Leading Blog
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Our success, survival, and emotional well-being hinge on our ability to bond. In today’s hyper-connected yet often impersonal world, nurturing these bonds demands renewed focus and commitment. Our Inherent Need to Connect Humans are wired to seek connections.
Persuasive Powerhouse
OCTOBER 8, 2014
This small talk, often dismissed in organizations as “fluff”, actually builds bonds. Invite them to share lunch with you and spend at least part of the time talking about your interests outside of work. Do a lot of listening. Ask them to help you figure something out. Peers can be very important to your efforts and your career.
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Lead Change Blog
JUNE 8, 2021
Develop metrics and determine a baseline. Use this data to develop a baseline prior to doing the interventions below. Help your employees intentionally develop a sense of meaning in the virtual workplace. Provide professional development in effective virtual communication. Cultivate a sense of meaning in your employees.
The Horizons Tracker
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Forming bonds. Research from Harvard Business School offers us hope that bonds can indeed be forged virtually if managers go about things in the right way. If hybrid working does become the new norm, then creating human bonds is likely to be a crucial part of a manager’s work. Virtual watercooler.
Leading Blog
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Harvard Professor Paul Lawrence on making morally significant choices: “It is as much within our power to make choices that lead to the destruction of species as it is to make choices which keep us on the track of continued life and development. Source: Driven to Lead: Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership II.
N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 5, 2013
By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. A leader who is motivated, passionate and spontaneous can use these attributes to build what all leaders need: trust, that bond that links followers to the individual and the cause. People often ask me, “What are the essential attributes of leadership?”.
N2Growth Blog
JULY 19, 2013
By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. As a young Army leader, I frequently moved from one leadership position to another and searched for a way to forge strong bonds in a hurry. For many, it was the first time a leader had shown a sincere interest in their personal story and professional development.
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