N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This executive role focuses on developing and implementing human resources strategies to manage the workforce and create a positive organizational culture. The CPO works closely with executive leadership, department heads, and HR teams to align these strategies with the organization’s goals and objectives.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As an executive leadership coach, I have helped my clients come up with seven of the most important questions that will create a positive and successful working environment with their direct reports. As an effective leader, it is important to understand your direct reports’ career goals and aspirations.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 12, 2024

Address concerns promptly and actively listen to your team. 1 N A T I O N A L B E S T S E L L E R The Leadership Gap What Gets Between You and Your Greatness After decades of coaching powerful executives around the world, Lolly Daskal has observed that leaders rise to their positions relying on a specific set of values and traits.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Listen to your employees: Encourage open and honest communication by actively listening to employees’ thoughts, ideas, and concerns in a safe and non-judgmental environment. But in time, every executive reaches a point when their performance suffers and failure persists. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The best leaders know that to truly succeed, they must actively listen to their team and create a space where everyone feels heard and valued. But in time, every executive reaches a point when their performance suffers and failure persists. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2021

Decoding : occurs when the receiver actively listens to a message to ensure accurate transmission and interpretation. Channel : how you deliver your message (i.e., verbally through a meeting, phone calls, video conferencing, written, emails, memo,s text, and social media).

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Lead from Within

JULY 19, 2023

Instead, make an effort to actively listen to and communicate. 1 N A T I O N A L B E S T S E L L E R The Leadership Gap What Gets Between You and Your Greatness After decades of coaching powerful executives around the world, Lolly Daskal has observed that leaders rise to their positions relying on a specific set of values and traits.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Dana Theus of InPower Coaching submitted Want An Executive Job? Dana shares: “ When you’re targeting the top executive jobs, you need to broaden your perspective, act strategically and think globally before you go for the top spot – to help you get noticed, rock the interview and to help you survive when you’ve got the coveted slot.

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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. Active listening has become even more vital during the global pandemic, as many organizations work in a remote environment. These are all phrases we’ve heard from managers (and executives) recently.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 3, 2017

In fact, anyone can throw up a sign that declares that they are a career coach, a life coach, a business coach, or just about any other type of coach, even if they are devoid of coaching credentials of any kind. Guest post from Gregg Thompson: The barriers to entry into the coaching business are very low.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 4, 2023

Ben joined the Trust 18 months ago having worked his way up in other NHS roles - during which time he gained his master's degree in healthcare leadership and also his qualification in Executive Coaching and Mentoring (at CMI Level 7). None of the executive team have their own offices. CMI really helps with change management.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Listening demonstrates respect, concern, an openness to new ideas, empathy, compassion, curiosity, trust, loyalty, and receptivity to feedback – all considered to be qualities of an effective leader. Listening isn’t rocket science. It’s a management disease – Poor Listener Syndrome (PLS)! Or a half day training program?

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

And, on BBC 5 Live's Wake up to Money programme (from 37:50; available until end of May), she stressed the importance of essential leadership behaviours such as transparency, humility and active listening in rebuilding trust within an organisation. You can learn more in FE News. Enjoy the rest of your week. Read her full article here.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2018

Yet many executives still manage by “exception,” ignoring what is right and working well and spending supervisory time on problems and issues. Most executives and employees do the exact opposite. The greatest danger you have as an executive is to be blindsided by issues or to miss key opportunities in your organization.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Spend time with each and every employee and get to know their jobs, career and development goals, hopes and dreams, strengths and weaknesses, likes and dislikes, the names of their children and pets, where they live, and anything else that’s important to them. Learn and practice active listening. Let go of the details.

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Leadership feedback provides leaders, whether they are team leads, managers, executives or others in leadership positions, with information regarding their performance, behavior and impact. Your open communication style and active listening have created a work environment where everyone feels valued and heard.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 15, 2018

14. Engage in active listening. They listen actively by restating information, and they offer subtle encouragement by nodding, smiling or leaning in to prompt the person talking to continue and elaborate on their ideas. But in time, every executive reaches a point when their performance suffers and failure persists.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 15, 2016

Sometimes we are so anxious to voice the next thing we want to say that we stop actively listening and that is disconnecting behavior too. When someone presents an idea, suggestion, opinion or plan, author and executive coach Marshall Goldsmith recommends taking time to reflect before offering a suggestion to improve it.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

