N2Growth Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

The Value of Executive Coaching for Future Leaders Executive coaching holds an elevated position as an essential tool for molding future leaders. Ultimately, the value of executive coaching lies in its capacity to create resilient, agile, and enduring leaders who are ready to lead their teams and organizations into the future.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I’ve written about these and other crucial tools for helping leaders improve relationships, gain executive presence and succeed in my new book, The Heart of a Leader: 52 Emotional Intelligence Insights to Advance Your Career. Guest post from Kristin Harper : The first 90 days of a leaders’ tenure set the foundation for their future success.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

For every task you undertake, have an explicit goal for an outcome and a set of tactics to achieve it. Falk offers “proven step-by-step tools and approaches that will make it easier and less energy-consuming for you to master your mind and to think and act deliberately in your professional life.”

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

As organizations become increasingly digital, CMOs are expected to spearhead digital marketing, AI, social media, and analytics initiatives. As disruptors in the organization, they hold the onus to align the company’s brand mission with a creative yet commercially viable business strategy.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

This is where executive coaching steps in as an invaluable tool for entrepreneurs. Unlike corporate executives operating within established structures, the entrepreneur often finds themself navigating uncharted territory. Entrepreneurs are faced with a myriad of decisions daily, ranging from strategic direction to operational tactics.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

90% of leaders think an engagement strategy is important while only 25% of organizations have one (ACCOR). In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle. Beth (name changed) is a senior leader at one of our client organizations. Where are we?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Non-value added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Costing the organization in excess material costs, holding costs, and potentially obsolescence costs, this waste can cost the organization upwards of millions of dollars in annual operations funds.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Non-value added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Can you think of examples of excessive transportation waste within your organization? You just finished reading Tactical Execution Best Practice 7b - Are You Thinking Lean? About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Non-value-added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Overproduction , the first of the 8 biggest wastes of Lean Operations, focuses on the unnecessary production of product before the customer demands it. How can you attack this problem?

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Often used by people within positions of power within organizations, these clichés support control, group cohesion, or an agenda. Organizations can use such phrases to curb dissent, cultivate an “us versus them” approach, and deflect responsibility. Common examples include: “It’s just the way things are done here.” “If

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2013

All high-performing organizations continually look for ways to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency. When considering approaches to search for inefficiencies within your organization, how should you begin? By focusing on the Non-Value Adding portions of your organization. About the Author.

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HR Digest

MAY 17, 2024

Whether it’s adapting to new technologies, shifting customer demands, or regulatory updates, organizations must continually evolve to stay ahead. As the gatekeepers of a company’s most valuable asset – its people – HR teams have a pivotal responsibility in steering their organizations through periods of change.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Active listening has become even more vital during the global pandemic, as many organizations work in a remote environment. The model is designed to help you figure out what you’ve learned from the past year – what worked, what didn’t, what’s worth keeping, and what the organization needs in the future. Neither are you.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Impact, growth, and performance of the organizations they lead. Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. Beth is another former operator who really understands the business and their 37,000+ workforce.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 1, 2012

It’s difficult enough for a manager to align, streamline, and make efficient those business operations under his or her direct control; adding one or more other work groups to a process’s execution exponentially increases this challenge. You just finished reading Tactical Execution - Improving Cross-Functional Performance !

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2014

Document management software can put important documents at your fingertips in seconds and help you keep everything organized. Look for an intuitive organization system that can be shared on your network. Going paperless is a great way to streamline office operations – and help save the planet by reducing paper.

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Rich Gee Group

AUGUST 31, 2015

Based upon many hours of advisory with C-Level clients, here are the two major tenets that bubble to the top: IQ – Intelligence Quotient (or Tactical Intelligence). Bottom line, you have to put in the hours, the sweat and tears to adequately build a firm foundation of tools to leverage in the myriad of situations that arise.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2014

With organizations operating in heavily competitive environments, the pressure to make the right decisions at the most opportune time has never been higher for business stakeholders. Leading organizations today are actively using data to go through rapid “decision cycles” to differentiate themselves from the fast running pack.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 20, 2021

Hiring capable candidates that are a good fit for your organization is just the first step of building a happy and motivated workforce. If you fail to take steps to ensure that your employees are content in your organization, you risk having demoralized and inefficient staff. Make the Workplace Somewhere People Enjoy Being.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

