N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Exploring the Key Principles and Strategies for Success In today’s dynamic business landscape, success is no longer solely determined by traditional profitability and market share metrics. Additionally, a growth mindset creates a positive and empowering work environment that motivates employees to reach their full potential.

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Workplace Culture (and team building) Speakers – Chis Edmonds – helping senior leaders create uncompromising work cultures Bill Treasurer – insights on how to create an environment that builds courageous behavior. Heather Younger – helps organizations create safe spaces and a culture of listening.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Diversity is most important for business, the economy and quality of life. I have conducted many diversity audits of companies. I have seen corporate America embrace diversity in many practices, including the workforce and suppliers. Diversity is about so much more than human resources issues.

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Facilitate Open Communication: Encouraging feedback can foster an environment of open communication where team members feel valued and heard. Its regular use in the workplace promotes an environment of trust, motivation and employee engagement. Feedback helps ensure that leaders are aligned with organizational goals and values.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

There are three major components of early detection of organizational cancer: education to promote early diagnosis, assessments, and strategic planning and execution to impact the Future Picture. Organizations also have cholesterol; it is their acumen for diversity. Your operations deserve a longer, healthier life. How assured?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 19, 2011

Is our digital environment interfering with our employees’ ability to see the big picture? Is it harder to be creative when information is constantly coming at you from all directions? Are we so overloaded with information that we don’t even have time to think?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Women may make up more than half the workforce 1 but continue to be significantly underrepresented on corporate boards and in C-level executive positions, according to a major new study released today by Calvert Investments, a long-time leader in advocating for corporate diversity.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Perhaps, you should ask these questions: How predictable is the environment in which our unit operates? How much power do we have to change that environment? . Those answers give rise to four broad strategic styles, each one particularly suited to a distinct environment. Your answers may vary widely.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

I’m a big advocate of Strategic Planning and Visioning. I know from experience that planning while going through the ‘alligators’ is the most effective way to conduct the process. By seeing the daily changes resulting from the planning, companies are poised to rise above the current daily crises.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Many a Strategic Plan was written by piecing together song fragments, nostalgic remembrances and movie scenarios, then were aptly converted into contemporary corporate nomenclature. I have spoken at conferences, strategic planning retreats, symposia, workshops and board meetings for hundreds. Honoring our elders.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Understanding the Role of a CRO In today’s volatile business environment, the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) has emerged as one of the most indispensable positions in a successful organization. A CRO must possess a diverse skill set to deliver on various responsibilities, from revenue growth management to strategic initiatives.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Below I’ve listed a few stakeholders and corresponding Core Ideas to pitch to them regarding the European market entry: VP of Sales: “We should enter the Italian and German markets because we can generate $XMM in sales.”. I’m making a pitch for entering the Italian and German markets no matter who my stakeholder is.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 25, 2011

Likewise, those companies taking action to improve their workplace environments can realize significant financial rewards by doing so. Loss of productivity costs resulting from acts of incivility and poor managerial behavior are staggering and yet goes largely unrecognized.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

They set the tone for the entire team, demonstrated long-term strategic planning, cultivated an inclusive culture, and effectively communicated the organization’s mission, vision, and values. Moreover, influential leaders enhance performance by fostering an environment with innovation, learning, and growth.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Create diversions when things get difficult. ’ It creates a great diversion from the real issues. Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Never take the blame.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 9, 2011

SAP ERP HCM helps you effectively plan, assess, optimize, and analyze the performance of your workforce from end to end. StrategyDriven has partnered with TradePub.com to offer you complimentary one-year subscriptions and/or free trials to dozens of leading business publications.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

SAP ERP HCM helps you effectively plan, assess, optimize, and analyze the performance of your workforce from end to end. StrategyDriven has partnered with TradePub.com to offer you complimentary one-year subscriptions and/or free trials to dozens of leading business publications.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

Listen as we explore the techniques managers need to know in order to effectively deal with the diverse employee issues that occur in today’s workplace environment. and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar !

