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Moving from Expert to Executive: Changes Great Leaders Learn to Make

Lead Change Blog

In the 360-degree feedback survey for her and the team, it was clear she deflected praise to others. For months senior leaders dismissed warning signs and data from employees about severe problems and had ignored market trends for years. Focus On Giving Credit Versus Taking Credit. It’s so demotivating!

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Executive Evolution: How Performance Coaching Transforms Leadership

N2Growth Blog

As a result, executives must be willing to evolve their leadership capabilities to drive sustainable business growth and maintain a competitive edge in the market. As companies grow in size and expand their operations, leaders must navigate intricate webs of processes, hierarchies, and stakeholder relationships.

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Inspiring Leadership Feedback Examples to Drive Success for High-Performing Teams

Experience to Lead

Here are some different types of leadership feedback: Formal Performance Reviews: These are regularly scheduled feedback sessions (often annually or semi-annually) where leaders receive feedback about their performance from superiors. The idea is to get a holistic view of a leader’s performance.

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Getting 360 Degree Reviews Right

Harvard Business Review

But there is one thing we've personally seen that profoundly and consistently changes lives — what's generally referred to as the 360-degree feedback process. Maybe that's why our blood comes to a slow boil when we see a popular columnist arguing that 360-degree feedback programs fail.

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CEOs Need to Get Serious About Sales

Harvard Business Review

But winning CEOs demand analytics from their sales organization (much as they do from operations or strategy) to help understand everything from the effectiveness of sales campaigns to opportunity analysis to performance reviews. You also need to push sales organizations to find overlooked pockets of growth in "tapped" markets.

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The Discipline of Listening

Harvard Business Review

My knowledge of corporate leaders' 360-degree feedback indicates that one out of four of them has a listening deficit—the effects of which can paralyze cross-unit collaboration, sink careers, and if it's the CEO with the deficit, derail the company. He wasn't alone in that regard. Prime the Pump.

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Keep Learning Once You Hit the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

Another endorsed “willingness to learn and adapt to changing environments,” and a third urged “adaptability, the ability to operate in multi-cultural environments and the openness to learn.” Some argued that merely keeping pace with industry and market changes is inadequate; an executive must anticipate change.