Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 2, 2024

Here are 24 innovative leadership goals for the new year – including metrics to measure your progress…. Succession plans prepare your team for the inevitable people changes. Think your organization is too small? Partner with other organizations. Measurement : Remote team engagement levels.

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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. As leaders and team managers, understanding the value of collaboration and employing the right strategies can be the key to unlocking your team’s full potential.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

And if you do not address the many issues that a corporate merger or acquisition present regarding your culture, you will soon lose many of the people that could propel your organization forward successfully. 7 Steps to Successfully Cultivate a Thriving Team Culture After a Corporate Merger 1. Remember, granularity is key.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 4, 2024

In their search for innovative solutions, businesses actively seek a variety of unique ideas. However, they often end up with quite similar suggestions, whether from their own team or external contributors. million contributors to understand how organizations unknowingly influence the ideas they receive. Why does this happen?

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

In the years leading up to 2018, I have spent my time bringing innovation to the financial services space. As such it is all about innovation. And now, from a distance, my optimism regarding the sector’s ability to innovate and capture opportunities has not changed. Let’s study a bit about Innovation.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 7, 2023

Make Taking Risks a Team Sport Taking risks at work can feel remarkably lonely. This week on #AskingforaFriend I share practical approaches to making taking risks a team sport. In this video, I share three leadership best practices to help your team work together to strategize, analyze and execute appropriate risks.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 17, 2023

Practical Ways to Ensure Your Leadership Communication Has a Better and Broader Impact This question came in from a senior leader working to ensure their communication has a broad organization-wide impact: “Hi Karin, We have a lot of moving parts around here. I’m quite sure my senior team is with me. They get it.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 30, 2024

Participate in cross-departmental projects to gain insights into areas outside your expertise. Cultivate Leadership Excellence Leadership at the C-suite level transcends managing teams. It involves inspiring the entire organization, driving cultural change, and embodying the company's values.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Indeed, research covered in HBR revealed that an incredible 80% of employees are juggling at least a few projects at any one time. The researchers examined projects done by a large multinational firm to understand who was responsible for what, how time was allocated, and the monthly targets the project adhered to.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In a previous blog , I wrote about why you should transform your organization into a network organization and promised to write about how to lead that transformation. To recap, a network organization is all about communities based on connectors and content. Get your team on board. Acknowledge your position.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 16, 2024

Successful leaders recognize that diversity goes beyond demographics; it includes diverse thinking, a potent driver of innovation and growth. As an executive leadership coach, I emphasize the significance of implementing seven unconventional methods to cultivate diverse thinking in organizations.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Embracing this model allows businesses to tap into a global talent pool, which can drive innovation and growth. This reality is becoming a competitive differentiator for organizations willing to embrace it. The first step towards this adaptability is to equip teams with the right tools to perform their tasks efficiently.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 19, 2023

How to Rally Your Team When Leading Through Change You’re a human-centered leader, leading through change that you know will have a positive impact on your team, your customers, and your results. You know how important it is to get your team rallied around an exciting vision for the future. Embrace it all.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

T HE INNOVATION WE PRIZE at successful start-ups is a mindset that is brought into the start-up and not necessarily the inherent quality of every start-up. Innovation isn’t something that just happens; we create the conditions for it. Big organizations can innovate like small start-ups. Creating an Innovation Strategy.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

AND you need Five Whats and a How to catalyze innovation. We then turned to the team, and the team seemed a little broken or frozen or stuck into what to do next. A way to identify current conditions, I have my NOISEanalysis , which is an alternative to SWOT to say what the existing strengths of the project are?

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 18, 2022

Part of the success of projects such as the Good Judgment Project is that the best participants would often hedge their predictions in terms of probabilities. That was reaffirmed by a recent study from the London School of Economics, which examined the use of scenarios when pitching new innovations. Framing the idea.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 21, 2023

Collaboration Make sure your team knows that you have their (and the organization’s) best interest at heart. Put people before projects and build trust. Put people before projects and build trust. Focus When you come blazing into a new-to-you organization with tons of great ideas, focus is key.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 1, 2023

She shares insights on remote work practices, such as using communication platforms like Slack, organizing shared drives, and implementing project management tools. Pisani encourages leaders to prioritize creativity and innovation by hiring the right people and fostering a culture of continuous learning and testing.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 31, 2022

