Next Level Blog

MARCH 30, 2021

Over the past year, I’ve had the opportunity to coach the members of a couple of different corporate senior leadership teams. The coaching approach I use for leadership teams is a lot like the one I use for individual leaders. A proactive way to start the day! She uses the time for both longer term and short-term thinking.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2020

I lost my job as a chief operations officer because, as I said earlier, I was seen as tactless and overly direct. With that in mind, here are some tips for managing your “warrior spirit” at home: 1. Executives and managers who do not hold people accountable alienate high performers and lower team performance.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Senior leadership hires can make or break an organization. Internal recruiters do not have the tools or abilities to fill these critical leadership roles, their ‘open requisition’ stack is too full, and all roles get equal attention, whereas the most critical ones need a dedicated team. Earlier, Ms.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 4, 2012

If you’re in charge of your organization’s training, talent management, succession planning, or HR function, when’s the last time you talked to your C-level executives about leadership development? Within the last few months - I talk to our C-level Execs on a regular basis about leadership development. Pick one answer: A.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

To be recognized on the 2020 Top CHRO List, the words leadership, team, succession, purpose, culture, governance, and diversity are not just buzzwords – they represent who a CHRO is, what they believe, and where they work every day. and a development manager at Oracle Corp. “What makes a great CHRO, great? CHRO for HSBC.

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leaderCommunicator

JULY 12, 2013

Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. That''s just one of many headlines congratulating the chief operating officer at Facebook for leaving work at a reasonable hour to spend time with her kids. What were some of the top leadership articles you read this week?

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

29 and the chief operating officer (COO) meets with the production manager about a major shipment of product to a customer. The COO tells the production manager to ship the product within the next two days to ensure it is counted as revenue in the current year. What should the production manager do?

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Whether you are new to studying leadership or have practiced and studied it for many years, I am sure you will benefit and enjoy the leadership lessons today’s post provides. One of your first leadership lessons is “A subordinate’s trust in their leader is the most important factor in the success of any organization.”

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LDRLB

JULY 27, 2012

Neil Nicoll, President and CEO of YMCA warned us in Finding Leaders for America’s Nonprofits: Commentaries that, “Until [we] become much more intentional about development of internal talent, we are doomed to an ever-growing leadership deficit.” Companies need to change the way they are sourcing leadership talent.

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Mike Cardus

APRIL 25, 2013

Meeting with a Chief Operations Officer of a Health Care Organization, whose team I have been consulting and coaching. 6 Coaching Questions for Managers & Teams. YES, yes there is…and these questions can be cascaded through the organization. What’s the goal that you’re working towards?

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HR Digest

JANUARY 4, 2024

Fired for circulating SpaceX letter The labor board complaint said the company’s president and chief operating officer, Gwynne Shotwell, had illegally restricted employees from circulating the SpaceX letter, and it identified similar infractions by other executives and managers.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

"While the global population is largely gender balanced, men hold eighty-five percent of senior leadership positions in public companies," states Melissa Greenwell , author of the new book, Money on the Table: How to Increase Profits Through Gender-balanced Leadership. Identify and communicate criteria for successful leadership.

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Women on Business

MAY 24, 2012

A recent study conducted by Zenger Folkman tested males and females in leadership positions in the workplace. They tested leadership skills from development to problem solving to innovation etc. With results like this why are more women not in top leadership roles? That is right Ladies. Make your goal specific.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Businesses and companies now need to rethink how to manage post-covid work trends like their remote workforce, hiring policies, skills, and experience needs. Only 12% want to return to full-time office work, and 72% want a hybrid remote-office model moving forward. . The Covid-19 pandemic has reset the way the world works.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 24, 2021

economy and its continued leadership around the globe. As with so many policies, for this to be effective, it’s vital that senior managers lead by example. . “Women have almost caught up to men in the fields of technology, engineering and mathematics, right?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 23, 2015

Like smart investment managers, smart people managers figure out how to shift their investment of time and energy from some parts of their portfolio so they can invest more in other parts where there is more potential for improvement. Some leaders shy away from managing their Passengers because it is uncomfortable.

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Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Completion Times Need to be Continually Extended – Because of inadequate planning and Management Oversight NOTHING got done…Because NO-ONE Planned! Strategic planning is necessary part of every Managers life. Our entire management team found Michael to be energizing, engaging and extremely astute. Because NO-ONE Planned!

