Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Whether it's the death of a friend, loss of a job, a bad break-up, or the isolation of Covid-19, those who manage to be where their feet are will grow, stretch and emerge stronger, smarter, and more prepared as we find peace and gratitude in the pause. The human spirit craves connection. Authenticity. We need to make our interactions count.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2020

Ryan Gottfredson has created a comprehensive and research-based guide, Success Mindsets, that is designed to awaken readers to: the power of mindsets, the four mindsets they need to have to be successful, and the mindsets they currently possess through personal mindset assessment. It speeds up in some sectors and slows down in others.

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In that follow-up zoom call, I try to be as helpful as possible in sharing any data I’ve collected from pre-event surveys or attendee interviews I use to prepare for their event. Mary Kelly – tools, techniques, and tactics to face crises, challenges and change.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This includes providing them with access to professional development opportunities, as well as mentorship and coaching. Encourage stepping out of the box: Creativity and innovation are essential for any business to succeed. Feedback allows them to understand what they are doing well, as well as where they need to improve.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 12, 2023

By combining these elements, businesses can align their operations with their long-term goals and set themselves up for enduring success. Talk to us about the power in being specific and how top leaders use this in their planning. Culture is critical for sustained business success. Which Culture Builders need the most improvement?

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 19, 2024

Because hiring, developing and engaging talent requires careful decisions that are too easy to get wrong without data. Teach company leaders the key to developing strategies that bring long-term success. Zani also shares that it’s okay and actually powerful to show a degree of vulnerability as you build your self-awareness.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Let me be clear, I’m not encouraging giving in or giving up – I am suggesting you learn the ever so subtle art of letting go. Control is about power – not leadership. Surrender: fosters collaboration, encourages innovation and enables possibilities. Bottom line – what you do or don’t surrender to will define you.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

They are no longer responsible for managing risk but also for driving innovation, enhancing customer experiences, and achieving sustainable growth. Moreover, companies should have effective onboarding and development programs to support executives in their transition and ensure long-term success.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2020

Featuring commentary from the leaders themselves describing how they handled each situation, it helps managers better understand not just what emotional intelligence is, or how to measure it, or how it is linked to bottom-line results: it also shows how real leaders used their emotional intelligence to deal with real situations.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 15, 2023

From developing innovative strategies and policies to inspiring teachers and staff, educational leaders have the power to transform education at every level. By pursuing higher education, you can expand your network, gain new perspectives, and develop new strategies for solving complex problems.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

When leaders give up their perceptions of power and start focusing on the greater good, a culture of collaboration is born. It’s a mindset that promotes communication, learning, maximum contribution, and innovation—all of which lead to a healthy bottom line. Collaboration is an integral part of an organization’s culture.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 8, 2019

Twenty years of research by Great Places to Work found that “employees who trust their managers give their best work freely, and that extra effort goes directly to the company’s bottom line. Imagine your high-performance workplace with a powerful, high-trust culture aligned with brand management.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Welcome to the September 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! At a time when our nation is gearing up for major elections, many people claim to have what it takes to lead. It’s just that many managers don’t know how to manage a high potential, and end up doing well-intended things that get unintended results.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 1, 2023

Because hiring, developing and engaging talent requires careful decisions that are too easy to get wrong without data. Teach company leaders the key to developing strategies that bring long-term success. Zani also shares that it’s okay and actually powerful to show a degree of vulnerability as you build your self-awareness.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

It’s a structure that stifles creativity, innovation and motivation. They aren’t sure what’s urgent or important, and without a big-picture view they end up jumping from one task and one crisis to another. At the bottom line, building a great team requires strategy. Why does everything have to be so complicated?

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LDRLB

JULY 1, 2013

Now, she leads a specialized, unique program for Entrepreneurs, Business Owners, and Presidents from mid sized companies all over the world that ultimately helps them develop a competitive strategy for their own companies. Inc.com published an article that explains why many start-ups fail. Good strategies have purpose.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Often used by people within positions of power within organizations, these clichés support control, group cohesion, or an agenda. That’s a decision for the higher-ups.” Challenging these clichés requires strategies that recognize their power and actively counteract their suppressive nature. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Because hiring, developing and engaging talent requires careful decisions that are too easy to get wrong without data. Teach company leaders the key to developing strategies that bring long-term success. Zani also shares that it’s okay and actually powerful to show a degree of vulnerability as you build your self-awareness.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 12, 2015

Then there are the business developers forever in pursuit of new products and new markets. They cultivate, grow, innovate and invest. So, what if you created a collection of powerful YouTube videos on your area everyone could not wait to see? Pretty good service is not your ticket to avoiding the blade, innovative service is.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Let me be clear, I’m not encouraging giving in or giving up – I am suggesting you learn the ever so subtle art of letting go. Control is about power – not leadership. Surrender fosters collaboration, encourages innovation and enables possibility. ” Thoughts?

