N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2024

Utilizing a vast network and in-depth industry knowledge, the executive search team at N2Growth focuses on understanding the dynamics within leadership teams. This approach helps minimize the risk of leadership mis-hires and further bolsters the firm’s commitment to improving organizational outcomes.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Importance of Executive Coaching in Leadership Development Executive coaching is pivotal in developing leaders, allowing them to unlock their full potential and drive organizational success. This highly specialized form of coaching is specifically designed to address the unique challenges and complexities that executives routinely face.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 10, 2022

Creating world-class products and services is a discipline that some organizations seem to master, and others struggle to achieve. Radhika Dutt presents a different approach in her book Radical Product Thinking. Radhika’s experience building products in numerous industries is evident in every chapter. Radhika Dutt.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

By engaging in virtual executive coaching, leaders can maximize their time, focus on their development goals, and maintain productivity in demanding roles. Overall, virtual executive coaching empowers leaders to enhance their leadership skills and significantly impact their organizations.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December 2019. Become : The 5 Commitments of Purposeful Leadership by Mark Hannum. Mark Hannum reveals the evidence-based secrets that surfaced from vast data Linkage has collected on leadership effectiveness. For bulk orders call 1-626-441-2024.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2019

Customer satisfaction occurs when a companies products and services live up to brand promise thereby improving reputational value and trust. Key players in today’s business value chain are suppliers and trusted partners as they enable faster innovation cycles with more flexibility. Suppliers and trusted partners.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

By fostering a positive organizational culture and maintaining high levels of employee engagement, the CPO contributes to creating a productive and motivated workforce. By creating a productive and motivated workforce, the CPO drives business success.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 3, 2019

The most impactful and underappreciated aspect of innovation is challenging common and long-held assumptions about how things work. Rossman adds, “If you’re going to innovate, you not only have to be willing to be misunderstood but you must have a thick skin. Not just with your product or service, but broadly and deeply.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2024

While technical competencies and leadership acumen are essential in any executive role, nonprofits often require additional skills specific to their sector. While particular skills, such as leadership, strategic thinking, and communication, are essential for any executive role, specific competencies are necessary in the nonprofit sector.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 21, 2023

It sounds like Sue has some amazing leadership competencies, so you have a lot of good to work with here. As a manager of managers, is Sue able to translate those Most Important Things into practical, tactical behaviors that the team needs to execute well in order to meet their metrics and quality standards?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This includes assessing their leadership skills, strategic thinking abilities, and cultural fit within the organization. We assemble a team of experienced consulting professionals with deep insights into executive leadership and organizational dynamics. The expertise of our evaluation team is a vital component of our process.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

Transparent and consistent communication from the CEO and leadership team is crucial. Remember, performance metrics and customer feedback loops ensure your new culture aligns with strategic goals. Track metrics like employee engagement, retention, and productivity to measure the impact of your efforts.

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Leading Blog

JULY 9, 2021

I MAGINATION is unique to humans and is key to creativity and innovation. If we focus on execution and efficiency alone, the company becomes oriented around financial metrics. In a time when elementary students today will be working in jobs that haven’t yet been created, imagination is the path forward. Surprise triggers imagination.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

In effect, these organizations experienced a leadership gap. Because they didn’t address these leadership gaps, cynicism and disengagement developed among the people they were responsible for leading and it eventually sabotaged performance. The post Closing Your Company’s “Leadership Gap” appeared first on Michael Lee Stallard.

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LDRLB

MAY 8, 2013

All companies, whether they are successful with innovation or not, have one thing in common: they have their own “personalities.” This last week at the Front End of Innovation conference in Boston, I shared a presentation on the Strategies and Tools for Creating a Culture of Innovation. LEAPS Innovation Leadership Competencies.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Since the industrial revolution days, companies and economists have been after means of increasing productivity. While economists seek this increase by means of better policies and procedures, companies aimed at improving employee productivity. The fact is: increased productivity is a result of smart work, not just hard work.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 26, 2023

By mastering these skills, leaders can retain top talent, boost productivity and engagement , and drive overall business success. Stimulating Productivity, Engagement, and Performance Effective people management skills play a vital role in driving productivity, engagement, and performance within teams.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 19, 2010

