Great Results Team Building

MARCH 5, 2024

SMART goals ensure everyone’s on the same page, celebrating wins and identifying areas for improvement. Imagine collaboration erupting, not from forced mandates, but from a deep understanding of “why” and “how” each role connects to the team’s success. Values shape your culture. Goals create focus.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 9, 2023

A candidate has multiple, promising interviews , and the hiring manager “ghosts” leaving the candidate hanging… not knowing whether to give up and move on or to remain hopeful. Perhaps it’s easier to quit a conversation mid-stream when you’ve never been in the same room. It’s getting worse.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

I just want to ensure we’re all on the same page for what we’re each going to do next, what’s are the three follow-up items we agreed to?” Who can recap WHY we’re changing direction here?” When you can check for understanding, you ensure that everyone is on the same page. Not Just For Leaders.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Like everyone else, you’re adopting the same survival mechanisms, galloping along on the same treadmill, and defaulting into the same operational cycles. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Spaces need filling.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 5, 2020

How do you get your entire organization to work together, move in the same direction, and get things done? All high performance organizations have one thing in common: they excel at execution. The men and women who work there sustain performance at seemingly otherworldly levels of precision, accuracy, and consistency.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Direct Industry Experience: Running in a close second place to past portfolio company experience, which I addressed in part two, is the importance of direct industry sector knowledge and expertise. Part Four –Tangential Opportunity; a Balancing Act in P.E. Let’s get back into the scene again, and the bar is still set high.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

Yet, as a specialized firm, we are not encumbered by the same scale of off-limits restrictions as our behemoth competitors. In the high-stakes arena of executive recruitment , companies often gravitate toward prominent global search firms. If you are reading this, you will likely know their names. Yes, you read that correctly.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I called out a friendly “passing on your left” and as they moved over to allow me to pass, I focused on the trail ahead where I would pass them, and I sped up. Have you checked for understanding to ensure everyone has the same understanding? But they are both vital to your success and don’t have to be complicated.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

L EADERSHIP is about moving people. But then, when it comes to moving people to inspiring, I’m sorry, but Passion and Reason are indeed enemies. Use direction-giving language, so your audience knows exactly what is expected of them. Use direction-giving language, so your audience knows exactly what is expected of them.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

The people under you may not have the same confidence or intuition, but they could be accessing the same information. It would be nice to know the exit direction, but instead, you have a map and a flashlight. S OMETIME between the 1st and 4th century, something incredible happened. Data Can Speed Up Decisions. I don’t think Ms.

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The same principle applies to life: To lead the life you want, you must have a vision that's useful—a compelling image of an achievable future. The same principle applies to life: To lead the life you want, you must have a vision that's useful—a compelling image of an achievable future. Sounds inefficient, doesn't it?

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Next Level Blog

JULY 12, 2022

A strong narrative can provide senior executives the context they need to make important decisions around strategic direction, tactical moves, and the resource allocation that makes things happen. It’s all really more than most human beings are equipped to process in a day or a week. That’s the North Star you’ll keep coming back to.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Being interested is not the same as action taken. Everyone must see the culture in the same way. Y OU CAN CHANGE the results your organization is getting by changing its culture. And every organization has a culture whether it is by design or by default. Lukewarm leadership buy-in. All slogans and no action. It takes action.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

If there are reasons you make exceptions, clearly differentiate and explain the thought process, so your team can do the same. It’s a frustration we hear all the time. “My people aren’t coachable. They’re defensive. It’s like they have a wall and just won’t listen.” ” We get it. Feedback Flood.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

They lead you in the direction of terrible mistakes. T HE FALL EQUINOX arrives on September 23. Time to turn the page. Temperatures begin to drop. The days get shorter. And as plant life slows down and the leaves change color, we should make the time to reflect and take stock of where we are and where we need to go.

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Books Learning-by-Doing Edmondson Agility 268

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

Effective leadership is vital in finance and is crucial in guiding organizations toward success in a rapidly changing business landscape. Navigating complex financial markets, making informed decisions, and driving profitability requires strong leadership that inspires and motivates teams to achieve their goals.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 14, 2021

All leaders have the same goal. Provide direct experiences. Move People Along a Continuum. When you’re dealing with closed-minded people, start by moving them from “no interest” to curiosity. Next, move to specific examples and more discussion of the facts. Then use these tactics. Set the Example. Frame the Issue.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

One motivational trait you can quickly understand and adjust to is the direction of motivation. In other words, they are motivated to move away from what they don’t want to have happen in their lives. In other words, they are motivated to move away from what they don’t want to have happen in their lives.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 31, 2021

Now you have the same title and, fairly or not, all the negative baggage that comes with it. How to Include Your Reluctant Employees in Your Speak-Up Culture. Start by getting underneath their reluctance to speak up. Or, it could be they’ve worked for a toxic leader before and the scar tissue is just too thick. Silent Wounded.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 6, 2024

