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Leadership & Influence

N2Growth Blog

You cannot be a effective leader without influence. Let me make this as simple as I can – if you’re a leader, influence needs to be a competency. The key to developing influence is understanding that contacts and relationships are not synonymous. Don’t confuse a database with a sphere of influence.

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What is drama costing your organization?

Lead Change Blog

Three core competencies for compassionate accountability. Listen in as Next Element Co-Founder and CEO, Nate Regier discusses how drama costs the US workforce over $350 billion per year in lost productivity, absenteeism, passive-aggressive behavior, and wasted energy. How conflict can be a creative force.

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How to Carve Out a Great Team Culture in a Fast Growing, Changing Company?

Let's Grow Leaders

You can (and should) work to build a culture for your focus on influence. Team Culture: Create real clarity — get surgical about what you’re really asking people to do Create clarity and get surgically specific about the MIT (most important thing – one of our 6 core competencies of leadership ).

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How Do I Change My Reputation as a Leader? (Asking for a Friend)

Let's Grow Leaders

Be sure to review our 6 Core Competencies You Can’t Lead Without. Be a genuinely interested and supportive leader who shows up as consistently helpful in order to increase trust and connection. At Let’s Grow Leaders, we call this “land in the AND” – be an interesting expert AND an interested connector.

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Conflict Without Casualties

Lead Change Blog

Conflict Without Casualties , published 2 years ago this week, outlines the ways these concepts are influencing people around the world. Learn how to detect and decode drama in yourself and others, three core competencies for compassionate accountability, and the formula for compassionate conflict. ?.

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Today’s Organizations Are Outward Bound

Leading Blog

Key here is to figure out what are the core competencies of the organization — those that can’t be let go without it ceasing to be a viable enterprise. Sometimes, however, an organization discover a core competence after it has outsourced it. It funds itself by soliciting donations from its users.

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6 Essential Skills for Future Leaders

Career Advancement

Plenty of core competencies will remain essential skills for leaders in the future. An expert needs to explain how it should influence decisions in a way that others can understand, in order for organizations to leverage it effectively. Emotional intelligence.

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