Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 14, 2023

While virtual tools are invaluable, there’s something about gathering, and feeling the room’s energy, that can supercharge a team’s cohesion and creativity. First, it’s amazingly high-energy. For example, people often choose one of our leadership books as a thank-you for their inspiration.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Jacobs provides an instructive example from his family life: When we put our kids to bed at night, we’d ask them the same question many parents do: How was your day? I learned, for example, to turn my internal chatter to my advantage by reframing negative thoughts as useful data rather than objective reality.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

It is embodied in the timeless mandate of “leading by example.” The terrain is treacherous and ever-shifting, from the rise of right-wing politics to conflicts spanning continents and through the quicksand of global crises, including housing, migration, and energy.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 10, 2014

Guest post By Karen Hough When I ask people to define executive presence, they pause, and usually hold out their arms as they search for words. Eventually, after throwing out a few words like “strong,” “smart” or “gravitas,” they give me an example. Why is finding executive presence so stressful right now? Succession!

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2024

It’s so depressing and hard to feel energy for anything.” “I These are just a few examples of the many cross cultural leadership challenges you might face. For example, you might be tempted to judge a team that prizes respect for authority and think, “They won’t ever tell me the truth and I can’t count on them.”

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 23, 2022

The extrovert-introvert divide isn’t about personality—it’s defined by how people gain energy. Introverts, on the other hand get energy from solitude. A perfect example is an introverted leader I coach. Just as they draw energy from the external world, they expend it on others. 1 N A T I O N A L B E S T S E L L E R.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 5, 2024

Practice Self-Care: Leaders often neglect self-care, but it’s essential for maintaining well-being and energy. Become a Role Model: Ultimately, leadership is about setting an example. But in time, every executive reaches a point when their performance suffers and failure persists.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

an executive hears a presentation and immediately responds with questions, concerns, critiques and challenges, without a pause to consider the depth and breadth of work entailed, the long hours, and the creative thinking. Every ounce of energy they spend on a project is a gift. True gratitude involves a deeper pause of thanksgiving.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Guest post by Bonnie Marcus : I earned my certification as an executive coach in 2006. Coaching for executives was a relatively unknown field and untapped resource. Now, almost a decade later, there has been a shift in perception and subsequent use of executive coaches.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

So, with that said, an introduction to the language of Performance Driven Execution is important because it is based on and uses six simple words to support a process transformation initiative and a new way to play to increase organizational performance and leadership across an organization’s culture. OrgSx (to get it done, execution).

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As an executive leadership coach, here are five important tips I coach my clients, to help them avoid becoming overwhelmed: Prioritize self-care: Leaders need to take care of themselves physically, emotionally, and mentally in order to be able to lead effectively. True leadership begins with leading by example. #1

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

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. As a result, he would identify the solution, inform others, and tell them to execute. For example, they are decisive when they need to be collaborative.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 29, 2020

I recently had the privilege of speaking with Mehdi Tazi Chief Executive Officer at Beassur Marsh , a Morrocan based insurance brokerage during our global leadership tour. JH: In a recent international leadership survey, over 80% of CEOs answered that they do not have the talent to execute their current corporate strategy.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Falk offers “proven step-by-step tools and approaches that will make it easier and less energy-consuming for you to master your mind and to think and act deliberately in your professional life.” Most professionals are evaluated and rewarded based on whether they have executed an activity and not on what they achieved by doing so.

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Engaging Leader

JUNE 10, 2013

Link to podcast episode: The Game of Work: Unlocking Employee Engagement and Energy | with Chuck Coonradt Jesse Lahey: Welcome to the show, Game Changers. This is the show for CEO’s, HR Executives and other business leaders to learn about internal gamification. Transcriptions'

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 18, 2020

As an executive leadership coach, part of my job is helping my clients learn how to refuel when they feel depleted so that they can get back on track. But if you don’t, it becomes progressively harder to replenish your physical and mental energy. Examine how you’re spending your time and energy. Review your current situation.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 8, 2020

I have seen examples in multinational enterprises, where the appointment of a new CEO resulted in a change of atmosphere within a few weeks. There’s no doubt that leaders like this radiate powerful energy that inspires others to change their behavior. In particular, the speed which that effect takes place.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I know this because as a Verizon executive I’ve fought this battle many times for the high-performers on my team, and the answer was “pick one.” ”I don’t really have any specific examples, but it’s become a real issue.” I’m struggling to come up with examples too.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

You work hard to set a positive example for your team. All this emotional splash sucks the energy out of people, limits productivity, and undermines your credibility. For example, “I believe in us because when we solved that challenge, we proved we can handle this one.”. Overused assets can ruin a positive leadership presence.

