N2Growth Blog

MAY 12, 2019

As a coach, my goal is always to see my client succeed. I want them to have experiences that will lead them to achieve their goals: increased sales, better performance, healthy growth, stronger culture and ultimately a better organization. Organizations rarely communicate effectively and often enough. 2 by their side.

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Great Results Team Building

MARCH 9, 2022

Every year, for those who follow sports, there ae key dates on the calendar that fans of college football or basketball get excited about. Athletes across the country choose a school and are celebrated on sports talk radio… They are applauded on ESPN for their choice of a new place to work… It is very exciting.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

If you’ve ever played a team sport like soccer or basketball, you quickly learn that while it is helpful to have an “all-star” player, the best teams leverage the talents of all their players on the field and elevate everyone’s game in order to consistently win. How are we going to work together to achieve our goals?

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Great Results Team Building

JULY 1, 2022

Would you rather compete in a summer Olympic sport or a winter Olympic sport? And if you want to improve collaboration, trust, and accountability in your organization, planning a more intentional corporate team building event may be a valuable idea. Would you rather win a Nobel Prize or an Oscar?

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

There’s something very powerful about sports metaphors. That goal is a high hurdle. Winning Organizations are in Lockstep. Bob Rathbun has worked with and around some of the greatest sports stars in history, and he makes a really good point during our interview in this episode of “Aim Higher.”

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

It’s commonly seen in a sporting context, but brands have also capitalized on it to help communicate their journey. Research from the University of South Florida shows how leaders can also cultivate this underdog spirit within their organizations to help give teams the confidence to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

That’s the goal. Ethical leadership means embodying the principles of sustainability in every decision and encouraging everyone in the organization to follow suit. Engage Your Team: Sustainability is a team sport. Plus, many governments and organizations offer incentives for adopting green practices.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

When it comes to appreciation at work, what most organizations need is more people saying “thank you” more often. If you’re familiar with the Gallup organization and its extensive research on employee engagement, you know they focus on a dozen key drivers of employee engagement, known as the Q12 survey.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The reason they do this is high-performance leaders understand that their number one goal is to create more high-performance leaders so they can move up to their next position and create more value. I have grown up around high-performance sport. High-performance in the context of sport covers a process that goes like this.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

A great way to think about this is to consider how a sports team works together to achieve a common goal. Rather, they care about the end result because they feel a sense of shared ownership in what the team achieves, regardless of who might score the winning goal.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2023

Learn to Influence by Storytelling One of the most fundamental tasks of a leader is to influence people within the organization to accomplish the company’s goals. This change, however, does not necessarily mean changing the end goal. But Bezos never tried to hide his defeat in such ventures.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 2, 2018

These symbols of experience are some of the core metrics and focuses that organizations hone in on to ensure they are meeting differentiation and success in delivering the best experience to their external customers. Just a casual perusal of many of these mentioned gives cause to ponder what a great LX can do for any of those organizations.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 4, 2014

In sports, no one questions the importance of having a good coach. Do you - and your organization- need more than a business coach? A lack of well-defined goals - specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and tangible (deadlines and attributable responsible people). Are you challenged with any of these?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 20, 2023

Well, you need not worry because we’ve got some valuable tips to help you achieve both goals. Why not run a sports injury rehab clinic? Yes, developing partnerships with other organizations and businesses in your community can help you attract more patients. Let’s get started, practitioners!

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

The Secret of Culture Change : How to Build Authentic Stories That Transform Your Organization by Manoel Amorim, Jay B. Greg Harden spent over 30 years building them at the University of Michigan and gained national recognition when 60 Minutes Sports profiled him as "Michigan's Secret Weapon." Champions aren't born. They're built.

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Great Results Team Building

JUNE 4, 2020

Whether it is in sports or business, the better each individual buys into their role, the more successful the organization can become. This article will, hopefully, shed some light on this dynamic and how it can be maximized in a sports or business setting. For any team or organization to be successful, this needs to happen.

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Great Results Team Building

JULY 7, 2021

Strong and engaging leadership keynote speakers can help to jog skills that may currently be out of practice, as well as share new leadership strategies and tactics to improve productivity and connection within any unique organization, all while boosting company morale.

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Leading with Trust

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

Growing up playing sports, coaching my kids’ sports teams, and being a sports fan in general has taught me numerous lessons about life and leadership. Have clear roles and expectations —One of the primary ways mistrust develops in a team is a lack of focus and clarity on the team’s purpose, goals, and roles of its members.

