Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 1, 2023

– Female, 47 Dubai (from our World Workplace Conflct and Collaboration Survey) You would think by now, we’d be past the need to write about dealing with a workplace bully. Do I feel sick or nauseous when working with a particular colleague or manager? Are my efforts consistently undervalued or disregarded?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

While this sounds simple enough at face value, I have consistently found that one of the most often overlooked leadership attributes is that of a positive attitude. What made this presentation so powerful was it was more than just an act put on for the benefit of the attendees, it was completely authentic and the audience knew it.

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HR Digest

MAY 15, 2024

During this step, it’s crucial to engage with key stakeholders, including senior management, departmental leaders, and HR professionals, to gain a comprehensive understanding of the organization’s vision, mission, and the specific challenges it aims to address through employee training and development.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2021

This time each year, I select my pick for best new leadership book for the year. For 2021, my pick is, Heart First , Lasting Leadership Lessons From A Year That Changed Everything , by David Grossman , published in July 2021. And, if you read only one leadership book next year, make it this one.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ann also met with Titania Woo of The Hong Kong Management Association to discuss partnership opportunities in the region. Furthermore, Ann was delighted to be able to personally present a number of Chartered Managers and Fellows with their certificates. CMI Hong Kong members were also invited to take part in this survey.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The story is no different when it comes to developing a leadership strategy in times of change. Whether it be a global pandemic, a company restructuring or a merger, a leadership strategy is crucial if you want to manage shifts and times of uncertainty. By embracing the potential for change, you can harness its power.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 2, 2020

In my work with SalesGlobe I’ve developed Sales Design Thinking SM to help sales leaders solve problems around any sales or business challenge, like sales strategy, organization design, sales capacity, sales compensation, change management, and of course quota setting. Who are the audiences? How do they align to each audience?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2016

This characterization should involve: brainstorming with staff, interviewing senior leaders and surveying customers, suppliers and distributors with the sole purpose of discovering how, when, why and where your people communicate and message for, and about, your business.

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Leading with Trust

OCTOBER 9, 2022

As my colleague, Kathy Cuff, recently wrote about this topic, a recent Gallup survey estimated that 50% of American workers are disengaged. Rather than viewing Quiet Quitting as a challenge that must be managed, I encourage leaders to look at it as an opportunity to be seized. It’s actually a new name for an old problem: disengagement.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2024

The book includes a valuable self-assessment survey (also available online) and prompts for reflection at the end of every chapter. Manage it well. I created them when delivering a keynote speech and simply wanted to share with the audience ten things that have greatly impacted my success,” says Gino. It is in your DNA.

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Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Audiences will feel a deeper sense of trust and connection with a speaker who makes them laugh, and both your employees and your organization will benefit from the stress-relieving properties of humor. Research has found that integrating fun and humor into a workplace can: Manage employee stress levels. Reduce absenteeism.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 4, 2016

I ask this question frequently – of executives I’m coaching to improve their company’s culture, of keynote audiences, in leadership workshops, and more. When I ask audiences whether or not their current boss models these best practices, the reaction is muted. I ask what that team was like for them.

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ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

Most hiring managers would agree a currently employed candidate is more appealing than a jobless candidate. And while one article ungraciously claims “ Millennials’ Work Ethic Is In The Eye Of The Beholder ,” you’ve been a hiring manager long enough to know the same could be said of many people, regardless of age. Campus Recruiting.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JULY 1, 2021

In addition to learning how to master the required technology, the techniques for engaging a dispersed audience are unique. There are a lot of moving parts to manage in the moment during a virtual session, so the virtual Leader’s Guide should provide all content-related support and technical direction the facilitator needs in one place.

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Kevin Eikenberry

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

To reinforce one of the most important of all leadership qualities – that of being other focused. No one in the audience could understand and the room became tense. To celebrate the life of the late President Reagan on what would have been his 100th birthday. I’ve chosen not to do that. Your team deserves it.

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CO2

MAY 15, 2013

Only six percent of employees wish to be told what to do by their boss, according to a survey by CO2 Partners. Today it’s not about following orders, but about dialogue and effective leadership. Moreover, at a time when senior management is so focused on talent management there is no alternative. Leaders Ask Questions.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 17, 2015

The audience sat overwhelmed by what they had just witnessed. It was not the tears that moved this audience. This left the concept of “leadership” less related to obvious authority and more with subtle influence. You are JC Penney,” said the new CEO, Marvin Ellison, at their recent store managers’ conference.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2019

In fact, one in five hiring managers say that this is a box they look to check before extending an offer, and in one survey, nearly 70% of hiring managers said that following up not only matters but failing to do so could even lead to dismissal from the process. They need you. So give it some thought and flair.

