N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The role of a Chief People Officer (CPO) in modern organizations is crucial in driving the success of businesses. As the title suggests, the CPO is primarily responsible for overseeing the people aspects of the organization and aligning them with the overall strategic objectives.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The Importance of Supply Chain Leadership Starts with the Chief Procurement Officer Supply chain leadership plays a pivotal role in driving organizational success and resilience in today’s dynamic business environment. Furthermore, successful CPOs are exceptional leaders who inspire and motivate their teams to achieve excellence.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Over two decades of research and observations have revealed the key factors that enable the best organizations to succeed and dominate. Adaptability and Agility The 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have tested organizations’ resilience. Companies must focus on nurturing and developing their human resources.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Importance of Board Evaluations in Driving Organizational Success In today’s complex and competitive business landscape, board evaluations are pivotal in driving organizational success and shareholder value. This includes identifying the areas that require improvement or the skills that must be developed within the board.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

90% of leaders think an engagement strategy is important while only 25% of organizations have one (ACCOR). In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle. Beth (name changed) is a senior leader at one of our client organizations. Where are we?

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Great organizations don’t just appear. Thankfully, in my experience, there are certain benchmarks we can aim for, which seem to exist in successful organizations I’ve observed. When we strive for these benchmarks, we at least have a path to guide us. Reflecting back, I could see some of our benchmarks.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

What can an organization do to assure they’ve got great practices? The following are nine essentials that must be in place to ensure success. Whether an organization realizes it or not, it has a culture. Leaders matter in any organization because they are so visible. Employee development. Corporate culture.

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HR Digest

APRIL 15, 2024

Employee retention is crucial for the success of any organization and the tools you use to enhance employee engagement are just as important. In this article, we will explore five powerful employee engagement software tools that can help organizations increase employee engagement and create a positive work culture.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 26, 2016

Great organizations don’t just appear. I wonder sometimes, however, if we make it seem more difficult than it is to create success in an organization. While nothing worth doing well is ever easy, there are certain benchmarks we can aim for which seem to exist in successful organizations I’ve observed.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 28, 2023

As a leader, it’s important to prioritize the culture of your organization. But a negative culture can have serious consequences for both the team and the overall success of the business. They build trust: Trust is crucial for any organization to thrive. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Chart Your Course

MAY 2, 2013

Filed in Job Benchmarking, Growth Curve, Retention. According to a study by WorldatWork, “Retention of key talent – those employees who are the strongest performers, have high potential or are in critical jobs – is even more important during economic recoveries when organizations compete aggressively for market share and talent.”

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Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

“…the ability of your company to be competitive & survive lies in the capability of the people in your organization to understand a situation and develop solutions.”. So we search outside our box…and this leaves the work, talent, solutions and success internally worsened. You are the benchmark; Where are you now?

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Rich Gee Group

MAY 3, 2022

They present analytical frameworks and tools to foster an organization's ability to systematically create and capture "blue oceans"—unexplored new market areas. History: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean is a strategy developed by W. Clients: You set the customer service benchmarks in your industry — develop comfortable relationships with clients.

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Career Advancement

MAY 10, 2021

Your coworker probably does each of these three things extremely well: Keeping your boss informed about her key accomplishments and their results for the organization. Proactively building relationships with leaders across the organization. Include clear objectives and benchmarks of success.

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 12, 2023

So, following a successful program, during a break in the agenda, after leaving the stage and talking with many with conference attendees, I often find myself standing beside the organizer. Because most organizations don’t bring back the exact same speaker every year. The question is intended to serve them –.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Product management involves processes that guide a product’s lifecycle, from planning and development to launching and beyond. It is a complex project with different stages, requiring strategic decision-making to be successful. Follow benchmarks and standards.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A new addition to every workplace, organization, and school should be an SOS (System of Support). Assess company/organization/school readiness to address trauma, trauma needs, mental health, and responses. Connecting with organizations, community partners. . . . . Call for help-an SOS? Source 1 and Source 2. Key Objective.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 5, 2012

The talent pool development and mentor training process aligns individual aspirations and competencies with the company’s current and future needs so that the interests of both can be served. Working to ensure the organizations long-term success to flourish into its potential and 5–10 year strategic plan. What is it?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

In struggling to generate a sufficient number of creative ideas, we typically blame the number of creative individuals in our organization or hierarchy and bureaucracy. He believes that we are getting in our own way by the way we think, decide, and act with regard to the development of original ideas. The Benchmarking Mindset.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 13, 2021

