N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

By working closely with an executive coach, entrepreneurs gain access to knowledge and experience that can prove instrumental in their growth and development. Unlike corporate executives operating within established structures, the entrepreneur often finds themself navigating uncharted territory.

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CO2

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Navigating the complexities of the corporate world requires more than just a sharp business acumen; it calls for guidance, insight, and strategic foresight. This is where business coaching and leadership development emerges as not just a support system, but a critical investment in the future of your company.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As organizations increasingly rely on technology to drive growth and innovation, the role of digital leaders has become paramount. Additionally, the CIO must champion innovation and promote a culture of continuous learning and adaptation, ensuring that the organization remains agile despite constant technological advancements.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

It is now expected that a CMO strikes a harmony between pioneering innovation and maintaining commercial acumen, a balance intrinsic to the realization of substantial business growth. Today’s CMOs are not just marketers but visionaries who strategically leverage creativity with technology to drive commercial success.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The role of healthcare leadership cannot be underestimated, as it shapes the direction and success of organizations, drives innovation, and ensures the delivery of high-quality care. Another crucial skill for successful healthcare leaders is strategic thinking.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Embracing innovative tools and technologies is no longer optional; it’s a strategic imperative. Predicting Analytics for Strategic Planning: AI can predict future trends and outcomes based on historical data, providing you with valuable insights for strategic planning.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Having a solid strategic plan will allow your company and team to flourish and accomplish needed results. Contact Mike to schedule a strategic planning meeting that will deliver results and engaged staff that are part-of the plan. He will create and develop customized activities and simulations for what you need.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Unveiling the Board’s Strategic Compass Towards Sustainable Growth Astute board governance is the linchpin for fostering an organization’s success and long-term viability. It orchestrates the operational rhythm, supervises decision-making, and enforces accountability across the hierarchy.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 15, 2022

Even when the value statements and the strategic plans are helpful and supportive of people plus company needs, they still have to happen through people. Novelty and innovation emerge through people acting and sharing. The post How do novelty and innovation emerge within an organization?

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 30, 2017

Strategic Planning: This program crafts a strategic plan and ongoing strategy execution process, which identifies the initiatives required to move the organization form its current state to the achievement of its long-term vision. The 7 programs include: 1.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Create a Clear Vision, Strategic Direction and Communicate It Constantly. In my years serving as CEO I have made it a priority to build a living, breathing strategic plan. First, I had to align our leadership team to drive the service-oriented, flexible and innovative culture. Make Innovation Everyone’s Job.

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CO2

DECEMBER 23, 2010

In Drive, Dan Pink asks us to look past the outmoded view of what motivates people, like the carrot and stick, to more cutting edge research about personal growth and development. Recently, when working with clients to bring the strategic planning process out of the board room and into mail room, we brought to life Motivation 2.0.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 12, 2015

Then there are the business developers forever in pursuit of new products and new markets. Numerator thinkers operate with an abundance mentality; denominator thinkers use a scarcity mentality. They cultivate, grow, innovate and invest. Pretty good service is not your ticket to avoiding the blade, innovative service is.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

What has become more clear about our business and the way we operate this year? What parts of our operating model worked well during the height of disruption? What parts showed the biggest gaps or development opportunities? Dave Coffaro is a strategic advisor, executive coach, and author.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

He believes that we are getting in our own way by the way we think, decide, and act with regard to the development of original ideas. We find that while we talk about the need for creativity and innovation, employees don’t feel supported or inspired by their leaders and were not given the time or resources to develop new ideas.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Executive coaching and talent development, in general, have been around for a few decades. That’s because while business coaching experience might help leaders develop the skills they need for their job, executive coaching goes far beyond this and doesn’t actually touch the technical skills a leader might need for their role.

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HR Digest

MAY 25, 2023

Digital adoption and transformation is a key development for most organizations in their strategic goals. HR digital transformation is the process of changing operational HR processes to become automated and data driven. One of the key themes for many organizations in the next 10 years will be digital transformation.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 3, 2022

They make sure to embed their purpose in the very operating system of their organizations. They know that for deep purpose to take hold, both their daily actions and long-term strategic plans must be consistent with the overarching purpose. “Purpose acts as a kind of North Star to help guide strategy and innovation.”

