Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Team conflict can feel like quicksand and a distraction from your work, but it’s an excellent opportunity to improve morale, productivity, and processes. Your Turn Team conflict can be productive–and certainly shouldn’t consume you with other people’s drama. De-escalate Heated Team Conflict in the Moment 3.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Productive Failure suggests that making initial learning more difficult and challenging, where you may struggle and even fail to solve a problem or perform a task, can be beneficial learning. Source: Productive Failure: Unlocking Deeper Learning Through the Science of Failing * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 2, 2024

To settle yourself and prepare for a productive conversation, start by acknowledging reality: “This sucks.” There is always something to learn – and getting curious about your learning will help move you into a productive mindset. To get back in a constructive state of mind. It feels massively unfair and that stinks.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The Importance of Operational Excellence in Organizations Operational excellence is a cornerstone of organizational performance , providing a strategic pathway to enhance productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction. Companies can significantly improve processes and workflows by systematically identifying and addressing inefficiencies.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 30, 2024

This episode resonated by providing a straightforward, transformative toolchecking for understandingthat helps eliminate communication gaps, ensuring alignment and productivity. Why it clicked: Many leaders face the discomfort of realizing theyve tolerated destructive behaviors for too long, often in the name of keeping peace or being nice.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 24, 2025

But theres a fine line between productive exploration and full-scale distraction. Productivity hack? That way, you can explore ideas without derailing your productivity because ,the last thing you need is another afternoon lost in a black hole of hyperlinks. You want to stay focused, but it’s hard. Youre curious.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The Human Element in Due Diligence Due diligence in the venture capital ecosystem is no longer solely focused on financial metrics or product-market fit. Diverse teams are shown to be more innovative and resilient, and this shift underscores diversity as a strategic business advantage, particularly in fostering long-term growth.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 2, 2025

Source: Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals II. Ask yourself, Is there anything I am doing right now that, knowing what I now know, I wouldnt get into again if I were starting over today?

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Here are a few practical tips to de-stress your day and productivity for us AND for you. The busier you are, the more productive you feelbut at the end of the day, your most important work? And with that said, all the advice in this article still applies. I DON’T need to check emails every ten minutes to be responsive.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 22, 2025

Businesses face relentless pressure to create new products, services, and experiences. The speed of change, coupled with shrinking product lifecycles, demands an ever-present focus on reinvention. But true innovation transformative, game-changing innovation requires more than resources or technical expertise.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2025

As algorithms become increasingly adept at accessing the human mind, they also become more and more powerful at controlling it, enticing us to buy a certain product or vote for a certain political candidate. Those who embrace these technologiesand the ways people want to workwill unleash unprecedented levels of productivity and innovation.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Personally, I would start with Productive Failure and Mindshift. Productive Failure : Unlocking Deeper Learning Through the Science of Failing by Manu Kapur - (October 2024) Written by a leading global expert on human cognition, productive failure, and learning methods, Productive Failure shows you how to design the experience of failing.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The reality is that this is not the key to productivity. Coherent, creative, efficient, intelligent thinking and decision-making are what drives productivity. over $400 billion of productivity is estimated to be lost each year due to sleep debt. Pushing hard alone isnt sufficient and can be counterproductive. In the U.S.,

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 25, 2021

Too many meetings can frustrate productivity and morale. Reduce them to free your team. When your calendar staggers under the weight of too many meetings, start with design thinking, involve your team, and improve your use of asynchronous tools. It’s a refrain […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 19, 2020

That’s why I’m so productive.” .” “My team understands, I’m cool with THEIR chit chat in-between meetings, but I don’t really have time for that stuff. I’m all business. ” “I get that small talk is important, but […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

45:36] Mark shares four types of work that every business needs: productivity, learning, gathering resources, and communication. 01:30] Meet today’s guest, Mark Silver , a fourth-generation entrepreneur and heart-centered business expert. Integrating these can create a sustainable workflow that benefits both you and your team. [59:43]

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2025

Over the long run, resilience beats efficiency and is, therefore, a more productive objective for scaled organizations. They are optimized for the wrong outcomespredictability, not learning. The result is the illusion of innovation and progress while sacrificing resiliency.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 11, 2021

When you think about leading a productive team, what’s the first question that comes to mind? How to get the right people on the team? What’s the perfect vision? Or maybe you have questions about training or infrastructure. Of course, these questions […].

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

Trap #2: Pride: Allowing Your Products to Become Outdated Success can cause you to believe that you dont have to do all of the dirty work that is required to stay ahead. Herbold cautions that the measure of success that you are currently using regarding your product or service may no longer be relevant in a changing world.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 8, 2025

Imagine walking into your office and knowing, without ambiguity, whether your team had a productive day or week. Imagine engaging each team member knowing that they know whether or not they had a productive day or week. Do you really know how your team is performing? More importantly. Unfortunately, this clarity is not normal.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

Its hard to be productive if youre functioning at the whim of other peoples emotions. Retired Navy SEAL commander Rich Diviney on empathy: A lack of empathy in any leader obviously is a huge detriment huge detriment. But too much empathy can be just as damaging. Empathy is an invaluable tool, so long as it is properly calibrated.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

To build a strong employer brand, creating a positive and productive culture and maintaining consistency across all platforms and interactions is essential. Building a Strong Employer Brand for Better Reach An employer brand represents how your organization is perceived as a great place to work.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

This toughness that we exude during hard interactions has a tendency to keep us rigid and unable to move the conversation forward in a productive way. Creativity and Productivity In our lives, we go off instinct, and one of the most popular ways to manage others off instinct is to micro-manage.

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Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

By doing so, leaders can bridge generational gaps, improve collaboration, and enhance productivity, regardless of whether their teams work in-person, remotely, or in hybrid environments. ( Leaders who create adaptable environments empower their teams to work in ways that best suit their productivity and personal circumstances.

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The ability to navigate and resolve conflicts effectively is crucial to maintaining morale, fostering collaboration, and driving productivity within your team or organization. But if they can acknowledge each other’s viewpoints and move forward, it won’t disrupt the team’s cohesion or productivity.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

While its easy to assume it has to do with something distinctive about their product or service offering, the truth is that its something far more fundamental. Why are some organizations able to thrive during periods of uncertainty while others struggle to find firmer footing? While we all understand that. Click to continue reading

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In this episode, leadership expert Phil Geldart shares how bringing genuine, meaningful fun into the workplace can transform team dynamics, engagement, and productivity. Listen in to discover: Practical ways to incorporate fun that enhances learning and productivity.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

Boards and senior executives gain clarity on performance metrics, establishing the structural pillars necessary for a productive partnership. While productivity gains and cost savings remain vital, they represent only part of the overall contribution.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 2, 2023

For this kind of leader, their ability to see and touch a work product is crucial. Sometimes those connections result in those “fun” last minute enhancements that keep everyone working way past deadline, but genuinely make a better product. But often, you receive a work product that disappoints you.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

EQ, in a nutshell, underpins effective leadership, shaping workplace dynamics and directly influencing productivity, morale, and overall success. Such leadership caliber enables teams to thrive in harmony, even amidst adversity, thus creating an environment conducive to optimal productivity.

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