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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. With input from their managers, peers, and teams, leaders know what they need to focus on when it comes to their development.

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Five Ways to Positively Disrupt Your Career During COVID

Strategy Driven

When markets are down, they become ripe for disruption and roll out the red carpet for innovative services, solutions, and products. In 2013, Katie translated this observation into action and pursued a Master’s Degree in Counseling and Board Certification in Executive and Career Coaching. during an economic downturn?

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A Great Time of Year for Reflecting and Refocusing

The Practical Leader

LinkedIn has become a major tool for connecting to people I’ve presented to in conference keynotes, workshop participants, coaching Clients, executive retreat and team building members, and readers of my books and blog. Our keynotes, workshops, retreats, team building, coaching, and customized training continue to grow and deepen.

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What Spinning Off a GE Business Taught Me About Managing Ultra-Fast Change

Harvard Business Review

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.) What values drove them?

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Your Leadership Development Program Needs an Overhaul

Harvard Business Review

Participants work full-time on their day-jobs, but over a 6-month period they attend workshops and get expert coaching on how to develop their proposition. Consider Barclays and two examples of intrapreneurs from programs run by the bank in 2013 and 2015. ” Develop: Let them improvise.

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. But if you go to the marketing department and ask them, they’re usually clueless.” “Take a football player. He will always know how he performs.

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Scaling Up is a Problem of Both More and Less

Harvard Business Review

Sales doubled in 2013. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days. Recently, a “white space” brainstorm yielded a clever new idea for marketing, to cobble together a system that could combine customer-behavior insights gained through email, social media, pay-per-click marketing, and other sources.