Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 13, 2025

To improve relationships at work, reflect to connect Have you ever had a conversation at work take a turn you werent expectingsuddenly, voices rise, arms fold, and you feel the tension? Maybe you walked away wondering, “What just happened? How did we get here?” In those moments, you might feel like defending your position, explain your point more clearly, or even disengage completely.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Jack Trout on being a doer: The best leaders know that direction alone is no longer enough. The best leaders are storytellers, cheerleaders, and facilitators. They reinforce their sense of direction or vision with words and action.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 11, 2025

Your Team's Mindset Is Your Greatest Asset Your greatest asset is not your people. Your greatest asset is how your people think - their Mindset. Most leaders fail to see the biggest lever for growth sitting right in front of them: the mindset of their people. Skills, experience, and knowledge matter, but they are useless if your team approaches their work with the wrong perspective.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 8, 2025

One of the harshest realities leaders need to come to terms with is how they no longer just play a significant role in their employees growth and success, but how much influence they have on the mental health and well-being of those they lead. But this is why it’s so.

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Leading in Context

JANUARY 15, 2025

By Linda Fisher Thornton This series includes 10 quotes (linked to blog posts) to inspire you and help you improve your leadership and leadership development as we head into the new year.Part 1includes the first 5.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 2, 2025

Habits shape your future. You care about habits because you care for yourself. Life disintegrates without routines. Devise morning rituals that enable you to flourish. You cant prevent black-hole-thinking; you can redirect your thoughts. You do good for yourself when develop routines that serve your future self.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

Assessments have emerged as an indispensable instrument in leadership development, serving as both a mirror that reveals areas of growth and a lens that illuminates hidden potential. At N2Growth , we view these evaluative processes as far more than simple scorecards. When strategically designed, assessments can lead executives to sharpen their strategic thinking, refine their interpersonal skills, and ultimately guide teams toward sustainable success.

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Great Results Team Building

JANUARY 4, 2025

Every leader has blind spots… But ignoring them could cost you your teams trust, engagement, and performance. Blind spots are dangerous because they are more difficult to see the more successful you are. And they are often invisible to the very people who have them. As a leader, what you think is true about your teams experience might be far from their reality.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 7, 2025

The gap in your leadership style is costing your organization millions in lost talent and unrealized potential.Recent Deloitte analysis reveals 82% of senior executives overestimate their leadership capabilities, while only 34% of their direct reports rate them as highly effective. A recent report by McKinsey’s Leadership Index demonstrates organizations with self-aware leaders generate 41% higher shareholder returns.

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leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 6, 2025

In the fast-paced world of work we all live in now, one of the most understandable and common mistakes all employees make is simply not asking the right kinds of questions.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 11, 2025

Try this easy team building activity to get your team talking about being human Can you think of a recent moment when you felt deeply connected at a human level? When you paused and saw another personnot as a role, title, or functionbut as a fellow human being? If you’ve been following David and me for a minute, you know we’re big on team building activities that go deeper than trust falls and marshmallow stacks , and get people talking about what matters.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 2, 2025

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Brian Tracy on zero-based thinking: To simplify your life, zero-based thinking is one of the most powerful strategies you can learn and apply on a regular basis. Heres how it works. 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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Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 8, 2025

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

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 15, 2025

What would make a successful and profitable leader, who had a self-described dictator style of leadership, embrace love as a business strategy? What compelled this transformation and what lessons can we learn to drive organizational transformation that fuels growth and long-term success? In this episode of my Leadership Biz Cafe.

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Leading in Context

JANUARY 8, 2025

By Linda Fisher Thornton The Top Post Series for last year on the Leading in Context Blog was called "10 Quotes to Inspire Leaders in 2024". It reflected insights for leaders into how to lead in ways that bring out the best in others, and featured specific areas of focus and strategies for living and leading with values.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 13, 2025

Humility is a direction, not a destination. Growth depends on humility. This post explains 7 small acts of humility. For example, make a list of things you don't know. Click for more.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 6, 2025

Listen to the podcast Heres the truth: Every business leader eventually faces that one toxic employeethe one who drains morale, ignites drama, and turns team meetings into a minefield. Ignoring it and hoping it will go away doesnt work. Leadership is about stepping up, even when its uncomfortable. Let me tell you a quick story. A client of mine once hired a rockstar sales rep who crushed quotas but torched relationships along the way.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

An operational executive overseeing the day-to-day business functions is the linchpin between visionary corporate objectives and the tactical steps required to achieve them. The importance of this role in high-performing organizations cannot be overstated: research from various organizational studies shows that effective operations leadership is one of the most reliable predictors of sustained performance and competitive advantage in business.

