N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The 2020 Leaders25 Top CHRO Award is a list curated by a panel of N2Growth team members ( co-led by Jeffrey Cohn and Mike Myatt ), as well as outside advisory members to ensure objectivity and rigor in our selection process. He is the total package – a team player people love to work with and for.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Cruise layoffs will affect around 24% of its workforce as it works to restructure operations following an accident that forced it to halt U.S. Image Credit: getcruise) The GM Cruise layoffs, which primarily affected commercial operations and related corporate functions , are the latest turmoil for the robotaxi startup.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

How to Earn Trus t and Lead Teams. 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. Team members observe the leader’s behaviors during interactions and consciously and subconsciously analyze each of them.

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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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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!

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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. There is a lot of contemporary research that says that work teams perform better when there is trust and people can be themselves. I know this because I’ve been in your shoes. Negotiate a family charter.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 15, 2014

At the time we were writing this piece, Chris was stationed at Kabul, Afghanistan as the Chief of Staff/Chief Operating Officer for the NATO Air Training Command. As a leader, the same goes for developing a team. Follow these five simple ground rules and your new leadership challenge will be off to a great start.

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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. If not, why?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 23, 2015

Guest post by Victor Prince : Teams at work are like portfolios of people with different skills and performance patterns. Here are four moves that smart leaders do to get the highest overall return from their team. Stop Micromanaging your Exemplars – You know who the Exemplars on your team are.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Still, in the year that Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg published " Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead ," women everywhere made impressive economic and political gains. Catalyst’s research and insights reveal a strong business and financial case for advancing women to leadership. said Ilene H.

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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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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. High-potential women often operate under the radar.

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CEO Insider

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

A toxic leader is someone that hasn’t learned the correct leadership style to maintain a successful team, damages the well-being of their employees, and fails to contribute to a positive culture. The post Toxic and Underperforming Leadership Creates a Negative Employee Experience. Here’s how to retrain them for the better.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 24, 2021

economy and its continued leadership around the globe. Have measurable targets – Having female role models in senior positions is clearly beneficial in a number of ways, and the authors urge companies to have measurable targets for improving the diversity of their leadership team.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 12, 2020

Former Chief Operating Officer of Pinterest, Françoise Brougher, has filed a lawsuit against the company alleging gender discrimination and wrongful termination. She was also asked to tell her team that she was leaving on her own. The company’s executive board is entirely made up of men!

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Among the many responsibilities that come with leadership, one that I’m particularly passionate about is facilitating the learning and growth of those you serve. How Leaders Are Creating Engagement In Today’s Workplaces The Role Leaders Play In Developing Great Teams. “At the heart of social learning is connection.”

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Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Reflect the operating values and culture of the organization. Our entire management team found Michael to be energizing, engaging and extremely astute. He helped our team to formulate realistic project plans to enhance our bottom line. I learned so much more about my team and what we are capable of.

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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. These leaders surround themselves with the team that will help make the vision a reality, and inspire their team to achieve it.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

. “Utility leaders must find cost effective ways to replace aging assets, transfer knowledge to a new generation of workers, release currently unavailable capital, and optimize strategic operations and maintenance programs,” explains Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven’s Chief Executive Officer.

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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 ). ” Change the world.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Teams may function fairly well within silos, but coordination across them is often poor, which has potentially serious consequences for patients. Everyone in the chain did a good job within the confines of their local teams, but they didn’t consider how they fit into the bigger picture. It takes leadership.

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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.” Share this: This entry was posted in Communication and tagged best leadership advice , Jay Woo , leadership lessons , PowerRoundtable. Happy leading! Bookmark the permalink.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

The third-generation CEO of a family business, my client experienced severe stress as his executive team (comprised of older family members) lambasted his every decision about how to run the company. Develop strategic leadership skills. Apologize and express gratitude. She was terrified that she would lose her job.

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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.

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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

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. In the absence of these (and other leadership actions) any structure can appear to be dysfunctional.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

I wasn’t planning on retiring for at least another five years, but I wanted to watch how effectively my team could execute some of my more important functions. I had taken one step toward this two years ago, when I named one partner president and another chief operating officer. They can also be a win-win.

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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. ” You and Your Team Series. I watched this happen in a leadership team meeting as the heads of marketing and sales tried to resolve a common stalemate. Emotional Intelligence.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand. For example, one earthquake engineer, Stuart, had a career breakthrough when he joined a large structural investigation project led by a team of senior partners in his firm. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

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. But teaching managers to display inclusive leadership behaviors is just the first step. And they are more likely to have their ideas endorsed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

One senior leader at a professional services company, whom we’ll call Bronwyn, made the move from client-facing partner to chief operating officer. In concert with team members, you can redraw some boundaries to create stretch opportunities for others as you shift responsibilities to make space for your own new challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

This suggests that the problem of too little strategic leadership may be as much a function of doing as of thinking. One chief operating officer I worked with was appointed to her newly created role with the expressed purpose of integrating two supply chain organizations resulting from an acquisition. Mark Bonchek.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Teams are striving to improve health care at their institutions in numerous ways, including reducing the number of patients readmitted to hospitals within 30 days of discharge, emergency-room waits, the time between a heart attack and a balloon angioplasty, to name a few. If managers achieve the objectives, they are rewarded.

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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. Sven Krobot/EyeEm/Getty Images. If they fear you, they will get the work done.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

” But at a time when work is more and more team-oriented and projects often require intense collaboration, “you have to find a way to connect and build a bridge” with even the most irritating people. If all else fails, “riff off an exchange you both seemed to find interesting in your last team meeting.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

When I was the chief operating officer at Delta Air Lines, I remember once being asked, “What are you going to do about our morale?” Find ways to share and celebrate the passion of your team. Then watch what happens when they put their energy and talent into whatever role they operate in. Share context.

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