Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Practical Ways to Show Up as a Human-Centered Supporter after a Sudden Layoff Your friend just lost their job in a sudden layoff. They’re blindsided–concerned for themselves and the mission. Maybe its tied to recent government turbulence or related downstream impacts. Or a corporate shake-up. Either way, theyre reeling, and youre wondering how to help without overstepping or offering a bunch of empty clichs.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

O UR mindset can either work for us or against us. A mind full of false narrativesfalse beliefswill keep us from growing into our potential. Unchallenged, these negative beliefs will become the soundtrack we live by and keep us from moving in the direction of our best selves and change the outcome of our lives. Josh Axe identifies in Think This, Not That twelve mental barriers that obstruct personal growth and hinder success.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Back in the early days of the COVID pandemic, I wrote a post on how to lead under volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous conditions. You may know those four words by their common acronym VUCA. To be honest, I didnt think that things could get any more VUCA than they were during the pandemic. Im beginning to think I was wrong about that. Practically every week over the past year theres been a new breakthrough or application in the field of artificial intelligence.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Many leaders weaken decision-making by prioritizing agreement over commitments. Over-concern about agreement sabotages decision-making. In some situations, people dont commit until they agree 100%. When thats true, change your process and expect everyone to commit once decisions are made. Those who aren't committed find fault. Those who are committed find a way.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

When it comes to developing leadership skills, the focus tends to be on strategic thinking, decision-making, and communication skills. But theres one skill that can create a far greater impact on driving organizational growth and innovation. And that skill is the art of mindful listening. Why? Because it sends a.

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Rich Gee Group

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Listen to the audio Listen, I get it: trying to get someone to do what you need - when theyre higher up than you or not even in your department - can feel like youre yelling into a void, especially if they talk down to you. Or worse, if they brush you off like youre not worth their time. Ive been there, and it can be frustrating as hell. But heres the thing: influence isnt all about titles.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

W ITH THE SUPER BOWL around the corner, what can business leaders learn from elite athletes about high-level performance? Be like Roger. And Michael. And Simone. And Usain. And many others. Thats key advice for business leaders seeking to improve their impact and excel in a sustainable, long-term way thats good for them and everyone around them. The Roger, in this case, is none other than Roger Federer, the tennis legend considered an exemplar of athleticism and sportsmanship.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

When youre a senior executive, your success depends on influencing, aligning, and mobilizing others toward strategic goals. Yet, even at the highest levels, misalignment often arises due to differing motivations. How well do you truly understand the priorities driving your peers, board members, or senior team? And are your assumptions accurate? The best way to understand whats motivating someone is to engage them in a conversation that surfaces their goals, their ambitions, and their fears.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

When Fortune highlighted Medtronics appointment of Thierry Piton as CFO, it wasnt just a leadership hiring updateit was a referendum on modern leadership. As N2Growths CEO with over 25 years in the industry, having placed and consulted private and public organizations across the globe ranging from early-stage start-ups and NGOs, to Fortune 100 companies and top-tier higher educational institutions, Ive long argued that clinging to industry tenure as the gold standard for executives is like using

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

One of the highlights of hosting my “Leadership Biz Cafe” podcast has been the chance to interview Stephen M.R. Covey twice, exploring how successful leaders develop trust within their organizations.

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Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

By Linda Fisher Thornton The human journey. Were all taking it, but we dont always know where its headed. We cant always see where weve been until later, when we have the long-term perspective and can begin to make sense of the twists and turns weve taken throughout our lives.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The right communication strategy helps your message cut through noise and distraction. Youve said it. Youve said it again. And yet, somehow, people still dont seem to know whats going on. If you’re ever frustrated that your team doesnt act on important priorities, youre not alone. Leaders everywhere wrestle with getting their message to stick.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

O RGANIZATIONAL teams determine overall performance, shape culture, drive growth, and deliver results or not. Todays teams face a new reality. Never before have they encountered the changes and challenges brought on them by remote, hybrid, and in-person work environments. Add in the emergence of AI and countless other workforce and societal trends, and its apparent that yesterdays approaches no longer apply to todays realities.

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Rich Gee Group

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Listen to the interview. The Hard Truth About Leadership (That No One Tells You) You read the books. You listen to the podcasts. You even tried that "power pose" in the mirror before a big meeting (don't worry, we won't tell). But somehow, despite all the leadership advice, you still feel like you're fighting uphill when leading your team. Sound familiar?

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Great Results Team Building

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Appreciation is one of the most powerful tools a leader can use to build a winning team. In fact, Harvard Business Review reported that 69% of employees say they would work harder if they felt their efforts were better recognized. And Terryberry found that 92% of workers are more likely to repeat a specific action after receiving recognition for it.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Why are some organizations able to thrive during periods of uncertainty while others struggle to find firmer footing? While its easy to assume it has to do with something distinctive about their product or service offering, the truth is that its something far more fundamental. While we all understand that.

