N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Through focused conversations, targeted assessments, and personalized strategies, executive coaching helps entrepreneurs identify their blind spots, enhance their leadership skills, and make informed decisions that align with their vision and goals.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

In the realm of leadership, vulnerability is often perceived as a weakness. Vulnerability is a strength, a catalyst for growth and authenticity in leadership. Through exercises that emphasize mindfulness and gratitude, leaders learn to appreciate the present moment, embracing joy without fear of future uncertainties.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 21, 2018

Be a force for change, disrupt, innovate, energize. Economic uncertainty. In VIOLENT LEADERSHIP , Middleton shares his aggressive leadership style for our turbulent times. Despite its abrasive ring, the term " Violent Leadership " has nothing to do with inciting conflict or sanctioning brutality. "It

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Lead from Within

APRIL 7, 2020

In those moments it’s especially important that leaders work to keep everyone focused and productive while coping with ambiguity and uncertainty. You will be better able to support your team and model resiliency if you can acknowledge and manage your own stress and anxiety. Help people manage their stress. The Leadership Gap.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 27, 2020

Wild Success by Amy Posey and Kevin Vallely illustrates seven leadership lessons we can learn from the harrowing experiences of extreme athletes. They are cognitive reappraisal, grit, learning from feedback, finding your spark, innovation, resilience, and building balance.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 6, 2020

A “routine risk event” can be accompanied with fear, but it rarely evolves into panic as uncertainty is minimal. In a true crisis, you are faced with rapid, real-time innovation under stress “embedded in fear.” In some ways, we are operating blind in a crisis, and this often generates a great deal of uncertainty and fear.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Iger truly embraces innovation. What follows are 20 leadership lessons from the book but stripped of the stories that brought them to life. True authority and true leadership come from knowing who you are and not pretending to be anything else. You’ll have to read the book to get that. Do not fake anything.

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HR Digest

JULY 29, 2023

The Importance of Human Leadership The new age of work requires empathetic, adaptive, and authentic leaders who can navigate the complexities of the workplace. This includes investing in leadership development programs, promoting transparent communication, and cultivating a culture of trust and respect.

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HR Digest

JULY 19, 2023

In today’s fast-paced and uncertain business landscape, leadership skills play a crucial role in creating a high-trust work environment. Trust in leadership is associated with increased employee retention and drives better business results. Be Transparent Transparency is a fundamental pillar of trust-building.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The following 10 leadership and business book authors recently answered this question for me: Question: While we surely will find ourselves challenged by COVID-19 in the foreseeable future, what is the most important thing a leader can do as they lead their business/organization? and Ignite Your Leadership Expertise.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Polarization of historic proportions, racial divide, technological challenges and globalization—we are all experiencing stress and uncertainty in our volatile, complex and uncertain environment. Closed-mindedness and miscommunication are at the heart of this uncertainty causing damage to relationships, bottom lines and lives.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The following 10 leadership and business book authors answered this question for me: Question: While we surely will find ourselves challenged by COVID-19 in the foreseeable future, what is the most important thing a leader can do as they lead their business/organization? and Ignite Your Leadership Expertise.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2014

In The Chaos Imperative , co-authors Ori Brafman and Judah Pollack say that “if we want to foster creativity and innovation in our own lives, we too need a bit of chaos.” Here’s a paradox: “We need leaders who can tolerate uncertainty and imprecision, but we also need leaders who can maintain stability around the chaos.”

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CO2

APRIL 2, 2020

Now they are confused about what has happened and find themselves engulfed in uncertainty, anxiety, and fear. This is when you and your leadership team are needed most. Keeping your employees updated will also give you a better idea of where your company stands while offering stress relief for your employees. Don’t fret.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 25, 2022

And they need to develop inclusive organizations that leverage differences for growth and innovation.” Informed by 70 years of original SHRM research and expertise, Taylor explains how to avoid returning to “how things were,” and how to elevate to a new normal by: Putting the “human” back into Human Resources, where innovation must happen.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 26, 2023

In fact, healthy conflict can foster innovation, creativity, and growth within teams. Leadership Approach Conflict: Divergent leadership styles within an organization can create tension and conflict. Enhanced Problem-Solving and Innovation: Conflict can lead to the exploration of different perspectives, ideas, and approaches.

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CO2

APRIL 2, 2020

Now they are confused about what has happened and find themselves engulfed in uncertainty, anxiety, and fear. This is when you and your leadership team are needed most. Keeping your employees updated will also give you a better idea of where your company stands while offering stress relief for your employees. Don’t fret.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 4, 2021

Resilience has been a watchword of the pandemic from both an individual and an organizational perspective, with the huge uncertainties caused by Covid forcing many of us to dig deep into our reserves. A new report from Cranfield Universities explores some of the organizational lessons we can learn from the past year. Building resilience.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 30, 2020

Self Excellence: Excelling at managing how you think, how you listen, how you handle emotional stress and the challenge of needing to continuously adapt at the pace of change requires managing your ego, your mind and your emotions. Those three skills are all enabled by the fourth skill: 4.

