Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 28, 2023

In this article, we address the common reasons so many managers tolerate poor performance, and what to do instead. 6 Reasons Managers Tolerate Poor Performance Here’s a gut check if addressing performance issues is hard for you. Do any of these common mistakes sound familiar? Here’s the good news.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

How do I lead well now?” ” “How do I scale my leadership influence as my team size grows?” How to Keep Leading Well as Your Team is Growing. How to Keep Leading Well as Your Team is Growing. Here are a few tips that can help you continue to lead well as your team is growing, 1.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

You’ve been “all in” to PROVE and IMPROVE yourself as a competent, human-centered leader, but no one can get past the stories… that one time (okay maybe seven times) you lost your cool, stole credit for an idea, or were (insert your frustrating, old reputation here). Ask courageous questions to understand perceptions.

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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? So, what are the key lessons from successful leaders and how do they foster and nurture great teamwork within their teams? And (drumroll please!)

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Meaningful Business Metrics Aren’t About the Number When it comes to business metrics, there’s a secret that top-performing leaders understand, but might not tell you aloud: “Your customer doesn’t care about your internal scorecard.” Well, at least they were consistent. Eat well, exercise, and take your medicine.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Understanding the Role of Coaching and Consulting Services in Legacy Building Coaching and professional consulting solutions play a vital role in the process of building and sustaining a legacy. Successful organizations understand the importance of setting clear goals and aligning their actions with a well-defined strategy.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 30, 2021

Many people find it easier to be a human-centered leader when everything’s going well. 5 Steps to be a Human-Centered Leader When You’re Stressed. 5 Steps to be a Human-Centered Leader When You’re Stressed. How can we help?” A second manager followed up to say, “Your style works. The meeting didn’t go well.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 25, 2021

How to Develop Entrepreneurial Thinking on Your Team. “Errr, well, no, but …” The conversation after that “but” is at the heart of teaching your team how to think and act like an entrepreneur. Tell me about a time that you strongly disagreed with your manager. How did you work to overcome it?

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Lead from Within

JUNE 16, 2023

As a leader, you are likely deeply invested in the success of your company, as well as the well-being and performance of your employees. This will not only show your team that you are willing to take responsibility for your mistakes, but it will also help you better understand and manage your emotions.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 11, 2023

Can you relate to the phrase, overwhelmed working manager? Recently we received a question from a manager and this manager writes, “I am a working manager. Not that all managers aren’t working, but I have an enormous pile of my work besides having to lead my team. What should I do?”

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

This series’s final part will balance needs with compromises, float tangential opportunities to expand horizons, and extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘unicorn’ management candidate. A simple illustration perhaps is a CEO of a large injection molding firm, who might be well suited to a brewing and bottling company.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2021

How do you scale your leadership, motivate your large team, and continue to get the results you need? How I Learned About Scaling Leadership the Hard Way. Until… Four weeks into my maternity leave, my boss called: Karin, I hate to ask you this, but how soon can you come back? Teach your team how to think.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 5, 2023

Successful Working Managers Relentlessly Prioritize, Invest in People, and Delegate “I’m a working manager – not that all managers aren’t working, but I have an enormous pile of my work, besides having to lead my team. What is a working manager? To manage this overwhelm, Mind the M.I.T.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Leadership self-awareness is a critical skill for any leader to possess. It involves understanding your own strengths, weaknesses, values, and motivations, as well as how these factors impact your leadership style and effectiveness. What worked well and what didn’t? Surround yourself with leaders you admire.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And yet during times of stress, ambiguity, and change , when you need your team to be THE MOST resourceful, some managers clamp down, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow their team down. So how do you teach and encourage resourcefulness in your leaders and on your team? “Who is doing this well?

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 1, 2024

Be a visionary: The most effective leaders have a clear vision of what they want to achieve and are able to inspire others to work towards that vision. Be a strategic thinker: Business needs good strategic thinkers and the most effective leaders are able to think strategically and plan for the long-term.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 14, 2023

As a leader, it’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day tasks and responsibilities of managing others. One way to prioritize your growth as a leader is to invest in coaching opportunities. Discover your blindspots: Working with a coach can help you uncover any blind spots that may be holding you back as a leader.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 14, 2023

01:12 Well, when it comes to building a great corporate culture, one of the most common frustrations that we’ll hear from senior leaders and executives is, something like, “we involved everybody, we worked together, we defined our values, and we talk about them regularly. So what am I talking about here?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Best-in-class organizations require best-in-class leaders because nothing impacts a company’s trajectory more than the people in executive positions. What exactly is a leading executive search firm, and how can it help businesses? How do executive search firms work? What is an executive search firm? .

