Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Despite its perceived importance, for the most part, companies have a miserable track record when it comes to managing their people. Companies consistently get culture wrong because they go about assessing it, and attempting to manage it from the top-down, not the bottom-up. How does the organization enable teamwork?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Importance of Healthcare Executives Healthcare executive search is critical in ensuring organizations have the right leaders at the helm. These leaders not only drive the strategic direction of healthcare organizations but also shape the culture, guide decision-making, and inspire teams to deliver the highest quality outcomes possible.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 23, 2024

Trust is the cornerstone of any successful organization. It’s the invisible glue that holds teams together, fosters collaboration, and drives innovation. However, trust is fragile and can be easily shattered by the actions of leaders and team members. Trust your team to execute their tasks competently.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 5, 2023

Innovation and creativity are important drivers of success for any business or organization. They allow teams to come up with new ideas. Encourage risk-taking: In order for innovation to happen, it’s important for team members to feel comfortable taking risks and trying new things.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 23, 2024

Workers who switch to different jobs, teams, or companies—called seconded employees—can boost innovation, according to new research from ESMT Berlin. Even though people and organizations want to pick new ideas, they often reject them because they’re tricky, risky, and hard to predict.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The Strategic Advantage of Executive Leadership Team Evaluations & Assessments Executive leadership team evaluations provide a critical strategic advantage for organizations. One of the key benefits of team assessments is their ability to uncover the hidden dynamics within a leadership team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 25, 2021

How to Develop Entrepreneurial Thinking on Your Team. Back in her Verizon days, one of Karin’s favorite questions to ask a team member whom she was encouraging to think like an entrepreneur was: “If this was your company, would you _ (make this decision, hold this meeting, spend money in this matter, invest in this project)?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 16, 2023

Achieve Success Together: How Great Teamwork Turns Talent into Performance Are you ready to learn how great teamwork can propel your organization into high performance? This week on #AskingForaFriend I have a conversation with my friend Dr. David Burkus about what makes a great team. What are the characteristics of a great team?

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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. For CEOs and executives, understanding when to embrace leadership and when to lean into management is crucial for success. A remarkable leader doesn’t always make an exceptional manager, and vice versa.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 11, 2020

Guest post by Chuck Swoboda : As increasing competition, new technologies and evolving customer expectations continue to disrupt nearly every industry, business leaders are turning to innovation as a way to keep their companies relevant. The standard solution is to create teams that focus explicitly on innovation. The problem?

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Developing an AI-ready organization is not merely a choice but a necessity to stay competitive and relevant. In this blog post, we will explore the critical importance of fostering an environment that embraces AI, highlighting how it can drive innovation, efficiency, and sustainable growth.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 7, 2023

Recent research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill highlights how proximity to senior managers helps scientists working in research and development teams be much more creative and productive. “Proximity to senior management helps, rather than hinders, innovation and creativity.”

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

Effective leadership is vital in finance and is crucial in guiding organizations toward success in a rapidly changing business landscape. Navigating complex financial markets, making informed decisions, and driving profitability requires strong leadership that inspires and motivates teams to achieve their goals.

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Great Results Team Building

AUGUST 21, 2023

The ability to foster collaboration among and across departments can significantly enhance productivity, innovation, and overall organizational performance. As leaders and team managers, understanding the value of collaboration and employing the right strategies can be the key to unlocking your team’s full potential.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

But what happens when the same surgeon is promoted to manage other doctors, or in the case of Dr. Rakesh Suri, asked to become the CEO of the entire hospital? And what happens when said hospital is a major global expansion of the world-famous, highly innovative Cleveland Clinic? The hospital soon became an innovation factory. ‘In

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Lead from Within

MARCH 4, 2024

Great leaders understand that developing leaders within their organization is essential for long-term success. Inspiration from books and workshops gains profound meaning when teams discuss applying these insights to company challenges. A shared language helps teams realign when communication falters.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In today’s fast-paced and ever-changing business environment, building a resilient organization is more critical than ever. The ability to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and adapt to disruptions is a key factor in ensuring your organization’s long-term success.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 14, 2023

Your Work is Valuable – Let’s Make Sure You Get Leadership Visibility Let’s talk about getting more leadership better visibility and recognition for YOU – and YOUR TEAM’s – work. “I’ve always had trouble “selling” my (or our) job to higher management.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

And if you do not address the many issues that a corporate merger or acquisition present regarding your culture, you will soon lose many of the people that could propel your organization forward successfully. Utilize management interviews, employee surveys, and even customer feedback , but don’t stop there.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 4, 2024

In their search for innovative solutions, businesses actively seek a variety of unique ideas. However, they often end up with quite similar suggestions, whether from their own team or external contributors. million contributors to understand how organizations unknowingly influence the ideas they receive. Why does this happen?