Coconino County has enhanced its Public Works fleet operations by focusing on employee development and establishing new business practices. Paradoxically, the County’s approach to improve operations in the Fleet Services Division has focused on developing employees and improving work processes. Staffing Challenges and Planned Actions.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2017

However well intended though, a reluctance to judge when leading people and managing an organization will hold the people and the organization back. The key is learning to pass judgment in a way that serves your people and organization well. Judgment Can Set an Organization Free.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC and Xen Wireless form StrategyDriven Analytics to provide utility industry executives and managers with asset management program benchmarking data supporting operational and investment decisions and fleet and individual plant performance assessments. Online and Outage Work Management. About StrategyDriven.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 2, 2017

Have you ever been part of an organization who needed more leaders? I have experienced this shortfall in schools, churches, and other non-profit organizations, and I’ve also seen this shortfall in hundreds of individual businesses. A leadership culture exists when you routinely and systematically develop leaders and you have a surplus.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 17, 2017

Jesse Stoner of Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership shares how understanding the characteristics of effective teams gives you a target to shoot for and better prepares you to support your team’s development. They conducted an extensive research study which revealed six Benchmarks of Team Excellence. Follow Jesse.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Welcome to the November 6, 2011 edition of leadership development carnival! It's meant to be more of a menu - organized in a way that you can pick and choose based on author, blog name, subject title, and a "teaser" line if the author provided one. Honestly, I don't expect most readers would ever try to read them all. Mike Henry Sr.

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Career Advancement

MAY 25, 2021

Your coworker probably does each of these three things extremely well: Keeping your boss informed about her key accomplishments and their results for the organization. Proactively building relationships with leaders across the organization. Include clear objectives and benchmarks of success.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 7, 2017

What typically comes to mind when your organization starts talking about increasing productivity? Benchmarking, finding new “best practices,” and implementing broad Management of Change documents. There were two steps to their success: They investigated their business to find previously-hidden problems that were worth millions.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 31, 2018

The organization was relatively small, everyone was together in one location, and they relied on local contacts to keep the business going. Would that same CHRO be as successful at a firm where the culture was more about innovation and less about continuity? Likeability was built into the formula. Lastly, I look at circumstance.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 18, 2023

Despite these noble ambitions, however, just 20% of firms are actually doing anything about it in terms of developing the capabilities they need or actually building out innovations in products, processes, or business models that can make a difference. The top five were rounded out by Alphabet and Tesla.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 21, 2016

Making strategy a process rather than a statement is a key to success. But a strategic plan for the organization is key if, and only if, it is a living, breathing document to be used frequently. But it didn’t do anything to help my organization – or me – get further down the road. Focus on the process, not the plan.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

I’ve written about assessments for leadership development before. While there are lots of them to choose from, the common ones used for development tend to be 360 degree assessments (multi rater) and personality preferences (DISC, Kolbe, Hogan, FIRO-B). Most of my work involves development assessments. Maybe you too.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 29, 2019

We live in peculiar times whereby organizations frequently grumble about skills shortages, individuals struggle to adapt to the changing needs of the labor market, and policy makers fret about people being left behind by the pace of technological change. Skills benchmarking. ” A competitive advantage.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

The truth is, you might not lose a pound, but instead become stronger and leaner by muscle development. Workout Wisdom: what are at least three different baselines that would be good benchmarks for improvement? Just as these are qualities of a good workout program, so too are they critical for effective career development.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Humble to a fault, I would label him as one of the most successful global leaders I have ever met. Manwani described the role of leadership in the VUCA world as “having a clear point of view about the future and building an organization that can navigate towards that destination through good times, and importantly, also in bad times.”.

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HR Digest

MAY 21, 2023

To drive company’s success, benchmark and budget a benefit plan that attracts the skilled employees, is needed to keep the employees performing at their best. A well-researched, carefully budgeted employee benefits package can help the organization or business to perform better.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

In today’s post I will attempt to provide some general guidelines that will be useful to any business attempting to create and analyze a valid set of success metrics. These are the metrics of how an organization performs against its benchmarks. Thoughts?

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 8, 2015

So rapid is the pace of new developments, and so diverse the forms of competition, that many large corporations struggle to be agile enough to compete. To build an agile organization requires a revolution in conventional management thinking and practice. Developing such agile leadership and shifting rigid mindsets is not easy.

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