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Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

By Linda Fisher Thornton As humans, we are flawed thinkers who easily fall victim to biases and traps. The biases and traps we so easily fall into reshape our thinking in ways that can lead us to make bad decisions. As you review the list of leadership traps below, think about how each can lead to unethical thinking and actions.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

You Care. Your Boss Doesn’t (Or So It Seems). What to Do Next With a Disengaged Boss Youre giving it your all. Youre solving problems, driving results, making things happen. But your boss? Theyre off in another world. It could be your boss is disengaged. Or, maybe they are super engaged, just not on your MITs (most important things). Maybe theyre laser-focused on a massive restructuring.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

T HINK back to the last difficult conversation you had. What happened? Maybe you lashed out, got defensive, dodged or overexplained; possibly you lied, got passive-aggressive, or completely shut down, unable to talk. Whatever the reaction, I want you to know that its normal. In high-stress interactions, our walls go up, and our armor comes on and were ready to protect ourselves in any way we can.

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Rich Gee Group

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Ever wake up with that nagging feeling in your gut, like youve outgrown your current company? That youve squeezed all the juice out of this gig and theres just nothing left? Thats what I call your corporate half-life. Its that pivotal moment when you realize your time in a role, a team, or even an entire organization has hit its expiration date. You might still love some aspects of your jobthe free coffee, the friendly colleague next to youbut deep down, you know youre done.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Never make decisions until theres disagreement. A camel is a horse designed by consensus. Consensus distills dynamic options into dull decisions. Complex situations have many solutions. People arent thinking when everyone agrees. Consensus empowers obstructionists. You havent found the best decision when everyone agrees. You found the easiest decision.

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Great Results Team Building

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Most meetings are relatively joyless experiences They become routine checklists and overlong discussions that end in a whimper. But team meetings dont have to be this way. They can (and SHOULD) be culture-building experiences that inspire action, creativity, and growth. Your team gatherings are a prime opportunity to foster collaboration and engagement, especially if you rethink how they end.

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Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

By Linda Fisher Thornton This post will explore the interesting relationship between leadership mindset and competency. Which is most important? What happens to our leadership capability when our mindset is out of date? How we think about something impacts what we do about it. Nick Petrie, Center For Creative Leadership, writes inVertical Leadership Development Part Ithat In terms of leadership, the stage from which you are thinking and acting matters a lot.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

How to Communicate Like a BossWith a Little Help from Your Pod Whales have a pretty cool way of navigating their world. They use echolocationsending out sound waves, listening to the echoes, and adjusting based on what they hear. But heres the key: they dont do it alone. They move in pods, supporting and protecting each other. They get better feedback because communication is a team sport.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

H OW do successful people think? The key to doing well is thinking well. Its a way of being in the world. Becoming great means making the hard choices necessary to get you there. Performance coach Doug Hirschhorn advances eight principles in 8 Ways to Great that direct the decisions of top performers. Principle #1: Find Your Why? How questions bring up negative thoughts and inadequacies.

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Rich Gee Group

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Listen to the interview. Lets talk reality here. Youve been at the same company for 15, 20, maybe 25 years. Thats awesome, right? Youve worked your way upclimbed each rung of the ladder through decades of promotions, salary bumps, cost-of-living increases, and a ton of sweat equity. But heres the cold, hard truth: youre not bulletproof. You might be a walking target.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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Anese Cavanaugh

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

What kind of impact do you intend to have today? Its one thing to mean well its another to actually create the impact you want. Setting clear intentions (whether for yourself or with your team) saves time, energy, and resources while bringing focus and alignment. You are always making an impact, and you have the power to consciously set an intention for how you want to experience each moment and how you show up for others.

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Sales Wolf Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Are you experiencing Founder Mode? If you work for a founder-led company, it is almost a certainty that you are experiencing Founder Mode that intense, high-stakes mindset where the person at the top is laser-focused on scaling, optimizing, and eliminating roadblocks. Founder Mode manifests through a relentless push toward excellence, and if you do not understand how to operate in this environment, you will struggle.

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Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

By Linda Fisher Thornton Ethical leaders understand that their role revolves around adding value for others, not for themselves. They are careful to avoid taking advantage of situations for personal gain or for the gain of their colleagues or friends. This other-centered focus keeps them thinking about how what they do will impact those they serve and others in the community.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

High Performance Teams Dont Leave Their Achievement to Chance You know what it’s like when a high performance work team fires on all cylinders. Theres energy, trust, and clarity. You make decisions quickly, everyone shares their insights, and people genuinely enjoy working together. But you also know what it feels like when things are offwhen trust erodes, confusion reigns, and progress slows to a crawl.

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HR and payroll impact every aspect of your business. Choosing the right provider is one of the most important decisions you’ll make. Before you decide, hear first-hand customer accounts in Paycor’s webinar to learn: The three most important things to look for when switching. How to begin your search. What are some of the red flags?

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