Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 12, 2023

This phrase gives you an opportunity to calmly and objectively share how you’re feeling. Or you might learn of a significant opportunity that will help your career. One of our favorite examples of these conversations in use was when we worked with a leadership team who addressed their CEO’s habit of swearing in frustration.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I’ve written about these and other crucial tools for helping leaders improve relationships, gain executive presence and succeed in my new book, The Heart of a Leader: 52 Emotional Intelligence Insights to Advance Your Career. Give yourself 60-90 days to determine if you have the right mix of talent to achieve the goals and objectives.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The antidote, I’ve found during my two decades as an accountability speaker and business consultant, is a thoughtful and persistent effort to infuse accountability into every objective, every task, and in every colleague-to-colleague and company-to-customer interaction. What will happen if our organization fails to reach our objectives?

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Rich Gee Group

AUGUST 26, 2014

We all like Shiny Objects. Whenever a new product, idea, solution, or strategy comes along, we sometimes catch ourselves getting distracted and focusing a lot of our efforts towards our Shiny Object. ” Some Shiny Objects are good. Let’s talk about the BAD Shiny Objects. What are your Shiny Objects?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

These world-class subject matter experts include members of advising boards, CEOs, and senior executives who are pioneers in their industries and make waves in their spaces. Or would you hope they engaged in professional development activities during their career? Executive leaders are masters of their craft.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But often, these top-tier executives don’t know where to go to achieve this critical perspective and guidance at this stage in their careers. One Stanford study revealed that while two-thirds of CEOs say they don’t receive any leadership advice, almost 100% of them want it and welcome executive coaching.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

One of the key qualities of an effective CPO is the ability to think strategically and align procurement initiatives with the overall business objectives. Within the organization, new courses charted by the CEO or Board may have broad implications for effective procurement, and leadership needs to be prepared to respond agilely.

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CEO Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Friday, December 17, 2010 Do and Grow Rich First a holiday coupon for my readers. The objective of the exercise is to discover if a person is going ahead, standing still or going backward in life. Have I personally attained the goal I established as my own objective for the year? Hi Jim, I'm back.it

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. Second, they must become a trusted consigliere to the CEO. He is a highly valued and trusted thought partner to CEO Bruce Broussar d. Many things actually.

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CEO Insider

MARCH 9, 2023

Last week I had one of the most fulfilling episodes of my consulting career: A two-day immersive workshop with a Fortune 500 insurer designed to stress-test their corporate strategy. While specifics are private, I’d like to share a few thoughts this experience inspired.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The thread that runs through his career is the entrepreneurial mindset. Entrepreneurial leaders also think continually about the big picture—the broader goal that everyone in the organization is supposed to be working toward—and strive to be guided not by short-term gain or personal profit but by long-term objectives that help everyone.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 22, 2021

CEOs who take command of a company also forge intense bonds, even if they are not the actual founder. It can impair your judgment and objectivity, preventing you from hearing what you need to hear. As an entrepreneur or founder, the bond you have with the company you created can be as strong as that of a parent with her child.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 30, 2020

Third, for projects with which you have little past experience, use an external perspective from a trusted and objective source. A financial services firm whose CEO I coached wanted to move its headquarters after it outgrew its current building. A bestselling author, he is best known for The Truth Seeker’s Handbook (2017).

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Image Courtesy – Freepik) What is the importance of DEI in a career and how has it shaped the workforce today? For organizations looking to bolster their DEI efforts , setting measurable objectives appears to be crucial. What can HR practitioners do to veer their company’s ideals towards DEI?

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Help them set goals, and show them how those objectives contribute to the organization’s higher goals. Offer Training That Enhances Career Development. Some examples of career development training include: Coaching and mentoring to uncover specific hurdles and motivate employees to move past them.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

Our focus on innovation in talent is what allows EY people to build meaningful careers with impact. Through EY’s Candidate Assistant, AI is able to recommend a job to someone they may never have thought of – or heard of – as they explore flexible career options that align directly with their unique interests and ambitions.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 12, 2024

Shanelle Reese, Chief People Officer, Wonderschool The Talent Turnaround 2023 witnessed a seismic shift in the tech landscape, with unprecedented levels of turnover fueled by layoffs, career changes, and a resurgent job market. Unlike their predecessors, Gen Z is not bound by traditional notions of career progression.

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Career Advancement

JULY 17, 2017

Mulcahy, former CEO of Xerox~. This isn’t just about career advancement. Help employees understand how each team objective fits into the vision, and how their own daily work fits into the big picture, and watch their enthusiasm for their work grow. Satisfied employees mean satisfied. customers, which leads to profitability.”

