N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The difference between the two aforementioned examples is that great leaders have mastered the art of finding the right message regardless of the medium, market, or constituency being addressed. Do you ever find yourself sitting back and marveling at those leaders who always seem to have the right thing to say?

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The study finds that people who are close to retiring are just as interested in learning new skills as their younger peers, even if there is no strict need for them to do so. In 2009, which was the final year of the program, there were around 320,000 workers enrolled, or roughly 8% of the population in this age group.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 11, 2023

Charting fortunes The researchers estimate that around 1 million young people enter the job market each year with just a high school education. This is a problem as the labor market increasingly requires advanced skills to even earn an average salary. Discrimination in the workforce cannot be ruled out as a cause.

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The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 27, 2010

Learn More… Comments 5 Responses to “Effective Communication Skills: You Don’t Know Until You Ask&# Lori W says: March 30, 2010 at 9:46 pm Everytime you ASSUME someone’s intention, you are just making up a story about the “WHY&#. Reply Generate Huge Profits With Social Media Marketing says: March 27, 2010 at 9:47 pm [.]

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 15, 2010

By Bonnie Marcus This past week I had the opportunity to not only attend the MA Conference for Women, but also to participate in a leadership panel about women and corporate board positions. The opportunity to learn and apply new skills that you can add to your portfolio and resume. There are many advantages.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The simple truth is that many people can feign adequate leadership ability in the short run, but the 8 traits outlined below will seperate the posers from the players 11 times out of 1o… First of all, it is important to realize that just because someone is in a leadership position doesn’t necessarily mean they should be.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

This grandfather of all people-skills books was first published in 1937. P.S. Hope I haven’t offended anyone by possibly positioning my post badly around women or men – not trying to be sexist here, just exhibiting a point. This book teaches you the secret language of silent speech and body language. I am not hot shit.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model. Opposing positions, competitive tensions, power struggles, ego, pride, jealousy, performance discrepancies, compensation issues, just someone having a bad day, etc. So, what creates conflict in the workplace?

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

If you step back and look at your career, major leaps and successes were not built on that one email you sent or read, it was clearly delivered by your actions, presence, management, leadership, and interpersonal skills. And more importantly, not a snarky comment at the end of an email. If colors don’t work, use folders. Then one month.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

What are the market forces at work – are they playing fair or are they slowly (and possibly illegally) undermining your position. What got them to this position (IQ) is now failing them. If you are unsure or unclear about one or more of these connections, talk to your people and LEARN. Who are the key players?

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Do you have any other areas that are critical to building GREAT leadership skills? Get Shareaholic Tagged as: Adaptability , Coaching , Communication , Decisions , Integrity , Leadership , Motivation , Persuasion , Planning , Skills , Vision { 0 comments… add one now } Leave a Comment Previous post: A Simple Act Elevates All.

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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. Marketing – It’s Simple! Jody Gabourie, the recently retired Canadian “Marketing Plan Queen”, knew.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

I only care that they are totally committed to making a positive contribution to the organization. Anyone who has ever been in a leadership position has had to deal with the inevitable tough relationship that causes more than its fair share of brain damage.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you entered a new market?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

They often don’t possess the skill sets to add value to the initiatives they want to control. This type of behavior is proof certain that the entrepreneur is not being effective at leading, team building, delegation, leveraging process and a variety of other highest and best use activities for CEOs.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 2, 2010

This is a time to test and hone your connecting, social, and political skills. Make sure you do the rounds of management and your team, but leave before the last person walks out the door — preferably 30 minutes before the stated end of the party. Give your regrets and make haste out the door. But most of all, smile and enjoy!

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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 IV: Tactics.

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Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Following are three actions that will help you focus on successfully developing replacements: Hire the right people: When you select candidates to interview look for people who have the skills and the personality to grow into your position. Spend money on developing skills that will drive the results your company is seeking.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. I can’t help but wonder: If Kodak had paid attention to its aging workforce trend, would the company have maintained market share and avoided bankruptcy?

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 18, 2010

It is different from, yet complimentary to assessments that measure personality and skills. My personal experience has been with the Kolbe™ A Index which identifies the basic and instinctive mode of operation (MO)- of an individual and how they naturally address tasks, goals and relationships when they are allowed to do it “Their Way&#.

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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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Lead on Purpose

APRIL 5, 2010

To succeed in leadership you have to work hard and continually hone your interpersonal skills. You find ways to motivate successful teamwork and positive interaction. Your ability to keep others on track along with your interpersonal skills is a key component in a successful product launch. Great leaders are persistent.

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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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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 26, 2009

And that means giving executives opportunities to take on greater responsibility, broaden their skills and cultivate a network of relationships with their peers. Broader Skills: Skilled people are driven to learn more about other parts of the organization. Leaders who understand this find ways broaden the skills of their teams.

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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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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

Take Inventory of your skills and strengths, and pick an activity that suits you. Offer your services for website design , IT Consulting , or Internet Marketing. Market your service to small businesses, and people with home offices. Tap into social media marketing or business networks to attract customers to your Web site.

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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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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 27, 2010

But before I do, I want to point out the three reasons this is a very insightful question: Decisiveness is a valuable skill – one that as leaders we should want others to master. It properly implies the leader’s role in nurturing this skill. As with any other skill, as a leader you can provide coaching.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

I speak, when I do, on Permission Based Marketing. And then, I used Permission Based Marketing to market the hell out of each event and sell seats with all the marketing tactics I had at my disposal. Email marketing has no loss to make. It’s a simple skill to learn. It ain’t that simple.

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Lead on Purpose

MARCH 1, 2010

Core 3: Capabilities: Your capabilities are the abilities you have that inspire confidence — your talents, attitude, skills, knowledge and style. On the other hand, when you achieve the results you promised, you establish a positive reputation of performing, of being a producer. They are the means you use to produce results.

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Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

You have to watch your competitors and seek to always adapt to changes in the market, and innovate for solutions. percent in October 2009 to 3.1 Additionally, companies with high turnover of skilled employees, such as health care workers and hi-tech positions, may have to wait some time to fill that vacant spot.

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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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Lead on Purpose

JANUARY 26, 2010

If you are in the position of vetting candidates for top-level executive positions this book is a must-read. If you are not in this position, you will learn much about what it takes to become the right leader. A Perl of wisdom: “The ‘right leader’ is always a trusted leader.&#

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

They lay out a framework to help leaders at any level envision a positive future filled with success, based on the Three Laws of Performance: How people perform correlates to how situations occur to them. 2 Responses Betty , on November 24, 2009 at 9:53 pm said: Nice article.

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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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Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 At the Core of Your Abilities - Personal Strengths and People Skills I once had an upscale retirement home for a client. In other words, he had poor people skills. As everyone knows, the stock market tanked a few years ago when "the real estate bubble" burst. And a couple dozen other people skills ?

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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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