N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. We do more and produce less. Disengaged leaders do not want to abandon the status quo. 90% of leaders think an engagement strategy is important while only 25% of organizations have one (ACCOR).

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 18, 2012

As the year winds down, it’s a good time to reflect on what you’ve accomplished and learned as a leader and what you’d like to focus on for the coming year. Creating an Individual Development Plan (IDP) is a great way to capture those actions and increases your chances of keeping your commitments to yourself. What do they do?

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Here are a selection of tweets from October 2013 that you might have missed: 20 Tools for Coaching and Teaching by @edbatista. What you are doing right now determines how you will be remembered by @Jim_Kouzes. What Bill Gates learned from Thomas Edison by @BillGates. Respond vs React by Jon Mertz @ThinDifference. by Jon Mertz.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2013

The list below represents my picks for the best leadership books of 2013. * * *. With every episode of struggle, there is a learning opportunity. These principles should be a part of your personal leadership development plan. L EADERSHIP IS is an inside job. Leadership is about relationships. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Its phones were quickly viewed as antiquated and difficult to work with for developers. In 2013, Nokia’s mobile phone business was sold to Microsoft. First, why do these programs fail? The second and more important question remains: How do organizations achieve success? Nokia just couldn’t keep up.

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QAspire

JANUARY 15, 2014

Looking back at 2013 fills me with gratitude. Learned a great deal in return! I hope you will enjoy them and revisit: Jan 2013 – Leading Others: How NOT to be in Control. Feb 2013 – Do KRA’s and Rewards Help in Quality? Mar 2013 – Leadership: 6 Pointers on Having Face Time with People.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Instead of a list of articles, though, I’d like to share a quote from ten of the most shared and commented pieces I wrote for my blog this past year, along with a link back to that piece if you’d like to learn more about that topic. That this is something that only we could do.”

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 2, 2013

ASQ Buffalo 2013 Quality Conference. I will be presenting 2 workshops at the ASQ Buffalo 2013 Quality Conference – October 15 & 16. Burnout and stress increase when people do not have effective tools and skills to manage work demands and when they don’t know how to move from “survival anxiety” to “change anxiety”.

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Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Home / Human Resources / How to Build a Development Library for Your Organization. How to Build a Development Library for Your Organization. In my last post I wrote about Individual Development Plans and how you can use them to develop in a professional setting. What is a Development Library? by Nathan Magnuson.

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Nathan Magnuson

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Home / Human Resources / How to Complete an Individual Development Plan. How to Complete an Individual Development Plan. Perhaps you’ve heard of the professional growth tool called the Individual Development Plan (or IDP for short). Think of performance as the “test” and development as the “lesson.”

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 14, 2019

Engagement is more about what the employee can do for the company, or for the stakeholders or community surrounding the company. Engaged employees will do all they can to improve the customer experience, as they want to see themselves and the organization succeed.

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Leading in Context

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

By Linda Fisher Thornton Why is it so difficult to agree on the right thing to do? Here are 7 different interpretations of what is ethically good, based on the framework in 7 Lenses: Learning the Principles and Practices of Ethical Leadership (2013). Which ones are you using in your leadership?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Here are a selection of tweets from December 2012 that you might have missed: Curated by @wallybock: 13 Sets of Predictions for 2013. The Illusion of Effectiveness (Doing vs. Leading) by @edbatista. Four Ways to Avoid the “Leadership Cliff” in 2013 by @RandyConley. The #1 Reason Leadership Development Fails by @mikemyatt.

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QAspire

MAY 24, 2022

One of the highlights of my journey of learning and sharing online has been consistent recognition by Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM India) in their annual list of top Indian HR Influencers on Social Media since 2012. I am glad to be featured again this year. After all, influence is never a goal in itself.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 3, 2013

This post was first published 1/1/2013 on SmartBlog on Leadership: Having trouble coming up with a good leadership New Year’s resolution? These are things that leaders know they “should” do but often don’t. For 2013, I’m going to: 1. Develop a charter for my team or organization. Here’s a list of 10 to pick from.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study. They are high achievers within the organization – willing to do what is necessary to get the job done. They are eager to learn new skills and take on additional responsibilities and bigger challenges. What skills and behaviors do they have?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 26, 2021

How do we move LGBTQ Inclusion from a “Check the Box” exercise to an integrated part of our culture? And, ultimately we were able to work together as we brought a leadership development program to her company. AskingForaFriend. More on Tammy Cravit and her Journey as a Transgender Woman and Inclusive Workplace Role Model.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 23, 2018

Identified by CIPD research in 2013, the “knowing and doing” gap plows on relentlessly. Managers still do not receive sufficient training for their role. Many still do not know how to conduct effective supervision of their team members. So, why do we still do that? That’s right,” I replied. “I

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2014

From @ddiworld : Are We Missing the Mark on How to Develop Leaders? What can we learn from Zappos bossless initiative ? Leadership: Developing Better Bosses at Google by @wallybock. Hayagreeva Rao and @work_matters: How Do You Scale Excellence? Tough Conversation: What To Do When Your Star Hits The Wall by @JohnBaldoni.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Given not all CHROs are created equal, how do you differentiate from those who simply sit in the chair versus those who set the chinning bar for the future of the role. Put simply, how do you judge the success of a chief human resources officer, and who qualifies for the 2020 Top CHRO List? Selection Methodology.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 4, 2020

The picture that accompanies this post is me in that moment from 2013.). In case you’re not familiar with it, the Pit is the well at the bottom of an amphitheater style room that seats about a hundred people on GE’s Crotonville leadership development campus in the Hudson River Valley. That was a big takeaway for me.

