Leading Blog

AUGUST 9, 2017

When it comes to innovation, it is no different. Jeff DeGraff writes in The Innovation Code , “ Your dominant worldview is your biggest strength —the quality that makes you stand out from other people.” DeGraff describes four basic worldviews or approaches to innovation : the Artist, the Engineer, the Athlete, and the Sage.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 21, 2022

They ask a good question, but they weren’t prepared to hear feedback that made them uncomfortable or challenged their pet project. When you think of missed opportunities to be more effective or efficient, what’s the problem no one talks about? This is where well-intentioned leaders often get into trouble.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Image Source: unsplash The Power of Questioning in Leadership Effective leadership involves harnessing the power of questioning. By embracing a leadership style that encourages questioning, leaders can unlock the potential of every individual within their organization.

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Great Results Team Building

MAY 1, 2024

Just like a key needs the right grooves to unlock a door, your leadership approach needs to adapt to different personalities to achieve truly productive communication. They prioritize measurable results and efficiency. Their leadership skills inspire others to achieve goals. Weaknesses: Cs can be overly cautious and critical.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

trillion in 2023 and is projected to grow nearly 14% a year in the next 6 years, that's understandable: there's a lot at stake. Act in a calm, focused, efficient, and timely manner. works with early-stage companies developing innovative, high-impact life science products and services. Always be thinking about options.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Identifying Organizational Needs: Assessing Challenges and Goals Assessing the challenges and goals of an organization is a critical first step in providing effective leadership advisory and executive coaching solutions. Assessing the leadership team’s and employees’ readiness to embrace new ideas and behaviors is vital.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 26, 2024

As an executive leadership coach, I advise my clients on various aspects of leadership, and one topic that has been gaining increasing importance in today’s rapidly evolving business is the role of ethics in artificial intelligence (AI). Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

Innovation doesn’t happen by one person having an aha moment. Leadership should shift from hierarchy to hustle. The CEO needs to take up the leadership challenge to help others respond to that. Leadership is a distributed capability throughout the organization. Rasmus Hougaard, Managing Director, Potential Project. ?

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CO2

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

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. It’s a journey where coaches, with their expertise and experience, help you navigate the complexities of business decisions, strategy formulation, and personal leadership development.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 5, 2013

Guest post from Shoya Zichy: Innovation is critical to an organization''s growth and competitive advantage. If you chose more items on the left, your inborn styles is that of a "structured" innovator. Structured" innovators are known for conserving resources and establishing the procedures necessary for long-term success.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

A S A PROFESSOR, an entrepreneur, the president of Stanford University, and now the Chairman of the Board of Alphabet (Google’s Parent company) and Director of Knight-Hennessy Scholars, John Hennessy has had a lot of leadership experience. Leadership as Service. Innovation. Leading Matters is about the journey.

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Great Results Team Building

AUGUST 21, 2023

The ability to foster collaboration among and across departments can significantly enhance productivity, innovation, and overall organizational performance. According to a study by Forbes , collaboration drives workplace performance and innovation. For your team to be truly productive, collaboration is crucial.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2015

After checking, you find out that the people in the first room discuss a new project that won’t take off. In the second room, people are discussing a new project that suddenly spiked. Johnson shares this insightful S-curve derived from research on innovation. The project takes off – it is spiking, it is dynamic.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 7, 2015

Welcome to the July 2015 Leadership Development Carnival! This month brings a treat of 22 leadership posts to savor and share. Topics range from moral character to leadership lessons from World War II to stepping out of comfort zones. Jeff Harmon of Brilliance Within Coaching shares Empty Your Leadership Cup.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Unfortunately, this can take a toll on employees if businesses focus on efficiency but don’t create an environment where people feel they belong. It surveyed top professionals from more than 120 countries about the skills needed for effective leadership in the decade ahead. A recent MIT study underscores this.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 4, 2019

Welcome to the June Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, team building, and more. Chip Bell shared The Secret Sauce of Leadership Communications. Communication. Who is Mary Follett? What happened?

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CO2

JANUARY 16, 2024

Establishing a Foundation of Trust In the world of leadership and executive coaching, few elements are as vital as activities to build trust in a teams. Trust acts as the cornerstone of team efficiency and effectiveness, fostering a culture of open communication and mutual respect.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Welcome to the December Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, motivation, productivity, and more. Jeff writes: “Relationship building and expertise are both needed to gain influence in leadership roles.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Hollywood has the Oscars, Television the Emmys, publishing has the Pulitzer prizes, and leadership development has its own annual awards. There’s Chief Executive’s 2012 40 Best Companies for Leaders , Fortune’s 25 Top Companies for Leaders , and the just published Hay Group Best Companies for Leadership Study and Top 20.

