N2Growth Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

This trend is evident in the increasing use of performance-based incentives in executive compensation packages, which tie a significant portion of executive pay to specific, measurable goals. The Case Against Long CEO Tenures In the corporate world, longevity in a leadership role is often seen as a sign of stability and success.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 15, 2024

He emphasizes the need to reflect on values, goals, and ideal work environment before making career decisions. By addressing these questions and creating a culture that aligns with employees’ values and goals, organizations can improve employee motivation and productivity.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in December 2022 curated just for you. We build a deeper, more expansive reservoir of energy to draw from throughout the day, and have greater mental resources at our disposal to do good work and live a meaningful life.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 19, 2022

A Retrospective: Santa’s Big Leadership and Culture Change. Today, the North Pole is a paragon of human-centered leadership and culture. In fact, Santa has a lot to teach us about leadership. The North Pole’s leadership and culture at the time was a great example of what we call “ trickle-down intimidation.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 31, 2022

These eight strategies will help you maintain your team’s energy and morale when goals change frequently. Align New Goals with Critical Behaviors. and outlined the new goals. Healthy organizations always adapt, innovate, and shift their goals. Set Expectations. Advocate for Your Team. Celebrate Effort.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The titles listed below—published in 2022—reflect a need to get realigned with solid leadership practices and thinking. Smart Growth : How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) Growth is the goal. How can you design a successful, sustainable innovation process?—his

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Lead from Within

JUNE 28, 2022

But there are some qualities they all share—qualities are essential to success in leadership. In my work coaching leaders around the world, these leadership qualities are the ones I emphasize as most important: Focused energy. Distraction is a constant, so knowing how to focus your energy and time is critically important.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2022

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2022. Two world-renowned strategists detail the seven leadership imperatives for transforming companies in the new digital era. Smart Leadership : Four Simple Choices to Scale Your Impact by Mark Miller. Growth is the goal.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 21, 2023

Connect your ideas to the bigger picture – goals, values, long-term vision– and also consider the technical nuances and challenges for implementation. It can be overwhelming for your team and manager when you share too many innovative ideas at work all at once. Implementing new ideas takes work, time, and energy.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

The conversation delves into HR innovations, with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence. The HR Digest: In a 2021 interview, you mentioned evolving leadership approaches. How has your leadership style adapted over the years, and what lessons have you learned in shaping a successful leadership philosophy?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In my younger years, I had many visions of the ideas, goals, and positions that I wanted to achieve. Those who lack vision or don’t know how to identify and act on their vision will struggle with wealth attainment, achievement of goals, and personal fulfillment. Some of them came to fruition.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

Welcome to the March 2021 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. David Moser of Decisive Blog writes The Power of “And” in Leadership Communication.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in August 2020. The Creator Mindset : 63 Tools to Unlock the Secrets to Innovation, Growth, and Sustainability by Nir Bashan. Creativity isn’t a “nice to have” leadership trait. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 32 titles.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 16, 2019

Guest post from Tabitha Laser: What is leadership? Since joining the workforce more than 25 years ago, and serving as a leader for numerous organizations, it’s apparent that leadership means very different things to different people. This is the first in a series of leadership books she calls “The Deadly Practices.”.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 2, 2021

The authors point out that present-forward thinking innovation at most organizations is mostly incremental improvements to what they are already doing. These needed capabilities become your innovation portfolio. Set up an organizational model that protects breakthrough innovation teams from the countervailing influences of the core.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Leadership is about hope. These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. The political environment in the United States as elsewhere is driven by fear-based narratives. And that feeds our approach in society at large. Blog Post ).

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Genuine gratitude transforms your leadership. An Inexhaustible Source of Leadership Gratitude. Even your direct reports don’t have to follow your leadership. When you embrace this fundamental truth – that everyone is a volunteer – it will change your leadership forever. They choose to. Outcome: “You did it!

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Career Advancement

AUGUST 12, 2019

And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.” Renae Asks: I’m trying to use my time wisely, and that means being strategic in the leadership training opportunities I pursue, as well as the ones I set up for the team I manage. To many, leadership is an elusive role. Vince Lombardi.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

That mindset is “about the application of creative thinking and prudent risk-taking to build innovative, long-lasting organizations in any sector of the economy.” Simply put, I believe that entrepreneurial is a mindset—a way of thinking—and leadership is a way of acting. He focused on the personal characteristics of the leader. “Of

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 16, 2023

We know that effective collaboration and cohesive teamwork lay the foundation for innovation, productivity, and overall organizational success. Great Teamwork needs Common Understanding: Shared Vision, Clear Goals & Understanding of Your Team Great teamwork is rooted in a shared vision and clear goals. And (drumroll please!)

