N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As a consulting professional who works closely with top executives in the world’s largest companies, I have witnessed firsthand the challenges they face in adapting their leadership styles to the ever-changing business landscape. Another crucial strategy is fostering a culture of feedback and reflection.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

I often get asked for advice on how to find a mentor. Goal #7 in the blog post stated: “Find a mentor and/or hire a coach.” While a formal mentoring relationship – meaning one that takes place in a monitored program within an organization – is the ideal, sometimes an informal mentoring relationship is what’s available.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Leadership development programs enable executives to sharpen their leadership skills and stay updated with the latest trends and best practices in their respective industries. It involves clearly understanding one’s strengths, weaknesses, values, and beliefs.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

They provide a safe and confidential space for executives to reflect on their leadership style, receive unbiased feedback, and identify areas for growth and improvement. This assessment considers the executive’s leadership style, professional background, personality traits, and areas for development.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 13, 2023

By making learning and development a priority, you can continuously improve your skills and stay up-to-date on the latest leadership techniques. Find a mentor or coach: Another effective way for busy people to develop their leadership skills is to seek out a mentor or coach.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Narrowly defining leadership restricts innovation by excluding countless points of view and modes of operating. When leaders are pressured into leadership styles that go against their natural way of operating, they are set up for failure. It’s like wearing a set of clothes that don’t fit.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Through personalized one-on-one coaching sessions, board chairs can gain valuable insights into their leadership style, strengths, and areas for improvement. By working closely with a skilled coach, board chairs gain a deeper understanding of their leadership style, strengths, and areas for improvement.

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Lead from Within

MAY 17, 2022

Here are seven simple things you can to shore up your leadership skills: Understand your leadership style. If you had to sum up your leadership in one word, what would it be? Being aware of your leadership style can help you identify your strengths and weaknesses. Identify your strengths and weaknesses.

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Lead from Within

JULY 31, 2023

Leadership is a crucial aspect of any organization, and it’s important for leaders to constantly evaluate their own behavior and practices to ensure they are leading in the right direction. This could involve taking on new challenges, seeking out mentors, or investing in professional development opportunities.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Here are some tips for turning your leadership weaknesses into strengths: Identify your weaknesses: The best leaders are skilled at turning their weaknesses into strengths. To do this, they first identify what their weaknesses are by taking an honest look at themselves and seeking feedback from their team, colleagues, and mentors.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Top-down, command-and-control leadership styles are outdated and ineffective with this modern-day workforce. Other costs of not adapting leadership styles for your younger employees are harder to quantify, including lost knowledge, relationships, opportunities, and more. But such turnover is costly.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 14, 2023

Your leadership style is not effective: If you find that your leadership approach is not getting results or is not in line with the organization’s priorities, it may be time to consider a change. If you are feeling uncertain or unsure, it may be helpful to discuss your concerns with a mentor or trusted colleague.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 21, 2019

When the leaders are excited and committed to the vision, goals, values and culture, and when role modeling, mentoring and nurturing their employees in that regard becomes a priority, the result is that it unfolds in beautiful ways. My leadership style has evolved to focus on leading with kindness and love.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Your classmates and mentors will also provide valuable real-world experience that can help you in your future career as a business owner. In addition, you’ll explore different types of leadership styles to find the one that works for you. You’ll learn to inspire, motivate, and relate to various stakeholders.

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Lead from Within

JULY 25, 2023

By looking up to and emulating those who have had a positive impact on your life and career, you can learn valuable lessons and develop your own leadership style. Coaching: Working with a coach or mentor can provide valuable guidance and support as you develop your leadership skills.

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CoachStation

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Generations of employees and leaders have been exposed to varying cultures, leadership styles and business practices. Understanding how generational change impacts leadership and organisational learning has become an interest of mine. Is generational change impacting the need for different types of leadership?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

While the show had many fight scenes that showcased Carradine’s Kung Fu experience (apparently he held a Brown belt in Kung Fu at the time), it also always offered the viewer ancient wisdom that Caine acquired while studying as a child under his mentor, the blind Master Po.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 6, 2020

They provide a unique window on the impact overly controlling, self-centered leadership styles can have on others: “Regarding the letter you sent, the heart of your servant is ill, when my lord said: Don’t you know how to read a letter? As God lives, for every letter that comes to me, it is read.”

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HR Digest

APRIL 7, 2024

Encourage mentors and coaches to leverage their understanding of the DISC assessment so their advice and feedback can be more targetted Set up reminders for employees that guide them to recollect aspects of their personality profile so they can put it to use at work.

