N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

They are subject matter experts in their field, the brightest minds, and equipped with the immense technical skills and experience to be at the helm of the world’s most powerful and disruptive companies. Executives are the best business leaders in the world.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In the world of business, leadership and management are often depicted as two distinct circles. While they require different focuses, skill sets, and priorities, there’s an essential overlap at the intersection of these roles. A remarkable leader doesn’t always make an exceptional manager, and vice versa.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In this article, we’re going to take a look at self-awareness in leadership, and how knowing yourself has the potential to make you a better leader altogether. Mistakes are meant to be made along the way because they teach us how to manage the ups and downs that come with being an effective leader.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 22, 2024

Kandi Wiens , author of the new book, Burnout Immunity , you can learn how to build immunity to burnout. More specifically, Wiens’ research shows that professionals who exhibit a high degree of emotional intelligence ( EI ) have the ability to clearly perceive, understand, and productively manage emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 22, 2022

One of the most important ones is leadership skills for the workplace. And when you’re looking for work, you want to know that your potential employer will be able to count on your leadership and team development skills—whether it’s in a team environment or when leading a project from start to finish. Self-awareness .

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Many competencies play a role in great leadership, but the most critical is probably emotional intelligence—the ability to identify and manage your own emotions and to understand the emotions of others. Here are the basics: Cultivate self- awareness. Manage self-regulation. Acquire social skills.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Awkward news: You’re younger than the employees you’ll be managing. However, it has been known to make young managers uncomfortable or nervous. How can you effectively manage employees with far greater work and life experience? Luckily, managing older employees isn’t as mysterious or unattainable as you may think.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

However, these leaders, often industry pioneers, value continuous self-improvement and the deepening of their specialized skills. It’s a collaborative journey that encourages leaders to reflect on their strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots, ultimately leading to enhanced self-awareness.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Ralph Kilmann, the co-creator of the Thomas Kilmann conflict mode instrument (TKI), discusses his lifelong work on how to resolve conflict and improve collaboration. Kilmann explains that his interest in conflict stems from his personal experiences growing up in a family affected by conflict and his academic studies on conflict management.

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2020

Leaders will need to bring their “Best Self” to work every day — to bring your Best Self into every meeting and into every conversation. Being your Best Self requires you to be more “selfless’’ and more “other” oriented. Visualize, for example, how you would behave to be kind. Inner Peace does not come easily.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 5, 2024

Setting personal development goals is a powerful way for leaders to enhance their skills, mindset, and overall effectiveness. Improve Communication Skills: Effective communication is at the core of leadership. Work on enhancing your listening skills, delivering clear messages, and fostering open, honest conversations with your team.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Fortunately, the authors' book provides a proven series of easy-to-implement skills, techniques and powerful strategies via what they call the Communication Code that anyone can use to make their communication, relationships deeper and more productive. Maximize your situational awareness and collaborate like a pro.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 14, 2023

Leaders know how valuable coaching conversations can be but it’s not always easy to find the time. In this episode, Wendy Swire, author of Anytime Coaching: Unleashing Employee Performance, gives us effective and impactful coaching skills to use at any time. 14:47 Taming your FRG (fast results gene) to be a more effective coach.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Leading effectively requires emotional intelligence, which involves being able to recognize, understand, and manage one’s own emotions as well as other people’s emotions. Therefore, a leader should work on developing emotional intelligence by gaining self-awareness, managing emotions, and seeking growth opportunities.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Abilities : Your competencies that help you integrate your knowledge, skills, and experiences so you can respond to situations in the most effective way possible. Know-how : Your knowledge and skills. Question: What can help advance one's XQ awareness and abilities?

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 9, 2024

Making Hybrid Work for you and your Team Managers can face challenges when implementing effective hybrid working. The research highlights the crucial role that management skills play in overcoming the obstacles to making hybrid work and the impact of targeted training. Yet, many organisations have adopted a reactive approach.

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Rich Gee Group

JULY 31, 2023

A Game-Changing Blueprint for Empowering Middle Managers Designing and delivering a top-notch middle manager program is all about delivering relevance and value. A well-crafted program must address middle managers’ specific challenges, equip them with the essential tools to overcome these obstacles, and make the journey rewarding.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

How to be Even More Effective and Helpful as You Coach Your Team. If you’re a manager, you likely hear a lot about not only leading and organizing but also being a coach for your team. And, it can be hard to know exactly how to make that happen in the midst of everything else you have going on. Talk in code (e.g.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 3, 2018

There are a lot of skills that make up good leadership, but there is one quality that is possibly the most challenging, that is self-awareness, because self-awareness requires you to focus on yourself—not the easiest thing to do for an outwardly focused leader. Why is self-awareness even important to leaders?

