N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

In the business world, as a chief executive officer or entrepreneur, corporate messaging is the key to both your personal and professional positioning strategy. I have witnessed on numerous occasions CEOs with average, or even sub-par performance histories fare well because they possessed great messaging skills.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

In today’s post I’ll deal with a skill set that all successful CEOs excel at…managing board relations. If you find yourself in the enviable position of being able to select your board, choose wisely. Use these proactive encounters to flesh out, and seek alignment on, key issues and positions.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Just having a definition for what constitutes acceptable behavior is a positive step in containing the crazies. Understanding the WIIFM Factor : Understanding the other person’s WIIFM (What’s In It For Me) position is critical. If conflict does flare up, you will likely minimize its severity by dealing with it quickly.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you find that you lack skill sets and competencies in certain areas seek out mentors and coaches to shore-up your weaknesses, and more importantly, use your professional advisors to assist you in leveraging your strengths. Great leaders understand how to manage conflict and close positional gaps. Section VI: Persuasiveness.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

What product or service positions you best? Want to expand your professional circle but lack strong networking skills? Effective business networking skills are essential to meeting other individuals. Engage in a dialogue, not a monologue. You will learn more about the person. Be strategic about give-aways.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 9, 2011

How can you maintain the integrity of the team and affect the outcome for the positive? Stay positive. Use the Polly-Ana approach and flip negatives into positives wherever possible. The most important asset you will ever have is the ability to positively influence people. Now what to do?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

The simple truth is that all great leaders are highly skilled in matters of delegation. The number of activities a CEO takes on can certainly vary based upon skill sets, stage of corporate maturation, and the talent level of the rest of the executive team.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Making sound decisions is a skill set that needs to be developed like any other. As a person that works with CEOs and entrepreneurs on a daily basis I can tell you with great certainty that all leaders are not created equal when it comes to the competency of their decisioning skills.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

The fact that character and integrity showed as poorly as they did in the survey, is proof positive for why the corporate workplace struggles with talent management. Values based hiring increases performance, enhances collaboration, reduces turnover, increases morale, and creates a stable culture.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

Trust me when I tell you that being out of touch is never a good position to find yourself in as the CEO. The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. Have they been fudging their research for years?

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Determine if you need additional skills or if you need to enlist allies within the organization to support your promotion. Once you set your sights on a specific position, put a strategic action plan in place to communicate your value proposition to the key influencers and decision makers.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

WRONG …The simple truth of the matter is that the time needed to attain performance goals varies depending among other things the age, size and competitive positioning of the company, the industry, sector and vertical, etc.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Why did American auto-makers lose their once dominant position to their European and Asian counterparts? It takes skillful attention to self-cannibalization, a bias toward innovation and recognition that 'sacred cows' often become someone else's T-Bone dinner steak. Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

In a perfect world professionals would only be judged solely on their character, skill sets, competencies, and performance. Disingenuous and insincere positioning may get your foot in the door, but when the door slams into your backside as your engagement or relationship blows-up, don’t say I didn’t warn you… Thoughts?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

Take Inventory of your skills and strengths, and pick an activity that suits you. Those Who Do Can Also Teach If you have a specialized knowledge or skill, share it with others for money. Categories : Uncategorized I am very passionate about every small business and its positive impact to our local communities and the overall economy.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

One of the reasons I think some organizations end up charging sub-par leaders with mission critical objectives is that leaders of projects are all too often chosen based on position in their hierarchy. link] mikemyatt Well said – your comment offers both sound thinking and sage counsel Susan.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

A constant stream of “no’s&# is not a positive sign, it’s a warning sign that needs to be heeded. Rather than just kill something with a quick no, a good leader uses every adverse scenario as a development opportunity to help people advance their critical thinking and decisioning skills.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 10, 2011

In fact, men excel at certain traits and women shine with different skills. Each of these traits has positive aspects and also downsides, depending on the context.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

If you choose voyeurism over real relationships you have precariously positioned yourself on a very slippery slope. There is much to ponder in the realms of privacy, intimacy, responsibility, and community and the affect of Social Media on all of them like so many "things" can be either positive or negative.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Far too often people end up rising the ladder only to find them in position for which they are ill prepared. A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. Learning to make decisions and developing the practice of taking action, bold decisive action, has to start way before you reach the C-Suite.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 5, 2011

If he/she says “no” to the promotion at least you know that you stated what you want and now there is an opportunity to find out more about why this position is not right for you at this point in time and what you can do to get the necessary skills for a future position. You never know until you ask.

