N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Role of High-Impact Performance Coaching in Leadership Development of Executives Performance coaching is pivotal in developing executive leaders in today’s dynamic business environment. Leaders face an array of complex challenges, from navigating organizational change to driving innovation and performance.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

“Hi, Karin, our company is growing so fast, I’m not even sure what our CULTURE is. ” #askingforafriend How to Carve Out A Team Culture Even When Your Company Culture is Lacking Great question! For example, we were working with one team that selected a core value of “compassion” to build their team culture.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

In the previous three parts of this series, we realized the challenging factors around searching for and placing an ideal candidate to lead a private equity portfolio company. As the investor leader, you are becoming more familiar with tackling senior leadership management issues at a newly acquired portfolio firm. .

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

To get better executive leadership support, ask for what you need. You have lots of great reasons to want better leadership support for your team. How do you ask for the leadership support you need without looking needy? Is it appropriate to ask for this senior leadership support directly? Ask for exactly what you need.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 5, 2020

We see another example today, presented by Comcast’s subsidiary, NBC Universal, while launching the new streaming service, Peacock. What is True Diversity in Leadership. Inputs : Most companies call this “Supplier Diversity”, but it’s more than that. Welcome to 2020. What Happened. That is is no excuse.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Importance of CIO Leadership in the Modern Business Landscape In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, digital leadership has emerged as a critical factor for success. To start, it is essential to clearly define the specific traits and skills required for effective digital leadership within your organization.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 22, 2019

We’ll discuss it here but I can definitively tell you this: Without a strong company culture, you can’t create a fulfilling environment for your employees. For example, the word “trust” means one thing to one person and something different to another person, based on their experiences. Creating a culture won’t happen overnight.

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Trucking companies are the backbone of society. Without trucking companies, this wouldn’t be possible. Instead, this is what good leadership looks like for trucking businesses: . As an example, make it mandatory that everyone takes a long one-hour break for lunch. Image Link (CC0 License).

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 1, 2022

Organizations, particularly startups, require changes in executive leadership talent in the business lifecycle to capitalize on growth potential. Today, I’d like to share some examples and critical considerations for companies that fit in this category. You could look at another impressive example in Spotify.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

These firms’ expertise and extensive networks help organizations identify and attract top talent for critical leadership roles. Armed with this knowledge, they meticulously search for candidates with the necessary technical skills and experience that align with the company’s culture and long-term vision.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

airline companies have pointed fingers at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as the biggest cause of outages, even as the FAA has fired back at airlines. And just to make things interesting, do it in a decentralized organizational construct where laws, standards, and procedures aren’t as tightly controllable as within a single company.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 26, 2024

As an executive leadership coach, I advise my clients on various aspects of leadership, and one topic that has been gaining increasing importance in today’s rapidly evolving business is the role of ethics in artificial intelligence (AI). Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

They are subject matter experts in their field, the brightest minds, and equipped with the immense technical skills and experience to be at the helm of the world’s most powerful and disruptive companies. Still, it has taken many different forms, and today, not all executive or leadership coaching is created equal.

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HR Digest

MARCH 8, 2024

There are many examples of diversity and inclusion in the workplace but we often get caught up in two areas—hiring and leadership. To build a good work culture where everyone feels welcome, here are a few examples of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Employees who feel secure are employees who are motivated to work.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In today’s digitized business era, where artificial intelligence (AI) continually reshapes industry dynamics, a new breed of executive leadership emerges at the forefront. Tapping into this requires a distinctive leadership mindset. Consider the example of chatbots.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

Perhaps you are familiar with the Situational Leadership ® Model but could use a quick refresher to refine your understanding. Or perhaps you have never heard of the Situational Leadership ® Model but are interested in learning whatever you can about viable methodologies with proven track records for developing leaders.

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 17, 2014

This Stormtrooper knows how to set the example – Image by JD Hancock. To bleed for the company. It’s setting the example. What Does It Mean To Set The Example? Realizing what setting the example is doesn’t take a lot of work. Setting the example means showing your team what needs to be done.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Building on the shoulders of such philosophical giants and the subsequent research over millennia, science has further defined, assessed, and developed the concept of character to apply findings to organizational leadership. For example, all facets of selection, promotion, and rewards must be undertaken through the lens of character.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2022

As the investor leader, you are tasked with tackling senior leadership management issues at a newly acquired portfolio firm. portfolio company executives , diving into hiring assessment essentials in terms of hard skills to lead a portfolio company and run the business. Part One – Core, Hard Credential Constituents.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 3, 2022

During difficult times, what leadership values matter most? In fact, in our recent LinkedIn poll, 61% said “compassion” was most the most critical leadership value this year. In fact, in our recent LinkedIn poll, 61% said “compassion” was most the most critical leadership value this year. Compassion.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in April 2024 curated just for you. He assesses its profound impact on business and education, using dozens of real-time examples of AI in action. No, it’s not a health or financial crisis; it’s a leadership crisis. Leaders aren’t born; they’re equipped!