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. EY is known for its focus on innovation. Flexibility is an equally important part of our people experience.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

You need to adapt the traits and develop the skills that make leaders into great leaders. There are no quick fixes; it takes hard work and the refusal to give up. Here are some powerful things you can do. Avoid power trips. Now that you’ve earned your place as a leader, it’s easy to let the power get to you.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 11, 2019

In business, today we seem to focus more on the exciting parts of our work—innovation and creativity—and less on the day-to-day requirements of leadership. It’s tempting to focus your growth and development on the areas where you’re already comfortable or those that offer the most excitement. People look up to leaders.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 1, 2021

This theory, practiced by industrialists like Henry Ford, led to unprecedented innovations in human engineering, with the creation of the assembly line, and a formula for optimizing performance in the workplace. Power Skills. It is said that soft skills are the new ‘power skills.’ New HR Trends (2022). Upskilling.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 31, 2021

It revealed that adding women to software development teams not only boosted team performance but also reduced workplace delinquency. “Companies should recruit more women to their development teams not only for obvious ethical reasons but because this will improve performance. Supporting innovation.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 2, 2022

Because hiring, developing and engaging talent requires careful decisions that are too easy to get wrong without data. Teach company leaders the key to developing strategies that bring long-term success. Zani also shares that it’s okay and actually powerful to show a degree of vulnerability as you build your self-awareness.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 11, 2019

In these right-versus-wrong-hurry-up-and-get-things-done days, curiosity has fallen into disuse. Sameness is comfortable and quick, which causes leaders to miss the power and magic in differences of thought, opinion, perspective, and experience. Maintain the best of the old while embracing innovation.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 5, 2018

Improving quality and safety requires a mindset that acknowledges the necessity of day-to-day continuous effort and realizes that losing focus is all that is required for mistakes and accidents to pop up like weeds. The airline industry developed a checklist and it has reduced incidents of pilot error. Neuroscience helps explain why.

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Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2018

This comment was interesting regarding our need to tolerate ambiguity: Being in clarity allows space where we wait for what we don’t quite understand to emerge, which keeps energy available and flowing rather than being boxed in, covered up, or mistakenly shelved through what’s already known. People: Do we develop our team?

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We have all heard the saying that “knowledge is power&# we’ve all also heard the refinement of that saying which states that “the application of knowledge is power&#. Develop a mantra of “document, document and when in doubt, document&# and make this as painless as possible.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Collaborative leaders create communities where people unite around a common purpose and values, working collaboratively to accomplish a shared vision that makes a powerful and positive impact. They also flatten compensation structures so the difference in pay-scale between the top and bottom is not astronomical. How do they do this?

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CO2

JULY 25, 2023

They bulldoze their plans through and others, who weren’t consulted, wind up resisting them — no surprise there. Innovator) Assess alternative methods of taking action, such as, “Will this help us reach our goal? Successful leaders spend 70 to 80 percent of their time asking questions, not answering them. What will we measure?”

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CO2

JULY 25, 2023

They bulldoze their plans through and others, who weren’t consulted, wind up resisting them — no surprise there. Innovator) Assess alternative methods of taking action, such as, “Will this help us reach our goal? Successful leaders spend 70 to 80 percent of their time asking questions, not answering them. What will we measure?”

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 28, 2015

Because it influences how colleagues relate, or fail to relate, to each other, culture affects the effectiveness of teams and business units, ultimately influencing the bottom line. Culture of Control – In this type of culture, people with power, influence and status rule over others. Why do your employees show up every day?

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Nowhere is this exchange more evident than in the data annotation industry, where people from around the world help to prepare and tidy up the data used by the tech giants to train the algorithms upon which their fortunes increasingly rest. The hidden bedrock of AI.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 4, 2021

Now that those days are gradually behind us, every business owner must develop strategies for generating sales. That said, you have to come up with innovative ways to boost your customer service. One way to instantly do this is to set up an outbound call center to help manage customer complaints and inquiries.

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CoachStation

AUGUST 26, 2022

Developing the skills to engage team members is important. As a leader you are obligated to develop your skills to influence and support each and every team member. Every employee has to own their development and situation too. They are psychological “owners,” drive performance and innovation, and move the organisation forward.

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