Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Of course, you know that leadership is not who likes you. This challenging and poignant question came up in one of our “ Asking For a Friend” segments following a recent keynote. Your behavior is sabotaging your leadership influence. 3 Ways to Build Deeper Influence and Connection.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

Of course, leadership is not about being liked. This challenging and poignant question came up in one of our “ Asking For a Friend” segments following a recent keynote. Your behavior is sabotaging your leadership influence. We all have blind spots and opportunities to improve our leadership and gain respect.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 8, 2023

But my manager now wants to bring in all kinds of help: people from HR, training, and even my peers. I’m worried because if we turn this thing around, I think everybody’s going to say, “Well, of course, the results got better, but it wasn’t HIM who did it. My team’s results are not where they need to be.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Leading through a layoff is one of the most unnerving challenges you can face as a manager. There’s the initial shock, the communication, the “I wonder if I’m impacted too” angst, and of course, the really painful decisions involved in selecting who will go. Of course, this is personal.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 1, 2022

Organizations, particularly startups, require changes in executive leadership talent in the business lifecycle to capitalize on growth potential. NerdWallet is an example of when the rapidly growing company missed profitability targets and subsequently changed its leadership team. Second, self-awareness.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

an executive hears a presentation and immediately responds with questions, concerns, critiques and challenges, without a pause to consider the depth and breadth of work entailed, the long hours, and the creative thinking. Genuine gratitude transforms your leadership. An Inexhaustible Source of Leadership Gratitude.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2021

5 Ways to Scale Your Leadership and Motivate Your Large Team. But, now your team is bigger and you need to scale your leadership. How do you scale your leadership, motivate your large team, and continue to get the results you need? How I Learned About Scaling Leadership the Hard Way. Here are a few tips that can help.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Those who have never held a position of leadership may believe that once they get to the top, they can expect others to cater to their needs, but it’s the other way around. Here are a few hard steps you must take to become a successful leader: Managing isolation: Successful leaders tend to be isolated.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2024

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2024 curated just for you. With challenges of work-from-anywhere, flex-schedule and generational divides, business leaders bend over backwards searching for solutions that work. Conducting 1:1s successfully are foundational to being a manager.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

Of course, building a healthy and high-performing workplace culture integration is an ongoing process, not a one-time event. Utilize management interviews, employee surveys, and even customer feedback , but don’t stop there. Will your merged entity assimilate one culture, blend both, or even import a brand new one?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Here are a few places to start building your team culture: Team Culture: Pick and reward good pumpkins (talent) When you have an opportunity to bring new members to the team, be sure you’re hiring for the team culture you’re looking to create. You don’t need to wait for the bigger culture to emerge.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The Importance of Supply Chain Leadership Starts with the Chief Procurement Officer Supply chain leadership plays a pivotal role in driving organizational success and resilience in today’s dynamic business environment. One key reason why robust supply chain leadership is crucial is its impact on cost efficiency and profitability.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Over the course of a career, we gain a myriad of tools and tips on how to lead. We rely on this vast collection to get us through the daily challenges. Let’s call this methodology what it is: a recipe for leadership. Perhaps it’s because as managers, we face a horde of challenges. Try something completely new.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It’s hard to escape this view of leaders and leadership. It can, however, be edified through examining tangible illustrations of leaders and leadership from history. Let’s examine the qualities of some prominent leaders from the past to reveal the sort of leaders and leadership that are needed to tackle the problems facing us today.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 6, 2023

How you respond during times of distress can make or break your leadership brand If you’ve Googled, “what to do when you’ve been screwed over at work” and landed here, I’m sorry. Not that you found this article, of course. Or maybe you got hired for a new role based on your exciting vision.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 11, 2023

Can you relate to the phrase, overwhelmed working manager? Recently we received a question from a manager and this manager writes, “I am a working manager. Not that all managers aren’t working, but I have an enormous pile of my work besides having to lead my team.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Creative Act is a beautiful and generous course of study that illuminates the path of the artist as a road we all can follow. You can reach new goals, grow, and make meaningful contributions in life and in business even in the throes of change and unpredictability. In fact, there are few more important responsibilities.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 10, 2022

Wouldn’t it be nice if a new year truly ushered in a fresh start? The optimism we may have ordinarily had in past years as we turned the calendar to January and considered all of the new possibilities that lay ahead of us is a little harder to muster up this time. It takes hope to overcome great fear and meet great challenges.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 2, 2024

It’s the new year and you need new goals. Here are 24 innovative leadership goals for the new year – including metrics to measure your progress…. Done right, they also bolster leadership development. Define Leadership Model: Document what leadership means at your company. Face the hard numbers.