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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. Constructive critiques and affirmative recognition pave the way for heightened team morale and a company culture of continuous improvement. What is Leadership Feedback?

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 13, 2021

The very act of leadership is one whereby leaders are expected to lead by example, but nonetheless, it’s rare for leaders to actually show how things should be done to their teams. The company also usually promoted from within, so most managers had direct experience on the shop floor before their managerial post.

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Niagara Institute

JANUARY 2, 2024

They may have been your boss or someone in the company you aspired to be. Either way, these exceptional leaders often leave a lasting impression, and their workplace leadership skills are ones you try to emulate yourself.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 31, 2022

In the second part of this series, we will continue this theme on executive hiring for a private equity portfolio company by examining parallel soft skill essentials and core, soft credential constituents. You are tasked with tackling senior leadership management issues at a newly acquired portfolio firm. The Soft Skills.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 23, 2021

SOLVEDcards self-coaching progress example. Differences like; taking a new route to work, speaking up in a meeting where he is ordinarily quiet, inviting his manager or another manager to lunch, taking on a new project at work that he thought he was unqualified for but still interested him, applying to a different job in another company.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2021. Upstanding : How Company Character Catalyzes Loyalty, Agility, and Hypergrowth by Frank A. Calderoni discovered that character is just as vital for companies as it is for individuals. When we're moving at 115 MPH, we rarely see the wall coming.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

There are leadership lessons in Southwest Airline’s fall from grace. The company has been a servant-leadership darling since it’s inception and co-founder Herb Kelleher applied the principles for decades before stepping down as CEO in 2001. So what went wrong and what can leaders learn from the example?

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The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

And if you’re not proactively building and shaping your company culture, it’s being created unintentionally. What is Company Culture? Your company culture is the natural, normal way that employees respond to emergent opportunities and challenges. In addition, company culture includes: Predictable employee behavior patterns.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

A study by Equilar reveals that the median tenure among S&P 500 companies has decreased by 20% from six years in 2013 to 4.8 This trend highlights the shift towards shorter CEO tenures in large corporations, as companies seek leaders who can quickly adapt to changing market dynamics and drive growth. years in 2022.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Importance of Executive Coaching in Leadership Development Executive coaching is pivotal in developing leaders, allowing them to unlock their full potential and drive organizational success. This highly specialized form of coaching is specifically designed to address the unique challenges and complexities that executives routinely face.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Delve into the reasons behind an organization's decline through in-depth analysis and real-world examples. Going on Offense analyzes these cases and offers a practical playbook for companies and individuals looking to transform into a winning mindset. This is the key to pursuing smart risks and preventing avoidable harm.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The titles listed below—published in 2022—reflect a need to get realigned with solid leadership practices and thinking. Smart Growth : How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) Growth is the goal. Blog Post ). Stephen M.R. People don’t want to be managed; they want to be led.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 25, 2020

In a recent talk to the University at Buffalo School of Entrepreneurial Leadership , I shared how several executive teams and companies have been looking for patterns, identifying trends from those patterns, and changing how they get their work done. . Here is an example of how one team gathered complexity patterns.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

In the face of all this complexity, there are four basic behaviors that leaders can adopt that will drastically improve their leadership and, by extension, the experience of those they lead. Ken Rubin, an agile leadership visionary, has a fantastic analogy that I refer to often to explain the concept.

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leaderCommunicator

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Thinking about the many people changing roles and companies these days, I can’t help but wonder how many may be counting the days until they’re not new anymore, too. When I dropped my son off at school on his first day of kindergarten, he looked at me and said, “I can’t wait to not be new anymore.”

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

In Peter Block ’s book, The Empowered Manager (Second Edition) , he shares that the following values and statements can shape a vision of greatness for your employees and company. Each starts with, “We want:” Consistency between our plans and actions. A willingness to share. To disagree without fear. Commitment to a long-term strategy.

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