How Do I Set the Right Pace To Meet Our Strategic Goals?

Coaching Real Leaders

Harvard Business Review / Muriel Wilkins

Executive, Business/careers, Leadership, Careers, Business/management, Sessions, Hbr, Coaching, Review, Society & Culture, C-suite, Leaders, Harvard, Business, Management

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

She loves the work she does and has effectively managed her career to gain increased responsibility over time. She’s recently started managing managers for the first time and is struggling to find the right pace to help her organization reach long-term strategic goals, amid some short-term uncertainty. Host Muriel Wilkins coaches her through setting goals and timelines for the long term.

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0:00.0	Imagine a state where you can get from big cities to big nature in less than half an hour, with some of the best quality of life in the nation.
0:09.0	Welcome to Minnesota, America's least stressed state.
0:12.7	Learn more at exploreminnesota.com slash live.
0:16.0	Music I'm Muriel Wilkins, and this is Coaching Real Leaders, part of the HBR podcast network.
0:31.8	I'm a longtime executive coach who works with highly successful leaders who've hit a bump in the
0:36.5	road. My job is to help them
0:38.3	get over that bump by clarifying their goals and figuring out a way to reach them so that hopefully
0:43.2	they can lead with a little more ease. I typically work with clients over the course of several months,
0:48.6	but on this show, we have a one-time coaching meeting focusing on a specific leadership challenge
0:53.7	they're facing.
1:01.0	Today's guest is someone will call Mo to protect her confidentiality. She's worked in the
1:06.4	higher education sector for decades, and she continues to be driven by the work and the relationships
1:12.0	she gets to build. To be able to see students, to get to know them, to get to see how they
1:19.0	grow and change during these four years, and then to see them have success as they launch
1:26.3	into the world, and then to see that they reach back so quickly
1:31.9	to give back and to see the way that our community supports our students as they are navigating,
1:41.1	you know, exploring their values and their purpose and what they're feeling called to do.
1:46.5	All of that is just really rewarding.
1:49.9	For a long time, Mo was at the director level and managed a small team.
1:54.1	But recently, there was a shakeup.
1:56.2	We had a new leader of our organization who brought in a new structure and my role was a part of
2:05.6	this structure of this new organization that had never been aligned in this way. So in the new
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