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2016

Diverse Staff. When attempting to crack the foreign market it’s important to equip your business accordingly. One of the best courses of action to take would be to ensure a diverse staff base. Many companies reach this juncture but are unaware of how to proceed because they haven’t planned. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2011

In today’s dynamic, global business environment, HR can no longer focus exclusively on administrative tasks. StrategyDriven has partnered with TradePub.com to offer you complimentary one-year subscriptions and/or free trials to dozens of leading business publications.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

In today’s dynamic, global business environment, HR can no longer focus exclusively on administrative tasks. StrategyDriven has partnered with TradePub.com to offer you complimentary one-year subscriptions and/or free trials to dozens of leading business publications.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 10, 2011

In this environment, employers – major payors of the $2.6 population. population. Without change, the Business Roundtable, an association of major U.S. trillion annual U.S. healthcare bill – are under enormous pressure to find out where their benefit dollars are going.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Community Marketing becomes strategic to a respected organization. Many business plans leave out the community component or treat it lightly deeming it disconnected to the business purpose. Actually, a Community Marketing strategy helps define the business purpose and elevates the concept.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

This is also an excellent time to begin planting the seeds of a knowledge culture – an environment where every member of the team enthusiastically shares what they know for the benefit of the organization. He has a marketing communications degree from Bradley University.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Budgets get more attention than the umbrellas under which they rightfully belong: Strategic Planning and Visioning. By itself, Budgeting does not constitute full-scope planning and business strategy. Does your strategic plan adequately describe what you do? How diverse is the planning committee?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

The challenge for today’s brands is to adapt to this new real-time environment and the increased call for transparency. Now the Eurozone’s largest bank, it has plans to further establish its presence in the U.K., Today’s consumers now have the ability to watch and respond to every brand’s move – positive or negative. and Latin America.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

How you approach people and the environment that you provide for them to work in revolves around seven attributes called: Fairness, Character, Trust, Fun, Celebration, Attentiveness, and Purpose. People who are fortunate to work in these environments are energetic, enthusiastic and loyal. People are the core of this leadership style.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Trend lines, market sizing, and competitive benchmarks that served companies well during periods of gradual market evolution do little good in industries where new technologies create seismic shifts, demand is uncertain, and rivals emerge from left field. A look at root causes of failed and successful efforts gives a clear view.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The payoff is that learning how to present in a captivating way – be it at a formal event or to a client across the conference room table – can be your competitive edge in a business environment where too many companies are confusing communication with noise.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

It is usually technical or sales/marketing in nature. Training is unfairly blamed and scapegoated for pieces of the organizational mosaic that Strategic Planning and cohesive corporate Vision should have addressed early-on. Understand and celebrate diversity. Training is rarely allowed to be extensive. Workplace literacy.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Working hard – when done with a good attitude in the right environment – can actually be quite invigorating. And if you allow them to linger and thrive for too long, your best employees will move on to a more productive environment. But you might be wrong. DO: Institute a zero-tolerance policy for low performers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In the heat of battle, strategic planning that’s incomplete or simply wrong causes leaders to revert to on-the-spot decision making. But it’s still crucial to make sense of the environments in which we operate and foresee how different factors will affect our decisions. Form diverse, strategic groups.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

marketing team offered the same promotion to U.S. Strategic plans are often broken down into different modules for execution by different parts of an organization. But as we have shown in Your Strategy Needs a Strategy , different strategic environments require different approaches to strategy and execution.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 22, 2010

By following these basic rules of etiquette, you’ll be one step closer to generating the results you seek: a more positive work environment, attaining and providing real value to your customers as they follow your daily actions, and a better brand for your company and yourself. Oh – and don’t forget to have fun!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

I’m a big advocate of Strategic Planning and Visioning. I know from experience that planning while going through the “alligators” is the most effective way to conduct the process. By seeing the daily changes resulting from the planning, companies are poised to rise above the current daily crises. About the Author.

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