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How Do I Gain Respect When My Team Doesn’t Like Me?

Let's Grow Leaders

Of course, leadership is not about being liked. There was one time in my career where I was absolutely certain that my team didn’t like me. And, fourteen out of fourteen had been in retail sales for their entire careers. “It was probably a diversity move.” The problem was I had zero sales experience.

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. I’ll take it one step further – I can’t really think of any issue that should be argued or decided solely on the merits of diversity. In fact, let me take it up even another notch…diversity should be a non-issue altogether.

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Resourcefulness Matters: How to Help Your Team Be More Resourceful

Let's Grow Leaders

Similarly, if even small decisions require multiple layers of approval, your team will lose energy to try new things. Of course, sometimes an abundance of resources can actually sabotage your ability to grow resourceful leaders. ” Of course, the best way to build a network of useful resources is to be a resource to them.

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Overriding Our Instincts in Order to Become Caring Leaders

Leading Blog

Afterall, we got this far in our careers by following our instincts, practicing what we learned, and applying appropriate business strategies. Over the course of a career, we gain a myriad of tools and tips on how to lead. Take a pottery course or learn to play an instrument. But are we leading? Truly leading people?

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How Important Is Coaching in Professional Development?

Leading Blog

A S A LIFELONG communication skills coach, I was asked recently by one of my colleagues how important individual coaching attention is for a person to learn and grow at any stage of their career. Of course, this is sort of like asking a baker if bread is worth baking.

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Leadership is a Process!

Lead Change Blog

When you identify what’s possible, it creates hope, energy, and excitement. No, of course not! Work with a diverse, cross-functional group of people and create a list of potential opportunities. You don’t have the time, people, money, and energy to pursue every opportunity that’s identified. Brainstorm. Collaborate.

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When Do Scientists Reach Their Peak?

The Horizons Tracker

Similar tales emerge from teams as diverse as Bill Clinton’s election team, the early Apple team, and even the scientists that converged on Los Alamos to create the atomic bomb. He suggests that the virtues of youth are that you have often boundless energy, combined with a lack of weariness in knowing what is ‘not’ possible.

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