HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

Companies with greater diversity not only have higher retention, but they have higher revenues and operating results, as well as higher brand recognition in their marketplaces. As these technologies mature at record-speed, they will only be as powerful as the training available to help employees understand how to deploy, use and manage them.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

In particular, I think it's time for theological schools that train church leaders to get their heads out of the sand and begin training their students in leadership principles. I really appreciate Pete’s insights into the necessity of self-leadership and his honesty in admitting that this is his own area of struggle.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. I might only add and you know that young or immature leaders simply need tools, mentoring, and info to become great leaders. IMO, what passes as 'leadership training' is often managerial grooming in disguise. Gaby pastortom2022 Totally agree!

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Leadership Blog Consultative Brand 419

Strategy Driven

JUNE 1, 2018

Businesses operate at a pace such that they grab for help wherever it is available. Political action committees. Corporate heir apparent training. More often than not, they reach toward the wrong resources, the untied advisors and sources that send them down rabbit holes. It is lonely at the top. Trade industry groups.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Baird/Sullivan : Some signs that people’s psychological needs aren’t being met are easy to see: in-fighting, politics, hoarding information and resources. Perhaps their gift could be put to better use helping the machine learning team train the algorithm which would be much more valuable to the company.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

It means you’re not teaching, mentoring, communicating, or leading. " Saying no doesn't imply that your "team is not aligned and your talent is not performing up to par," or that "it means you’re not teaching, mentoring, communicating, or leading." Thanks as always for your keen insights Dan.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Closing gaps becomes much easier when you can position differences as non-adversarial and operate within a framework of trust. When I was in seminary (twice: master degree and doctoral degree) I received no formal training in dealing with conflict. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

Matthew Fritz is Director, Commander''s Action Group of NATO''s Air Training Command in Afghanistan. Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. Matthew T Fritz is a leader and mentor in the field of complex organizational change, emotional intelligence, and organization strategy.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

The following pointers are offered to companies who communicate with niche publics: Seek and train multi-cultural professionals. Good intentions and political correctness are not enough. Contains mechanisms to teach and mentor others. If not pursued in a sophisticated, sensitive way, good intentions will be wasted.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

If your mentoring and training programs don’t focus on the development of action oriented leaders then you are simply breeding obselesence, and utlimately…failure. A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. When an organization stops learning they begin dying.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 23, 2016

We know we should go to the gym more often, or eat healthy; we know we should allow our relatives to have disparate political viewpoints. This is the problem with conventional training and Self-Help books. All of us have unique Identities; our Beliefs are the operating manuals; our Behaviors exhibit our Beliefs in action.

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CO2

AUGUST 1, 2010

During the first and second industrial revolution, when our educational system was designed, we trained our children to be factory workers. In turn, the manager was responsible for mentoring, coaching, or developing those employees that showed interest, ability, and tenacity. I’m enjoying it. I’m enjoying it.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Who says women don’t like office politics? They’ve all complained about office politics. Some women claim they are not good at it, while others simply avoid certain hot-button business situations because they think playing politics is “sleazy.”. Politically speaking, operating in “survival mode” can leave us isolated.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

He trained for and completed his first triathlon and has his sights firmly set on doing an ironman. My dear friend and mentor, Cheryl Smith. I've seen him work with other leaders and provide training that not only equips us to coach and lead others – but to also help our own selves grow. but you’ll not find that here.

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LDRLB

MAY 13, 2014

It talks about the 4 underlying key leadership styles and visionary, operator, processer, synergists that determine which stage an organization settles into. They tend to work very closely with what I call operators, that’s the second natural style. Operators are the symbolic opposite of visionaries. Same for the operator.

