Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 13, 2025

To improve relationships at work, reflect to connect Have you ever had a conversation at work take a turn you werent expectingsuddenly, voices rise, arms fold, and you feel the tension? Maybe you walked away wondering, “What just happened? How did we get here?” In those moments, you might feel like defending your position, explain your point more clearly, or even disengage completely.

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Great Results Team Building

JANUARY 4, 2025

Every leader has blind spots… But ignoring them could cost you your teams trust, engagement, and performance. Blind spots are dangerous because they are more difficult to see the more successful you are. And they are often invisible to the very people who have them. As a leader, what you think is true about your teams experience might be far from their reality.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

Assessments have emerged as an indispensable instrument in leadership development, serving as both a mirror that reveals areas of growth and a lens that illuminates hidden potential. At N2Growth , we view these evaluative processes as far more than simple scorecards. When strategically designed, assessments can lead executives to sharpen their strategic thinking, refine their interpersonal skills, and ultimately guide teams toward sustainable success.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 11, 2025

Your Team's Mindset Is Your Greatest Asset Your greatest asset is not your people. Your greatest asset is how your people think - their Mindset. Most leaders fail to see the biggest lever for growth sitting right in front of them: the mindset of their people. Skills, experience, and knowledge matter, but they are useless if your team approaches their work with the wrong perspective.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 22, 2025

T HE challenges organizations face today are becoming increasingly complex, interconnected, and unpredictable. Yet, as we examine these challenges more closely, a striking realization emerges: most are rooted in connection issues. Network science heralded as the science of the 21st century, provides a groundbreaking framework for understanding connections.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 15, 2025

Emotional intelligence has been studied, debated, and championed as a critical skill for modern leaders. But lets get realits not a fluffy HR ideal or just about being nice. Its about forging genuine connections, building trust, and navigating conflict or crises without losing your cool. Leaders with emotional intelligence handle the chaotic swirl of business with a level head and an open heart.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JANUARY 14, 2025

When change hits, you have two options: sink or swim. Caught up in the tidal wave of change, its natural to feel disoriented, frightened and overwhelmed, but resisting it only makes things worse. So, what if, instead of trying to fight the current, you learned how to ride the wave? Embracing change can be more than just a means of survival; it can be a launchpad for growth.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

An operational executive overseeing the day-to-day business functions is the linchpin between visionary corporate objectives and the tactical steps required to achieve them. The importance of this role in high-performing organizations cannot be overstated: research from various organizational studies shows that effective operations leadership is one of the most reliable predictors of sustained performance and competitive advantage in business.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 7, 2025

The gap in your leadership style is costing your organization millions in lost talent and unrealized potential.Recent Deloitte analysis reveals 82% of senior executives overestimate their leadership capabilities, while only 34% of their direct reports rate them as highly effective. A recent report by McKinsey’s Leadership Index demonstrates organizations with self-aware leaders generate 41% higher shareholder returns.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Jack Trout on being a doer: The best leaders know that direction alone is no longer enough. The best leaders are storytellers, cheerleaders, and facilitators. They reinforce their sense of direction or vision with words and action.

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Speaker: Chester Santos

Forgetfulness is costing you time, money, and a ton of missed opportunities. In the age of automation, it’s easy to underestimate the power of a well-trained human mind. But memory isn’t just a parlor trick, it's a strategic edge. Human memory is one of the most underrated business skills. Whether you’re managing people, leading sessions, or having high-stakes conversations, remembering names, details, and concepts can be transformative in building trust, absorbing knowledge, and driving perform

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 6, 2025

Listen to the podcast Heres the truth: Every business leader eventually faces that one toxic employeethe one who drains morale, ignites drama, and turns team meetings into a minefield. Ignoring it and hoping it will go away doesnt work. Leadership is about stepping up, even when its uncomfortable. Let me tell you a quick story. A client of mine once hired a rockstar sales rep who crushed quotas but torched relationships along the way.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 24, 2025

How to Stay Curious Without Getting Completely Sidetracked The rabbit holeoh, its so easy to fall in. One minute, youre casually researching a small question, and the next, youre 27 tabs deep into a full-blown investigation, possibly involving conspiracy theories, historical deep dives, and at least one Wikipedia page about something completely unrelated.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 4, 2025

Layoffs and downsizing are among the most challenging tasks an HR professional can face. Beyond the emotional toll they take on employees and managers alike, these decisions are fraught with legal complexities that, if mishandled, can lead to costly lawsuits and reputational damage. Ensuring compliance with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act and other legal frameworks is essential for mitigating risks and maintaining fairness.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

N2Growth recognizes that a leadership role dedicated to compliance is fundamental to success in any high-performing organization. This vital executive safeguards corporate integrity, ensuring alignment with evolving regulations and fostering a culture devoted to ethical conduct. Although the title emphasizes adherence to standards, the best compliance leaders also uncover ways to bolster strategic growth and mitigate risk to their respective firms and constituents.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 13, 2025

As the Paris Olympics showcased the power of teamwork in securing medals, new research from the University of Kansas suggests that collaboration doesn’t always yield the same success in other fieldsparticularly for young scientists seeking academic careers. “We found that larger team sizes in a discipline correlate with lower career prospects for individuals,” the researchers note.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JANUARY 6, 2025

Progress isnt built on ideas aloneits forged through action. To move forward in any capacity, businesses have to tap into the power of the collective and harness the individual efforts of every member of their team. Getting their team movingand keep them movingin the right direction, however, can be challenging to say the least. But with the right amount of trust, leaders can inspire movement in their team thatll bridge the gap between ideation and execution.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 8, 2025

