N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

I have consistently espoused the value of walking the floor, dropping in for meetings on an impromptu basis, proactively engaging key stakeholders, and any number of other items that focus on raising your awareness. My style was dubbed MBWA (Management By Wandering Around) by one of my team members many years ago and it stuck.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

M OST WORK TEAMS have the same silent member who’s constantly dropping the ball. That’s because you almost certainly have a “somebody” on your team. That’s because you almost certainly have a “somebody” on your team. That is, your team doesn’t have a “somebody” problem; it has a decision-making problem. Sound familiar?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Outside of the SEALs, he’s run meetings in the White House Situation Room, negotiated international arms treaties, and developed high-impact corporate strategies. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). We listen to opinions that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I was fortunate to work in corporate recruiting for a global technology company in 2008 when the idea of a remote workforce was embraced. Video calls replaced in-person meetings, and we found ourselves wooing candidates, updating hiring leaders, and closing offers digitally.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 26, 2022

If there’s one topic I hear about all the time from the leaders I work with, it’s the challenge of keeping themselves and their teams focused on what matters most. The point of the discussion is to pull the lens back and get clear on what they and their teams need to start, stop, and continue doing over the next 30, 60 and 90 days.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2024

All In : How Great Leaders Build Unstoppable Teams by Mike Michalowicz It’s never been harder building successful teams. They’ve tried everything from food perks and ping pong tables to endless team-building exercises and training—but nothing sticks. Glad We Met : The Art and Science of 1:1 Meetings by Steven G.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Therefore, our tailored approach is designed to customize the evaluation process to meet these specific requirements. The expertise of our evaluation team is a vital component of our process. We assemble a team of experienced consulting professionals with deep insights into executive leadership and organizational dynamics.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Remember that great CEOs see themselves not as masters of the universe, but as inspirational servants, catalysts, teachers, and team builders…Again, I would strongly encourage you to think “leader&# and not “dictator.&# Reflect back to your time as a student…which educators brought out the best in you?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

As his team grew, Musk infused it with his tolerance for risk and reality-bending willfulness. “If If you were negative or thought something couldn’t be done, you were not invited to the next meeting, SpaceX Tom Mueller recalls. “He “There’s got to be some combination of inspiration, perspiration, and risk to be a cofounder.”

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

This is the time of the year when I spend a day with my C-suite clients to give them some space to get up on the balcony to consider what success will look like 12 months from now and what they and their teams need to focus on to make those outcomes more likely. How do you want to leverage and enable your leadership team this year?

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Lead from Within

JUNE 21, 2023

Have you ever attended a team meeting and felt like you weren’t included or valued as a member of the team? Lack of inclusion during team meetings is often due to cliques, not being part of the leader’s inner circle, or the leader being focused on him or herself.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

That opportunity allowed me to travel across the globe, meet customers, understand their challenges, offer solutions, provide consulting support, sell services and contribute substantially to organization’s growth. According to Bill, this bucket needs the most filling in teams and organizations.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Section IX: Team Building. Great leaders create great teams throughout the entire value chain. Leaders can be extremely strong in any of the areas above, but if they are not leading effectively or productively, if they are not meeting performance expectations, then they have work to do. myself that.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

As a CEO, I would strongly suggest you conduct a gut check during your next executive meeting by counting the number of times you hear your CXOs say things like: “That will never work,&# &# We can’t do that,&# “That’s not my problem,&# “We’ve always done it that way.&#

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A team is a small number of people who are committed to working together to achieve the desired goal. Working together includes talking, sharing ideas, debating issues, collaborating, making decisions, establishing goals, providing feedback, and celebrating success. Teams, like personal relationships, go through stages.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 28, 2022

The ability to log in and out of one meeting after another without the friction (or the respite) of having to move our physical bodies from one place to another has made it easier to pack more meetings and conversations into a day. As a result, many of us are juggling more balls than we were a couple of years ago.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I wonder what you think about this idea… [link] mikemyatt Hi Deb: Sounds like a cop-out to me…However to be fair, I clearly don't have enough information on the situation at your company to render a definitive opinion. However I took great care of the team I had on my own outside of their quarterly bonus.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 4, 2020

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Bernd Geropp provided One-on-one meetings – What matters most! How does such a meeting work? Communication. That’s not always a good thing.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Expect to Do Some Heavy Lifting by @artpetty How to Facilitate – as Opposed to Dominate – Your Meetings by @suzimcalpine 5 Important Lessons I Learned Growing Up from @wallybock Leaders, Objectivity vs. Detached Coldness by @KateNasser How Writing Your Obituary Can Help You NOW!