Help your team master rapidly changing priorities with skillful preparation. Rapidly changing priorities can demoralize and frustrate your team if you’re not prepared to help them navigate the shifting landscape. Advocate for Your Team. I was six months into a new job and my boss’s boss asked me to take on a major project.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The Role of Executive Search Firms in the Technology Industry Executive search firms play a vital role in the technology industry by helping organizations navigate the complex talent acquisition landscape. The role of executive search firms goes beyond simply finding candidates to fill vacant positions.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Many organizations also do a pretty good job with formal recognition — taking time to determine who deserves the plaque, the award, and a celebration. But many leaders, at every level of organizations, miss this vital pause. Every day people make a choice to be a part of your team. …thanks for coming to the meeting.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Regularly communicate how individual roles and projects tie back to the company's purpose. For instance, in team meetings, discuss how specific tasks are crucial in achieving the organization’s broader goals. Storytelling as a Tool : Share success stories within the organization that highlight the impact of collective efforts.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 23, 2018

So to get the most out of innovation processes such as design thinking, truly creative leaders also need to master the social dynamics of… [wait for the punchline}…humor! We have witnessed that skilled leaders, those we call “Stand-Up Strategists”, understand the utility of humor to boost innovation.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Typically, a large organization will administer a culture survey — a large inventory of questions that results in placing the “company culture” into one of several “culture types” or “culture orientations.” A shift to the everyday experiences of employees shifts the focus of what culture is in an organization. But what does this mean?

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Guest post from Hilary Grosskopf : Managing a team can sometimes feels more like managing a revolving door. For organizations, attrition is an expensive issue that takes money away from impactful progress, innovation, employee benefits, and enjoyable team activities.

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HR Digest

APRIL 18, 2024

How to manage remote teams effectively? You juggle video calls, instant messages, and project updates from a team scattered across the globe. Here are some hard-won lessons I’ve learned to manage a remote team and turn that scattered crew into a high-performing unit. The question gnaws at you. Absolutely.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2020

Startups are good at innovation for many reasons, but the two most important ones are people and culture. These organizations are often resource-limited, which creates an incredible focus on only doing what really matters. According to the Startup Genome Project, more than 90 percent of startups fail. Substance over form.

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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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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This resource-intensive and time-consuming process put additional pressure on FinTech executives while leading highly diverse and remote teams. One of the main challenges of international expansion is the culture, or to be more precise, the cultural distance between the newly opened markets and the ones where an organization has originated.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 24, 2024

In the realm of leadership, there’s a profound responsibility that rests on the shoulders of every leader – the responsibility to drive transformative change within their organizations. Start with small, manageable projects to understand AI’s capabilities and limitations. Explore how AI can enhance your existing processes.

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Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Working on remote teams and trying to successfully navigate the challenges of remote teamwork can sometimes be frustrating. QUOTES FOR REMOTE TEAMS: 1. “In Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.” – Steve Jobs. There is nothing more important in a group remote project than casual communication. Blanchard.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 4, 2022

” I wrote last year about the crucial role slack plays in integrating innovations into any organization, as new technologies will need to be tested, new processes introduced, training on the new ways of working delivered, and so on. All of these things take time, energy, and money. .’s Supporting change.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 24, 2016

As the following story illustrates, inspiring identity is a crucial factor in team performance and can help organizations overcome tremendous obstacles. Inspiring Identity and the Manhattan Project. By mid-1942, the project had become the number one defense priority with a $2 billion budget.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 27, 2016

An executive at a company I work with recently told me: “W e have very creative employees who want to be innovative but find many obstacles created by the cultural opposition to it. We spend a lot of time training and encouraging employees at all levels how to be more creative and innovation. Allow employees time to innovate.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Identify ways to create more robust conversations amongst your team, break stuckness in thinking, and continue developing conversations that will support the emergence of new ideas and innovation inside your team or group. I built this out on Mural; you can download the Innovation DTC operator Mural template here.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 31, 2021

Teamwork is crucial to any modern organization, but with team members increasingly pooled from around the world, cultural factors can be crucial. A recent paper highlights some of the cultural challenges Scandinavian teams face, and how they’ve overcome them. Cultural differences. A standard 40-hour week is sufficient.”

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Like the weather, many leaders talk about agility and innovation, but few managers do much about it. Unlike the weather, there’s a great deal managers can do about building agile and innovative cultures. Integration — the new product, service, or business enters the organization’s mainstream.

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