Career Advancement

AUGUST 17, 2020

In every career path, there’s a level at which leadership skills and visibility play a much stronger role in promotions than job skills. Find out what’s most important to your boss as well as your boss’s boss, and seek out opportunities to volunteer for those projects. Resourceful” and “innovative” topped the list.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

With the finish line in sight, you can innovate without fear, tossing out time-saving hacks like confetti. We can’t tell you how many times employees have come to us feeling overloaded at work, and when we encourage them to talk to their boss, the hours the employee works or the level of effort they give to a project shock their boss.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

a middle manager, frustrated in his current role, overlooks his long career of exciting challenges and developmental experiences. Genuine gratitude transforms your leadership. An Inexhaustible Source of Leadership Gratitude. Even your direct reports don’t have to follow your leadership. Gratitude is missing when….

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 13, 2023

Stop that Credit Stealer and Get the Recognition You Deserve “I was in a meeting the other day, and one of the executives thanked my boss for the success of a project I’ve been working on all year. The really infuriating thing is that she had NOTHING to do with that project. And you know what she said next? Thank you.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

T HE INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE of leading in an increasingly complex world is that we will have developmental gaps in our leadership. In the words of Robert Anderson and William Adams, authors of Scaling Leadership , “We are running an Internal Operating System that is not complex enough for the complexity we face.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 16, 2024

Successful leaders recognize that diversity goes beyond demographics; it includes diverse thinking, a potent driver of innovation and growth. As an executive leadership coach, I emphasize the significance of implementing seven unconventional methods to cultivate diverse thinking in organizations.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

A S A PROFESSOR, an entrepreneur, the president of Stanford University, and now the Chairman of the Board of Alphabet (Google’s Parent company) and Director of Knight-Hennessy Scholars, John Hennessy has had a lot of leadership experience. Leadership as Service. Innovation. Leading Matters is about the journey.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 25, 2024

Lead by Example: Leading by example is a hallmark of exceptional leadership. If you seek innovation, embrace it yourself. Encourage teamwork by creating opportunities for cross-functional projects, brainstorming sessions, and idea sharing. Recognize that different viewpoints can lead to innovative solutions.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

With the rapidly evolving nature of technology and the increasing demand for skilled professionals, these firms bring their expertise to identify and attract top-level executives with the necessary skills and experience to drive innovation and growth.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Drawing on her twenty-year career as an advisor to the C-Suite, Davey shares real-world examples and practical tools you and your team can use to handle even the most contentious conflicts as allies?instead Maxwell (HarperCollins Leadership, 2019) In Leadershift , John C. instead of adversaries. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Career Advancement

MAY 25, 2021

In every career path, there’s a level at which leadership skills and visibility play a much stronger role in promotions than job skills. Find out what’s most important to your boss as well as your boss’s boss, and seek out opportunities to volunteer for those projects. Resourceful” and “innovative” topped the list.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 7, 2015

Welcome to the July 2015 Leadership Development Carnival! This month brings a treat of 22 leadership posts to savor and share. Topics range from moral character to leadership lessons from World War II to stepping out of comfort zones. Dan points out that “bad decisions can ruin an organization and kill careers.

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Career Advancement

JANUARY 8, 2018

“In any organization, you’re going to run into challenges to expanding your leadership influence. Here are four roadblocks to overcome for effective leadership influence. If managers play favorites, or favor certain types of projects just because they happen to like them more, you might have trouble making your ideas heard.

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Rich Gee Group

JULY 10, 2023

Reclaiming Your Time: Strategies for Busy Managers As a manager, it’s easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of the workday, from leading team meetings and managing projects to resolving conflicts and making crucial decisions. Practice Mindfulness: Mindfulness enhances emotional intelligence, a key trait for effective leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2021

Successful leaders are not “just lucky”, even when their career may have some seemingly coincidental moments. When it is time for a project or experiment to be laid to rest, all those who worked on it have a chance to discuss what they learned, gained, and regretted from the whole process. They worked hard to get lucky.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 20, 2015

Fifteen years ago, I reinvented myself and started a new career in faith-based social services. I have had the privilege of building innovative social service programs for at-risk children and families. This was the first of three bikes that have become bicycle generators for the KidPower2015 project. Children of Inmates, Inc.,

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

After sharing a bit of his background, he quickly delves into his career beginning at ABC, and the lessons he’s learned and the principles that have guided him that help “nurture the good and manage the bad.”. Iger writes of the key mentors in his career and his relationship with Steve Jobs, George Lucas, and Michael Eisner.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 24, 2012

Turn Innovation Inward. Innovation continues to be a hot topic, and rightly so. Few things can change the course of a project, career, company, category, or industry like successful efforts in innovation. The Practice of Leadership is in need of a Makeover – an Extreme One.

