N2Growth Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

Real-life examples of declining tenure among C-suite executives in Forbes Global 2000 or S&P 500 companies include General Electric (GE) and McDonald’s Corporation, which have witnessed shorter CEO tenures in the last decade. Meanwhile, the average tenure for CMOs is even shorter, standing at 3.3 years as of 2022, declining from 4.5

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HR Digest

AUGUST 26, 2023

In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, effective people management skills are crucial for leaders and managers. People management encompasses a range of responsibilities, from recruiting and onboarding to training and development, performance management, employee engagement, and more.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 5, 2024

Effective leadership isn’t just about guiding a team or achieving organizational goals; it’s also about personal growth and development. Improve Communication Skills: Effective communication is at the core of leadership. Enhance Time Management: Effective leaders are masters of time management.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2022

She gave me at least five examples where I had offered case examples about work that were all about men — and white men at that. Understanding where they’re coming from and what their aspirations are can help you to better encourage them and give them constructive feedback. I took a deep breath and said, “Tell me more.”.

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Leading Blog

JULY 29, 2020

E MOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE is a prerequisite to good leadership. It’s not the kind of leadership that brings others along. Emotional intelligence (EI) is an awareness of not only our own but other’s emotions and the ability to manage those emotions in ways that help people move ahead in dealing with difficult situations.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 5, 2024

In the fast-paced world of leadership, great leaders manage more than just projects and deadlines. Above all, they manage people, and managing people demands a fine blend of knowledge, wisdom, and something more abstract but equally crucial – Emotional Intelligence (EQ). Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Leadership self-awareness is a critical skill for any leader to possess. It involves understanding your own strengths, weaknesses, values, and motivations, as well as how these factors impact your leadership style and effectiveness. This can help you manage your time effectively and ensure that you are able to focus on your priorities.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Leadership is more than just giving orders and being the boss. As a manager, your employees need to know what is expected of them in order to meet and exceed your expectations. This can be difficult to do at times, but it’s important to maintain a consistent leadership style. Be Clear About Expectations. Be A Role Model.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

There are leadership lessons in Southwest Airline’s fall from grace. The company has been a servant-leadership darling since it’s inception and co-founder Herb Kelleher applied the principles for decades before stepping down as CEO in 2001. So what went wrong and what can leaders learn from the example?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 1, 2014

This post recently appeared in SmartBlog on Leadership : There’s a LOT of advice out there on leadership and management – almost as much as you’ll find on dating, careers, and how to raise your kids. However, I’d recommend running away as far as you can from the following pearls of leadership & management wisdom: 1.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 4, 2018

With a nod to David Ng and his “pizza-as-a-service” example , SaaS is the equivalent of having a prepared pizza delivered to you; PaaS equates to having all the ingredients you need available and prepped, leaving you just to put it together and bake it. Before we know it, there will be “Leadership-as-a-Service.”. What do you think?

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 15, 2020

Unfortunately, I rarely see leaders and managers looking up for a view of their direction and keeping busy, busy, busy! Our current health crisis provides an ideal opportunity, and yet I wonder how many leaders and managers are truly taking advantage of it or will continue with it, post-COVID? How productive is it? Does it add value?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

As a leader, manager, and team member, you stand at a crossroads every time this question arises. For example, “As we incorporate this change, here are the opportunities we have. Own Your Leadership Leadership isn’t about quiet compliance; it’s about courageous conversations. ” is a call to leadership.

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Great Results Team Building

JANUARY 25, 2022

Learning and applying these lessons can provide management insight and superior leadership qualities. Here are some excellent leadership lessons that we can learn from musicians. Sustaining a leadership role requires support; it is as simple as that. Leadership requires a person to have a clear end goal.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 5, 2024

Navigating Workplace Conflict in a Changing World (03:51) Kilmann discusses the rising relevance of conflict management against the backdrop of global changes like diversity, deregulation, and political polarization. This instrument challenged existing notions by providing a more accurate reflection of how individuals engage in conflict.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

For example, organizations use some services on contract — legal services, for example. And contractors in the construction industry have long used an extensive form of outsourcing. As their name indicates, they secure the contract to construct a building, and then subcontract the activities.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

There are leadership lessons in Southwest Airline’s fall from grace. The company has been a servant-leadership darling since it’s inception and co-founder Herb Kelleher applied the principles for decades before stepping down as CEO in 2001. So what went wrong and what can leaders learn from the example?