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 2, 2024

Here are 24 innovative leadership goals for the new year – including metrics to measure your progress…. Succession plans prepare your team for the inevitable people changes. Think your organization is too small? Partner with other organizations. Measurement : Remote team engagement levels.

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Rich Gee Group

AUGUST 22, 2023

When Sarah, a promising team leader at SmartTechCorp, began spending more time with her superiors, her team started to notice a shift in her priorities. Meetings with her team became less frequent, and candid conversations dwindled. Such behaviors can lead to a toxic culture that stifles growth and innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

In this ever-evolving landscape, understanding the evolution of the IT industry becomes crucial for organizations and professionals alike. A strong north wind has rapidly shaped the industry’s evolution through innovation. One of the most crucial skills for future tech leaders is adaptability.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2019

There’s increasing pressure on organizations to be more competitive, and leaders need to have the right skills to influence employees’ innovative behavior. G OOD LEADERSHIP is an important element in the success of any organization. Having effective leaders can help a company achieve its goals and maximize efficiency.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 4, 2019

Good organizations have accountable cultures. How leaders deal with non-accountable behavior goes a long way to defining the culture of an organization. This is called leader-led accountability and is the norm in most organizations. There are two significant problems with this approach to managing accountability.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 25, 2019

Y OU’VE CAREFULLY put your team of people together, spent a lot of time getting the right people on the bus, your best and brightest, and yet you’re underperforming? Your team isn’t giving you everything they’ve got. We all—most of us—manage our image. Psychological safety is about unleashing talent across your organization.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 26, 2021

Expect common breakdowns to help your team work better together. Does your team get derailed by miscommunication, hurt feelings, customer service challenges, or another department’s dropped balls? 4 Ways to Make a Team Work Better Together by Planning for Breakdowns. So how do you implement planned recovery on your team?

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

And if you do not address the many issues that a corporate merger or acquisition present regarding your culture, you will soon lose many of the people that could propel your organization forward successfully. 7 Steps to Successfully Cultivate a Thriving Team Culture After a Corporate Merger 1. Go beyond surface-level responses.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Today’s COO wears many hats and is instrumental in executing corporate strategy, fostering innovation, driving technological integration, and steering the company toward its goals with insightful leadership. Thus, empathy and inclusive leadership have emerged as indispensable traits in the modern COO’s repertoire.

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HR Digest

APRIL 18, 2024

How to manage remote teams effectively? You juggle video calls, instant messages, and project updates from a team scattered across the globe. Here are some hard-won lessons I’ve learned to manage a remote team and turn that scattered crew into a high-performing unit. The question gnaws at you. Absolutely.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 29, 2024

He advocates for a transition from traditional management to a coaching approach, emphasizing personal growth and a culture of belonging. Dan shares actionable advice for leaders aiming to nurture community and connection in their teams. They are focusing on long-term growth rather than short-term productivity.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Episode 233: Is your team ready or reactive? Find out how to enhance your personal energy when managing or collaborating with others to become more mentally agile and productive. To be ready, deal with change, and be flexible, people need energy. When you’re reactive, you get into the red zone and react from your autopilot.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

When it comes to leadership, the terms manager and leader are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing. A manager is responsible for maintaining the status quo and ensuring that tasks are completed on time and within budget.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In a previous blog , I wrote about why you should transform your organization into a network organization and promised to write about how to lead that transformation. To recap, a network organization is all about communities based on connectors and content. Get your team on board. Identify community managers.

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Rich Gee Group

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It’s incredible how many people think they’re leaders, who are in fact functioning managers and how many managers who are actually leaders in disguise. You need the confidence to trust yourself AND your team to make that a reality. But the real question is, what’s the difference?

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Lead from Within

MARCH 12, 2024

Every great leader understands that team building is not just about organizing fun activities or holding team meetings. It’s about unlocking the one secret ingredient that can make or break a team’s success: trust. Why is trust the team building secret that every great leader swears by? Lets explore.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 26, 2023

In the fast-paced world of business, conflict is an ever-present force that can disrupt team dynamics and hinder productivity. However, the key lies not in avoiding conflict altogether, but in effectively managing and resolving it. In fact, healthy conflict can foster innovation, creativity, and growth within teams.

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