Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

Of course, leadership is not about being liked. ” I’m thinking about the handful of managers I had over the years who were the epitome of a jerk at work — the bullies who crush courage with their toxic leadership behaviors or who seem to be lacking a moral compass. Your behavior is sabotaging your leadership influence.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 4, 2023

Can better management and leadership nurse the NHS back to health? Intriguingly, it also has an operational team largely made up of Chartered Managers. According to a recent joint report from CMI and the Social Market Foundation , one in four senior NHS managers are seen as ineffective. Culture and processes suffer as a result.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Advice: Secure leadership for an insecure economy Written by David Waller Tuesday 05 December 2023 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email More than six million UK employees live in a state of permanent high alert, subject to last-minute schedule changes and uncertain when their next pay packet is coming.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 23, 2020

Where past generations tended to pursue career options for more practical reasons (e.g., Yet Gallup reports that 55% of Millennial employees remain disengaged at work. Nathan Magnuson is a leadership and young professional expert and serves as a consultant, coach, and speaker for corporate audiences. Partner on Engagement.

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 8, 2023

"AI doesn't replace leadership; it redefines it. As executives navigate the complex waters of modern-day leadership, understanding AI isn't just beneficial—it's essential. A report by McKinsey Global Institute estimates that AI could add $13 trillion to the global economy by 2030. Is it customer service?

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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. Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 10, 2014

I was pretty shocked by the reports of how Laura had acted in that impromptu encounter. And so I told her my story straight off the Karin Hurt’s worst leadership moments highlights reel (you can stop now, it’s not searchable on youtube). “Can you tell me what happened?,” Snarky didn’t come out of nowhere.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Because leadership requires working together, it’s important for leaders to demonstrate humility (feeling and displaying deep regard for others’ dignity) to create healthy working relationships. Instead, people want to know that the way their organizations operate is ethical. Where are we going? Do you see me? Do you see me? “Do

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The Key to Business and Career Success. It takes effective leadership with the right tone at the top and leaders who will nurture the right culture to build the organization needed to become the preferred provider to your markets. Effective leaders know how to achieve operational excellence, and they embrace continuous improvement.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Many corporate HR teams are operating in a legacy model, bogged down with hiring downstream talent and struggling to quickly and efficiently source top-shelf talent. With an abundance of talent and opportunities available in the marketplace, workers have more control of their careers than ever before, and it’s making news.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 2, 2020

The Key to Business and Career Success , I spoke about the importance of hiring people with common sense and good critical judgment because at some point, you want them to violate policy when it is in the company’s best interest to do so. Stan Silverman is founder and CEO of Silverman Leadership and author of “ Be Different!

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Welcome to the September 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! New Leadership. Cy Wakeman of Reality-Based Leadership provided Three Habits that Zap your Productivity at Work. Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership provided a guest post by Michael Bungay Stanier. This month, we are mixing things up!

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 10, 2011

Because you are doing such great work, she’ll soon tap you with her enchanted wand and sprinkle you with sparkly fairy dust and you’ll get that key project, significant promotion, raise, bonus or new career that you’ve been waiting for. She doesn’t exist, and career rewards for your great work don’t just appear.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 27, 2022

.” But the big leadership challenge is finding and bringing purpose to life. It sounds great in an annual report, but how do leaders actually use it, day by day, to make difficult trade-offs, engage customers, energize employees, and attract investors? Let purpose drive your strategy and operations.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 26, 2012

When it comes to fostering and developing leadership, my answer tends to be that it’s just a part of what WMACs do; it's engrained in their DNA. That's not to say that these companies are not conscious of leadership. WMACs are always conscious of and investing in the development and leadership of their people.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 31, 2015

I’d been at my leadership role for 6 years. We had worked hard to get our operations in order and build a great team. The fact was, I was getting more comfortable with being more detached from the day-to-day operating decisions. You’re already the SVP of Operations. It was time. Yes, I do”. Where can I go?”.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2014

Fortunately, you don’t have to experience every leadership mistake personally in order to grow your skills. Switching from individual contributor role to a leadership role is stressful. With the right planning and attitude, you can avoid all of these leadership failures. Leadership errors and misjudgments are especially painful.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 9, 2012

