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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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

The process of conducting a performance appraisal can be a daunting task for many managers and HR professionals. Providing effective performance feedback examples and performance appraisal comments can help managers provide constructive feedback that empowers employees to achieve their goals.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Market declines, increased competition and industry culture shifts all play an enormous role in how an organization functions. What Exactly Does Leading Change Management Mean? The key to understanding change management is acknowledging that nothing can be done overnight. This includes leaders or managers, as well as staff.

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HR Digest

JUNE 27, 2019

In a high performing organization, it is the manager’s responsibility to constantly track what matters most to the employees. Unlike other priorities, managers consider employee pay rise request as one of the hard situations to manage. Framework to Manage Employee Pay Rise Request. First Reaction. Consider the Request.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 25, 2011

Situation Marketing team consisted of 12 people. Following interviews with each person and observation of the team in action the following areas were chosen for focus; Marketing team was lacking trust and understanding of themselves and others on the team. A metric was co-created to evaluate success over a period of time.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Encouraging conversation by asking open-ended questions allows you to gain valuable information and guide the negotiation process to a favorable conclusion. Listen Actively. To enhance active listening skills, Shapiro Negotiations teaches “ The 3 Cs ” – connect, consider, and confirm.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Let’s examine these 2 major causes of conflict: Communication : If you reflect back upon conflicts you have encountered over the years you’ll quickly recognize that many of them resulted from a lack of information, poor information, no information, or misinformation. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2016

It’s necessary to listen using a different part of our brain (not Active Listening) that we’ve never been taught to use intentionally. This is why relevant solutions in sales, marketing, coaching, implementations, doctor’s recommendations etc. Information doesn’t teach Others how to change behaviors.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2015

If you cannot take the dirtiest job in any company and do it yourself, then you will never become ‘management.’ The management that takes steps to ‘fix themselves’ rather than always projecting. 7 Levels of Mentoring: Conveying Information. Name and address information required. Philosophy.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 27, 2011

And an employee in marketing is furious about being passed over for a promotion in favor of her coworker and is trying to discredit her. These are just a couple of examples of the workplace conflicts that take up 42 percent of the typical manager’s time. It’s important to note that The Exchange was designed by mediators for managers.

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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. Because of the exponential growth of social media in recent years, and the fact nearly half of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

As you move toward truly empathetic listening, consider these tips: Pan for the nuggets. Sitting down with a business unit leader presenting him with information about a $300 million dollar technical investment opportunity, Bossidy divided a sheet of paper about three-quarters across. It feels too passive, like the opposite of action.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 15, 2018

Know how to keep everyone moving forward on task with motivation and inspiration while also being responsible and adaptable to change and new information. Every business, market and industry comes with its own set of problems and challenges. 14. Engage in active listening. Display confidence. 12. Take risks.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

Our minds constantly engage with multiple information channels, intentions, and external influences. As managers, embracing this fluidity within groups and moving within our teams is crucial. Actively listen to different viewpoints and facilitate constructive discussions that promote understanding and innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Sample questions include: “Knowledge and information from our partner is freely shared with us” and “Our partner openly listens to our ideas and opinions.” Focus your conflict-management resources where it matters most. Conflict in each of these areas is interconnected and is found in every alliance.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). Paul Garbett for HBR. There’s nothing wrong with this, per se, as both approaches can pay huge dividends.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 6, 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.” It’s worth it!

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

The question must be appropriate to the person(s) being addressed, the timing must be spot-on, but most importantly it must unlock the door to reveal the needed input/feedback/information. And I can assure you that any CEO who views him/herself as an army of one will fail.

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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.” It’s worth it!

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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.” It’s worth it!

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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.” It’s worth it!

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the age before the digital revolution, marketers used to tell customers about a product and then work through a traditional step-by-step purchase funnel. It starts by inspiring your customer to tell your story in an authentic way, by building empathy and creating an emotional connection that turns customers into fans.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

There is something marketing managers seem to forget about the internet: it was made for people, not for companies and brands. As such, it offers managers a source of insight they never had — social listening. Social listening competency will be critical to competitive advantage in the digital age.

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