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Career Advancement

APRIL 29, 2019

The speaker might also inquire about past team-building or leadership skill-sharing initiatives, asking you to share what worked and what didn’t. Effective speakers know how to train on leadership by incorporating genuine employee stories that emerged from pre-event discussions to make their arguments compelling.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 17, 2017

In fact, the greatest managers and executives learn that skills to inspire and lead others do not naturally come from working as a subordinate. Rather, they come from testing out leadership skills in relationships with others. Mentoring teaches you to plan, to help others execute, and to be flexible --all traits of leadership.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Peter Scholtes shared his thoughts on Leading Quality: Some Practical Approaches to the Managers New Job at the 1992 Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum conference. Peter starts the talk exploring myths about the practice of quality management. It takes more than improvement. He goes on to give a great example.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 7, 2019

The Chairperson of NIH, Alice, asks the obvious question, “Ron, what kind of savings do you think you can deliver for NIH?” The room grows silent as Ron lifts his little pinky to his mouth and announces, “We can save you one million dollars.” Ron surveys the audience and notices the looks of dismay and the furrowed brows.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 7, 2015

Over the past few months, I’ve been noticing a common thread in my work with various leaders and organizations, as well through my various speaking engagements with audiences in Canada and the US. This is why we see so much being written today about the importance of emotional intelligence to succeeding at leadership.

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ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

Most hiring managers would agree a currently employed candidate is more appealing than a jobless candidate. And while one article ungraciously claims “ Millennials’ Work Ethic Is In The Eye Of The Beholder ,” you’ve been a hiring manager long enough to know the same could be said of many people, regardless of age.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

But the audience was oh-so quick to grab their phones and tweet/IM/Facebook about what they were watching. In fact, I hope that some in Bill Nye’s audience were attempting to contact emergency services, but I rather suspect that this was not the case for most of them. However what incensed me was how the crowd reacted.

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ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

Most hiring managers would agree a currently employed candidate is more appealing than a jobless candidate. And while one article ungraciously claims “ Millennials’ Work Ethic Is In The Eye Of The Beholder ,” you’ve been a hiring manager long enough to know the same could be said of many people, regardless of age. Campus Recruiting.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

You have to spend months winning the trust and respect you’d already earned with the last group of people you managed. Consider the results of a July 1999 New York Times/CBS survey. But before he got to those details, he told the audience a little about himself personally. The average answer was 30 percent. When it was A.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 19, 2010

Jason Pankau and I are excited about this opportunity to work with yet another world-class partner to take our work and ideas on The Connection Culture from our book Fired Up or Burned Out to a new audience. Organizations today are in desperate need of improving employee engagement and strategic alignment. why is everyone smiling?

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 4, 2015

If we tolerate poor performance in rehearsal, that’s what our audiences will see and hear in our band’s shows. Even nine years in, we spend hours individually preparing and together rehearsing so our shows WOW our audience members (GOOD WOW, not BAD WOW). It’s not easy. It’s a lot of work. My consulting framework operates the same way.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Audience : Hi. Ben: Hi everybody. Ben: It’s good to be here.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Audience : Hi. Ben: Hi everybody. Ben: It’s good to be here.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Offer your audiences something they expect and something they don’t expect Issue #2: We are in people’s memory but not distinguished from other memories on a similar topic/product/service As a result, our audiences may remember something but may not necessarily associate with us. I will never forget lunch last Tuesday.

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CoachStation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We may well be overcomplicating the language of leadership and business. Gabrielle Dolan: The Future of Leadership Conference, Bris, Sept 2015 After attending the Future of Leadership – Workplace Culture conference in Brisbane last week I have been reflecting on the content from some of the speakers.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 17, 2015

The scene was a corporate cliché – the annual management meeting. I was a consultant to the company and sat as a guest at a table of eight managers toward the back of the hotel ballroom. The guy beside me leaned over and knowingly whispered, “He doesn’t give a rat’s butt about the managers here tonight.”

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Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2019

Conduct focus groups, one on one’s, and surveys to get a strong grip on the current state of your business culture. Taking the time to gauge the degree to which key messages are landing, as well as whether the audience is aligned, is probably the most important investment you can make as a leader. Don’t just communicate, connect.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Regardless of how it’s asked, “are we earning a return for our digital dollars” is a “hot button” marketing question poised by leaders, management and operating staff. Agreeing to what is being measured, and how to measure it, are natural follow up questions to this “hot button” item.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

But how can management achieve that if they can’t believe what customers tell their market researchers? The study asked about consumer personal values and their liking of brands in two ways: Traditional survey research, which reveals what people think consciously. Conscious versus Unconscious Values. The Continuum and the Marketplace.

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