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Andrew Carnegie told us that “if you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” There is some debate these days over whether breakfast is so important, but there is no debate about goals. I am not saying that you don’t know that goals are important.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

Align strategic goals with cultural direction – will the new culture be more risk-taking or conservative, hierarchical or flat? Transparent and consistent communication from the CEO and leadership team is crucial. Your goal isn’t a mushy mix, but a refined taste of excellence. Remember, communication is a two-way street.

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CO2

JULY 25, 2023

Innovator) Assess alternative methods of taking action, such as, “Will this help us reach our goal? Director) Gather information to evaluate a situation, such as, “Is this in alignment with our values, strategy, and goals?” Judge) Explore new ideas in order to frame a situation, such as, “What should be our goal?

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CO2

JULY 25, 2023

Innovator) Assess alternative methods of taking action, such as, “Will this help us reach our goal? Director) Gather information to evaluate a situation, such as, “Is this in alignment with our values, strategy, and goals?” Judge) Explore new ideas in order to frame a situation, such as, “What should be our goal?

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

The three of you had a common goal – a great performance. When we don’t trust, we exert a lot of energy to keep up our guard, to continually assess and verify. This uses a lot of energy and time. When we trust, we re-allocate that energy and time to getting things done and making an impact.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 28, 2019

A few years ago, I was asked to facilitate a leadership retreat for a tech company. It’s not about replacing action, which we know is a necessary leadership ingredient. We still need to reach our goals, meet deadlines, and produce results. But what if our bias for action, our quest for pushing harder, won’t work anymore?

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CO2

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Unearth Your Strengths and Weaknesses By objectively examining your skills and gaps, a coach helps you understand where to focus your energy. A coach helps you sift through the noise and hone in on innovations that resonate with your mission and market. Set Measurable Goals Clarity is key.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

And what the best leaders have learned, is that leadership development brings value at every level. And right from the start, both the team and organization benefit from their new ideas and energy. Here are some of the great things that leadership development can bring: The ability to weather change and challenges.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 3, 2018

Welcome to the July Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, employee performance and engagement, personal and professional development, productivity, team building, and more. Learning to self-observe is a powerful leadership practice.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

By turning to a skillful executive coaching company that knows exactly how to deliver results when it comes to leadership coaching and helping leaders do what they do best: optimize their performance, imagine further, and lead well. Still, it has taken many different forms, and today, not all executive or leadership coaching is created equal.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 5, 2016

This post was recently published in SmartBlog on Leadership : For many of us, making and breaking promises to ourselves for the New Year has become an annual tradition. Let’s set our yearly leadership development goals and put some best practices in place to help us achieve those goals. We’ll start with 10 goals.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Realizing the path to innovation would require revolutionary new thinking; all three leaders grasped that it would also take a new way of coalescing and harnessing talent. Reading Collective Genius , The Innovators , Creativity, Inc. Sourcing Innovation Collaboratively. Leadership is vital to the effectiveness of a team.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 20, 2017

But we all know people in the business world who do a terrible job in leadership positions: awful bosses, disengaged department heads, ineffective team managers, and otherwise bad bigwigs in nice offices who make the work environment an unpleasant one. THE ZOMBIES This approach to leadership is thoughtless, passionless, and lacking in energy.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 9, 2019

Welcome to the July 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. Ronni Hendel of Insight Out Leadership shared The Doing and Being of Difficult Conversations. Communication.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 5, 2019

Welcome to the March Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, productivity, development, engagement, team-building, and more. Shelley Row of Insightful Leadership shared Who’s Here? Communication. Development.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 12, 2024

It is a crucible where tradition and innovation clash, forging a new paradigm in workforce dynamics. The year demands that the pulse of innovation beats strongest within the corridors of a dynamic and future-focused HR strategy. Figuring out how to inject energy and passion back into the workplace and work will be key.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

Align strategic goals with cultural direction – will the new culture be more risk-taking or conservative, hierarchical or flat? But remember, it’s not enough to identify the values that will drive decisions by all team members – Transparent and consistent communication from the CEO and leadership team is crucial.

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