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Improve Your Positive Influence: Eliminate Common Obstacles

Leading Blog

It’s very easy to have what CEO Seah Chin Siong of the Singapore Institute of Management calls “goal erosion,” defining it as “Doing what is easy, going through the motions, but not doing the hard things the ultimate mission requires.” She was formerly with McKinsey, working with MNCs and local companies in the US, China, and India.

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Executive Onboarding: How to Set Up Your New Execs for Success

N2Growth Blog

Data compiled by McKinsey shows that nearly half of all leadership transitions fail, and just two years after executive transitions, up to 46% of them “are regarded as failures or disappointments.” For example, at N2Growth, we have various ways to approach the assessment and evaluation portion of an executive search.

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Executive Coaching Company Breakdown: How to Get the Most Out of Coaching for Strategic Change

N2Growth Blog

For example, executive coaching is often likened to general business coaching, which is an incorrect and potentially dangerous comparison to make. But a study by McKinsey revealed that in today’s business landscape, employees also want to feel valued by their organization.

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Why do so many leadership development programs fail?

Great Results Team Building

Way back in January 2014, in an issue of McKinsey Quarterly , a group of researchers attempted to answer this question: “Why do so many leadership development programs fail?” Reflection that is not translated into new and consistent action is a recipe for failure if the goal is helping people to learn a new skill.

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From Clashes to Collaboration – 7 Steps to a Thriving Team Culture After a Corporate Merger

Great Results Team Building

Align strategic goals with cultural direction – will the new culture be more risk-taking or conservative, hierarchical or flat? Your goal isn’t a mushy mix, but a refined taste of excellence. Bring Everyone Together: Craft a Cohesive Story Focus on common goals to overcome the initial hurdles of integration.

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Organizational Health and Performance: Beyond Performance 2.0

Leading Blog

P ERHAPS it goes without saying, but a healthy organization will achieve more than an organization that is too sick to support your goals. Health is how effectively an organization works together in pursuit of a common goal. Here are the five frameworks for health : Aspire : Health goals. Health is about the how.

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Employee Relationships is a Serious Employer Responsibility

HR Digest

As such it is concerned with how to gain people’s commitment to the achievement of an organization’s business goals and objectives in a number of different situations.” What Are Some Employee Relations Examples? Any interaction between an employee and their employer could be an example of employee relations.

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