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Brainstorming Learning-by-Doing Operations Leadership Styles 60

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

One of my mentors once cautioned me about treating people as furniture saying that “individuals are not inantimate objects to simply be moved around and discarded, but that people require a constant investment of time and money to develop to their full potential.&# then you are likely just paying lip service to the value of talent.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

And that means providing world-class training, clear and lucrative career paths and, increasingly, a work-life balance that allows people to enjoy the fruits of their success. Companies need sophisticated and sustainable programs to identify their most talented employees, and they need to focus on training and retaining them.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Political representation, for example, has made great strides in the 10 years covered in the study. Encouragingly, in FY14 71% of gender-balanced groups saw positive operating profit during the last three consecutive years, versus 60% for others. In some areas the news is good.

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Diversity Report Globalization McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

employees per study, across a variety of service operations and time periods. Broadly, organizations should aim to cultivate cultures of civility with their employees and both teach and train civility at work. Our research examined these two opposing views by conducting three complementary studies.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Spare me the sanitized, politically correct rhetoric and just tell me what’s on your mind. Great people with the right training and opportunity will become better than you – hire great people. Smart leaders leverage influencers by involving them in modeling, mentoring and coaching.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

I’m fortunate to count Larry among my mentors and friends. Larry : You know, it’s my belief, and it has also been my own experience, that there there is no place that servant-leadership cannot operate. Ben : Not to get on our political… Larry : That’s right. Have you ever come across an area like that?

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 125

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Great CEOs not only view their interactions with team members as coaching and mentoring opportunities, but also as learning opportunities for themselves. your training program in 3 easy steps: No boring slides, free will, and story.

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Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

I’m fortunate to count Larry among my mentors and friends. Larry : You know, it’s my belief, and it has also been my own experience, that there there is no place that servant-leadership cannot operate. Ben : Not to get on our political… Larry : That’s right. Have you ever come across an area like that?

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. And here’s an interview with Sam Lessin , former VP of Product Management at Facebook, who says he has “never successfully trained empathy.”).

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2011

Pressures continue and accelerate for companies to stay in operation, become competitive, keep ahead of the marketplace and perform quality work. I mentor business principals on all their options and the big ideas. 7 Levels of What Companies Do with Think Tanks: Don’t understand the concept (confuse it with selling or training).

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Strategic Planning Benchmarking Long-term Consultative 71

HR Digest

MAY 1, 2019

Unconscious bias education is a tool for diversity and inclusion strategies, but not all companies are equipped to roll out the training. Specifically, how CEOs engage in societal, moral or political issues, in addition to being accountable to various stakeholders and generating revenue.

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Diversity CEO Ryan Education 40

In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I find myself glazing over but politely listen as they brag about who’s had the least sleep and the most takeaway food. “I The creative industry operates largely by holding ‘creative’ people ransom to their own self-image, precarious sense of self-worth, and fragile – if occasionally out of control ego. Ask my opinion. This was my gig.

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Advertising Creativity Industry Bottom-up 265

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Sure, in some cases I coach and mentor, but most of my clients simply view me as their closest personal advisor. I don’t really care whether the client is aided by mentoring, teaching, coaching, consulting or a mix of all the above – I just care that they receive real results. It’s just that simple.

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Blog Mentor Advice Brand 385

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them.

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

The politics of office life seldom fail to flummox and frustrate the top female executives my partners and I coach and train. Politics was one of the things that repeatedly fell into the dislike column. On one hand, they feel uncomfortable engaging in quid-pro-quo behavior and political maneuvering. Further Reading.

Politics 8

Politics Strategy 360-Degree Feedback Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

I first had them meet with an Israeli army signal corps general (who was in the midst of overseeing a military operation); then we headed to a beach to engage in team building and camouflage exercises with young Israelis preparing for elite military combat units. Do they encourage different viewpoints, experimentation, and risk-taking?

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Innovation Planning Tourism Venture Capitalist 8

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Having been trained by one of the best companies in the world on Leadership Development, (GE), in one of the best action learning environments in the world (a high performance culture), I frown on textbook practitioners. When I was going through basic training, my Drill Instructors were all seasoned, experienced, combat veterans.

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