Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Learned Excellence is a comprehensive and practical guide to the mental disciplines of high performance, from the expert who developed the US Navy SEALs mental toughness curriculum and has worked with thousands of top athletes, elite military personnel, business executives, and first responders. It's time to fight back.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 10, 2018

W HY DO SOME careers stall while others flourish? The careers of one-half to two-thirds of managers and leaders will derail. “At At some point, over half of us will get fired or demoted—or our careers will flat-line, and we won’t reach our innate potential. s resist learning new experiences. It’s a mindset change.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

What to say next when you’re overloaded at work (without sounding whiny) Ever found yourself cackling at the monstrous to-do list glaring back at you, thinking “Right, that’s not happening,” only to gulp back a sob as you realize none of it’s optional? When your boss asks what they can do to help, have an answer.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Career development is not the responsibility of your manager. These 9 career-boosting steps you can take today and in the coming months will boost your career. Consider what you do on a daily basis. Once you’ve set your goals, give yourself a deadline by which you must learn these things. What did you do?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 30, 2020

What can you do to become bulletproof? I believe we humans will need to excel at doing something valuable that the technology itself will not be able to do well. I believe we humans will need to excel at doing something valuable that the technology itself will not be able to do well.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Effective leaders in this space have the ability to optimize supply chain operations, streamline processes, and identify cost-saving opportunities. They understand the importance of developing their team’s skills and capabilities, nurturing a culture of continuous learning and professional development.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2024

That Wasn’t a Compliment Early in my (David’s) career, I worked in a very culturally diverse organization. We’ve had many leaders, managers and clients around the world approach us with different cross cultural leadership challenges including: “In my culture, we need sound and music to do our best, but my office is silent as a graveyard.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2023

Admiral McRaven was honored to receive this honor in 2011 when he took charge of the United States Special Operations Command. When McRaven retired in 2014, he had 37 years as a Navy SEAL under his belt, leading men and women at every level of the special operations community.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

This guest blog post by Julie Winkle Giulioni celebrates the September 18 launch of her book with Beverly Kaye, Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees Want. Julie has spent the past 25 years improving performance through learning. Too important to branch out to do something different. News flash!

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2023

Generation Why : How Boomers Can Lead and Learn from Millennials and Gen Z by Karl Moore Perhaps more than ever before, young people entering the workforce are searching for meaning and authenticity in their careers. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month. Chan Kim and Renée A. What if we had that job?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But often, these top-tier executives don’t know where to go to achieve this critical perspective and guidance at this stage in their careers. So, the question remains: when these top executives want to optimize their performance, become more self-aware, and improve their margins even further, how can they do so?

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

So, how do you gain respect, when your team’s just not there? “What do I do if I’m sure my team doesn’t like me? How do I gain better influence and connection. 3 Reasons Your Team Might Not Like You (and What to Do Next). He learned to change his tone of voice. To ask more questions.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2021

What Do You Pay Attention To? In my work with senior leaders and executive teams across a wide variety of industries, one of the most important questions I ask is to learn what those leaders pay attention to. The press’ dashboard did not monitor color requirements perfectly – only a human could do that.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 4, 2014

Too many leaders run through their days without taking time to consider how and why they lead as they do. Operating principles (e.g. Authenticity & Transparency Career & Learning Communication leaderhip leadership credo leadership development operating principles values' integrity, transparency).

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We’re changing jobs more than ever and pursuing multiple careers and projects simultaneously. Take a moment to consider how many jobs you’ve had and how many careers you’re yet to embark upon? The ability to adapt and thrive at work, also known as your adaptability quotient, demands continuous learning and cultivation.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

So, how do you gain respect, when your team’s just not there? “What do I do if I’m sure my team doesn’t like me? How do I gain their respect?” Here are three common reasons you could be losing influence (and what to do to regain respect and the impact you need). To ask more questions.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

High-performance leaders operate with a growth mindset and are great communicators. A growth mindset means they operate with: 1. The reason they do this is high-performance leaders understand that their number one goal is to create more high-performance leaders so they can move up to their next position and create more value.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The other choice is to learn to speak our truth effectively, in a way that doesn’t contribute to fear and dysfunction on a team. The first part of speaking effectively in difficult conversations is learning to speak from a place of ownership. These people also recognize that they will always have more to learn about a situation.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And yet during times of stress, ambiguity, and change , when you need your team to be THE MOST resourceful, some managers clamp down, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow their team down. So how do you teach and encourage resourcefulness in your leaders and on your team? “Who is doing this well?