Do you really know how your team is performing? Imagine walking into your office and knowing, without ambiguity, whether your team had a productive day or week. More importantly. Imagine engaging each team member knowing that they know whether or not they had a productive day or week. If I am your coach, this is a normal occurrence for you and your team.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2025

Here is a selection of Posts from January 2025 that you will want to check out: Nine rules turnaround leaders can live by that don't involve 'fixing the culture' by @artpetty 4 Ways To Constantly Adapt by @JosephLalonde 5 Things Leaders Need to Quit Doing by @Mark_Sanborn It Dont Take Much To Show A Little Love by @JohnBaldoni Success Through Synergy by @KevinPaulScott Genuine synergy rests on four essential pillars Sputnik Moments, Moonshot Visions by @jamesstrock What should our moonshot be?

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Speaker: Erroll Amacker

Automation is transforming finance but without strong financial oversight it can introduce more risk than reward. From missed discrepancies to strained vendor relationships, accounts payable automation needs a human touch to deliver lasting value. This session is your playbook to get automation right. We’ll explore how to balance speed with control, boost decision-making through human-machine collaboration, and unlock ROI with fewer errors, stronger fraud prevention, and smoother operations.

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CO2

JANUARY 4, 2025

In leadership, the questions we ask often define the outcomes we achieve. After three years of studying how leaders use questions to guide their teams and organizations, a pivotal insight emergednot from deliberate contemplation but from a serendipitous realization. Leaders naturally gravitate toward specific styles of questioning, influenced by their goals and context.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2025

The authors of the new book, ESSENTIAL , explain that the American workplace is in crisis. Questions of where, how, and why we work loom large, and trust in traditional leadership models has plummeted. Simultaneously, leaders find themselves more lost than everoverwhelmed and burning out as they struggle to navigate this rapidly changing landscape, they add.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 11, 2025

Try this easy team building activity to get your team talking about being human Can you think of a recent moment when you felt deeply connected at a human level? When you paused and saw another personnot as a role, title, or functionbut as a fellow human being? If you’ve been following David and me for a minute, you know we’re big on team building activities that go deeper than trust falls and marshmallow stacks , and get people talking about what matters.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

N2Growth is dedicated to equipping organizations with the strategic insight and leadership they require to thrive in a shifting global marketplace. The current environment calls for a refined approach to recruitmentone that leverages advanced technology, data, and thoughtful engagement to secure and retain high-performing talent. Below, we explore some of the most significant developments shaping executive search today and how N2Growths executive talent acquisition methodologies help our clients

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 14, 2025

Artificial Intelligence is methodically eliminating leadership positionsand your role could be next. While 68% of executives dismiss AI’s impact, artificial intelligence already executes core management functions with unprecedented efficiency. Organizations implementing AI management tools eliminate mid-level leadership positions at accelerating rates, with projections indicating 37% of current management roles become obsolete by 2026.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 2, 2025

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Brian Tracy on zero-based thinking: To simplify your life, zero-based thinking is one of the most powerful strategies you can learn and apply on a regular basis. Heres how it works. Ask yourself, Is there anything I am doing right now that, knowing what I now know, I wouldnt get into again if I were starting over today?

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 2, 2025

Fill Time to Fill Minds When preparing for a speech or training session, many of us naturally ask, “How will I fill the time?” But a more impactful question is, “How will I fill the minds of my audience?” When you are given time to present, think of it as an opportunity, not an obligation. The best use of your minutes is not in cluttering them with filler, but in enriching them with meaningful and uplifting content.

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Chartered Management Institute

JANUARY 14, 2025

Article: The evolving complexities and mitigation strategies of team formation in a rapidly shifting workplace Written by Nasaruddin Zainal Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email Building effective teams is vital yet challenging in todays evolving workplace. This article outlines key obstacles and strategies for fostering cohesion and success amid generational shifts In todays fast-evolving organisational landscape, teamwork is more important than ever.

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Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership

Most HR leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victim-hood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 31, 2025

How can you ensure your leadership communication strategy cuts through the noise and actually sticks with your team? In todays workplace, competing priorities and constant digital distractions make it easy for key messages to get lost. Without a clear communication strategy, your team may struggle to stay focused on what truly matters. This episode reveals how to make your messages memorable and actionable.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 2, 2025

Shanna A. Hocking s book, One Bold Move A Day , is all about meaningful actions women can take to fulfill their leadership and career potential. Specially, Hocking reveals the transformative mindsets needed to make one Bold Move a day. Those are: Gratitude Mindset And Mindset Happiness Mindset Progress Mindset Each of these four mindsets individually plays a special role in the process of continuously showing up for yourself and others, explains Hocking.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 1, 2025

Even amidst the Covid pandemic, when remote work became the norm for so many of us, concerns remained about the ability to be innovative when working apart from our peers. These fears were based not just on the evidence before us, but considerable previous research showing the valuable role physical proximity plays in our creativity. For instance, research from Cornell found that we’re generally much more likely to be innovative when we’re sat face-to-face with someone.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2025

O RGANIZATIONS are better managed than ever before. They have been optimized for safety, security, stability, and control. But what we need going forward is dynamic and, yes, inefficient. What is needed now is some deliberate chaos. In The Illusion of Innovation , author Elliott Parker believes that the focus on capital efficiency makes companies less capable of making big innovation bets that progress society because those bets have an uncertain payoff.

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