N2Growth Blog
MAY 16, 2022
Part One – Core, Hard Credential Constituents. The bar is set high. Dynamics at private equity firms are fast, aggressive, and all-conquering. As the investor leader, you are tasked with tackling senior leadership management issues at a newly acquired portfolio firm. In this four-part series, a realization of the challenging factors surrounding the search for ideal candidates will be recognized.
Leading in Context
MAY 18, 2022
By Linda Fisher Thornton When I was asked by The University of Richmond SPCS to give a Commencement address, I did what most anyone would do - I struggled. I struggled to choose a topic, and struggled to write the remarks on a short deadline.
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Kevin Eikenberry
MAY 16, 2022
Retaining top talent should always be a focus of leaders and organizations. However, during times of high employment, or an historic Great Resignation, the topic gets more attention. While there many facets to talent retention, too often individual leaders look to the organization and/or HR to find solutions that keep the best talent onboard. Yet, […].
Next Level Blog
MAY 16, 2022
Now it begins. After two plus years of working from home (or somewhere else), more and more folks are heading back to the office for at least a few days a week. And, guess what? They like it! That’s the story from the Wall Street Journal , anyway. In a feature article that details “the surprise joys of being back in the office,” the Journal reports that people are enjoying returning to the office and finding printers that work and people to talk to while they warm up their lunch in the break roo
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Joseph Lalonde
MAY 17, 2022
Besides your skills and abilities, your network is your best resource. Your network consists of friends, family members, colleagues, and former business partners. Sometimes, your network extends further than that. Your network can also include people you’ve met at social networking events or people you had a fantastic conversation with on the elevator.
Leadership Freak
MAY 18, 2022
Everyone wants to do what matters but we’re afraid to define it. After all, when you define what matters it’s unsurprising. Think love, relationships, satisfaction, health, and making a difference (mission).
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leaderCommunicator
MAY 16, 2022
Establishing credibility and achieving employee trust and, especially, engagement is the ultimate prize for employers. This is true now more than ever as those team members serve as brand ambassadors with direct access to clients, customers and patients who (in today’s consumer-driven environment) are the ultimate decision-makers, meaning that engagement is directly connected to the bottom line and desired business outcomes.
Joseph Lalonde
MAY 15, 2022
Marry Me is a newer rom-com starring Jennifer Lopez as music superstar Kat Valdez. She’s on a roll. It looks like she will go even further with the extravagant wedding to fellow singer Bastian (Maluma). Everything changes in a heartbeat for the superstar. As she’s on stage to be married, she discovers Bastian has been […].
Leadership Freak
MAY 19, 2022
“Nothing moves forward in a story except through conflict.” Robert McKee The 3 opportunities of conflict: Interpersonal collisions. Opportunities with people. Inner wrestling. Opportunities to grow. Spiritual uncertainty.
The Horizons Tracker
MAY 17, 2022
Over the past decade, there have been growing concerns about the polarization of society, especially along various hot-button topics, such as climate change and immigration. A recent study from Linnaeus University explores whether this is actually the case when it comes to immigration. The researchers analyzed over a million tweets from Swedish speakers to gauge whether attitudes have changed on immigration over the last few years.
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Women on Business
MAY 19, 2022
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Joseph Lalonde
MAY 19, 2022
Everyone wants more time. They want to spend more time with their kids. They want to travel more. They want to enjoy life more. It’s a fact of life that we all desire to do and be something more. Most people aren’t pursuing what they want. Why? I think I discovered a significant reason why […].
Leadership Freak
MAY 17, 2022
Performance is about rigorous standards, high expectations, clear goals, and providing support. Challenge people and be tenderhearted. “The best leaders are toughminded on standards and tenderhearted with people.
The Horizons Tracker
MAY 18, 2022
One of the defining features of gig-based workers is that they usually lack any means of pooling their interests and negotiating with platforms as a whole rather than millions of individuals. The importance of this is underlined by research from Cornell University, which shows that temp workers can see a 21% rise in their average income when they’re employed by companies with a unionized workforce. “What is surprising is that wage premium only holds for unions that go head-to-head,
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HR Digest
MAY 18, 2022
Discover the benefits of being mindful at work so you can infuse this practice into your everyday life to boost efficiency at work! . Mindfulness is the practice of being present and attentive to the current moment. It can help you focus on the present moment, reduce stress, and improve your relationships with coworkers and clients. The goal of employee mindfulness is to increase positive emotions and decrease negative ones, which can help improve your work performance.
Joseph Lalonde
MAY 19, 2022
The right software can make a significant impact on your business. It can help you manage your operations more effectively, keep track of your finances, and improve your customer service. In this blog post, we will discuss the different types of available software and how they can benefit your business. We will also provide tips […].
