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Beyond the Corner Office: Holistic Approaches to Succession Planning

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Importance of Succession Planning Succession planning is crucial to any organization’s growth strategy, and its importance cannot be overstated. A well-executed plan can minimize the risks of abrupt departures or retirements, thereby maintaining business continuity and preserving institutional knowledge.

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Have A GROW Plan

Joseph Lalonde

This could be through reading books, active engagement, listening to others, or other forms of learning. But… Not many leaders have a GROW plan. A GROW plan helps leaders have a short acronym to remember their plans to grow. Have A GROW Plan. G – Goals: What do you want to learn as a leader ?

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Why Leaders Need a Lesson Plan

Next Level Blog

It takes a lot of planning plus improvisational skills to keep a roomful of six-year-olds engaged and learning from 8:30 in the morning to 2:30 in the afternoon. If Renee didn’t walk into her classroom with a solid lesson plan every day, she’d lose the kids’ attention and chaos would reign. Short answer – they wouldn’t.

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From Fiasco to Opportunity: How to Reframe a Team Setback With Better Words

Let's Grow Leaders

What could a shift away from this F-bomb do for team morale, project outcomes, and even workplace culture ? After all, if something is a “failure,” where do you go from there? Follow-up Prompts: “What’s one thing we each learned that we can jot down for our ‘How Not to Do It Again’ manual?

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How to Have a Great Personal Planning Retreat

Next Level Blog

This is the week when Diane and I are taking our annual personal planning retreat together. People often ask us what we do on our retreat and how we do it. Here the components that we’ve learned are important to have in our mix: Get Away If You Can – A change of scenery makes it a lot easier to relax and reflect.

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Burn the Business Plan

Leading Blog

I F YOU ARE THINKING of starting a business—and apparently nine million Americans are currently thinking about it and only about 500,000 actually do each year—you will want to read Burn the Business Plan by Carl Schramm. What these high-tech startups have in common with all other entrepreneurs is that they don’t follow a business plan.

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GeneralLeadership.com Growth Plan

General Leadership

It is the responsibility of every employee to report back to his or her supervisors what they have learned and allow the organization to benefit from that experience. It is our responsibility to generously share our lessons-learned and maximize opportunities to create mutually beneficial conversations.

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