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Leading Blog

MAY 19, 2020

Interactions like those help transform a group of individuals into a team united in reaching a common goal. When teams work remotely, however, those spontaneous conversations can no longer happen organically. We talk about sports (when they are happening), our weekend, the exploits of our kids, the latest meme we enjoyed.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Auster and Trish Ruebottom created a scale that categorizes individuals in an organization according to their receptivity to change initiatives : Sponsors, promoters, indifferent fence-sitters, cautious fence-sitters, positive skeptics, and negative skeptics. To do so, one must promote the change’s end goal.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Living 13 miles away from Loudon, New Hampshire, places me next door to New England’s largest sporting venue, the New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Flags are given in organizations as well, but in a more subtle sense. Do your people see the red flags that go up in your organization? That doesn’t have to be so in your organization.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

The Situational Leadership ® Model has been a viable tool organizations have relied upon to build leaders and drive behavior change for over 50 years. an objective or a goal the leader needs to pursue through the behavior of others) There will always be a follower! (a For example: There will always be a task! (an

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 3, 2019

This is true in sports, education, business, family life—anywhere goals are set and achieved. People always matter way more than your organization or accomplishments. No wonder he’s still so deeply appreciated when he comes to town in a ballpark that he once called home. Unfortunately, the time to celebrate passes quickly.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 15, 2023

Or to play for a professional sports team, write a novel, or perform with a well-regarded symphony or ballet company. Stories are great, but what they need are specific ways to harness that ambition today, as opposed to a far-off goal and generalized advice. Who in our organization do you admire in terms of where you’d like to be?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 26, 2019

I T SHOULD go without saying that coaching as opposed to just managing people, is the key to developing high-performance organizations and teams. These primary environments could represent one’s dorm room, home, place of work, government, sports team, nature, and especially one’s body and mind. Leaders must be coaches.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 8, 2018

At the time Cooke was a very successful serial entrepreneur, in the media and sports arenas. Over my career I figured out that too much complexity in an organization, and too much data, can hamper the doers. “My boy, there are two kinds of people in the business world, doers and thinkers. Which one will you be?”.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 30, 2016

And the impact of these distractions on workplace productivity is quite significant, as 75% of employers state that their organizations lose two or more hours of productivity every day because their employees are distracted.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 7, 2013

Here were the 3 core styles they noted: 1) “Sports Coaches” – energetic, organized, goal setter, teacher, no-nonsense & tough, strictly professional. Setting challenging goals in the context of a positive culture of accountability. Backing off and letting them take the credit.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 28, 2021

Enduring power comes from telling stories that unite —Abraham Lincoln is an excellent example of a leader who used the power of storytelling to communicate important truths and unite people in working toward a common goal. Families, sports teams, businesses, and organizations of all kinds have a history that is communicated through story.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 5, 2019

In this growing knowledge economy, organizations realize the critical importance of teamwork for sustained excellence. Yet, many organizations struggle with an individualistic culture, and employees have negative team experiences. Having consistently performed as a winning organization longer than any other U.S.

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Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 7, 2019

Recently retired Kansas State football coach Bill Snyder famously crafted 16 Goals for Success which he used with his football teams over his decades of coaching. Goal #13 stated, “Expect to win… and truly believe we will.” The Mission and Values of the Organization. What types of belief should a leader have?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Productivity in an organization is no longer solely dependant on an individual’s technical competencies. Team bonding activities have also gained more popularity post-pandemic as employers are grappling to rebuild positive organization cultures. For example, Organizing team bonding activities in Singapore is now more than just fun.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MAY 25, 2020

Leadership is not always about being the loudest voice in the room, it’s about the ability to bring a group of people together around one goal. For the first time in my professional life, I’d have the overall responsibility for the success or failure of an organization and, in turn, everyone who worked there. Was I ready?

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Decker Communication

JULY 20, 2021

He doesn’t know anything about the sport, yet he focuses on culture and getting the best out of his players. Moving from organization to organization and to areas of the business you might not have expertise in. Who wouldn’t want to go into a new company or organization and have an impact?

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 5, 2022

At least not at your organization. Organizations face many trials. Sometimes I find myself thinking about my next goal in life such as a better job, better house, etc. Endurance sports are a great way to realize and experience leadership lessons in life. Endurance sports are a physical manifestation of leadership.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 22, 2023

Kettl share compelling and instructive stories about some of today’s most successful bridgebuilders—federal state, and local government leaders who transcend boundaries and partner across sectors, to achieve success and meet their goals. No one organization can go it alone on most modern issues.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 24, 2017

Do Less Better is also a culture and a strategy of organizations and their leaders. They have added a vast array of canned goods, juices, fresh and frozen foods, organics, and baby food to their core soup business. Today, 40% of Nike’s revenue comes from apparel and sporting goods. Do Less Better is the name of my book.

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