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Airlines Leadership Short-term Long-term 130

Lead from Within

JANUARY 25, 2024

Great leaders understand that fostering a cohesive workplace is not just about managing people; it’s about inspiring and guiding a unified team towards shared goals. Lead by Example: Leading by example is a hallmark of exceptional leadership. Lead with Empathy: Empathy is a powerful leadership trait.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Provide Constructive Feedback: Feedback is a powerful tool for improvement, but it must be delivered constructively. Lead by Example: As a leader, your behavior sets the standard for your team. Lead by example to inspire your team to do the same. Avoid personal criticism and emphasize the opportunity for growth.

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Leading in Context

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In the quest to understand things, we have divided up content and areas of science and our world in general into categories that we label (like biology, art, and psychology for example) and think of as separate. People study inside these realms intensely until they become experts in them.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Cliff, the Development Team manager, just informed you the prototype will be delayed because Sam, the “trouble-making manager” of the Design Team, is refusing to play ball—again. Sam’s replacement is Joy, the high-potential employee you personally fast-tracked into management. The pressure is on. Cliff bolts into your office.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

I am a Boomer, so my view regarding trust, authority, and truth, for example, is different than those generations that came after me. Though, given their worldview, led may be too strong a word – even manage may be too strong. Managers can use the SKS framework both to provide effective feedback: What should I stop doing?

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

When providing feedback: A good leader should be able to provide constructive feedback to their team members. When managing conflicts: A leader should be able to handle conflicts within the team effectively. When facing challenges: A great leader is able to remain calm and composed under pressure.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Drawing on her twenty-year career as an advisor to the C-Suite, Davey shares real-world examples and practical tools you and your team can use to handle even the most contentious conflicts as allies?instead Maxwell (HarperCollins Leadership, 2019) In Leadershift , John C. instead of adversaries. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Lead from Within

MAY 18, 2023

Managing availability: Great leaders are accessible and available for their team, and they make time to be approachable. This means making time to listen to their ideas and concerns, and offering constructive feedback and guidance. This could be through verbal praise or handwritten notes. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Wondering how to help managers succeed? A Udemy Research report found that 51 percent of millennials and GenZ are likely to quit a job because of a bad manager and 43 percent of their older coworkers would do the same. A manager controls the pulse of an organization and acts as a substitute for the top leaders of an organization.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 23, 2024

” Some managers are badly out of sync. For example, a manager once hired me to speak to their organization about the work-life balance themes in Growing the Distance. Rebranding and customer service programs are initiated by managers who boss, direct, and control rather than serve their organization’s servers.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

AUGUST 28, 2023

Managing performance in the modern workplace is different. What is Performance Management? At some level, we are all familiar with one system or another of Performance Management. Feedback Your manager was responsible for providing you with feedback on your objectives throughout the year.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

International crisis management specialist Ben Ramalingam writes in Upshift: Turning Pressure into Performance and Crisis into Creativity , that between the two extremes is the “sweet spot” where we experience a healthy level of stress. We become disengaged, demotivated, and unfulfilled. But in between is the Challenge Zone.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 25, 2022

But the reality, as Marshall Goldsmith says , is that “In leadership, it doesn’t matter what we said. See if this sounds familiar: During a leadership meeting, your boss proposes an idea that has a shiny, attractive quality. For example, you might say, “That’s a creative way of looking at this.”. “A This step is critical.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

No, I'm not talking adding the latest management and leadership buzzwords or jargon to your repertoire. And if they do come up with examples of how similar ideas have been tried in the past and have not worked, use the phrase "Up until now." Dan McCarthy is an expert in leadership and management development.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 29, 2024

Develop a calm, constructive approach to convey your concerns and provide context for the decision. Anticipate potential questions and prepare stories or examples to illustrate your main points. In conclusion, delivering difficult messages to employees is an inevitable part of leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Welcome to the October Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of development, engagement, productivity, team building, and more. Shelley Row of Insightful Leadership shared Can You See Your Humps? Communication.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 30, 2023

When your leader is disorganized communicate this to them in a respectful and constructive way. Provide specific examples of how their disorganization has affected your work or the team’s productivity. Avoid making accusations or assigning blame, and focus on the specific behaviors or habits that are causing issues.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

The process of conducting a performance appraisal can be a daunting task for many managers and HR professionals. To make the most of performance appraisals, it’s important to use performance appraisal examples that reflect your organization’s culture and values. Responds to feedback constructively and with an open mind.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

In Creative Construction , Gary Pisano says that when big organizations fail to innovate, the root cause is often related to “management practice and leadership than with organizational scale per se.” Creative Construction is the process of sustaining and rejuvenating an existing organization’s innovative capabilities.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 8, 2023

Here are a few strategies that the best leaders use to navigate office politics: Lead by example: The best leaders lead by example. This means setting a good example for everyone to follow. By leading by example it creates a positive and productive work environment that is free from petty office politics.

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