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Self-Obsessed: Leaders who are overly focused on their own needs and desires can come across as self-absorbed and disconnected. In conclusion, incompetence in leadership is often the result of a lack of awareness or understanding of one’s own limitations and the needs of their team.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 9, 2018

One of the most important skills for any manager is listening. We are born with the ability to listen, yet somehow managers, at some point in their careers, seem to forget how to use this natural born gift. Listening is one of the most consistently lowest rated behaviors in 360 degree feedback assessments for managers.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In the recruitment process , the role of the hiring manager is very crucial. The hiring manager needs to be fully equipped to do an effective job, and for that, good recruitment skills training is essential. A manager needs to build a team of workers that is cohesive, collaborative, experienced, and technically sound.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

To successfully prepare a business for the future, leaders must possess expert change management skills. However, as a leadership coaching professional, I don’t view these skills as “soft” but as essential. Embrace disruption: Change management is an important aspect of future-proofing an organization.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 4, 2022

A good manager is a great asset to both an organization and its employees. Not only are they able to manage their team well, but they also possess some strong leadership skills that can have a positive effect on those around them. How to Know If Your Manager is Good. They are able to listen more than they speak.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 5, 2023

It ’ s important to take time for self – ref lection , to be honest and accountable for your decisions and actions. Trust yourself: As a leader , you have the solutions and skills that you need to face any challenge. Shut down the negative talk: Neg ative self – talk can be destructive when it comes to resilience.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

By understanding the human paradox of simultaneous continuity and change, ambiguity, and complexity, humanizing leadership develops the personality and conceptual skills for successful juxtaposition of opposites to find the sweet spot. We are aware that structure follows strategy and function follows form, but relationships run the show.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

As a leader, you’re probably aware of the term “emotional intelligence” (EQ) by now—the capacity to be aware of, control, and express one’s emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically. People on teams are hungry for help with how to handle their groups’ emotions and relationships.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 2, 2023

Emotional intelligence, also known as EQ, is the ability to understand and manage emotions of self and others. It is an important trait for leaders, as it enables them to effectively interact with and manage others. By understanding and managing their own emotional awareness, leaders can effectively navigate conflicts.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

One of the most exciting and challenging things about leadership is that it requires mastery of a diverse set of skills. You need technical skills, specialized skills for your business or industry, managerial skills—the list goes on. Here are the top 10 soft skills every leader needs: Embodying s elf-awareness.

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Lead from Within

JULY 7, 2023

Here are six reasons why it’s more important than ever to be coachable as a leader: Develop new skills and perspectives: Coaching can help leaders to develop new skills and perspectives that are relevant to their specific goals and challenges. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

As a leadership coach, one of the most common questions I hear from my clients is “How can I unlock my full leadership potential?” ” Unlocking your leadership potential is not an overnight process and it requires a combination of self-awareness, skill-building, and consistent effort.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 1, 2022

Second, self-awareness. Every startup deserves a team of self-aware executives. Third, excellent listening skills. Great startup executives should also know how to listen actively. Understanding their impact on other people and their abilities can develop themselves, their teams, and the startup.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Here’s another must-read book to add to your list as you transition from manager to leader. The goal of this book is to provide an intensely practical guide to making that transition by sharing insights, stories, and approaches from hundreds of leaders to build the skills you will need to make the leap to leader,” explains Bryant.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 18, 2019

Skills and reputation is incredibly important in leadership. So what skills and attributes should a leader cultivate to build and to master their leadership? So what skills and attributes should a leader cultivate to build and to master their leadership? Self-awareness. I cannot stress this skill enough.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 30, 2020

Knowing how to read people is an important leadership skill. A big part of leadership is the ability to manage groups of diverse individuals, and the key to making that work is developing your ability to see differences in people so you can employ those differences for everyone’s benefit. How to Succeed as A New Leader.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 20, 2021

14:22 – Then, Rita shares how leading for justice requires you to speak and listen without judgment. 15:26 – How to start your accountability conversations to maintain relationships and set a connected, “I’m on your side” atmosphere. How to respond when you’re instinct is to defend yourself.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

But even those sitting at the top need to identify ways to optimize themselves, bettering their work and diving deeper into their highly specialized skills. 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? Optimized for virtual engagements.

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