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Finding the Sweet Spot and Leading Teams to Achievement

General Leadership

In military parlance, a Common Operating Picture (or “COP”) is a single presentation of the battlespace to a wide and distributed audience. “Folks, everyone in this room has a story. If you don’t know the story, you can’t lead the Airman.”. Gen Mark Welsh, USAF.

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Leaders Live in A Glass House with Arjan van Weele

N2Growth Blog

Leaders not only have to perform like they have done so in the past, like having to explain a quarterly business result and individual leadership ability to shareholders, but they also have a much wider audience today. This broader audience (customers, employees, etc.) is quick to judge and often unforgiving.

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101 Things I Learned in Business School

Leading Blog

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. Lesson: The point of a visual presentation is to get the audience to listen.

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A Better Way to START your SMART GOAL process

Let's Grow Leaders

This is an important audience whom I care about deeply and wanted to help. A- Authenticity: Identify your values, operating principles and define your brand. The Start of START. I was recently asked to give a workshop for the National Speakers Association on SMART goals to help entrepreneurs launch their businesses.

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5 Leadership Development Practices to Kick to the Curb

Leading Blog

Narrowly defining leadership restricts innovation by excluding countless points of view and modes of operating. When leaders are pressured into leadership styles that go against their natural way of operating, they are set up for failure. It’s like wearing a set of clothes that don’t fit.

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Great Leaders Leverage Great Messaging | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The Market “is&# the Message : This view of messaging values the target audience above all else. Furthermore, the best content or spokesperson in the world communicating to the wrong audience, with the wrong message, or through the wrong medium is likely to miss the mark.

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Is Your Message Relevant?

N2Growth Blog

They have some sort of emotive, intellectual, or instructional appeal to the audience being addressed. They did not address the needs or concerns of the audience they were addressing, and therefore the message was irrelevant and subsequently ineffective. No appeal equals no relevance. The message must be relevant to be successful.

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