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HR Digest

APRIL 27, 2023

What if vulnerable leadership can help you achieve your goals and inspire your team? In fact, recent studies have shown that vulnerability is a critical trait for successful leadership, one that fosters trust, inspires loyalty, and drives innovation. And vulnerability in leadership, paradoxically, can be the key to that agility.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 14, 2020

It will come as no surprise that stressful work conditions can cause employees to burn out and dread going to work. While stress can give us short-term boosts to meet deadlines, it can become debilitating, adversely affecting our health and well-being, when it returns frequently or lasts for long periods of time. Leadership Styles.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Whether you are new to studying leadership or have practiced and studied it for many years, I am sure you will benefit and enjoy the leadership lessons today’s post provides. One of your first leadership lessons is “A subordinate’s trust in their leader is the most important factor in the success of any organization.”

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Today, the following 10 leadership and business book authors answered this question for me: Question: While we surely will find ourselves challenged by COVID-19 in the foreseeable future, what is the most important thing a leader can do as they lead their business/organization? and Ignite Your Leadership Expertise.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 29, 2022

Communicate to remaining staff – At times of great uncertainty, there will inevitably be various rumors swirling around, so it is important that communication with the remaining staff is excellent during this period. Most of all, show you care, even if people are not on your payroll any longer.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Cheerleading each time for the “new reality” through all the uncertainty, when I too had fears and uncertainties, was exhausting—like lost sleep you never catch up on. Let’s talk about culture,” said the new VP at our first leadership meeting after acquisition number eight. As I see it, all change is personal. Everything.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MAY 11, 2023

At The Center for Leadership Studies, we are known for building leaders. Multidirectional influence is more important than ever, and followers play an increasingly significant role in the leadership process. However, formal are just one piece of the performance puzzle. The leader-follower relationship is a two-way dynamic.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JULY 1, 2019

To thrive as an employee-leader or as an entrepreneur, one must possess self-efficacy and proactivity, be innovative, have a need for achievement and be confident through stress, uncertainty and risk. Today’s post is by Jill Ferguson, author of Creating a Freelance Career (CLICK HERE to get your copy).

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Chart Your Course

APRIL 29, 2013

Innovation has always been what makes good businesses great. And innovation does not happen without change and risk. The unknown can easily create a sense of uncertainty, resistance and even fear. Part of being a leader is managing change. As Martin Luther King Jr. Great leaders know this. Create a vision.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2024

Amidst the complexities of leadership challenges, the unique insights contributed by Anthony Horton, Stephanie Neal, and Chris McCarthy add a compelling layer to the unfolding narrative. Stephanie Neal’s research underscores the importance of aligning organizational values with leadership actions.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 23, 2013

While the growing levels of anxiety, fear and stress we see in today’s workplaces are partly due to the prevailing uncertainties surrounding the global economy, it is also a manifestation of that disconnect between what we do and why we do it. Bringing Your Passion Back To Work Finding The Courage To Take That First Step.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 6, 2012

Every now and again, a great CEO or leader will come along and we will fawn over their ability to listen to their colleagues, be innovative though leadership, and courteous and authentic in all scenarios. But for now, we face this crisis of trust and uncertainty within our leadership.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Also, managers are not only dealing with the stress of letting go of their team members and employees; many of them are having anxiety issues about the uncertainty of their positions. . This situation has been challenging in the HR department who has to convey the layoff message to the employees.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The fallout from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic means that a number of people are faced with adversity, including illness, bereavement, job loss, isolation and more, together with a constant sense of uncertainty. Upgrading and innovating is important to stay ahead in the game.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 1, 2016

This company earned that honor by re-staging a tired coffee brand with innovative packing technology and breakthrough advertising. That night, I presented the marketing strategy that catapulted a regional brand to national leadership in Canada. Tough sacrifices are about you. I suffered these disorders during that gut-wrenching time.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

There are warning signs you may be stuck in founder-mode and not making the turn to leadership. If, as the pace quickens and the work becomes more complex and the stress level rises you become less curious, you’re stuck, and probably on the path to failure. Leadership is uncomfortable sometimes. Leadership involves uncertainty.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

To what extent is that down to a successful ‘Culture of Innovation?’. One of our values, “reimagining the possible,” is at the heart of our culture and is an obvious imperative in the digital innovation economy of the 21st century. The HR Digest: PwC is said to have a passionate work culture fit for the industry’s most driven workers.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 18, 2024

Effective leadership depends not on your ability, but rather on your commitment to change. Rethinking Our Definition of Effective Leadership Definitions of effective leadership that rely on innate qualities like “influence” and “charisma” are overly narrow. Real leadership isn’t about power and prestige.

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