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Leading Blog

MAY 24, 2018

Making a change from a power-based leadership style to a servant leadership style is not easy and must begin at the top. But servant leadership stresses the means more than the results. Encouraging others and one-on-one mentoring helps to send that message. What worked and what didn’t.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 10, 2018

Whether you’re advocating for workers as a union representative or providing pastoral leadership in cutting-edge ways, or seeking to own several franchises, your signature passion is required to heal, inspire, direct and deepen the quality of our lives. Begin to Position Your Passion in Your Leadership Style. Find a mentor?

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

They are great mentors. These leadership qualities in women can make the younger generation push harder just to have such status in society and also serve as mentors to others. The types of leadership styles among men and women are significantly different. It has the capacity to push employees to do more or less.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 30, 2013

I posed this question to a group of professionals who mentor managers. Mentors agree that you can rely on a certain level of resistance when it comes to identifying development opportunities. Optimally, employing a mentor, or coach, is the approach to better development and stronger results. Here’s what they said.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Covey (Simon & Schuster, 2022) We have a leadership crisis today, where even though our world has changed drastically, our leadership style has not. Covey has made it his life’s work to understand trust in leadership and organizations. They call themselves “mentors with money.”

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Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 12, 2020

He never yelled at me again (though he did keep yelling at the rest of the team), and became one of three manager-mentors that shaped my career at Bell Labs and AT&T — and taught me to manage others and myself. My manager-mentors made it clear that I mattered not just for what I could do, but also for who I was.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MAY 24, 2021

When you attend a Situational Leadership ® training session, you learn that leadership styles are neither “good” nor “bad.” DiSC ® Style—STEADINESS Performance Readiness ® Cues and Leadership Style Responses. R1 — Unable but Insecure or Unwilling. S4 — Low Relationship/Low Task.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MAY 24, 2021

When you attend a Situational Leadership ® training session, you learn that leadership styles are neither “good” nor “bad.” DiSC ® Style—INFLUENCE Performance Readiness ® Cues and Leadership Style Responses. R1— Unable but Insecure or Unwilling. S4 — Low Relationship/Low Task.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 21, 2018

Those stories and that influence are part of what my friend Mark Deterding calls their “leadership portrait.” Mark puts it this way: “We all have people who have shown us the way and mentored us and shaped our leadership style.” That’s a form of immortality. What Would Art Think?

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Mark Sanborn

JULY 23, 2023

Feedback: Actively seek feedback from trusted colleagues, mentors, and team members. Assessments and Tools: Utilize various self-assessment tools, such as personality assessments or 360-degree feedback, to gain objective insights into your strengths, weaknesses, and leadership style.

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Career Advancement

AUGUST 14, 2017

Do I mentor? Diego, you will want to work on incorporating these characteristics into your leadership style to the point that this is the kind of person you are. When you adapt these great leadership qualities as part of your makeup you become too good to ignore. Do is discipline in public or private? Do I give feedback?

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Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 12, 2020

He never yelled at me again (though he did keep yelling at the rest of the team), and became one of three manager-mentors that shaped my career at Bell Labs and AT&T — and taught me to manage others and myself. My manager-mentors made it clear that I mattered not just for what I could do, but also for who I was.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Many people confuse leadership style with true leadership. If that’s your style, fine. Guest post by Raymond Houser: Being a great leader means getting people to do things that they didn't think possible. It's as simple as that. You don't have to be an extroverted, rah-rah motivator to be a great leader.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2018

Leaders must adjust their leadership styles accordingly. And the cycle completes as you become what I call a knowledge leader —a person who passes on hard-earned lessons as they mentor others, so the cycle can repeat and knowledge is continually passed on.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2023

While different scenarios demand different leadership styles, leaders can use the following tried-and-tested leadership lessons to lead effectively. Entrepreneurs need to be able to lead their teams and motivate their employees. They also need to be able to make tough decisions and take responsibility for their actions.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Join us as Tasha Eurich charts a course for shatterproof leadership, leaving an indelible mark on organizational psychology. The HR Digest: How has your research on self-awareness influenced your own leadership style, and what advice do you have for leaders looking to enhance their self-awareness in the fast-paced corporate world?

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

And we too, want to lead a lifestyle that equips, mentors, trains, and coaches others to become the best possible version of themselves. Throughout my own career I have made it a priority to seek out bosses, coworkers, mentors and assignments that would help me grow. We, like the Jesuits strive to lead our lives for a higher purpose.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The next tension is between micromanagement and hands-off leadership styles. Prioritizing those areas where standards cannot be compromised and holding the line there while allowing for some slack in other, less critical areas is a wise use of leadership capital.” When to Mentor, When to Fire. It’s easy to get this wrong.

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