N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Understanding how to leverage the influence factor can make a defining difference in your ability to drive change, build cohesive teams, and to successfully implement strategic vision. As a leader your “Influence Quotient” is the IQ you need to pay attention to. Trust Matters….

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Persuasive Powerhouse

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

” How can you influence downward to your employees, staff and the people you supervise? Encourage your staff to come up with solutions to problems. Downward influence is the missing key to help maximize and unleash your team’s potential. Every individual responds to con?dence.”

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In fact, some of the most effective leaders are those who are able to influence and inspire others even when they don’t hold a traditional leadership role. This might mean coming up with new ideas, volunteering to take on additional responsibilities, or simply stepping up when others need help.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 15, 2021

“Early in my career, my boss challenged me to speak up and be more of a leader in staff meetings. ”. That influences their ability to think clearly and learn new skills. A spiraling up effect occurs. “My Bottom line—are you providing the right C in the right amount? Who have you challenged in the last three days?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 7, 2023

The bottom line : We don’t have to like a person to work with them, but we do have to have a level of respect for them. He’s the author of the award- winning bestseller The Respectful Leader: Seven Ways to Influence Without Intimidation and its follow-up release, Restoring Respect.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2020

Featuring commentary from the leaders themselves describing how they handled each situation, it helps managers better understand not just what emotional intelligence is, or how to measure it, or how it is linked to bottom-line results: it also shows how real leaders used their emotional intelligence to deal with real situations.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 28, 2020

On the other hand, ignoring the needs of your stakeholders can have disastrous effects, such as low employee morale or a dismal bottom line. Identify Your Key Influencers. When trying to determine who your key influencers are, look for the stakeholders who have the most significant impact on your organization’s growth.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2019

And the bottom line is that trust is anything but soft. Customer satisfaction occurs when a companies products and services live up to brand promise thereby improving reputational value and trust. Customers are willing to speak up, organize, and boycott when their expectations aren’t met. What is trust?

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

In essence, it’s all about influence. you as leader want to influence your team members to do the things that are good for your organization and the things that are (even) better for the organization, thereby making it an excellent organization. Having influence means the ability to actually change the behavior of your team members.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 22, 2023

In fact, research has shown that nonverbal cues make up a significant portion of how we communicate and can even convey more information than the words we speak. Bottom line, your body language can have a powerful impact on your team’s motivation, confidence, and trust in you. When it comes to leadership your words are important.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2020

There was no riding the elevator up to mahogany row on the top floor. A great leader knew to only employ as much leadership as was needed to influence the outcome. ” What does leadership look like when command and control are irrelevant as leader tools for influencing? Then it hit me. Pretend you go on vacation.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2023

This book helps managers understand the postmodern worldview held by generation Z and younger millennials, how it influences their behaviour at work, and how they want to be led in the workplace. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne offer up a bold, new idea that will transform how we all think about innovation and growth.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 26, 2017

Michael, his partner Mallory, and the team at Thriving Talents are role models of blending the bottom line with the human spirit— and proof that a Millennial run company can grow fast, gain wide-spread international respect, and make a lasting impact on the results for the their clients. Understand them.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 16, 2019

Growing Up. Other adults influenced you in your formative years, too. When I talk to people about the strong influences on them growing up, they almost always mention a teacher, a coach, or a pastor. Bottom Line. You’ll be able to explain yourself better when others ask about your leadership choices.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 4, 2024

Online connections may not always represent trustworthy sources, and individuals can easily feign prestige or influence on digital platforms. And in practice, when you put those functions together, you end up with some of these potentially negative effects.” It’s just that its goals are different.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2016

If you think leadership is about the bottom line, think again; it’s about the people. Without the people there is no bottom line. Leadership lives and dies by its ability to engage, influence, and care for the people. If you can only lead those who agree with you then you will have a very small sphere of influence.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Specifically, he looks at the influences like education, parents, friends, and events in the world that helped them make the choices they made. According to a retrospective on his life published in The Independent , Marinho “insisted on working his way up from the bottom, learning all aspects of the business.”