Leadership Freak
MAY 16, 2022
One of the five factors of well-being is energy to get things done. You die a slow death when you don’t energize your day.
The Horizons Tracker
MAY 17, 2022
The modern consumer interface sees a combination of humans and technologies, such as chatbots, used to interact with consumers. Research from the University of Kentucky suggests that we should be mindful of which channel we use depending on whether we’re delivering good news to the consumer or bad news. The study suggests that when things have gone worse than the customer has expected, it works out better if they deal with a chatbot, but when things have gone better than expected, they re
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.
Mike Cardus
MAY 15, 2022
“ All that everyone , no matter how powerful, can do is to continue participating with intention and continually negotiate and respond to others who are also intentionally doing the same. It is in this ongoing, intentional, local interaction of strategizing that the population-wide patterns of strategy emerge.” – Ralph Stacey & Chris Mowles ‘Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics.
Joseph Lalonde
MAY 17, 2022
The same leadership styles and skills aren’t always applicable to every industry or field. There are certain leadership styles that can be more suitable for specific industries or professions, whereas the same leaders might need to adapt if they were to take a position in a different industry. Leaders in some industries might also be […].
Kate Nasser
MAY 15, 2022
Biggest people skills leadership challenge is listening & welcoming collaboration. Insights from Kate Nasser The People Skills Coach™, Author, Leading Morale. The post Biggest People Skills Leadership Challenge of Leading Diverse People | #LeadMorale appeared first on KateNasser.com.
The Horizons Tracker
MAY 16, 2022
It has long been assumed that people willingly pour their lives out into the open on Facebook. Research from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research wanted to find out if the information we share on the platform can help to determine cultural similarities between countries. The researchers explain that migration plays a key role in shaping any cultural similarities that exist between countries, but the difficulties in actually quantifying culture make studying the influence of migrati
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HR Digest
MAY 15, 2022
If you want to improve or change your career, then finding a good mentor could be a good solution. You may probably have career goals that you want to achieve, and you will need to find a mentor to achieve these goals. Below we explain how to find a mentor and how to improve your career for the better. . Why do you need a mentor? The mentoring relationship can be a good tool for professional growth, and that is why you need a good mentor.
Joseph Lalonde
MAY 17, 2022
As a manager, you are in a unique position to be a leader. Yet not all managers possess great leadership skills. And team members may be naturally gifted. However, you can teach yourself and your team and learn from them to be the example in management to encourage better leadership in those underneath you. Common […].
Niagara Institute
MAY 19, 2022
Creativity is a coveted skill. So much so, that LinkedIn has proclaimed creativity is the most important skill in the world. In addition, the 2020 Future of Jobs Report by the World Economic Forum uncovered the number one skill needed is analytical thinking and innovation, otherwise known as creativity.
The Horizons Tracker
MAY 16, 2022
I’ve written before about the domination of office-based work in any discussion around the “future of work” The bias in this direction is particularly egregious because so much is written about the looming decimation of lower-skilled jobs by the march of technology. Automation of manual work is undoubtedly a thing, with warehouse automation alone worth around $15 billion, with this figure widely expected to grow considerably in the next few years.
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Eric Jacobson
MAY 18, 2022
Fortunately, I've benefited from having great mentors throughout my career. And, I've have the honor and good fortune to be a mentor, both formally and informally, for various individuals the past few decades. Mentoring is powerful. Both being a mentor. And, being mentored. That's why I became an instant fan of the book, One Minute Mentoring: How to Find and Work With a Mentor -- and Why You'll Benefit from Being One.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
MAY 16, 2022
Executive presence is an element of leadership that’s easy to recognize but difficult to develop, but might be the difference in your career progressing forward. Today’s post is by Rob Salafia, a principal at thoughtLEADERS and author of Leading from Your Best Self (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Executive presence is an element of leadership that’s easy to recognize but difficult to develop.
The Practical Leader
MAY 18, 2022
The lotus flower is an ancient and widely used symbol for growth and beauty blossoming from the mud. It’s an example of drawing new life and beautiful growth from decay. My last post asked are you green and growing or ripe and rotting ? Sometimes it’s not easy to recognize the symptoms of slow decay. We can easily get old rather than grow old.
The Horizons Tracker
MAY 17, 2022
Despite the hype surrounding ground and air-based automated delivery mechanisms, the surge in home deliveries during the Covid pandemic was largely fulfilled by an enormous increase in human delivery drivers and riders. For instance, in the UK alone, Amazon added around 25,000 new workers to help fulfill the growth in orders seen during the pandemic.
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