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 25, 2020

How well we do it impacts our relationships, our personal effectiveness, our career, and our experience of life. Larry Senn, father of corporate culture and author of The Mood Elevator , provides an operating manual to keep you out of the emotional basement. Learn more and register here.

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QAspire

APRIL 10, 2023

In many cases that I observe, transformation is the fuzzy word that leaders use to describe operational shifts within their teams or businesses. Style is a reflection of who we are and it is built in the process of doing our work. The challenge is to ensure that our style does not limit us in exploring newer ways to be, do and express.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 30, 2013

Management is your day job; leadership is your career. One could say the same forMicrosoft when Bill Gates viewed himself as the visionary and Steve Ballmer was the operator. More recently Larry Page has shifted his role from co-creator at Google to CEO displacing Eric Schmidt in day-to-day operations. Think Google.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Why do some leaders “have a seat at the table,” and some feel they are struggling to bring others along? When organizations send clients to me for executive coaching, the work usually focuses on one of two things: How the leader thinks about their job, and how they do that job. In other words, you have impact on the organization.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. Given not all CHROs are created equal, how do you differentiate from those who simply sit in the chair versus those who set the chinning bar for the future of the role.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

Look in the mirror and own your natural-born strengths and fix any real or perceived career-limiting deficiencies. They argue that this popular leadership advice glosses over the most important thing you do as a leader: build others up. Startup Myths and Models : What You Won't Learn in Business School by Rizwan Virk.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 19, 2021

Master these important leadership skills and you’ll build a foundation for success throughout your career. If you’re responsible for training or building leaders in your organization, how can you ensure that they learn and practice these skills? So how do you master time management? The 3 Most Important Leaders Skills.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

People are realizing that the nine to five isn’t for them and they want a lot more control over their careers and their professional lives. Here are some key steps you’re going to need to take to do this well! Operate to a Budget. Constantly Learn. Image Source. Running a business is becoming increasingly popular.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Do you see me? People want to feel proud of both the work they do and the cause(s) they serve. Instead, people want to know that the way their organizations operate is ethical. Leaders who do this respect others’ dignity. Do you see me? “Do Do you see me?” It implies: Do I matter to you?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2023

By partnering with executive search firms, organizations operating in the life sciences industry tap into a vast network of experienced professionals with the necessary expertise to excel in these demanding roles and professionals with deep experience identifying and assessing that talent.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Whenever anyone asks me what leadership lessons I wished I’d learned sooner, I always have the same response. ” This goes beyond, “having a best friend at work,” (which according to Gallup only 30% of us have— which is too bad— since those who do are more engaged and productive). What would add? An Encourager.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The Key to Business and Career Success. “Companies in which leaders at every level nurture a culture where employees can develop a sense of ownership in what they do are the companies that excel.” Effective leaders know how to achieve operational excellence, and they embrace continuous improvement.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 2, 2020

The Key to Business and Career Success , I spoke about the importance of hiring people with common sense and good critical judgment because at some point, you want them to violate policy when it is in the company’s best interest to do so. I also believed I would not have a job the next day for doing it. I ordered the recall.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 10, 2014

What I do know for sure is that my rage had me operating out of the wrong side of my brain. Authenticity & Transparency Career & Learning Communication biggest career mistakes career derailers you know better' I was pretty shocked by the reports of how Laura had acted in that impromptu encounter.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 10, 2019

A do-gooder.”. That wasn’t the first—and it won’t be the last—time that someone, usually a man, had mocked my efforts to do good and do well. The very first time I wasn’t troubled by someone’s condescension about doing good and well was a liberating moment. A big one, probably a career-ending one. Eudaimonia.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 10, 2021

It’s one thing to know something intellectually—to learn interesting new data, to gain an understanding of why something works the way it does, to be inspired by a message—but if it stops there and you don’t develop heart knowledge, then you’re less likely to see meaningful or lasting change as a result. That makes sense. Don’t touch it.”

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2024

But that same relentless brilliance that propels you in your career can take a toll on your teams, personal relationships, and even your health,” explain author Gino Wickman and coauthor Rob Dube. Yet I have come to learn that there are disciplines and a practical approach to accomplish significant life success, as well,” says Gino.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 10, 2011

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. I’m sorry to report, however, that the magical career fairy is a figment of your imagination. And the career fairy won’t just tap you and make it all happen.

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