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CO2

MAY 21, 2012

You’ll also feel more comfortable facing new and different challenges, simply because you have more confidence and skills to draw from. You may not, however, stretch your team members the way you yourself were tested on your rise to your current leadership position. Major change in one’s role/position. Description.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 10, 2011

You have the opportunity to present your skills in your chosen field: use it. Consider doing a “search&# on the job position you desire and location you desire to see a list of people in that situation. If you do not yet have a profile, it’s worthwhile to review the components of a complete one. Are you a job-seeker?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

We did it because we knew we that we were ‘in the right,’ so to speak—that we had the skills, the knowledge, and the passion necessary for opening up an online retail business. Circumstances had forced us from our old positions but simultaneously provided an opportunity for us.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

housing finance system since it was created more than 40 years ago (More about Mary at the end of this post). To succeed in industries like finance, tech or law enforcement, women must have determination and perpetual motivation. percent of executive positions at Fortune 500 companies and 16.6

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I have actually come to cringe every time I hear a so called expert use the phrase in an authoritarian manner as a justification for the position they happen to be evangelizing. Even though I will from time-to-time slip and refer to something as “Best Practices&# I am attempting to extricate that phrase from my vocabulary.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Build it and they will come is never an effective strategy, so be open to new ways of positioning your services and reinvent what makes you unique. Take a class, attend a seminar, learn a new skill or volunteer for a favorite cause. the blank haze comes over and I re-phrase the question with “what do you do to bring in new patients?”

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

If we are lacking in time-management skills it could take away from the time and love we get to share with our families. This was a great reason why I started Stress Release Reminders, because I LOVE helping others live a healthy, more positive life. It’s that simple of an equation. Thanks for the good read! I particularly like #12.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

If I read your definition correctly, you are limiting game-changers to positive developments or innovations. Many a skilled leader has fallen prey to this circumstance. In the end, what came from anger and disappointment resulted in something very positive for me certainly and I think for those with whom I worked as well.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Watching how she instructs and interacts with the children in her class, I am reminded of many of the important skills a leader needs to demonstrate. When he told me how long he had been working there, I noted that he had been in a position to see a lot of history come through the doors. but you’ll not find that here. For example, Ms.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Dorothy Dalton Hi Mike – I totally agree with you that it’s imperative that the best candidates should be selected for any position or activity regardless of gender, race or creed. While I expect, in the end, we will come to the “agree to disagree” position, I would like to add a couple of additional thoughts.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. This skill takes practice. Toastmasters is great for honing presentation skills). Test ideas.

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Chris Brady

APRIL 8, 2010

The position?   There is another occupation with many positions available immediately. The position? We have such examples of victors in you and Terri that applying for the victim position, while popular today, is unacceptable. I think it's grreat that you have this skill. That of a victim.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

This is a companion piece to Michael Mauboussin's Untangling Skill and Luck. Where does success come from, skill or luck? Skill or luck? Finance professors Eugene Fama and Kenneth French find somewhat depressingly ( PDF ) that luck matters more. Buffett has skills. Skill is what we can do. Smarty Jones?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

So, do you have the skills and perspective to thrive under pressure and to succeed, or will you implode when faced with a challenge? Turn setbacks into development opportunities by asking positive questions such as: What are the positives surrounding this situation? Setbacks and difficulties are an inevitable part of life.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 20, 2010

If we’re to be honest with ourselves, as opposed to defending a particular position to suit our needs, we’ve all known born leaders…They are those affable individuals that posses charisma and presence combined with the ability to make good decisions that people have flocked to since an early age.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

Communication skills are so essential for leaders that it is simply impossible to become a great leader without being a great communicator. Oddly enough, the key to becoming a skillful communicator is rarely found in what has been taught in the world of academia. Communicate more effectively.

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