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

He’d been working to increase his responsibilities to prove he could handle a leadership role, but now he was having a hard time keeping up with it all. He couldn’t just shrug off his existing responsibilities, but he didn’t want to give up the exciting new projects he’d taken on. Tackle your passion projects at times of peak energy.

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Career Advancement

APRIL 27, 2020

Lily, who worked in an architecture firm, felt her career was stagnating. Even though others continued advancing in their careers, she couldn’t seem to rise above the level she was at. Do they frequently introduce innovative ideas at meetings? Lily began to realize the extent of her leadership skills after asking for feedback.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

Welcome to the March Leadership Development Carnival! Rebecca Elvy of Rebecca Elvy provided The Critical Leadership Skill Most Leaders Don’t Have. Strong communication skills are paramount to successful leadership. Jon Mertz of Thin Difference submitted The True Test of Leadership Development: Hiring or Promoting?

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 26, 2019

For organizations, attrition is an expensive issue that takes money away from impactful progress, innovation, employee benefits, and enjoyable team activities. Give Opportunities for Development Leaders often assume that opportunities for development and career growth only come with a promotion.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 13, 2013

The book is a fascinating deep dive into many aspects of Facebook’s meteoric success, but I was particularly interested in her perspectives on the importance of great leadership. 2) Offer your employees a nontraditional career path that is based on their contributions and value-based behaviors, and not on their age or credentials.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 13, 2011

Google clearly hopes to recapture some of the nimbleness and innovative spirit of its early years. But the key question is: Will Project Oxygen help a grown-up Google get its start-up mojo back? PROJECT OXYGEN started with some basic assumptions. They wanted to build better bosses. And how do you do it ?”.

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Thin Difference

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

I’ve had a chance to work with many memorable leaders so far in my career. Some I remember because of their kindness, professionalism or innovative spirit. While the “good leaders” and “ bad leaders ” occupy space in my memory bank, only a handful of those leaders have altered my career. What is Impactful Leadership?

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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. Agility, innovation, disruption, fluidity, decisiveness, commitment, and above all else a bias toward action will lead to the creation of change.

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Career Advancement

JANUARY 8, 2018

“In any organization, you’re going to run into challenges to expanding your leadership influence. Here are four roadblocks to overcome for effective leadership influence. If managers play favorites, or favor certain types of projects just because they happen to like them more, you might have trouble making your ideas heard.

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Influence Leadership Project Executive Coaching 195

Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 15, 2017

Here’s a taste of some of the work we did together Tips for Dealing with a Difficult Boss and 7 Tips to Turnaround Career Stagnation. Fortunately, thought leaders in the leadership space are pushing back and suggesting new MO’s for organizations in which winning at any cost to employees is currently all there is.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In survey after survey, year after year, employees express their dissatisfaction with how they are being supported in their careers. What IF… you could more easily and frequently engage in the career development. What IF… you could more easily and frequently engage in the career development. that must get done?

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 4, 2019

Welcome to the June Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, team building, and more. Chip Bell shared The Secret Sauce of Leadership Communications. Communication. Who is Mary Follett? What happened?

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 5, 2020

Flip the book over, and you have Gutsche’s updated and expanded, bestselling, Exploiting Chaos , book now called, The Innovation Handbook , featuring memorable real-world case studies and plenty of thought-provoking questions to inspire next steps for innovation. When it comes to innovation, culture is more important than strategy.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 14, 2013

Guest post by Mark Hopkins : The best leadership tip I ever received came from a pastor’s sermon during a non-denominational service in Yosemite Valley Chapel. The pastor was clearly providing guidance to parishioners on how to help others confront tough problems, but to me it sounded a lot like a leadership strategy.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

He highlighted the need for change as the main prerequisite of a successful transformation; being ex-McKinsey and a public official before this current role, Boris’s whole career revolved around extensive transformation processes. However, four main steps are proven to be effective: Step 1: Leadership alignment.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 2, 2020

We bring you a list of books that women entrepreneurs must read to find the right balance between leadership and ownership of self. The same goes for women in leadership roles. Leadership qualities are not gender-based but rather on your personality traits, strengths, and superior intellect. by Ryan Holiday.

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In the dynamic world of business, leadership feedback stands as a cornerstone for team excellence and organizational growth. This guide delves into inspiring examples of leadership feedback, each tailored to nurture high-performing teams. What is Leadership Feedback? When is Leadership Feedback Usually Delivered?

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Innovation Capital. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders. Satya Nadella.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Welcome to the December Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, motivation, productivity, and more. Jeff writes: “Relationship building and expertise are both needed to gain influence in leadership roles.

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