Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 12, 2021

Your human resources professionals can be wonderful strategic partners and collaborate with you to achieve amazing results—but it takes trust and a solid relationship to get there. You might not be aware of what your HR professionals offer. Or maybe you don’t know how to leverage those relationships.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 2, 2021

Present-forward thinking will get you incremental change and often leaves you stuck in the present. Future-back helps you quiet the noise today to see the faint signals that could disrupt your business or activities tomorrow. Develop Your Vision. And understandably so, we must succeed in the present.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 30, 2023

You’re a young leader with responsibility for a small team and you want more responsibility. And if you manage a young leader, please don’t use those despair-inducing words.) Knowledge and Wisdom as a Young Leader We rarely know as much as we think we do. Get to Know Your Business How does your business make money?

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Leading Blog

JULY 31, 2021

Here are a selection of tweets from July 2021 that you don't want to miss: How To Lead When Your Team is Smarter Than You by @PhilCooke. How Values Change Everything by @leadingincontxt Linda Fisher Thornton. Letter to a friend who may start a new investment platform by @GrahamDuncanNYC. How do you know?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Even though Musk’s approach doesn’t necessarily provide a blueprint to be copied any more than Steve Jobs’ approach did (even though both individuals got results), it does offer lessons to be learned and applied in our own leadership. Did you think I was also going to be a chill normal dude?” He learned to shut down fear,” she says. “If

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 2, 2024

It’s the new year and you need new goals. Here are 24 innovative leadership goals for the new year – including metrics to measure your progress…. Enhance Feedback Systems: Create a more robust feedback system for stakeholders to let you and peers know what’s working and what needs improvement. Face the hard numbers.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

One vaguely controversial, age-old discussion is around the numerical age and corresponding maturity of CEOs and how age, which translates to experience, can impact the trajectory and level of success of a company. . This article was co-authored by Laura Musgrave , Kevin Bijas, and Jeffrey Cohn. The mindset to embrace obstacles.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

For that, executives can partner with an experienced leadership team coach. Think about it: when an executive leader is already the best of the best, how are they expected to get even better on their own accord? Much like the coach of a sports team, a leadership team coach will challenge executives to pursue their full potential.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 28, 2021

As You Return to the Office, Make a Deliberate Plan. You’ve learned a lot about how you work and what makes you most productive over the last year. You had more choices on how to structure your day, when (and with whom) to engage. You figured out what worked best for you.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 25, 2021

How to Develop Entrepreneurial Thinking on Your Team. ” As you can imagine, the answer was often. “Errr, well, no, but …” The conversation after that “but” is at the heart of teaching your team how to think and act like an entrepreneur. How did you work to resolve the conflict?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

So, the question remains: when these top executives want to optimize their performance, become more self-aware, and improve their margins even further, how can they do so? Executive coaching and talent development, in general, have been around for a few decades. Executives are the best business leaders in the world.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I N HIS BOOK Thank You for Being Late , author and award-winning journalist Tom Friedman argues that to understand the twenty-first century, you must realize that “the planet’s three largest forces”—technology, globalization, and climate change—are accelerating all at once. As a business leader, you already get that.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 16, 2021

When you hear stats like 4 million Americans resigned their roles in one month or that 40% are considering a change in job , you might feel nervous about the future of work, and how the heck you build a culture of sustained performance in all that turmoil. If you feel anxious about the future, you’re not alone.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 10, 2023

Start a Conversation to Help Your Boss See Your Genius and Recognize Your Skills You want your boss to see your genius. How do you communicate your worth to get the recognition, support, and advocacy you need? And how do you do it without looking needy? But what if they don’t?

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A good book helps us to do just that. Here are ten books to help you get back into the world of work and make plans for an improved future: How Trust Works : The Science of How Relationships Are Built, Broken, and Repaired by Peter H. We barely know how trust works. How could we possibly repair it?

