

Taking these historical moments not as a warning of doom and gloom; these should be sources of inspiration for heightening our awareness of what is looming in our daily life and work and to seek paths of reducing risk.

Yet time and time again, I see leaders delay exploring the risks that they’re already aware of, but take no action. Worse yet, the ignore what they don’t know and then claim ignorance when they rear their ugly head.

Why is that?

I’d prefer to meet each one of you during a time of peace and prosperity and assess your systems & human dynamics risks in the organization to prevent history from repeating itself.

Remember, you are in control of the future with the awareness that action is needed now to prevent a crisis, not thrive in one.

Look at the image again and reflect on your perspective. Could it have been prevented? Maybe not. Could we have been better prepared? Probably and we did with unity of our country in the face of disaster.

When my husband and I were watching TV watching the world around us collapse, we were grateful we were safe. We averted our own crisis. While we don’t live scared, we live prepared for what the unknown comes our way.

If you are in a situation as the leader of an entity and are aware their are issues that could collapse your domain, what would it take to simply have an assessment and glean insights and the courage to take action to prevent a collapse?

I leave you with that parting thought not to scare you, but to remind you, you don’t have to do this alone.

It’s now 8:47 am and the world forever changed over the next few hours.

Let us all now take a moment of silence to remember those who are no longer with us.

Let us remember our pride as Americans.

Let us take these sorrowful memories and have the courage to live with awareness and action!

-Deb

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The New CEO Playbook: Stop Chasing Results and Start Pursuing Peace of Mind!

“Managing Up” became my tool of choice to connect with this C-Suite Leader and align on the challenges and the treatment going forward.

Once we aligned on a go-forward game plan, they came into my ecosystem again and quickly realized we lacked some fundamental ways of working and accessible resources to move the initiative forward.

Once they could observe first hand the conditions were not conducive to getting the desired result, their leadership came through to address the conditions.

The change in their energy and the clarity that came to the team on next steps forward were magical!

By addressing the conditions that were barriers of progress, we may have solved this issue and many others; ultimately getting to more efficient, effective and sustainable results.

When I saw the clarity in the team and an action that made sense, I was starting to feel peace of mind we would get to a better place.

I can only hope that with time and “Managing Up”, this leader will also see and feel “Peace of Mind”, where barriers are broken down and the team can operate at top performance. In doing so, the customers will gain back trust.

So why do leaders still use the old playbook? Maybe they know no other way? Maybe they trust it so much that if they push harder, it will still work? That’s insanity as we know it and only the highly aware leader will pursue a different way of working.

In recent weeks, several of you have come to me, sharing your challenges. I am grateful for those relationships and trust. But when I called “BS” on their thinking, I jolted them into realizing they were creating their own chaos and could not see a better way.

In one case, I told the person that they are the CEO even though not in title. It was on them to act and behave that way because others needed their leadership.

In other case, the person was making course corrections in their career. They were pursuing the same line of work when I showed them it was not for them. They focused on the past playbook to deliver in the future. Instead I said to focus on what they’re amazing at and differentiating than the rest. Only then, will they achieve peace of mind in pursuit of purposeful work.

For those who don’t trust yourself or think they don’t need a partner, I wish you well living “Groundhog day”.

For those who are highly aware leaders knowing the old playbook doesn’t work, let’s talk.

I sincerely care about you and I want to see you succeed. Until then, I wish you well!

-Deb

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