N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Through active listening, open dialogue, and targeted feedback, board advisor coaches empower executives to enhance their leadership capabilities, overcome obstacles, and achieve their full potential. Moreover, board advisor coaching programs foster self-awareness and emotional intelligence, which are crucial for effective leadership.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 29, 2022

These are real people opening up about their emotional journeys and how they managed to lead with humanity during these unprecedented times for business and society. They could read a spread with one of our proven methodologies to know how to better communicate change or learn “8 steps to active listening.”

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Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

When GE's CEO Jeff Immelt (recently tapped by President Barack Obama as his next top outside economic adviser) teaches up-and-coming leaders at the company's famed management-development center, he runs through a checklist of what he calls " Things Leaders Do.". If you can't, then you're not leading well.". It's about being self-aware.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 16, 2013

First of all this is what managers do, not leaders. And great way to observe is by MBWA, Management by Walking Around. The goal of listening is to gain understanding, which means that the listener needs to not just hear noise and words coming out of a person’s mouth but understand exactly what the person is trying to communicate.

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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. What’s the role of NEDs, CEOs and Government in creating inclusive workplaces?

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Chart Your Course

APRIL 7, 2017

Becoming a first-time supervisor or manager may seem daunting, but it doesn’t have to be. Gallup’s research shows the genesis of highly engaged employees boils down to one key factor: “whether people have a manager who cares about them , grows them and appreciates them.” How can I help? . Request feedback.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 24, 2022

These are real people opening up about their emotional journeys and how they managed to lead with humanity during these unprecedented times for business and society. They could read a spread with one of our proven methodologies to know how to better communicate change or learn “8 steps to active listening.”

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 15, 2023

Someone may have “an ambition” to become a CEO or entrepreneur. So, what does a good leader or manager do? Practice Active Listening First off: listen. Ask them: What activities, specifically, at the next level are interesting to you? Oftentimes, when we think of ambition, it’s in vague, distant terms.

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Leading Blog

JULY 10, 2019

In the midst of managing these exponential leaps in technology, there is a war for talent. They report that just over 30 percent of participants are engaged (love their jobs), 16 percent are actively disengaged (miserable and destroying what others are building), and 51 percent are not engaged (they’re just there).

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2021

These are real people opening up about their emotional journeys and how they managed to lead with humanity during these unprecedented times for business and society. They could read a spread with one of our proven methodologies to know how to better communicate change or learn “8 steps to active listening.”

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

And I can assure you that any CEO who views him/herself as an army of one will fail. Whether you like it or not, your success as a CEO will be largely tied to your team building ability. Great CEOs realize the importance of being consistently, purposefully and intensely engaged with their CXOs.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

The following list of suggestions is my gift to you in hope that it will allow you to outsmart those that feel they cannot be outsmarted… Define Acceptable Behavior : This first thing all CEOs need to do is to accept responsibility for any “corporate crazies&# who have taken residence in their organization.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2018

Perhaps you share the opinion one CEO gave me recently, “There is truly room for improvement; I just know, good as we are now, that we can do better than we have been doing to date.” Yet many executives still manage by “exception,” ignoring what is right and working well and spending supervisory time on problems and issues.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 7, 2014

In her book My Life in Leadership , Frances Hesselbein, former CEO of the Girl Scouts, CEO of The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute, and one of the greatest leaders I’ve ever met, wrote one of the best descriptions of listening and leadership I’ve ever read: “Listening is an art. It is active and powerful.

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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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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 6, 2012

A typical day for a manager tends to be hectic, fragmented and fast-paced. Keith Murnighan, a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, claims that most leaders do too much work themselves. Active Listening. Even worse, their team members are underutilized and under challenged. Follow the Leadership Law.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 13, 2016

Leaders also need to be intentional about managing their emotions because of how emotions spread to others. Lafley became CEO of Procter and Gamble in 2000, he followed a CEO who was negative, pessimistic and lacked humility. Practice active listening. Listen carefully and be present in conversations.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

If you were the manager here, how would you respond to that question?” “Of Alan Mulally Alan Mulally is an aeronautical engineer who became the CEO of the Boeing Company before becoming the CEO of the Ford Motor Company and orchestrated one of the most prolific turnarounds in corporate history. Contact us today to learn more.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Creating a framework for decisioning, using a published delegation of authority statement, encouraging sound business practices in collaboration, team building, leadership development, and talent management will all help avoid conflicts. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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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. As the CEO, your ability to transfer your passion to your employees is the essence of being a great leader…So much so that if you can’t accomplish this, you simply can’t be a great leader.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 24, 2011

Situation: Currently there is an authoritarian style of management creating a decrease in morale, satisfaction with work and innovation amongst employees. This is developing a feeling of strife, hopelessness and contempt amongst management and subordinates. Managerial communication & listening. Resolution.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Posted in Uncategorized 4 Responses to “Thought-full Thursday: Beginnings&# Rhett Laubach : January 2, 2011 at 11:44 pm I stumbled on your blog via a “best of leadership blogs for managers&# list. They were right! Thank you for your insightful writing and deligent blogging.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

Covey “It’s not the will to win that matters…everyone has that.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

While many view this term as “management jargon,” it goes beyond encouraging people to speak up and share ideas. Part of that effort is for each team to create a plan for how they will manage their energy and well-being. We are actively listening to our people, remain transparent and are pivoting quickly to address urgent needs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

As Marc Benioff, founder of Salesforce.com has noted , “When I look at [our] largest transactions…every transaction was done with the CEO [and] that’s why we’re selling more enterprise software than Oracle or SAP.” Manage each minute. COOs once outnumbered CFOs in those firms, but not now.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Add to this smiling and active listening and you have a big piece of the recipe for successful leadership. . :-) Posted by: JF | October 28, 2010 at 08:30 AM This is great advice. You should say thanks anytime you can and even in situations where you do most of the work and they should be thanking you.

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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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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 1, 2009

11 Responses to Employee Engagement & the Magic of Remembering Wally Bock June 2, 2009 at 11:36 am I’m not sure that what you describe is a memory skill so much as actually paying attention to the people the CEO spoke with. When I give a speech, I always work the room before the speech, the way your CEO did. How about you?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In 1933, General Motors President and CEO Alfred Sloan established the automobile industry’s first full-time consumer research department under the direction of Henry “Buck” Weaver, a pioneer in market-based decision making. Be active listeners. As with any new endeavor, we have been learning as we go.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Active listening. Great teams, however, are made up of great listeners. This is a lesson I learned from Delta Air Lines’ former CEO, Jerry Grinstein. When team members start actively listening to each other, everyone becomes smarter. Giving and receiving honest feedback.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Five minutes into the dialogue, the product manager, Françoise, started interrupting him with questions he was planning to address later in the pitch. From this place of actively listening, your conversation will move forward more constructively. This type of conversation might actually teach you something as well.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

When your manager is also your parent, sibling, or another relative, how do you keep things professional? Fallouts with family over work can cause a tremendous amount of anger, sadness, and shame , says Rob Lachenauer, CEO and cofounder of Banyan Family Business Advisors. Working in the family business can be fraught.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

They certainly see themselves that way — as do many of the CEOs and leaders of companies I work with. A lot of the things people learn about leadership and team building at work is directly transferable to managing better balance at home. Active listening. They are happy to have successful, high-earning wives.

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