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 21, 2018

Art Jones was the best supervisor I’ve ever seen up close. Wren’s buildings are everywhere in London, and his influence extends beyond the buildings he designed. Over the years, I’ve had many conversations with first-rate leaders who described the influences that helped them do excellent work. Bottom Line.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 13, 2020

That’s good advice if you’re holding up the line at the coffee shop, or deciding which lovely-but-unneeded-yet-on-sale sweater to buy. We face those same influences in deciding what kind of leader we’ll be. We face those same influences in deciding what kind of leader we’ll be. When in command, command.” Admiral Chester Nimitz.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 28, 2018

An organization’s achievements are directly and indirectly influenced by interpersonal communication. This is true in all three directions: top-down, horizontally, and bottom-up. Involve bottom-up: Traditionally, organizations follow a top-down design, resulting in one-way communication.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Leaders earn credibility and trust when they’re sincere about who they are and demonstrate that they’re willing to stand up for their values. When you make a mistake, own up to it and take the necessary steps to correct the wrong. There’s a surprising amount of power in being authentic and genuine. Communicate with transparency.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Running a commercial business is a multifaceted endeavor, fraught with challenges and variables that can influence success. Shifts in consumer preferences, emerging market trends, and changes in spending habits can all influence a business’s success. Understanding market trends requires thorough market research and analysis.

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 5, 2011

Many knowledge workers have years of education and experience in training for their positions, yet have almost no training in how to effectively influence decision makers. The eleven guidelines listed below are intended to help you do a better job of influencing decision makers. The effective influencer needs to be a good teacher.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 26, 2022

Amp It Up , by Frank Slootman , shows you how to transform an organization for maximum growth and scale. The bottom line is that great execution can make a moderately successful strategy go a long way, but poor execution will fail even the most brilliant strategy. Your company organization should run on influence, not rank and title.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Let me be clear, I’m not encouraging giving in or giving up – I am suggesting you learn the ever so subtle art of letting go. A leader simply operates at their best when they understand their ability to influence is much more fruitful than their ability to control. Bottom line – what you do or don’t surrender to will define you.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

They set up a small black and white TV on a folding chair. Leonard Tompkins was a mentor and one of the great influences on my life. Then, shut up and listen. Bottom Line. When I was a little boy and my grandmother was still alive, we would travel to Philadelphia every Thanksgiving to spend the holiday with her.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 11, 2018

But often it simply means you need to ramp up your influence. That means taking a careful look at all your workplace relationships–top to bottom, side to side. And when you bring your best, you increase your influence. Influence your boss. Influence meetings. Influence your colleagues.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 18, 2018

Influencing skills. Promoting them and offering them people-management responsibility is setting them up for failure. Promotion bumps up the ego and gives a salary hike; however, the real problem starts after the initial period gets over and it’s time for a reality check. Effective delegation. Emotional intelligence.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Done well, D&I actively recognizes that it is diverse backgrounds, worldviews, ideas, and cultural lenses that influence innovation, productivity, employee retention, and, yes, revenue. The second step is up to companies – companies also need to focus on retaining diverse talent, which can be difficult.

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HR Digest

JULY 4, 2023

It’s time to roll up our sleeves and delve into the captivating world of company culture, where every stakeholder plays a starring role. So, buckle up for a roller-coaster ride through the realms of responsibilities and the paradigms of participation in creating a culture that sings in harmony with the company’s ethos.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 8, 2019

Bottom-up commitment. The early majority eventually want to hook up with the new idea, but want some proof that it works before committing. It’s really the early adopters who are the most important influencers: others value their opinion, because these coworkers are committed, engaged, and critical. Top-down facilitation.

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HR Digest

APRIL 8, 2024

Power can be defined as “the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behaviors of others or the course of events.” Yet power in the workplace does not travel only from the top down—many forms of power at work travel from the bottom up as well. Image: Freepik How do We Define Power in the Workplace?

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The Center For Leadership Studies

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Communication in those traditional structures had a tendency to flow from top to bottom and responsiveness from the bottom up. Organizations as entities needed to be structured and to operate in a manner that reversed the flow of communication and responsiveness (communication up, responsiveness down).

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Career Advancement

AUGUST 12, 2019

Renae Asks: I’m trying to use my time wisely, and that means being strategic in the leadership training opportunities I pursue, as well as the ones I set up for the team I manage. It’s the ability to influence followers in order to meet organizational goals through change. Make yourself available as a leader.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

MARCH 17, 2014

Collaboration rides on the coattails of this imagined company ripe with rich, deep listening and all wise voices being heard – with bottom line results. You’ve noticed that your clarity and influence is magnifying within the organization. You now observe the growth in your organization, including bottom-line effects!

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 20, 2018

And, it’s the enemy to efficiency, productivity, and a healthy bottom line. But as we grow up, our curiosity is drummed out. Few of us are in control of our time but those who are, or who can influence how time is spent by others, should invest in giving people a percentage of their time for assessments and problem solving.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 15, 2018

All a title does is buy you time–time to earn influence or to lose it, to get the job done or to fall short. If you inherit a title, it’s up to you to earn the position. It is instead cultivated through character, competence, consistency, and compassion–traits that allow you to earn influence.

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