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

He’d been working to increase his responsibilities to prove he could handle a leadership role, but now he was having a hard time keeping up with it all. He couldn’t just shrug off his existing responsibilities, but he didn’t want to give up the exciting new projects he’d taken on. Tackle your passion projects at times of peak energy.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 28, 2021

This is the perfect time to communicate with your team (even if you’re not the boss) about what is working and how to work even more effectively and efficiently with one another. Talk with your manager and co-workers about how you can best leverage the time you do have in the office for deeper collaboration and innovation.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

LEADERSHIP Leadership skills aren’t just about being a boss or a manager. And when leadership skills are valued and encouraged in the performance evaluation process, employees are more likely to take ownership of their work, seek out new challenges, and contribute to the overall success of the organization.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2023

With that being said, here is how to improve your managerial and leadership skills. Instead, as your job as a manager is to assign certain projects to those team members who are able to capitalize on their individual strengths to produce the best result, you should empower your employees by placing your trust in them.

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HR Digest

JULY 2, 2023

Additionally, critical thinking and problem-solving skills are invaluable in HR, as they enable you to analyze complex situations, make informed decisions, and develop innovative solutions. Volunteer for cross-functional projects or initiatives that require collaboration with other departments.

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

A great leader who can identify concerns and build enthusiasm – even on high-risk projects – brings a new level of trust and freedom that drives everyone to impressive heights. For managers, leadership isn’t one-size-fits-all. What qualities separate the effective leaders from the draining leaders?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 16, 2020

If they don’t create a work culture that supports efficiency, innovation, high performance, and employee engagement, they won’t satisfy that triumvirate. Foodstuffs Auckland (New Zealand) found ROI on their culture project exceeded $600,000 within the first year. How do you know the Positive Impact was due to culture change?

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

For instance, they’d suggest an innovative marketing strategy to promote their new product without much regard for anything else. They would also highlight the risks that came with every innovative suggestion, such as penalties by regulators for overhyping medical claims. Being Different Isn’t a Bad Thing. Strike a Balance.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2011

We both lead and manage innovation, says Owens. Think of the process of innovation as simply a set of steps that will need to be accomplished in order to get from the stage of identifying a problem all the way through to implementing a solution. They should just do!:”

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Working with a team of 5 Executive Directors from a company that employs ~2000 people we identified a gap in the Managerial Leadership Training , Mentoring and coaching of employees prior to being promoted to a Manager Level within the company. With this team we used it to explore the challenge of Developing a Managerial Leadership Process.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 29, 2018

Linking Leadership to Learning. Her strengths in generating alternatives and seeing the big picture allow her to be at the forefront of innovation and engagement year after year. However, when Alaina diverges from the goal once a project has been put into motion, her team finds it frustrating to change course.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 9, 2019

Guest post from James Hlavacek: To improve innovation and growth, knowledge workers must be led, not managed. Today’s knowledge workers gain valuable information from every project and customer. Knowledge workers are self-directed, not other-directed, which means that they must be provided considerable autonomy.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 5, 2021

” One easy technique we teach leaders in our strategic leadership and fishbowl programs is called Own the U.G.L.Y. customer experience, employee retention, efficiency)? ” “If we could make one change to improve the quality of our remote meetings, what would that be (and how can we make that happen)?”

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Create policies that promote energy efficiency, reduce waste and water conservation. Innovation + Collaboration Finding a pathway to improvement starts with an in-depth understanding of your challenges. A team that is able to come together to innovate and collaborate in exciting new ways that can impact on your bottom line.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

It’s the time when you learn informally how other projects are doing, how other colleagues are feeling, and generally get a sense of what is going on in the business. Consequently, meetings become faster and more efficient when the focus is placed on outcomes. . This “lost conversation” is what I refer to as the water cooler talk.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

By definition, good ideas mean an improvement over the present, a better way of doing things or even better lives.That’s why people who have good ideas expect their leaders to act on them, which creates an instant test of leadership: do you care enough for those around you to do something positive with the idea?

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 19, 2015

One of the main reasons that projects fail to launch, or realize long-term success, is the lack of executive sponsorship. In fact, a 2014 Research Study by Prosci indicated that projects with strong, effective executive sponsorship were 3.5 How aligned is my project to the overarching strategies of the organization?

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 18, 2022

A recent project from the University of Twente suggests that for healthcare to truly achieve the benefits of digitization will require a different approach to transformation. Fostering innovation. This then helps to undermine any willingness to experiment and innovate.

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