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Strategies to Lead Your Company Forward to the Future of Work

Let's Grow Leaders

Episode 250: In this episode, you’ll hear David catching up with Dan Michelson, the author of “Holy Shift: Moving Your Company Forward to the Future of Work.” Dan shares actionable advice for leaders aiming to nurture community and connection in their teams.

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What’s one piece of career advice you wish you had learned sooner?

Let's Grow Leaders

Career advice you wish you had learned sooner. On this week’s episode of Asking for a Friend, I interviewed Kathryn Heath and Brenda Wensil , authors of I Wish I’d Known This , about the career advice they have after years of professional coaching. . . Career Advice: Have a posse and know your personal brand.

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How to Make an Even Better Career Elevator Pitch

Let's Grow Leaders

Use this Simple Technique for a Better Career Elevator Pitch. Do you ever think of exactly the right thing to say — your perfect career elevator pitch — the moment you walk away from the conversation? This moment in my career helped launch me into the next level of leadership at the company I worked for.

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After the layoff: How to support your team when it just got smaller

Let's Grow Leaders

Practical Tips to Help You and Your Team Heal. My LinkedIn feed and email inbox are filled with news of layoffs and reorganizations causing unexpected career turbulence. You care about the humans on your team (those who are gone and those who remain); perhaps you’ve also watched some peers go too. I know it’s hard.

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Help Your Team Shift from Busy to Productive

Let's Grow Leaders

What do you do to help your team shift from busy to productive? Is your team doing what you asked, but they’re focused on counting the metrics, and how busy they are as opposed to the quality metrics of how well they’re accomplishing those tasks? 03:36 How do we practically ensure your team’s busy day is worth it?

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Resourcefulness Matters: How to Help Your Team Be More Resourceful

Let's Grow Leaders

7 Ways to Encourage Your Team to Be More Resourceful. Who doesn’t need more of that on their team right now? And yet during times of stress, ambiguity, and change , when you need your team to be THE MOST resourceful, some managers clamp down, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow their team down.

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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Ideals and Compromise

N2Growth Blog

portfolio company executives , diving into hiring assessment essentials in terms of hard skills to lead a portfolio company and run the business. Adding a new CxO might create temporary instability in a firm that has relied on generations of insiders or in the case of a more recent startup, a mercurial leader to harness the company.

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