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Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 31, 2012

There’s more to come in 2013 , but in the meantime, here are my favorite posts from 2012. Here are some tips on how to do that. ” How to Complete an Individual Development Plan - Corporate America is investing more and more money and effort into official individual development planning programs. Great list!

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Vicki Marble (R), a pointed question about a gun bill she co-sponsored and her racially charged comments made about African-Americans in 2013. Reach out to me , if you’d like some help developing a vivid and engaging vision story for your organization. So, what happened to being inclusive?

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

And, the winner of the 2013 Thinkers50, Clay Christensen, now sees his ideas of disruptive innovation used and applied by managers in their relentless quest for competitive advantage. Rise of the Chinese thinkers The big story in the 2013 Thinkers50 was the arrival of the first Chinese thinkers in the ranking.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

This post is by Linda Fisher Thornton the author of 7 Lenses: Learning the Principles and Practices of Ethical Leadership. We know from recent widespread ethical lapses in the business world that some leaders do not fully consider what will happen to others when they take actions that profit them and their businesses.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 23, 2019

Louie, my adopted pup since 2013, has experienced a lot of loss over the last year. He has learned to walk away when they get on his last nerve. But if the other dog immediately gets in his face, he is not interested in learning anything else about the dog. I have a lot to learn from my pup, Louie! They just keep going!

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

At best, leadership development is a fun day out, at worst it is a gut wrenching, annoying exercise that leaves you cringing as someone teaches you to suck eggs. And it is managers’ ability to innovate, collaborate and adapt to a constantly changing environment that are the leadership skills we most need to develop.

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Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 24, 2012

I think the reason is that athletics provides one of the greatest leadership development opportunities out there because players learn to work as a team toward a common goal in a competitive environment. In short, it’s leadership development training for life. Do it right, don’t accept less. Coming in 2013.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 7, 2014

Schein believes that such attitudes have become newly problematic in a diverse global environment in which a growing proportion of individuals do not necessarily share those values, and in which teams are an increasingly common organizational unit. See “ Daniel Pink’s New Pitch ”, by Theodore Kinni, strategy+business magazine, Autumn 2013.)

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 24, 2014

This is what I was doing in the late 1980s – advising HR departments about identifying future leaders in their companies and creating programs to form them into better leaders. Developing as a leader is a difficult endeavor. (If With limited time, you have to learn on the job. Act on what you learn.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 24, 2020

With thanks to Tom Rath for the simple organizational framework he offered in his 2013 book, Eat, Move, Sleep , here are some best practices in each of those categories that I learned in doing the research for my own book, Overworked and Overwhelmed and how you can leverage them in our current operating environment.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 28, 2013

Originally posted at Smartblog on Leadership 5/23/2013: Can a manager be an effective coach? Then again, a lot of managers think they are already coaching when what they are really doing is a lot of teaching, advising and telling — or, worst case, micromanaging (think Pointy Haired Boss from “Dilbert” ). Both are valid positions.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Since adopting my rescue pup, Louie, in 2013, he and I have experienced many challenges as well as delightful adventures. Every interaction has given me PAWS to reflect on the leadership lessons I’ve learned over the years, many of which I will share in future articles. One thing is certain: Louie loves people! Louie failed.

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Leading Blog

JULY 14, 2017

I first walked that trail – 435 miles over 29 days – in 2013 and have returned twice since. Learn from the Past. Instead of taking a step back to see what I could have learned from others who went before me, I plunged right into the task. Hikers learn to reserve judgment about others. James in northwest Spain.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 25, 2017

A 2013 University of Phoenix survey revealed that nearly 7 in 10 American workers have served on dysfunctional teams. Self-Serving Team Members Where do we learn to be selfish? They do not have a common purpose or shared values and goals. We develop clear expectations. every day.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Deming Institute podcast with TJ Gokcen, CEO of Acquate on “Joy in Software Development” ( download the podcast ). Describing the importance of creating software using Deming’s ideas as expressed in agile software development , TJ says. so it is a set of methods and practices that is more catered to change.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Which makes me wonder, do these same truths hold true for individuals (and their careers!) The next time you find yourself mindlessly scrolling on your phone, set a timer for five minutes and pick a prompt below to get curious about: When I am experiencing joy, what am doing? Learned a new skill? during an economic downturn?

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