“What you won’t find is a book that specifically covers the challenge you face now: the CEO transition – a period that covers your first 6–12 months in the role , which is often the most challenging and crucial time for a company and its new leader.” These 10 components inform the chapters within the book. Engage the board and investors early.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

We’ve seen a rash of companies require their employees to come back to the office — gradually by moving up the requirement one day at a time or all at once by setting a deadline for return. If they choose to work from home, you get the same or even more productivity from them. And they’re getting massive pushback.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2021

I prefer something a little more direct…. And they also encourage others to do the same. I N Grace: A Leaders Guide to a Better Us , John Baldoni laid out a philosophy for better leading and living. Now in Grace Notes: Leading in an Upside-Down World , he reflects on the practical application of that philosophy. The word is abundance.

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HR Digest

APRIL 3, 2024

Image: Pexels McKinsey’s 9 Months Pay Leave Offer Is a Generous One Considering the Current State of the Market As of writing this, the company has not publicly offered any details on why the company is making the move and which segment of the staff will be the most significantly affected by McKinsey’s voluntary departure scheme.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If you want to improve your people management skills, you need to move away from micromanaging in the direction of guidance and coaching. If you want a business to develop in the right way, everyone needs to be on the same page. Step One: Emotional Quotient. Step Two: Inclusion . Step Four: Empathy . Step Five: Recognition .

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 1, 2022

After all, no two startups are the same, as each brings a new set of challenges and opportunities to the table. After all, no two startups are the same, as each brings a new set of challenges and opportunities to the table. Sometimes CEOs are late to make the necessary executive team changes, which comes at a cost.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2021

They call it the CEO test because the intensity and consequences of these challenges grow as you move into higher levels of leadership. They call it the CEO test because the intensity and consequences of these challenges grow as you move into higher levels of leadership. Test #1 Can You Develop a Simple Plan for Your Strategy?

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 10, 2024

” What an ineffective boss calls “teamwork” is often about exhorting everyone to pull together to meet the manager’s goals and follow their direction. .” So, the focus often moves away from a healthy debate of the issues to unhealthy personal conflict. His pack gathered around to watch him struggle.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

You’re a leader. You’re in charge! Wrong… We may be given authority over some areas of our lives , but there’s someone else who is in control. I fully believe God is in control. Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash. I hope you do too. Today, these 10 verses are here to remind you of who is in charge. He sticks close.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

“My calendar is wall-to-wall meetings, often with two or three appointments competing for the same window of time. “My calendar is wall-to-wall meetings, often with two or three appointments competing for the same window of time. When There’s Just Not Enough Time: Beyond Time Management “I just don’t have time.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 6, 2023

If you don’t pay enough attention to strategy, you and your team will end up lost in a wilderness of meaningless, unproductive busyness. But if you don’t pay enough attention to tactics and effective management, you’ll create needless conflicts, frustration, and hurt feelings.

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leaderCommunicator

APRIL 3, 2023

Think about the last time you went to a leadership meeting to hear about a new strategy, direction or business plan. Or did you come away from the experience feeling apathetic, skeptical and that the new plan was more of the same? Did you leave that meeting feeling optimistic, energized and accountable for what was presented?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 3, 2019

When we kick a soccer ball, it heads in a specific direction until it is acted upon by a force greater than the force that is currently propelling it downfield. Like that soccer ball, our life is moving along a path that is taking us to a particular future intentionally or not. If you’re not where you want to be, change your direction.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 20, 2021

He loves their sense of urgency and wants to leverage it, but at the same time wants to make sure that he and everyone else is patient enough to pick the right ways and places to reengage. People who are new to yoga tend to focus first on an active approach in which you move from one pose to the next.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Despite all this, Short still demonstrates an unparalleled joie de vivre —he just keeps moving forward. Despite all this, Short still demonstrates an unparalleled joie de vivre —he just keeps moving forward. It’s this same strain of continuous reinvention that helps the shaper thrive. Enter the shaper.

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 18, 2022

During the start of my new employment, by the direction of my coach, I hyper-focused my search into companies that specialized in fields that I was familiar with. 75% of my interactions were not responded to at all, with no return emails, no return calls, this left me with no direction on how to get better. Thankfully, he did.

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Restructuring Learning-by-Doing Project Skills 214

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. The leaders in the front are forging the path, providing direction, and making it easier for others to go where the pack needs to travel. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. What matters is the way they are leading the pack.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2018

So you go back to doing what you’ve been doing: the same thing, over and over—and it doesn’t get better or easier. You need a logical way to move forward. When people are on the same page, the fires stop, and the perpetual state of crisis in your organization vanishes. Does that question sound familiar?

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