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Great Results Team Building

JANUARY 25, 2022

Learning and applying these lessons can provide management insight and superior leadership qualities. Some of the biggest influencers in the world are musicians, and they can teach us a multitude of ways to guide our own career and leader positions. To be a leader, you need to have followers.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 23, 2020

Building and maintaining trust is an issue that most leaders agree is critically important, but few have a plan to achieve it. It reminds me of the old project management adage: people don’t plan to fail; they just fail to plan. I’ve found that principle also applies in my work teaching leaders how to build trust in the workplace.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 8, 2024

Speaking about his new book, The Generous Leader , author Joe Davis says, “This book is about the ways in which you can become a generous leader to be part of something bigger than yourself.” He adds that the old model for a leader – a top-down, unilateral, single-focus boss, isn’t effective in today’s workplace.

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 6, 2021

I managed large teams for over 15 years in corporate and have been coaching C-Level clients for 15 more. During this time, I've probably run into every scenario a manager can experience. Here are my top 20 hacks to make you a better leader (in no special order): 1. You'll get the credit as well. Never b t your staff.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Being a leader can be a challenging role, as there are many obstacles that leaders must overcome in order to be successful. Whether you are a new leader or an experienced one, there are challenges and solutions can help you become a more effective leader.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi wrote, “the fundamental role of a leader is to look for ways to shape the decades ahead, not just react to the present, and to help others accept the discomfort of disruptions to the status quo.”. Leaders are dealers in hope. How did you react? Leadership is about hope. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Spending most of your time trying to minimize mistakes. No matter how hard we work, if we only do things as best we know how, trying to minimize mistakes, we get stuck at our current levels of understanding, skills, and capabilities.” avoiding mistakes to expecting mistakes.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Understanding the Evolving Role of Insurance Executives in Today’s Risk Landscape The role of insurance executives has significantly changed today’s risk landscape. They are no longer responsible for managing risk but also for driving innovation, enhancing customer experiences, and achieving sustainable growth.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

It’s important that you do so within your company walls as well as with your customers and other business leaders. How far you can get in your career depends on this and will impact what you’re able to achieve. Be a good leader and communicate your expectations from the start to create and maintain a trustworthy business.

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HR Digest

APRIL 17, 2024

One of the toughest challenges leaders—and managers by extension—face, is in learning how to delegate effectively. Effective delegation can mean the difference between a job that was rushed and one that was really well done, so creating a delegation task guide is a good first step for companies that want to get it right.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

It is a well-written story that takes us from his days as a student-athlete through his formative years working his way up in bars and restaurants from busboy to manager, to the wild ride founding and growing Texas Roadhouse into the international success it is today. To be clear, this is what we call a mistake.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 16, 2017

In any professional environment, management is composed of a leader and a group of colleagues working collaboratively. Ideally, the team should meet their targets and perform well under an effective management. Have you checked on yourself for mistakes? Together, they work towards their team’s goals.

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Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2021

As I conduct observation coaching with leaders, I watch for how their words resonate with their audience. Effective leaders use communication as a critical competency to build trusting relationships, align team members around a vision, lead necessary change, and drive action. Channel : how you deliver your message (i.e.,

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Jon explains: “ Of all the skills leaders need to be successful, active listening may be the most overlooked and underrated. Karin Hurt and David Dye of Let’s Grow Leaders provided How to Get Better at Remote Small Talk. These are all phrases we’ve heard from managers (and executives) recently.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 2, 2020

Being a leader always comes with enormous responsibility, but being a leader in crisis adds significance and depth to that responsibility. One successful approach is to focus on the things people look to their leader to provide in a time of crisis. Well-defined priorities. A culture that embraces mistakes.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

Immelt states in Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company : The best leaders absorb fear. True leaders are frank, but they don’t traffic in panic. The best leaders acknowledge mistakes, but they don’t tear colleagues down just to ease their own discomfort. Transparency is an admirable goal.

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Career Advancement

JANUARY 11, 2021

What’s the number one skill every leader needs to have? That allows them to get more from their people, helping them each to reach their highest potential and become leaders in turn. Now, we’re going to delve into what makes a great leader. In turn, they’ll have a more well-rounded picture of who you are.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 7, 2017

Managers encourage the wrong behavior, for the wrong reasons…setting off a ripple effect of well-meaning frustration. He got the award, after we saved his butt for that dumb mistake?” The first key to real encouragement is have a real understanding of which behaviors are driving your long-term results.

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