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 3, 2017

Once a solid profile is established, it can be used to inform the strategic planning processes used to build a winning strategic plan. New Product Development Capabilities: How fast can new products and services be developed and delivered to the marketplace? Pricing Options: What is the pricing strategy?

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. to discuss what operational screenings and organizational development exams you need and when you need them. Your operations deserve a longer, healthier life. Visit our organizational development team to learn how cancer early detection improves your organization’s life cycle.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2019

Only by fundamentally changing the way the organization works—through flattening hierarchies, speeding up decision making, helping employees develop needed skills, and successfully understanding both opportunities and threats in the environment—can an organization truly adapt to a digital world. Digital Maturity. Digital Talent.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. If you are responsible for leading teams, how can you be sure that the work being done throughout the day will innovatively increase impact and productivity to make tomorrow a better place? Novo: Change the Lens of Thought-leadership and the Approach to Professional Development.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 26, 2019

The Disconnect puts the sales team outside of the strategic conversation. Typically, Finance, Marketing, and Operations all have input, direct or indirect, on the creation and revision of the strategic plan. The plan, and its revenue targets are dictated to Sales. Sales often have no such contribution.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2014

These individuals probably have some history of working together but they also operate with the same obstructed viewpoint. Recently, one of our clients began their corporate change initiative with a simple but very profound statement: “Trust is the foundation of speed and innovation.” I could not agree more.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 21, 2021

Such an entrepreneur is open to infusing new talents, innovations and creativity into the business to strengthen it and guarantee its longevity. Your staff needs to share in your ambition to develop a future-oriented business. Inspire innovation. Establish a competitive advantage in a saturated market.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Apparently, operations managers were suddenly being pressured by accounting heads to justify the ROI for purchases. . While the manufacturing startup was keen on innovation, it didn’t have a clear measure of ROI in place. Operations Day. Other companies encountered similar issues as well. Next Steps and Follow-Up.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

While this is understandable, it is nonetheless naive, and it constitutes a major flaw in the business logic of most strategic plans. This is so much the case that the most often overlooked aspect of strategic planning is adequately addressing contingencies as part of the planning process.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

Why is it that when a group of managers gets together for a strategic planning session they often emerge with a document that’s devoid of “strategy”, and often not even a plan ? Your strategic plan can’t be all things to all customers. Alicia Llop/Getty Images. But methods can be learned.

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Importance of Leadership Feedback Leadership feedback plays a crucial role in leadership development and performance management. Promote Growth and Development: Leaders can focus on professional development and skill-building by understanding their areas of strength and where they can improve.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Within oil and petrochemical industries, innovative thinking and strategic planning are key. Making sure that you embrace helpful software and technology, such as field service software for your operatives , shows your employees that you care about proper management systems and anything which can make their jobs a little easier.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 7, 2015

Strategic and operational paralysis has become the norm. Innovation is something other companies do. Too many operational changes. The latest strategic plan isn’t one. Employee development is on the backburner. Pessimism becomes the common cultural thread. Budgets are constantly cut and revised.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc.,

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 18, 2012

This is a skill that can be developed and a process that can be implemented into your organization, team and leadership. Innovation and critical thinking are essential skills. Very few leaders are trained and able to handle this change from day-to-day operation to month-to-month to year-to-year.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Design thinking has been recognized as an important means to innovate in the context of developing new products and technologies. Implementing a strategic technology plan. Strategic plan as jigsaw puzzle. He currently leads Building Informatics Group based in North Bethesda, MD.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2018

Guest post from Robert (Dusty) Staub : “Perhaps the only sustainable competitive advantage is increasing your ability to learn faster than your competition.” - Arie de Geus, former head of Strategic Planning, Shell Oil Company Are you getting the best results from the people–the embedded collective intelligence–in your organization?

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The Empowered Buisness

JANUARY 9, 2015

They must oversee strategic planning as a dynamic process, not an annual event. They must develop a continuous pipeline of potential leaders and groom early before undertaking those roles. Most strategic plans are not really strategic. Problem predicting (over problem solving).

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