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Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership

Most HR leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victim-hood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 1, 2025

Here we are again the start of another year. What do you want from 2025? How are you going to make it happen? Let me suggest that your outcomes are going to depend on the factors you can control and that, when you get real about it, the only factor you really control is how you show up throughout each day of the year. While Ive yet to hit perfection (and who among us has?

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 1, 2025

Most new leaders will fail. It’s not a possibilityit’s a certainty backed by decades of data. Furthermore, when organizations promote star performers into people management, they create a perfect storm where technical expertise collides with human complexity. Consequently, current Gallup data shows that 82% of companies select the wrong person for management positions, while McKinsey reports that poor leadership costs organizations $15,000 per employee annually in lost productivity.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 7, 2025

Having a sense of purpose has been scientifically proven to help people find happiness, longevity, and health. But lots of us are also worried about purposehaving purpose anxiety estimated to affect as much as 91% of people. That purpose anxiety is the fear of not knowing your purpose in life. Most people understand the term purpose but have no idea how to take action to discover what it means in their lives, says hospice medical director Jordan Grumet , author of the new book, The Purpose Code:

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 17, 2025

Think DE&I Is Dead at Your Company? Here’s How to Keep It Alive You care deeply about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I), but your company seems to be moving in the opposite direction. Maybe the initial enthusiasm has faded, they were never truly invested for the right reasonsor worse, those conversations never began. I’m hearing heartbreaking stories every day– people frustrated that their leaders seem to be “off the hook,” and are abandoning important

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 17, 2025

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Joel Kurtzman on leadership: The leader is not separate from the group he or she leads. Rather, the leader is the organizations gluethe force that binds it together, sets its direction, and makes certain that the group functions as one.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JANUARY 6, 2025

Progress isnt built on ideas aloneits forged through action. To move forward in any capacity, businesses have to tap into the power of the collective and harness the individual efforts of every member of their team. Getting their team movingand keep them movingin the right direction, however, can be challenging to say the least. But with the right amount of trust, leaders can inspire movement in their team thatll bridge the gap between ideation and execution.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 1, 2025

Its the start of a new year, which I think is the perfect time to look back on the 2024 episodes of my Leadership Biz Cafe podcast to share moments that can have a real impact on leaders going into the new year. Now when you get the opportunity to.

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Leading in Context

JANUARY 1, 2025

By Linda Fisher Thornton Of the 52 weekly posts published on the Leading in Context Blog in 2024, these 10 were the most popular.

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Speaker: Rusty Lindquist, VP Strategic HR Insights at Bamboo HR

Compensation can be tricky, few things carry as much emotional weight as comp. And with the increased transparency in the market, combined with our collective propensity to rate ourselves against others, the frequency of these very difficult conversations is increasing. In this webinar, we will deconstruct some of the psychology around comp. We’ll take an analytic look at comp’s role in the employee experience, and then we’ll get really tactical with guidance on very specific compensation conver

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 9, 2025

Rigid certainty doesnt think, it defends. In all your learning, learn to be a learner. Arrogance knows. Humility grows. #1. Wait for the what-about moment. #2. Listen to people you dont like. Click for more.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 13, 2025

leadership that listens Weve all heard about the importance of understanding people. It sounds straightforward and maybe even simple. But my experience is that most leaders are so focused on a goal that they short-circuit or ignore understanding the team. And the task of truly understanding each team member can feel to some as a waste of time or even overwhelming.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

N2Growth recognizes that a leadership role dedicated to compliance is fundamental to success in any high-performing organization. This vital executive safeguards corporate integrity, ensuring alignment with evolving regulations and fostering a culture devoted to ethical conduct. Although the title emphasizes adherence to standards, the best compliance leaders also uncover ways to bolster strategic growth and mitigate risk to their respective firms and constituents.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2025

As we step into 2025, the corporate landscape is undergoing seismic shifts, driven by technological advancements, shifting employee expectations, and an increasingly globalized workforce. In this era of transformation, employee benefits have emerged as a strategic lever for attracting, retaining, and engaging top talent. Organizations that fail to adapt to these evolving trends risk being left behind in the race for the best and brightest.

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