What these programs are lacking are the tools necessary for employees and organizations to cultivate a global mindset. Global mindset is truly having the desire, knowledge, and skills to operate effectively in business today. It fills a strategic tactical need of operating in today’s business setting.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

The Situational Leadership ® Model has been a viable tool organizations have relied upon to build leaders and drive behavior change for over 50 years. But are there certain sizes or types of organizations where the Situational Leadership ® methodology seems to work more effectively than others?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Click here for more information on Maintaining Continuity of Operations with a Disaster Tolerance Strategy. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2020

Managing your business gets increasingly more difficult as you scale it, Thankfully, there are plenty of ways to ensure that your company stays organized as long as you adopt some golden rules to help streamline your workflow and logistics processes. Unforeseen circumstances aren’t uncommon regardless of the type of business you operate.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 17, 2019

Adopting a business intelligence (BI) strategy is one of the best ways to deal with this problem, but most organizations have been slow to integrate it within their business systems. There’s no denying that business intelligence software is crucial in helping organizations make reliable and timely decisions about their operations.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

“Agile organizations treat disruption and adversity as opportunities.” Today’s organizations face the unknown on a weekly basis. We demonstrate that agile organizations possess both strategic and tactical agility. Would you share an example from an organization doing it right? Navigate through Change.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2019

IT is an important subject for any organization and it becomes increasingly interwoven with business operations. The information should be accessible for any relevant person and it should be structured logically, so that everyone in an organization relies on the same, up-to-date information and is able to use it efficiently.

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HR Digest

MAY 26, 2023

Following the introduction of ChatGPT, a popular generative AI tool developed by Microsoft-backed OpenAI, generative AI’s impact on the workplace has become a buzzworthy topic in the corporate landscape. The profound implications of generative AI on business operations and the workforce is growing tremendously.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The current health pandemic has heightened HR departments’ purpose, requiring them to re-think how their organization needs to communicate; how to provide appropriate levels of support to workers; the state of culture and workers’ sense of belonging; and, how to safely re-integrate employees as offices re-open. Compassion.

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RapidStart Leadership

JUNE 9, 2017

What sometimes gets missed are the thousands of little, tactical decisions made on the ground afterwards. Allied planners knew things could go wrong, so they gave their leaders two critical tools to help them win in the chaos. Today we’ll talk about what those tools were and how you can use them to succeed with your “Army.”.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 3, 2022

You owe it to yourself, to your employee, and to your organization.” You owe it to yourself, to your employee, and to your organization. When we’re at capacity, we use the one or two tools in our toolbox to manage conflict: shaming, intimidating, or some other tactic. ” -Marlene Chism.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

One of the most common of these stems from the ongoing debate over whether culture is more important than strategy in terms of the organization’s long-term success and viability. How can we become more agile and responsive if we assume we only need to operate from one vantage point or perspective?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

It is a vantage point by which forward-thinking organizations ask: What will we look like in the future? Usually, management has not yet articulated their own individual values, let alone those of the organization. Technology is a tool, which feeds into tactics. Settle the organization’s short-term problems.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 7, 2012

It’s generals that craft military tactics, so it must be your executives that develop a business strategy. It’s your leaders who best understand your business’ culture and values, and whether or not they must be changed to accommodate the new customer-centric tactics. Only they have the bird’s eye view of the operations.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 7, 2012

It’s generals that craft military tactics, so it must be your executives that develop a business strategy. It’s your leaders who best understand your business’ culture and values, and whether or not they must be changed to accommodate the new customer-centric tactics. Only they have the bird’s eye view of the operations.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Based upon many hours of advisory with C-Level clients, here are the two major tenets that bubble to the top: IQ – Intelligence Quotient (or Tactical Intelligence) You have to have the chops, the intellect, the experience, and knowledge to make it through the first hurdle. Operational - Know how the organization works inside and out.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2015

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC announced the launch of an online business performance assessment forum; providing innovative thought leadership and collaboration opportunities to help executives and managers better assess the performance of their business operations. For more information, please visit www.StrategyDriven.com.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 11, 2019

Email has become the essential communication tool that many professionals love to hate. Even the most important customer transactions, internal operations, and supplier partnerships transpire through email. I think it can be an amazing productivity tool. An email cannot be both a productivity tool and a weapon.

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