N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Identifying Organizational Needs: Assessing Challenges and Goals Assessing the challenges and goals of an organization is a critical first step in providing effective leadership advisory and executive coaching solutions. Assessing the leadership team’s and employees’ readiness to embrace new ideas and behaviors is vital.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Effective Leadership Satya Nadella’s transformative leadership at Microsoft demonstrates the profound impact of visionary and effective leadership. It’s crucial to develop leadership at all levels, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. Leadership doesn’t make “a difference.” Be extraordinary.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. If you check your ego at the door and give a thoughtful, introspective evaluation of your ability, it is likely that you’ll learn something about your leadership abilities or lack thereof.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 9, 2011

According to Marketing Sherpa's 2011 Email Marketing Benchmark Survey, nearly two-thirds of marketers are expecting their email marketing budgets to grow in 2011. Ten percent of more than 1,100 marketers surveyed say their companies' email marketing spend will rise by at least 30 percent.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

The same principles apply to e-marketing: before rolling out a campaign to a large audience, test it on a small one. How does their e-marketing supplement their traditional marketing? Create a Benchmark Traditional direct marketing always uses a control piece as the benchmark, generally with an A/B split test.

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Marketing Press Release Direct Marketing Discount 162

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). The problem is leadership on autopilot. In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle.

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leaderCommunicator

JUNE 28, 2019

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. To survive and thrive in today’s market, a healthy corporate culture is more important than ever. To survive and thrive in today’s market, a healthy corporate culture is more important than ever. Read more >>

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This book is the result of what we have learned teaching leadership and business acumen classes to rising and senior leaders at Fortune 500 companies for twenty years,” share authors Nathan Kracklauer and Bjorn Billhardt. When we're in a book club, we get that social validation. Whew, I thought I was alone, but I'm not" is comforting.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

Put simply, leadership is not a static endeavor. In fact, leadership demands fluidity, which requires the willingness to recognize the need for change, and finally the ability to lead change. If your entity doesn’t innovate and change in accordance with market driven needs and demands it will fail…it’s just that simple.

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Leadership Competitive Advantage Due Diligence Short-term 347

Center for Creative Leadership

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Nearly every leadership development consulting firm experiences the same challenge: Managing client demands while expanding their offerings and growing their book of business. How do the best leadership consultancies balance these responsibilities? Yet these are necessary to grow your leadership consulting business.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

In fact, if you're reading this text, just stop right now and benchmark your activity against your reflective thoughts – Is what you're doing, in alignment with your true priorities, or have you been sucked down into the weeds? The old "what if I only had 'x' number of hours to work in a week, what would I focus on?"

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Chartered Management Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2023

ChMC Case Study: Marco Amitrano Managing Partner and Head of Clients & Markets at PWC UK Chartered Management Consultant Award: The way forward for the consultancy industry. Leading by example, empowering others and being part of a senior leadership team that is supportive of Chartership is an important focus at PwC UK.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 28, 2019

Don’t benchmark against others – benchmark against a unique and better version of you. Don’t embrace the practices of your peers, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to unlock hidden value and create advantage in the market. My thesis is a simple one; Don’t copy – create.

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Chart Your Course

MAY 2, 2013

Filed in Job Benchmarking, Growth Curve, Retention. According to a study by WorldatWork, “Retention of key talent – those employees who are the strongest performers, have high potential or are in critical jobs – is even more important during economic recoveries when organizations compete aggressively for market share and talent.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

His topic: Leadership in a VUCA world. I am not surprised he picked this topic as he is charged in growing Unilever’s businesses in emerging and highly VUCA-prone markets. But we would like to explore the relationship between VUCA and leadership in more depth. Like Manwani, this year our theme is Leadership in a VUCA World.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives, benchmarking. Value-added leadership is a healthy way of life that puts collaborations first. Value-added leadership requires a senior team commitment. You provide leadership for progress, rather than following along. Plan and Benchmark. Philosophy. The Big Picture.

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Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

HR Digest

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This transformation on importance of training in the workplace, addresses the need for greater agility in skill acquisition in a market evolving at an increasingly rapid pace. It’s not only delivering a strong return on investment when it comes to retention, but also higher profits for the benchmark organizations.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Dan McCarthy posted a collection of top blog posts on leadership that included a post I wrote. Wally Bock presents The Joy of Helping posted at Three Star Leadership , saying “The best bosses revel in helping others succeed” Mark Stelzner presents Two Easy (And Legal) Ways to Gather Competitive Intel posted at Inflexion Point.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2019

This may sound harsh, but the truth often is… I’ve witnessed far too many people in positions of leadership that wouldn’t recognize an opportunity if it hit them squarely in the face. If you cannot recognize, attract, and acquire opportunity you should not be in a leadership position. Click To Tweet.