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Not that Nissan’s management had not been trying to make the right decisions to staunch the losses. It had earlier set an ambitious target of taking a quarter of Japan’s auto market, but to achieve that, the chief executive had said that the old way of making and selling cars would no longer suffice. Integrate Strategy and Leadership.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

It takes effective leadership with the right tone at the top and leaders who will nurture the right culture to build the organization needed to become the preferred provider to your markets. Effective leaders know how to achieve operational excellence, and they embrace continuous improvement. These leaders never micro-manage.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC and NTE Solutions partner to provide energy industry executives and managers with asset lifecycle management and regulatory compliance advisory services. Risk management and compliance. Project development and management. Asset management and operational programs improvement.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Liz Wiseman – Bestselling author of Multipliers, Thinkers 50 Top Ten Leadership Thinker 2015-17, Winner of the ATD Champion of Talent Award.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2013

. “By fostering an organizational culture that puts safety-first, executives and managers create a workplace environment where errors are recognized and proactively corrected before they result in a material event.” StrategyDriven Risk Management Forum. Risk Management Best Practice 4 – Risk Quantification.

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Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

.” Stephens joined Marco’s Pizza in 2004 when it was a successful but regional chain operating 110 stores in three states. Now, he’s the president and chief operating officer for Marco’s (and was featured earlier this year on CBS’ Undercover Boss ). But Stephens points out something more.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. Researchers at the IT Leadership Academy are doing just that in Global 2000 enterprises.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

In all of the loud and necessary debates over how to reform health care in the United States before it bankrupts the country, there is one element that has been continually overlooked: the management systems employed by hospitals. This 20 th century system essentially has leadership establishing objectives for managers to achieve.

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LDRLB

MARCH 24, 2014

SHAWN: I’m Shawn Hunter, and well, what I do, my day job is I’m an executive producer for Leadership Solutions, for Skillsoft, and so to that end, I travel around the world with colleagues, and we track down really interesting people. People who are on the edges of innovation or leadership or management. That’s it!

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Jay Woo , CAA South Central Ontario’s Chief Operating Officer offered up this piece of advice: “Stay connected to your front line.” Senior management reviews the ideas and responds to questions raised. A piece of simple advice, but it’s amazing how few senior leaders walk that talk. Happy leading!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

Develop strategic leadership skills. This reappraisal prompted him to begin placing more trust in his legal staff’s decision-making capabilities, to meet more often with key partners inside and outside the firm, and to embrace leadership roles that would position him more as a visionary leader than a worker bee.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2012

At Salesforce.com, Rajani Ramanathan is the chief operating officer across the products and technology division. As might be expected of a savvy engineering leader, Rajani began measuring how deeply her managers were tapping into the intelligence and capability of their teams. I call these leaders "diminishers."

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In interviews, we heard that individuals with disabilities face deep stigma and bias (whether conscious or not) from colleagues and managers. Our research shows that the same inclusive leadership behaviors that leverage diversity to drive innovation and market growth can enable managers to support individuals with disabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

Last year I decided it was time to shake things up at our investment management company. The most common transgression is procrastination, in failing to charge the next generation of managers with more responsibility. I had taken one step toward this two years ago, when I named one partner president and another chief operating officer.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2011

A recent post by fellow HBR blogger Gill Corkindale illustrates how dysfunctional or outdated organizational designs can make it difficult for managers to operate effectively. Here are a few approaches that you can try: Work with the current structure: Managers love to reorganize when results are not what they need to be.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In 2009 Tony Scibelli, Vice President of Human Resources and Operations at Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare learned that the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nursing Officer were going to launch "relationship-based care," a comprehensive cultural change program to focus doctors' and nurses' attention on patients and their families.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Indeed, corporations like Kraft, consider role rotation standard for building well-rounded leaders , and actively invite promising line managers to take on staff jobs and the reverse. One senior leader at a professional services company, whom we’ll call Bronwyn, made the move from client-facing partner to chief operating officer.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

I saw this play out when debriefing with the Chief Operating Officer of a $20 billion global company. I watched this happen in a leadership team meeting as the heads of marketing and sales tried to resolve a common stalemate.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

Whyte considered himself an expert on productivity management, but his condescending attitude and disproportionate use of airtime made the entire board unproductive. We are not critical of directors who disagree with management strategy or voice alternative directions. Boards Leadership Managing people' Let us be clear.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Even though self-awareness — knowing who we are and how we’re seen — is important for job performance , career success , and leadership effectiveness , it’s in remarkably short supply in today’s workplace. When finally confronted about his behavior, his response was, “The best management tool is fear.

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