Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Guest post by Kris Oestergaard: Today, every business is looking to find ways to streamline its innovative abilities. Those successful in establishing a culture of innovation have addressed their organization’s “immune systems.” Organizational leaders need to address all three in order to transform into innovation champions.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This self-awareness is crucial for effective leadership, as it enables executives to adapt their approach, motivate their teams, and make decisions that align with their values and goals. Through coaching, executives can refine their ability to analyze complex situations, anticipate future challenges, and craft innovative solutions.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

By investing in coaching your board chair, your organization can unlock the full potential of its leadership team, paving the way for innovation, collaboration, and sustainable growth. The board chair plays a crucial role in shaping the strategic direction of an organization and ensuring its long-term success.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

This self-awareness enables them to make informed decisions, allocate resources strategically, and align their efforts toward collective goals. Key Components of Effective Executive Leadership Team Assessments Effective executive leadership team assessments and board evaluations are built upon a foundation of clear goals and objectives.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2011

We want innovation. But innovation creates uncertainty. So while we say we want creativity and innovation we often reject it because it is new, different and risky. The irony is that while we say we like innovation we develop a deep bias against it. Innovation creates uncertainty. We like creativity. It’s engaging.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

I N THE AGE of digitization, businesses face a critical imperative: to adapt and embrace innovation or risk being left behind in a rapidly evolving world. This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Leaders face an array of complex challenges, from navigating organizational change to driving innovation and performance. Many leaders have risen through the ranks using tried and tested methods, but these approaches may no longer be practical in an environment that thrives on innovation and flexibility.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

By supporting their executives through personalized coaching, organizations can ensure their leaders have the tools and skills to navigate complex challenges, drive innovation, and inspire their teams to achieve exceptional results. Once the initial assessments are completed, a meticulous matching process ensues.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 24, 2013

In ‘ Resistance to Change. Fear of Temporary Incompetence ’ … I shared some ideas on how to work with resistance to change : Fear of temporary incompetence. Instead of viewing the resistance as an issue it gave me a chance to see how each person and the team as a whole cooperates. Edgar Schein. Photo Credit. They all agreed.

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Leading Blog

MAY 24, 2021

The goal was to help make the deadly, wasteful, pointless conflict on the ground obsolete with precision bombing. It was their belief that “ We don’t have to slaughter the innocent, burn them beyond recognition, in pursuit of our military goals. But I don’t think we get progress or innovation or joy or beauty without obsessives.”.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2023

. “By recognizing the value of subtraction logic and not taking a one-sided focus on just the addition logic, organizations can foster innovation, adaptation, and employee empowerment,” the authors explain. It entails questioning conventional norms, rules, and behaviors to embrace transformative change and emerging technologies.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

It cannot quite reach that next level of innovation. They sink into inertia because of their clunky tendencies—often with multiple business models, competing goals, and conflicting priorities. Pragmatic leaders have to be innovators. Often, the default reaction is resistance.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 20, 2018

Is there ambiguity or a lack of goal alignment? In other words, they must be able to read the signals and take action to bring those innovations to life. To assure robust discovery, leaders must master the contextual competence of explorers and the ideational competence of innovators. And then there’s the resistance.

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Lead from Within

JULY 17, 2023

Effective leadership requires a combination of skills, knowledge, and qualities that help to inspire, motivate, and guide a others towards a shared goal. It’s about working together as a team to achieve a common goal. Leaders who rely solely on their control risk alienating their team and stifling creativity and innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Advantage 4: See Goals More Clearly and Purposefully. Another key advantage of partnering with an executive coaching company is that executives gain the skills and knowledge necessary to improve their ability to establish and take action toward achieving goals. There are many benefits when executives lead with empathy.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 26, 2023

Often, these “how can we” conversations that combine two seemingly opposing values lead to innovations and business process improvements. And you’d never get the innovations without having a discussion about the conflicts. But as she tried to identify the improvement opportunities, she couldn’t.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2023

Understanding EOS Implementation EOS is a comprehensive framework that helps businesses achieve clarity, alignment, and traction toward their vision and goals. Strategy 1: Define Clear Objectives and Goals The first step towards a successful EOS implementation is to define clear objectives and goals.

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CO2

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Bad leadership encompasses a range of behaviors, qualities, and styles that negatively impact an organization , its employees, and its goals. Inability to Inspire or Motivate : Leadership involves guiding others towards a shared goal or vision. What is Bad Leadership?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2020

The book's goal is to help readers learn about the intricacies of teaching and managing, and to impart lessons about how teachers can create a unique teaching atmosphere. Think Outside the Building : How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time by Rosabeth Moss Kanter.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 24, 2014

Asking the right questions helps us figure out what matters, where opportunity lies, and how to achieve our goals.” Example after example demonstrate how often off-beat “why” questions were at the foundation of many innovations. Creativity & Innovation' We are drowning in answers. What we need today are good questions.