Online MBA Rankings Recently added Maximize Employee Engagement, Alignment and Productivity Strengthen Your “Critical Connections&# Cartoon Boosts “Voice&# in U.S. Trackback URI | Subscribe to the comments through RSS Feed Leave a reply Subscribe to RSS feed Michael Lee Stallard is President of E Pluribus Partners.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

It helps too to look past typical metrics to see what is actually happening long-term. Dan Honig, a political scientist at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, believes that “metrics can be useful when an organization has a simple, concrete goal such as building a road. Look Beyond Near-Term Targets.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Research from two well-respected organizations makes it clear that we have a big collective blind spot that’s dragging down productivity, innovation and economic performance. All the Six-Sigma, Lean, benchmarking and metrics in the world won’t help us lead people if we fail to recognize these realities.

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HR Digest

APRIL 14, 2023

By using talent analytics to inform their recruitment and selection strategies, organizations can make more informed decisions about who to hire, reducing turnover rates and improving overall productivity. Organizations can create a more inclusive and diverse workplace that promotes creativity, innovation, and collaboration.

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CO2

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Executive coaching has become a pivotal strategy for businesses aiming to navigate the complexities of modern leadership. Understanding the ROI of Executive Coaching is crucial for organizations committed to fostering growth, innovation, and sustainable success. What is ROI of Executive Coaching Mean?

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

But remember, it’s not enough to identify the values that will drive decisions by all team members – Transparent and consistent communication from the CEO and leadership team is crucial. Together, you can build a culture that fuels success, drives innovation, and propels your organization to new heights.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. If you check your ego at the door and give a thoughtful, introspective evaluation of your ability, it is likely that you’ll learn something about your leadership abilities or lack thereof.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In MHO, when it comes to leadership development, the Center for Creative Leadership is second to none. I’ve sung CCL’s praises before – I love their research-based approach, resources, programs, and products. So when I came across CCL’s 2011-2012 Annual Report called What’s Next for Leadership? Makes sense, right?

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 14, 2013

McKinsey Insights ’ Pankaj Ghemawat references a survey of senior executives where 76% of them feel they need to develop global-leadership capabilities, but only 7% of feel they are doing so effectively. Define Your Metrics. Starting from your own performance metrics, you have to extend individualized and group metrics for your team.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Innovation Capital. Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. He offers a unique perspective on innovation and winning in the marketplace. The Components of Innovation Capital.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&# weeklyleader Wharton professor Mike Useem calls it the "Leadership Moment." I appreciate you sharing your thoughts.

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation. Whereas innovation used to be all about research & development, technology, and product or service innovation, what’s required for innovation today goes far beyond the traditional nuts and bolts.

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation. Whereas innovation used to be all about research & development, technology, and product or service innovation, what’s required for innovation today goes far beyond the traditional nuts and bolts.

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

For managers, leadership isn’t one-size-fits-all. Each individual must take their own unique mixture of real-world experience and personal talents to forge their own leadership style. With leadership training, managers can study the core competencies they need to adapt and grow for their entire career.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 3, 2022

“Productivity and innovation soar when employees are inspired by a purpose that aligns with their own values.” The first is directional : Purpose acts as a kind of North Star to help guide strategy and innovation. “Purpose acts as a kind of North Star to help guide strategy and innovation.”

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. There has been no shortage of information published on the topic of Emotional IQ or what’s referred to as EQ in recent years.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 16, 2013

If performance metrics are established based upon the “feeling of the manager” then you will achieve misery, anger and fear…which is mutually exclusive of engagement. Contact Mike to develop team processes and managerial-leadership systems that will increase productivity and completion of great work. Photo Credit.

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Lead on Purpose

JANUARY 22, 2014

The culture of a company can have a major effect on the value—in terms of products and services—that a company provides to its customers. Increase leadership capabilities at all levels of the company. Another recent article discusses specific steps you can take to re-shape you company and free your innovation culture.

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Mike Cardus

APRIL 15, 2013

An earlier post listed the 7 Principles of Leadership Development in no specific order of importance : Necessary Skilled-Knowledge. Education for Leadership. Strategy for Leadership Development. Exploring lessons learned and how an organization and I developed a leadership development process for high potential employees.

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QAspire

MARCH 26, 2018

I created a series of sketch notes for Tiffani Bova’s “ What’s Next ” podcast where she meets brilliant people to discuss customer experience, growth and innovation. Tiffani Bova is a Global Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce. What about those who build the products? And those who recruit people?

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