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Lead from Within

JULY 19, 2022

An important part of my work as an executive leadership coach involves coaching my clients in the areas where they need to be focusing their attention. For me, talent development is like taking in nourishment—it’s not a matter of whether or not you should do it but of when and how to do it best.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 4, 2023

Why do we have to have a conversation about maintaining our infrastructure? When you build a road, you know it’s going to deteriorate. You build a bridge, the engineers will tell you upfront what the serviceable life of that bridge will be. Both parties agreed they needed to invest in infrastructure.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 23, 2020

I realized we could do both at the same time. He developed three principles of short- and long -term performance that forced them to consider the long- and short-term implication in every decision they made: 1. Invest in the future, but not excessively. When he took over, Honeywell was plagued by short-termism. He did both.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

The need for reskilling and upskilling in the working environment has been at the forefront of many HR conversations and employee reskilling especially is likely to require considerable investments in the upcoming years. Unfortunately, the problem is a little more complex than it first appears.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

But if you determine that it is right for you, you should read Secrets of Sand Hill Road by Scott Kupor, the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz. VC firms stay with their investments longer (upwards of ten years), often providing advice, support, a network of relationships, and coaching to improve the odds of success.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2020

But when you think about it, a constant state of comfort is numbing to the human spirit. What do you do when life ambushes you? When you are disabused of the status quo. Times like this can either shut you down or open you up. You must get off the X. The X is the event that hit you.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 11, 2021

I F YOU CAN LEARN from other’s mistakes, you have a better shot at success. He chronicles them in The 10 Biggest Business Mistakes: And How to Avoid Them. If you are the sustainable advantage, be careful. If you are buying a business, make sure it’s not based on the last personality. “If Mistake #2: Lifestyle.

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Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Embarking on the path of personal and professional development is a journey marked by challenges, triumphs, and the continuous pursuit of excellence. Imagine having a peer ally deeply invested in your success, providing unwavering support, valuable feedback, and genuine encouragement.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 9, 2021

It’s often hard to find enough hours in the day for everything we need to do, let alone the things we want to do. You may find it difficult to even think about intentionally sharing time with others, but it’s an important element of leadership. Employees enjoy having time devoted to learning and growth. One-on-one time.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in September 2021. The Art of Statistics : How to Learn from Data by David Spiegelhalter. The Art of Statistics not only shows us how mathematicians have used statistical science to solve these problems — it teaches us how we too can think like statisticians.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The only way to stay relevant and therefore effective is to invest in building your skills as a leader. As you take on more responsibility, the demands on you as a leader change. If disrupting yourself isn’t part of who you are, you will get left behind. When conditions change, you have to change too.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 25, 2019

Have you ever noticed leaders spend a lot of time talking about people only to make the same mistakes over and over again? Without question, your top talent will leave you if you fail to lead and take care of them. I’d like to share some research, observations, and insights on how to stop the talent door from revolving.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 18, 2021

People who are not “thriving in their lives are much more vulnerable and add risk to your organization.”. People who are not “thriving in their lives are much more vulnerable and add risk to your organization.”. If you follow this blog, it is obvious to you that this impacts relationship, creativity and innovation, energy, and trust.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 12, 2022

So, what should you focus on first when your job is to lead a turnaround? For the past six months, he’s been an awesome participant in a cohort of the Next Level Leadership® group coaching program I’ve been leading in his company. Fourteen months later, he and his leadership team have done just that. Seth is the U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Do surgeons have a God complex? Tell us what you think. We invite you to share your perspective and get feedback from iconic leaders like Dr. Rakesh Suri, executive advisors, top leadership professors, and gifted students from around the world. Are doctors stubborn, control freaks? Sometimes, yes.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Given not all CHROs are created equal, how do you differentiate from those who simply sit in the chair versus those who set the chinning bar for the future of the role. Put simply, how do you judge the success of a chief human resources officer, and who qualifies for the 2020 Top CHRO List?

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 3, 2019

If you’re like most workers, you’d like for your contributions and abilities to be more visible to leadership. But how do you get noticed without coming off as arrogant or attention-seeking? Fortunately, there are positive ways to put yourself in a position to be noticed by leadership without sucking up.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

As a business coach and people developer, I address the needs of my clients during an initial in-depth discussion. I was recommended to them by a colleague of theirs who knows and trusts how I work. What can I do to help them or you do to help yourself? Not sure which one to pick? The acronym means.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in April 2021. A handful of traditional companies, including Fidelity Investments, Walmart, and B2W, have adopted these new approaches to reinvigorate their businesses. It's the most expensive, least productive thing companies invest in without even knowing it.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2021

We are pulled out of the present and into lists of things we feel we should be doing. The key is how we think about time and money. Would you rather have less money and more time or work more for more money and have less time? “All That is too many things to do and not enough time to do them. Address Your Why.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 27, 2023

Sometimes it just feels easier to pretend everything’s good, keep the conversation light, and vent when you get home to anyone who will listen. You can’t improve collaboration if you don’t start the conversation, WITH the actual people involved. Thank you for your courage and willingness to open the dialogue.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2020. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. In examining how to lead and teach, renowned Harvard Business School professor Thomas J.

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