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2021

Courage to innovate and grow. Good questions to ask are: What are my key values and goals? Shaking while talking, going silent, or literally fleeing the situation because we’re scared at the first sign of resistance doesn’t help. W ITHOUT A DOUBT, courage matters—and we need more of it. Courage to see the right thing done.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 16, 2017

In fact, I contend, almost every innovation or breakthrough comes because of a constraint, forcing you to think in different ways. Truth be told, the balloon animals all looked alike but how can you resist a darling now-six year-old who proclaims she is “self-taught”. Time to re-frame. Like the three young girls I met last weekend.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 21, 2021

“Preventing climate change cannot be the only goal of decarbonisation policies,” the researchers say. “Unless low-carbon policies are fair, affordable and economically competitive, they will struggle to secure public support – and further delays in decarbonisation could be disastrous for the planet.”

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HR Digest

APRIL 10, 2023

HR plays a critical role in managing the people’s side of change , boosting employee engagement, and ensuring that employees are equipped to navigate change successfully and that the organization can achieve its goals. Effective change management can lead to increased employee engagement, productivity, and innovation.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The research found that the tactics used were highly context specific depending particularly on the goals they wanted to achieve in each set of circumstances. Others used a combination of the two approaches. “A A troubling outcome of our work is that women must never stop adapting to gendered expectations,” the authors explain.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 9, 2013

Resistance to Change and Learning Anxiety. Management must be OK with the team changing the steps, as long as the change goal is met you cannot micromanage the process. The district managers operated under a control and command system and asking them to switch to coaching & feedback was met with great resistance.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 25, 2019

Creating psychological safety is essential in a world where innovation, integrity, and renewal can make the difference between success and failure. In fact, psychological safety is conducive to setting ambitious goals and working toward them together. It means that people believe they can—and must—be forthcoming at work.

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CO2

JUNE 14, 2023

They bulldoze their plans through and others, who weren ’ t consulted, wind up resisting them — no surprise there. How can we do it better? ” (Innovator) ● Assess alternative methods of taking action, such as, “ Will this help us reach our goal? Ineffective leaders assume they know the answers.

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CO2

JUNE 14, 2023

They bulldoze their plans through and others, who weren ’ t consulted, wind up resisting them — no surprise there. How can we do it better? ” (Innovator) ● Assess alternative methods of taking action, such as, “ Will this help us reach our goal? Ineffective leaders assume they know the answers.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The study of how individuals perceive renunciation of specific tasks and goals has been previously overlooked. “This paper aims to be the first to understand such experiences by exploring how organizational participants approach renunciation in the workplace,” the authors state. “Our

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Talent Anarchy 1

AUGUST 26, 2023

People and businesses will always need to move goods and passengers, making this industry resistant to economic downturns. In fact, it’s at the forefront of innovation. This can include bonuses for meeting delivery targets, safety records, or fuel efficiency goals, providing opportunities to boost your income.

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 11, 2012

Dissatisfaction drives change and inspires innovation – all leaders feel it. Criticism, on the other hand, inspires fear, resistance, defensiveness, excuses, anger, or bitterness. The line between healthy dissatisfaction and destructive criticism is narrow. Dissatisfaction points to potential, growth, and improvement.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 22, 2018

What seems like resistance is often fear of the unknown. They resist the new way because they’re afraid of losing competency, status, control, relationships, turf, meaning, and/or identity. This fear mires them in resistance. As a leader, you can support individuals to move through this process. His feelings are justified.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

As human beings, we resist change and wallow in safe spaces. Establish goals and timelines. Establishing a specific goal to be reached at a particular time gives you a clear path to traverse. Without goals, a timeline is simply a schedule. Break the big plan into achievable goals. Start Networking. Strive for More.

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Leading with Trust

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Once the vision and direction are clear, the leader’s role shifts to service—helping people accomplish the agreed-upon goals. Your responsibility is to help them accomplish their goals through training, feedback, listening, and communication. Creativity, innovation, productivity, efficiency, and morale flourish.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 5, 2018

Many, if not most, orders to do the wrong thing concern meeting numerical quotas or goals. He argued against tying job performance ratings and monetary rewards to numerical goals. At this writing, the pressure to meet numerical performance goals is roiling the entire education profession. Slow down the action.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 23, 2021

The study suggests that when it’s cheaper to pay small fines for safety violations than it is to actually provide safe workplaces, many organizations will choose the path of least financial resistance. The goal of improving the longevity of a business conflicts with the goal of protecting the workforce.”

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