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 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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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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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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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 15, 2025

Emotional intelligence has been studied, debated, and championed as a critical skill for modern leaders. But lets get realits not a fluffy HR ideal or just about being nice. Its about forging genuine connections, building trust, and navigating conflict or crises without losing your cool. Leaders with emotional intelligence handle the chaotic swirl of business with a level head and an open heart.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 15, 2025

Board evaluations are pivotal for sustaining excellence across governance, strategic planning, and organizational oversight. Their significance extends beyond simply checking regulatory boxes; evaluations offer a nuanced perspective into board composition, performance, corporate culture, and risk management. Recent research points to a strong link between rigorous board evaluations and robust financial results, highlighting the value of investing in sophisticated, data-driven assessment methods.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 15, 2025

Wisdom is abrasive to hardheads. I sought wisdom from a business leader and didn't like what I heard. I asked the same question the next day to another leader, and he told me the same thing! Ignorance dies slowly. Do 5 these things to gain wisdom.

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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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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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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 15, 2025

At N2Growth, we have seen a clear shift in how organizations prioritize the employee journey as a central tenet of sustainable success. One emerging development is the role of the Chief Employee Experience Officer, a position that embodies the growing commitment to placing people at the core of corporate strategy. By focusing on the full scope of an individuals connection with the companyspanning recruitment, development, and eventual departurethese leaders shape the very essence of culture, pro

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 10, 2025

The beauty of a novice is ignorance. Beginners havent learned what cant be done. People with untested skills dream bigger than experts. Novices underestimate difficulty and oversimplify complexity. Let novices try things even if you think they might fail. Who knows? They might succeed.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 14, 2025

Artificial Intelligence is methodically eliminating leadership positionsand your role could be next. While 68% of executives dismiss AI’s impact, artificial intelligence already executes core management functions with unprecedented efficiency. Organizations implementing AI management tools eliminate mid-level leadership positions at accelerating rates, with projections indicating 37% of current management roles become obsolete by 2026.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 17, 2025

Episode 286- What if you could empower your team to promote productivity and maintain momentum all year long? Imagine leading a team thats not only aligned and motivated but also laser-focused on building habits that drive consistent results. Whether its the start of the year or any season, this episode equips you with the leadership skills to make it happen.

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CEO Insider

JANUARY 11, 2025

Ilia Rozmans rise from humble beginnings to leading an AI-focused marketing agency offers a case study in the evolving role of artificial intelligence in business. As founder of the AI Influencer Agency, Rozman leverages AI to create digital influencers that blend emotional storytelling with technological innovation. The broader implications of his approach provide a more […] The post From the Streets to Silicon Valley in AI Marketing appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 17, 2025

Organizations seeking to drive sustainable growth frequently rely on the multifaceted talents of a Chief Commercial Officer. From orchestrating integrated sales and marketing strategies to nurturing high-value customer relationships, this role extends well beyond traditional oversight of revenue goals. N2Growth, as a premier executive search and leadership advisory firm, recognizes the transformative influence a skilled Commercial Leader can wieldone who interlaces strategic vision, operational

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 16, 2025

There is no desert like living without friends. - Baltasar Begin to be a friend to yourself. You arent fit to be a friend until you are a friend to yourself. Love your neighbor as yourself. Don't miss the opportunity to connect with yourself. What can you do today?

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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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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JANUARY 14, 2025

When people have faith in you, you receive countless benefits. Folks dont feel the need to challenge your word, scrutinize your actions, or question your motives, because its clear that you are capable, your intentions are genuine, and your motives are honorable. This confidence strengthens relationships, advances your career, and leads to a more fulfilling life not to mention that you will feel good about yourself.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 13, 2025

As the Paris Olympics showcased the power of teamwork in securing medals, new research from the University of Kansas suggests that collaboration doesn’t always yield the same success in other fieldsparticularly for young scientists seeking academic careers. “We found that larger team sizes in a discipline correlate with lower career prospects for individuals,” the researchers note.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 13, 2025

In a new podcast series, Jacob Stoller and podcast host Andrew Stotz discussed five major management and productivity myths and how Lean and Deming thinking solve them.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 17, 2025

To accomplish something great, author Matt Higgins says you need to toss your Plan B overboard and burn the boats. You have to give yourself no escape route, no chance to ever turn back. You throw away your backup plans and your push forward, no longer bogged down by the infinite ways in which we hedge our own successes. Youll learn plenty more about what it means to burn the boats, how to unleash your full potential, and how to tear down your barriers to achieving success in Higgins new book, B

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 14, 2025

Relationships take you places. Include discomforting people in your relationship circle. A kick in the pants is often more useful than a pat on the back (especially if you are already excelling). Ask a stranger what they are great at. Follow up with, How did you get great at that?

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JANUARY 14, 2025

When change hits, you have two options: sink or swim. Caught up in the tidal wave of change, its natural to feel disoriented, frightened and overwhelmed, but resisting it only makes things worse. So, what if, instead of trying to fight the current, you learned how to ride the wave? Embracing change can be more than just a means of survival; it can be a launchpad for growth.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 15, 2025

A recent survey from the recruitment website Indeed highlights how nearly half of younger workers would be willing to leave their jobs if the political view of their leader differed significantly from their own. This challenge is further complicated by the fact that previous research , from ESMT, found a strong desire among employees for business leaders to be politically engaged.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JANUARY 15, 2025

A major responsibility of all leaders is building the next generation of leaders. Your development activities are the means to that end. One of the four major activities that will consume your leadership capital is developing your people. Developing your team means you’re training them, coaching them and promoting them to help them advance their careers.

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Chartered Management Institute

JANUARY 14, 2025

Article: The evolving complexities and mitigation strategies of team formation in a rapidly shifting workplace Written by Nasaruddin Zainal Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email Building effective teams is vital yet challenging in todays evolving workplace. This article outlines key obstacles and strategies for fostering cohesion and success amid generational shifts In todays fast-evolving organisational landscape, teamwork is more important than ever.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 17, 2025

Incompetent leaders invite apathy. Skillful leaders ignitecommitment. You create the future when you inspire commitment. Those who arent committed find fault; those who are committed find a way. This post provides 15 practical ways to ignite commitment. What's your favorite?

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HR Digest

JANUARY 14, 2025

Japans work culture is infamous for its intensityso much so that theres a specific word for death to overwork: karoshi. This cultural phenomenon has cast a long shadow over the nations traditionally work-centric culture for decades. But change is in the air. A significant number of workers are finding the courage to say, enough is enough, and theyre doing so in increasingly unconventional ways.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 14, 2025

New research from Wharton reveals that after Medicaid expansion, wages remained stagnant for the lowest-paid health care workerssuch as aides, orderlies, and sanitation staffwhile the highest-paid workers, including doctors, nurses, and managers, saw their earnings rise by about 2.2% per year. The study suggests that hospital systems may be worsening income inequality.

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In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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