Think about it…when was the last time you viewed a negative soundbite of a CEO who was engaged in active listening? The next step in the process is learning where to apply your new found listening skills. Listen to your customers, competitors, your peers, your subordinates, and to those that care about you.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

They are active listeners, fluid thinkers, and know when to press-on and when to back-off. There is so much unethical behavior (what I refer to as situational ethics) at the executive level that continues to create an us versus them environment. link] Dan Cristo I’ve come to appreciate leaders that empower others.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 30, 2010

New melodies I am looking for: Trusting self and others, Active listening, Rekindling relationships, Collaborative connections, Creating a circle of influence and Giving. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Turning the other cheek, compromise, forgiveness, compassion, empathy, finding common ground, being an active listener, service above self, and numerous other approaches will always allow one to be successful in building rapport if the underlying desire is strong enough.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

I have witnessed otherwise savvy executives place the need for emotional superiority ahead of achieving their mission (not that they always understood this at the time). This is such a common problem for executives that I coach. Love your articel and the suggestions within it.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 11, 2018

Most of us have heard before that one of the most important facets of good conversation is being a good listener, but it’s more than just listening to the other person talk. You need to know how to listen and respond in a way that demonstrates you’re contributing to the conversation. Make relating statements.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2015

The mentor becomes a role model, offering insights about their own life-career. The mentor requests pro-active changes of mentee, evaluates realism of goals and offers truths about path to success and shortcomings of mentee’s approaches. The mentor stands for mentees throughout their careers and celebrates their successes.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

Try to understand how things work from all angles; be aware of what’s going on from the front lines to the executive level. Be an active listener. When you listen, you learn. Leaders need the ability to really listen in order to understand. Keep trying and trying again until you get there. Become an advocate.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Be an active listener. The person who knows how to listen is the person who will always be trusted. After decades of coaching powerful executives around the world, Lolly Daskal has observed that leaders rise to their positions relying on a specific set of values and traits. Either way, it will earn you trust. buy now.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2012

I started out my career by aspiring to be like Dick Clark. I would ask corporate executives to articulate core values, and they could only recite meaningful song lyrics, movie lines and quotes. The coach is active listener, mentors on values, actions. Insight offered about own life-career. Imparting Experiences.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

Drawing from her own career journey, Esparza underscores the significance of taking initiative, prioritizing well-being, and balancing professional success with personal fulfillment. This event will serve as a networking opportunity for women to connect, develop their skills, advance their careers, and thrive within our organization.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

Uses active listening skills to understand others’ perspectives. They can be demonstrated at any level of an organization, from entry-level employees to executives. And if you’re an employee, don’t underestimate the value of leadership skills in your career.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

As the up-and-coming vice president and CEO candidate for a Fortune 500 technology corporation sat before the CEO for his annual review, he was baffled to discover that the feedback from his peers, customers, direct reports, and particularly from board members placed unusual emphasis on one potentially devastating problem: his listening deficit.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Not only do great CEOs understand how to recruit a top executive team, but they also understand how to build cohesion among team members through collaboration while addressing specific situational and contextual needs. And I can assure you that any CEO who views him/herself as an army of one will fail.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

People who successfully work with family often say there is nothing more fulfilling or enriching, says Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, a senior adviser at the global executive search firm Egon Zehnder and an expert on family businesses. You’ll also gain much-needed perspective on what you hope the arc of your career might look like.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

Even though research makes it clear that employees and job candidates alike value learning and career development above most other aspects of a job, many managers don’t see it as an important part of their role. Strangely, at most companies, coaching isn’t part of what managers are formally expected to do. And it also feels good.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

In some ways, managing managers is similar to managing anyone else — you need to align their goals with yours, provide feedback, and help them advance their careers, says Sydney Finkelstein, professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and author of Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Manage the Flow of Talent.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.&# - General Colin Powell “Develop success from failures. I do however agree that delivering results is key, and I thought I covered that with certainty of execution – even so, I'm thanking you raised the level of focus on being results oriented.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Their stories were typical of research I have been conducting on dual-career couples. Her husband continued his career. Anything in between ends up being a morale- and career-sapping morass. ” And into marriages billed as equal, as long as the man’s career isn’t disturbed by his wife’s success.

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