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Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

W HEN A CEO first assumes their position or joins a new company, they’re often quick to make changes to the executive team, creating a group of trusted advisors who will drive their strategic agenda. Doing so requires CEOs to not only reinvent themselves and their organizations but also to rethink their executive teams.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

This multi-faceted nature of the COO’s responsibilities requires an individual equipped with various skills, including strategic visioning, change management capabilities, team leadership qualities, and a deep understanding of contemporary business trends.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Where Dan lost me was on point #4 – Teams Decide by Consensus. In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality. The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered&# by having an equal voice.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

It pushes us to treat busyness as a proxy for useful effort, leading to impossibly lengthy task lists and ceaseless meetings. Cultures of Growth : How the New Science of Mindset Can Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations by Mary C. But are these really our only choices? Slow productivity is exactly what we need. Murphy Ph.D.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

On the other hand, they should also possess the commercial acumen to ensure these groundbreaking ideas translate into feasible business plans. Creativity, this capacity to generate novel and beneficial ideas, functions as the catalyst that accelerates business growth, redefines customer experiences and reimagines organizational norms.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 14, 2021

Regardless of the leadership role you play there are common challenges we all face as we seek to build an organization or guide a team. Here are 4 essential challenges to meet, the tension created in the process of facing each challenge, and the outcome we hope to achieve. Learning is optimized when truth meets life. Truth—Life.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2018

No leader sets out to lead an ineffective team. In fact many leaders invest a lot of time and energy agonising over how to create the perfect high-performance team that works effectively and consistently delivers results. Many leaders create teams that lack diversity and are too large. Just think of a soccer team.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 5, 2023

They allow teams to come up with new ideas. Here are some steps you can take to foster a culture of innovation and creativity within your team: Encourage open-mindedness and divergent thinking: Encourage your team to think outside the box and consider multiple perspectives. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As a leader of a remote team, it’s important to find ways to recognize and appreciate your employees for their hard work and contributions. This is a quick and easy way to let your team know that you appreciate their efforts. This is a quick and easy way to let your team know that you appreciate their efforts.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Teams Get Stuck, Too. Teams and groups are complex. People in them have ideas, expectations, assumptions and personalities. The “stuck-ness” is felt in a meeting, observed in relationships, and even sensed in the leader. The team starts to feel flat, directionless, uncertain, and folks hesitate to act.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 12, 2024

Every great leader understands that team building is not just about organizing fun activities or holding team meetings. It’s about unlocking the one secret ingredient that can make or break a team’s success: trust. Why is trust the team building secret that every great leader swears by? Lets explore.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Skip level meetings always seem like a good idea at the time. Done well, skip level meetings are a remarkable tool in your Winning Well toolkit. Maybe that’s why after over 700 blog posts, the most read is 5 Secrets To Great Skip Level Meetings. 7 Deadly Sins of Skip Level Meetings. Why the intrigue?

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Best of Blogs Winner by Kevin Eikenberry on December 16, 2010 in Leadership , Leadership Blogs , Learning The polls are closed, the votes are in, and we have a winner!

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

If you’re a leader who needs to attract and retain great talent, you have a huge stake in your team members answering, “Yes,” to both of those questions. Coach – One of the ideas that we used to talk about a lot when I was on the faculty of Georgetown’s leadership coaching program is that great coaches coach the person not the problem.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

One thing I’ve written about a lot over the years is that if you’re in a large organization, your team’s good work doesn’t speak for itself; you, as the team leader, have to speak for the work. After each senior executive meeting, she sends her leaders an email that summarizes the feedback, requests and comments from the executive.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 15, 2020

At last week’s chapter meeting, I shared some learning from the first ten weeks of virtual meetings during the current lockdown, now the immediate impact of COVID-19 has lessened. His blog post makes for fascinating reading! Address your staff member’s everyday concerns, issues, and ideas.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Videoconferencing platforms, such as Zoom or Microsoft Teams, can offer a more personalized touch by allowing coaches and executives to see each other’s facial expressions and body language. Active communication involves expressing ideas and thoughts clearly and actively engaging with the coach to understand their perspectives better.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

after you pitch your latest wacky idea. Or, after a few weeks of pumping the brakes, they finally greenlight your game plan to retool your team or department. Who on your team is trying to get your attention? What’s not being said in your meetings? It happens when your boss eventually says, “Go for it!”

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