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Due Diligence Metrics Competitive Advantage Rogers 167

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Welcome to the November 6, 2011 edition of leadership development carnival! Wally Bock presents The Joy of Helping posted at Three Star Leadership , saying "The best bosses revel in helping others succeed". And a century and a half is an eyeblink compared with the eternity it would take to achieve this benchmark in senior management".

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 29, 2017

Today we are pleased to share a post from Lisa Kosak of Green Thumb Leadership. Trust me; our leadership was in name only. Mark’s parable about a leadership journey was very relevant. A non-profit board that I serve on is rebranding, and we are facing a leadership deficit. Forward a year and I acknowledged my errors.

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Internal Benchmarking Mentor Guidelines Open-book 150

The Practical Leader

APRIL 3, 2024

In their paper, Workplace Wellbeing and Firm Performance , they report, “We find that wellbeing is associated with firm profitability and that companies with the highest levels of wellbeing also subsequently outperform standard benchmarks in the stock market. Well-being promotes higher creativity with more novel and useful ideas.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 28, 2019

Don’t benchmark against others – benchmark against a unique and better version of you. Don’t embrace the practices of your peers, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to unlock hidden value and create advantage in the market. My thesis is a simple one; Don’t copy – create.

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Benchmarking Outsourcing Offshoring Fashion 160

Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

including digital marketing success. The digital marketing promise has always included the ability to measure the impact of your online marketing dollars. Delivering on this promise has been a challenging activity that many leaders grapple with when measuring digital marketing benchmarks for success.

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CPA Organization Succession ROI 261

The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

Your underlying (and often unconscious) attitudes and motivations determine what you pay attention to and focus on in your leadership role. Before delving into 7 key leadership motivation patterns, let’s first look at 3 often-missed truths about performance. 7 motivational patterns of high performance leadership.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

When markets are down, they become ripe for disruption and roll out the red carpet for innovative services, solutions, and products. Met a workplace benchmark? BCC, is Leadership Coach and Educator with fifteen years of professional experience serving the nonprofit, corporate and higher education sectors. Learned a new skill?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

You probably didn’t answer, “How to implement effective marketing.” ” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. Benchmark Your Feedback Step 8. Why is marketing important for your business?

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The Center For Leadership Studies

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Depending on your needs and goals, the specific capabilities you seek will vary, but there are a few essential criteria to look for that can serve as benchmarks during your selection process. Do they share expertise via thought-leadership, publishing, webinars, blogs, etc.? Contribution to L&D industry/thought-leadership.

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Compliance Training Industry Learning-by-Doing 83

Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

You have to watch your competitors and seek to always adapt to changes in the market, and innovate for solutions. The post Employee Turnover – The Hidden Cost appeared first on Leadership Speaker | Motivational Leadership Speaker | Greg Smith: Chart Your Course International. So what’s the good news?

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 30, 2017

These are the measure by which my clients have set a benchmark for their success, or failure. Your best marketing is the execution of your brand and how you interact with your customers each and every day. But to worry about how you match up against them is to take the focus away from your own opportunities.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Examples of business objectives can include market expansion, revenue growth, cost reductions or optimization, product development, etc. Align these standards with your own business and sales goals and set benchmarks to review your progress regularly.

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Planning Incentives Market Penetration System 52

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Tiny niche players can emerge from nowhere to take the market or make expensively researched products obsolete overnight. This is shared leadership in action and works on the principle of “I own what I help to create”. And it also means that a new approach to leadership and management is needed. A worthy aim!

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 17, 2013

In an evolving digital work place, it is critical for leaders to think of their products, services and leadership in terms of SoCoLoMo. Employee Trust: 82% of employees say they trust a company more when the CEO and leadership team communicate via social media. The Digital Marketer: Benchmark & Trends Report 2012.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” In the end, leadership that adopts politically correct behavior and thinking places themselves and their organizations at great peril. Leadership is about telling the truth with courage, candor, honesty… and empathy.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome is crazy — start benchmarking other successful behaviors and you’ll slowly become successful. Many people today are making big bucks again. Go find them and see what they are doing. This work by Rich Gee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

“AbbVie has been named to more than 40 Great Place to Work and Top Employer lists and is prominently recognized on “Best of” lists related to diversity, leadership, and engagement, as well as for corporate responsibility and business performance.” We monitor the external market carefully. We are humble.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

By benchmarking activities and accomplishments against planned objectives, then the company has a barometer of its previous phase and an indicator of its next phase. Keep the vision grounded in reality through benchmarked measurements. The review and benchmarking phases of one process constitute the pre-work and research for the next.

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Mission Statement Benchmarking Tactics Strategic Planning 81