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Lead from Within

MAY 19, 2021

If you’re in the habit of speaking over others, interrupting, and making statements without allowing others to respond or express their own thoughts, you kill the energy and ideas of your team. Competition can spur people to do great work, but if you’re competing against those you lead, you’re setting a bad example. Competitiveness.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A meticulous process may require extra time on the front end but will save enormous time, energy, and money on the back end. For example, an attorney who is licensed to practice in your state is a must-have, but a preferred qualification might be that he or she is licensed in adjoining states. Or, “Have you ever fired anyone?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2014

For example, IBM hired Lou Gerstner as CEO in 1990s rather than promoting from within. If you are an executive appointed to lead an organization of several hundred people, then you need to go out and visit people. There’s nothing worse than a new and unknown executive issuing orders from their office by email.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 5, 2017

For example, one rule of restraint I’ve always found helpful for running is the “10% Rule.” For example, we have limits on the financial value of a gift, or a policy on what can or cannot be said in public about the firm’s strategic plans. Focus conserves energy that is needed to perform today as you transform for tomorrow.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 25, 2020

For example, when I am putting a suit and tie on for an important meeting, I am signaling that I am different in this suit and tie. I take several deep breaths, and I “shake” my body to remove any negative energies. And the pain, stress, and dread she felt at the executive administration meetings that she had to attend.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 16, 2020

They’re quick to give up their personal time and energy to get the job done. When you make self-care a priority, you strengthen yourself for the long run and set a good example for your team. Lead by example. Set a good example of effective practices, a balanced work life, positivity and self-care. Learn to say no.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 15, 2020

Many new executives come out of business school still unprepared with desired competencies when entering into potential leadership positions. JH: If the business environment is as non-standard as your imply, what would be some soft skills that new executives should begin to think about in terms of competencies?

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 11, 2012

"Leadership is about managing energy, first in yourself and then in those around you.". In a recent UNH Executive Development Program , the instructor, Professor Jim Clawson, challenged a group a senior managers to reflect on how they are managing their personal energy, and as leaders, the impact they are having on their employee’s energy.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Changing meetings from time wasting to time valued, from energy sapping to energy producing, requires a different approach to designing, leading, and contributing in meetings. Identify the habits that work for and against energy-producing, time-valued meetings. Here are two examples. It means a change in direction.

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Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

If there is one maxim which describes the frustration many C-suite executives and senior level managers feel when trying to trying to get a strategy executed, it is: “People know what they are supposed to do. Strategy execution therefore merits special attention. They just don’t do it.”.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 12, 2016

Perhaps now more than ever it's time for the new book by John Blakey called, The Trusted Executive: Nine Leadership Habits That Inspire Results, Relationships, and Reputation. An organization full of such teams will outperform an organization populated by teams who are wasting energy covering their backs and playing political games.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

There’s strong evidence to support that strategic thinking is one of the most important executive competencies. For example, being able to think strategically in the high-tech industry involves a nuanced understanding of strategy topics such as network effects, platforms, and standards. Provide Opportunities For Broad Exposure.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 31, 2021

For example: “I’ve noticed that in the past month you come to me with four different ideas about how we should improve security, revamp the training program, change our workforce management, and reorganize product management. Encourage your schmoozers to build the confidence needed for execution. Schmoozers. Rather, they’re normal.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I remember a couple of months into the business talking with a new client who had just been promoted into his first executive role. It was the same look that had more or less been reflected back in the mirror to me most mornings years earlier when I was a corporate executive feeling way over my head in the biggest job of my life.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Remind people that they should stop for lunch, take breaks, and log out at the end of the work day—and make sure that you lead through example by doing those things yourself. In return, they’ll have more energy and focus when they’re working. Provide resources. Maintain regular check-ins. The Leadership Gap. buy now.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 9, 2020

Initially, the feelings might be similar: lack of energy, feeling disconnected at work, upset, frustrated, and possibly angry. Example: I am good at writing press release. Example: in one of my sessions, a woman worked as an assistant to a senior executive. Are you burned out or bored out? There’s a difference!

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Great Results Team Building

MARCH 21, 2023

For example, working with a social prompt app can significantly improve employee connection if your team struggles with interoffice communication. For example, notifying team members about birthdays and workplace anniversaries, especially for remote team members, can help everyone feel connected socially.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

Beyond Planning: Executing and Staying Accountable Imagine merging two restaurants, one known for fine dining, the other for fast food. Leadership Commitment: Setting the Example Remember, tools and strategies are powerful, but leadership commitment is the true north star. Encourage employees to share their perspectives and concerns.

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