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CO2

JANUARY 25, 2024

Let’s explore the role of executive coaching in charting a successful course to help you become a more resilient leader. Leadership in the digital age has transformed. The Art of Resilient Leadership Resilient leadership is about rising above challenges with determination and agility.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2020. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases. Leading with Feeling : Nine Strategies of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership by Cary Cherniss and Cornelia W. But how does virality actually work?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Now, imagine if you could level up that title with a Masters in Executive Leadership. This is to ensure exposure to real-world corporate challenges. This can include: International Case Studies Global Business Models Cross-Cultural Management This broadened outlook prepares students to operate in an interconnected business environment.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Especially implementation challenges of transformation affecting the organizational design. To tackle these issues, for the past five years, the new trend in executive hiring has been the Chief Transformation Officer (CTO) role. To him, the biggest challenge was, of course, the willingness to change.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 28, 2021

Figure out what works best for you and your team, and then determine how you can incorporate some of that into your new routine. Here’s the good news. When the pandemic first started, many managers we spoke with shared how much they missed the “time to think” or listen to a podcast. Leverage your commute.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 9, 2024

Areas for investment To address this challenge and create a more agile workforce, Udemy has identified three key areas of investment as companies plan for the year ahead. However, the widespread adoption of this technology may displace and reshape many jobs within the 97 million net-new roles expected by 2025.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It’s the board’s prerogative to chart a strategic course, oversee the operational ambit, and instill a culture of accountability—morphing it into a cornerstone of organizational governance. A proficient board is a guiding light, offering leadership and oversight to fuel the realization of organizational objectives.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Of course, this is sort of like asking a baker if bread is worth baking. I’ve seen many breakthrough moments when people from all walks of life set their sights on developing new thoughts, actions, and habits. So, I’m going to say coaching is pretty important, both when we’re kids and when we’re adults.

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 24, 2024

Article: Highlights – 24 April Wednesday 24 April 2024 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email A celebration of quality and happiness – and why good management reaches beyond borders. A world of growth Quality management is of course close to our hearts, and key to the future of this country.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

They divide leadership capabilities into two groups: complexity skills and sophistication skills. How you think and behave so your people eagerly receive your leadership. Getting the how right is the challenge when it comes to sophistication.” Complex challenges are easier to wrap your mind around. You can measure them.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

As organizations continue to navigate the challenges of the modern business environment, leaders need tactical solutions to increase their leadership efficiency. As organizations continue to navigate the challenges of the modern business environment, leaders need tactical solutions to increase their leadership efficiency.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 28, 2020

It is unfortunately common for employees in organizations to climb up the ladder to their “level of incompetence,” a concept in management known as the Peter Principle. They get the promotion not on the basis of their potential to fulfill the needs of the new role into which they were placed, but because they did well in their previous job.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

Of course, building a healthy and high-performing workplace culture integration is an ongoing process, not a one-time event. Utilize management interviews, employee surveys, and even customer feedback , but don’t stop there. Establish a new list of 4-5 Core Team Values … and defining behaviors.

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Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 16, 2022

One of the challenges of moving to a remote or hybrid working situation is finding a way to encourage and improve collaboration when people are not in the same physical space. That meant that many new team members joined the company in remote roles, and many long-time employees found that they could do their jobs from home.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Simply put, I believe that entrepreneurial is a mindset—a way of thinking—and leadership is a way of acting. Entrepreneurial leadership, then, describes the way such a leader behaves. As founding dean and professor at the Yale school of management, he taught a course on entrepreneurial leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 30, 2023

“Laura” was one of the few female direct reports on my new team. Although, gosh, in retrospect a minute on the beach might have been a nice relief from dealing with the new pressures of a team that hadn’t yet warmed up to how I could help. Now to be fair, “Laura” and I both wear lipstick.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The diagram below highlights the steps involved in the leadership process. Bring in new employees, consultants and use secret shoppers to get a fresh perspective. You want people who will challenge assumptions, pose tough questions, and give honest assessments. No, of course not! Seek out new questions to explore.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Everyone has challenges we know nothing about. Buy a Gift: Get them a great book or training program on people leadership (shameless self-promotion ?). Not me of course, but somebody. Still, it helps to find the new yard before packing up your belongings for the move. Think Darth Vader. Have You Given Them a Chance?

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