I’ve recently had the opportunity to help design a brand-new open-enrollment Woman’s Leadership Development Program to be offered through the University of New Hampshire’s Executive Development Program. Here are 10 Elements of a Great Woman’s Leadership Development Program: 1. Start with a solid research foundation.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This book is the result of what we have learned teaching leadership and business acumen classes to rising and senior leaders at Fortune 500 companies for twenty years,” share authors Nathan Kracklauer and Bjorn Billhardt. We’re able to get to that length by going deep into the areas that we believe really count.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This time each year, I select from all the leadership books I read during the year my pick for the best new leadership book of the year. It was a tough choice, so for 2022, I'm picking two books: Both books are timely, highly relevant, full of great teachings and well worth reading for leaders at any stage of their careers.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

News Flash – If you have to look for leadership it doesn’t exist…Today’s post is not going to sit well with many in the leadership profession, but then many of my posts seem to have that effect. In my opinion the practice of leadership identification is simply based upon flawed business logic, and it is make-work in the purest form.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Many corporate HR teams are operating in a legacy model, bogged down with hiring downstream talent and struggling to quickly and efficiently source top-shelf talent. With an abundance of talent and opportunities available in the marketplace, workers have more control of their careers than ever before, and it’s making news.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Rarely will you come across a static opportunity in the sense that it will stand idle and wait for you to act…Significant opportunities are not only scarce, but they typically operate on the principal of diminishing returns. weeklyleader Wharton professor Mike Useem calls it the "Leadership Moment."

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 24, 2015

study of nearly 400 organizations by Lee Hecht Harrison has identified that 54% of employers plan to increase investments in leadership development in 2015. Only 5% of employers plan to decrease investments, and a further 41% reported leadership development investments will stay the same. Team leadership 4.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

FlexJobs’s Career Pulse Survey ascertained that 65 percent of respondents wanted to keep working remotely while 32 percent wanted a hybrid model. reported that 63 percent of global workers would begin looking for a new job if they were not allowed to work remotely. In addition, Remote.co

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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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Coaching Tip

JUNE 12, 2015

The people who now report to you will form an early judgment about your leadership capabilities that will define your reputation in ways that may not serve you well, particularly when you're also mastering the full scope of your new job. Crafting your leadership brand goes beyond being your authentic self. Source: Tacy M.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

The Outdoor Industry Association reports that 1.24 And the added benefit (given what I do for a living) is that stand-up paddle boarding also offers a treasure trove of leadership lessons! Yet in business, leaders too often feel as though they’re operating under life and death conditions. And I know why. Mistakes fuel progress.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 2, 2023

How would your direct reports, peers, and boss rate you on this question – “Does this leader seek and respond to feedback?” Your coachability correlates very strongly with your leadership effectiveness. The least coachable leaders had an overall leadership effectiveness in the bottom 10 percent.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 15, 2017

She is an example of a leader who communicates an inspiring vision and lives it, as can be seen throughout her remarkable career. Yosko’s leadership, Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital’s performance improved across the board and it experienced extensive growth. Schwab now operates eight satellite facilities in the Chicago area.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 9, 2019

In that piece, he described his team’s efforts to examine a specific hypothesis (“Employee commitment drives customer service”) in the US operations of a major hotel chain. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2019

Gallup reports that American workers who are unhappy with their bosses are significantly less productive, to the tune of $360 billion in lost productivity each year. Given how damaging fear can be—and given the financial consequences—how can you assess if your organization is operating under fear’s grip? Everything Is Needed Yesterday.

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

A few weeks ago, WDHB brought senior staff of United States government agencies into the history of NASA’s Apollo Program, connecting lessons of the past to a vast range of today’s leadership development challenges. That’s partly why I took part in this Leadership Experience. Everything ties back to leadership. Robin: Right!

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 25, 2017

Even in organizations that invest in leadership development struggle with helping new leaders fully comprehend what it means to lead. What most leadership programs neglect to cover, but that new leaders quickly discover, is that leadership is massively freakin’ hard. Leadership can be a lonely endeavor.

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HR Digest

JULY 6, 2021

The most skilled and experienced employees are in constant pursuit of a good career. It’s expensive to replace even hourly employees, as Investopedia reports the turnover can cost a business around $3,500. Pull factors such as an employee’s desire to change career paths, family obligations, etc. No career growth.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Every time I’ve held a “bring-a-friend staff meeting” where my direct reports each bring one of their direct reports, you can almost see the light bulbs going on. There’s real power in taking a “field trip” to another department and seeing how they really think and operate. Field Trips.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 17, 2011

They will lift the trajectory of your career and speed your progress. What follows are excerpts from chapters taken from “The Corner Office: Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons From CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed,” by Adam Bryant on these five leadership qualities: Passionate Curiosity. A Simple Mind-Set. Fearlessness.

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