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Is Your Career A Rollercoaster Or Are You Driving It? Are you driving your career? What’s Killing Your Career? Newton’s First Law of Motion: An object at rest tends to stay at rest unless acted upon by a sum of physical forces. In essence, they are an “object at rest”. Can Change Your Career. Guaranteed.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 4, 2013

“ The biggest differentiator of companies that excel in leadership development is the commitment and ownership of the CEO or top executive.” — Dan McCarthy. It’s easy for a “chicken” CEO to just pay lip service to leadership development. Here are 10 things that I believe would give any CEO the best return on their time invested.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 2, 2015

“Busy people concentrate on the task completion aspect of duties and responsibilities—maintaining a ‘checklist’ focus—while others embrace a broader perspective of contributions that measurably contribute to the higher strategic objectives of the organization, says Donn LeVie, Jr. , a career strategist and former Fortune 500 hiring manager.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 1, 2014

This post recently appeared in SmartBlog on Leadership : There’s a LOT of advice out there on leadership and management – almost as much as you’ll find on dating, careers, and how to raise your kids. The best way to learn leadership is from successful business CEOs”. Actually, most of its pretty good, or at least not bad.

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 15, 2014

That’s why it’s wise to carefully think through the benefits and potential objections your client might have then plan how you will clearly communicate to avoid even the appearance of self-interest. 3 Practices CEOs Can Learn from the Girl Scouts. Behavior that puts your interest ahead of your client’s interest undermines connection.

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HR Digest

APRIL 10, 2024

This continuous feedback loop is critical to raising the bar in how we make Blackstone the absolute best place to grow a career. Annual Feedback Touchpoints : All employees receive ongoing feedback throughout the year, including goal and objective setting, mid-year check-ins and formal year-end 360 degree reviews.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JANUARY 22, 2015

The strategy and the positioning for a personal brand isn’t that different from a product or service brand; your intent is to position yourself in the best way possible to achieve the desired objective. To most of you the objective is to advance your career. So let’s get to it. Firstly, understand the constraints.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Over my career I’ve seen this scenario several times. In 2000, when Anne Mulcahy became Xerox’s CEO, the company was nearly bankrupt. Mulcahy spent her career at Xerox and had the credibility to communicate this message. RadioShack logo, courtesy of RadioShack Corporation. RadioShack is on the ropes. What can be done to save it?

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 2, 2017

Bill is the Chief Encouragement Officer (CEO) of Giant Leap Consulting, Inc. Benefiting from the concepts first introduced in Bill’s bestselling books, participants come away with stronger leadership skills, improved team performance, and more career backbone.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Career Coach. One of the most frequent requests for my ministry help had to do with people’s career steps — from school to employment. People often want a third-party objective and many times they look to the pastor for that role. Let me be very clear that Jesus is the CEO of the church. Social worker.

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Women on Business

MARCH 8, 2011

The research also found the top reasons for respondents’ dissatisfaction are: being underpaid (cited by 47 percent of women versus 44 percent of men); a lack of opportunity for growth (36 percent versus 32 percent); no opportunity for career advancement (33 percent versus 34 percent); and feeling trapped (29 percent versus 32 percent).

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Lead from Within

MAY 9, 2019

Engage senior leaders: It’s essential to have consensus among the CEO and senior leadership team about the importance of proactive leadership development and succession planning. As a leader, you need to identify developmental needs and career aspirations, and consciously build learning objectives into the future leader’s work.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

Resist the temptation to just advance a broad number of disparate initiatives, and alternatively focus your efforts on the completion of a few high impact objectives. The simple reality is that if you continue to add new responsibilities to an already full plate, all of your obligations will suffer as a result.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared Get Promoted at Work: Your 10-Point Plan. Erik summarizes: “This article looks at four consistent areas of successful culture change, which includes the importance of having a CEO as the ultimate culture champion, and leadership training to embrace any new values introduced.”

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Adapted, and reprinted with permission from Career Press, an imprint of Red Wheel/Weiser. Numerous studies have shown that many CEOs who have failed had perfectly sound strategies. In 1999, noted business consultant Ram Charan’s cover article in Fortune magazine identified 25 CEOs who had recently failed terribly and publicly.2

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 30, 2011

Early in my career I worked for a company where the CEO loved to have meetings. Mostly we held meetings for the sake of meetings for one reason: Our CEO was a poor leader who couldn’t make decisions. Meetings were held ad-nauseum about virtually every topic under the sun. Bad meetings are a result of bad leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2016

This month we are featuring Instigator Eileen McDargh , CEO and Chief Energy Officer of The Resiliency Group and a motivational speaker who calls herself a hope merchant and truth teller. In response to the question “if money were no object, what would you do all day?” And if not now, when?” I’d play with children.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Higgins is co-founder and CEO of private investment firm RSE Ventures and a lecturer and Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School. Question: You say you can predict CEO failure based on one thing. We are conditioned to believe that our careers must unfold like layers of sedimentary rock, one built on the next. What is it?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

First Step: Remain Objective and Analyze Yourself. Second Step: Identify the Career Goals You Want to Achieve. Linda Ferguson started her career in a local company as a content writer 5 years ago. Now, she is the CEO of [link] thanks to her determination and complete dedication to work. About the Author.

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