Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

Trap #3: Boredom: Clinging to Your Once-Successful Branding After It Becomes Stale and Dull Keeping your brand fresh and contemporary is hard work. Know what your brand stands for and relentlessly reassess how it is carried out in all of the details of its execution. Real leadership is the key to speed and agility.

Agility

The Center For Leadership Studies

JANUARY 15, 2025

Branding is a powerful tool that goes far beyond taglines and logos. To put it plainly: Your brand is your ticket to getting noticed and being remembered. Now, there are a few different types of branding for individuals. What Is a Personal Brand? What Is a Leadership Brand?

Brand

The Center For Leadership Studies

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

With so much affected by your image, its crucial to take control of the narrative and intentionally build an image that can works fornot againstyou and your leadership goals. What Is a Leadership Legacy? Thats your leadership legacy. With a strong leadership brand, you can build that legacy for yourself.

Brand

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This multifaceted role requires rapid decision-making and strong leadership capabilities, enabling the COO to manage day-to-day activities while enhancing operational efficiency effectively. This ensures a robust alignment between the candidate’s leadership style and the company’s strategic objectives.

COO

Eric Jacobson

JULY 13, 2025

The new book, Brand Global, Adapt Local: How To Build Brand Value Across Cultures , is an informative and essential guide for leaders, marketers and brand strategists navigating the complexities of global business.

Brand

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The impact of a proficient Chief Revenue Officer extends beyond financial metrics; it influences customer relationships, brand reputation, and employee engagement. Thorough Candidate Evaluation: Beyond resumes, the process involves in-depth interviews, leadership assessments, and reference checks to evaluate candidates comprehensively.

Long-term

The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 22, 2025

Why Your Leadership Brand Should Show Off Your Human Skills Whether you know it or not, you already have a leadership brand. Your leadership brand is essentially your professional reputation. Whatever you want your leadership brand to say about you, you can tailor your human skills to align.

Brand

Strategy Driven

JULY 18, 2025

In an increasingly hyper-connected business landscape, brand growth is intertwined with relationships. Such engagement helps foster expenditure opportunities and, moreover, not just business, but also knowledge, thought leadership, relevancy, and innovation. Brand growth is no longer a single aim to build a direct consumer narrative.

Brand

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Understanding the Criticality of Leadership Transition in 2025 CEO succession represents one of the most consequential inflection points in an organizations lifecycle. The boards dedicated stewardship ensures the proper identification and cultivation of individuals whose leadership styles harmonize with the organizations vision.

CEO

The Center For Leadership Studies

JANUARY 31, 2025

What does your leadership say about you? Your leadership brand is your chance to decide who you are as a leader and how you want to be remembered. If done properly, youll have a positive leadership brand that will pay dividends and boost nearly every aspect of your career. What do you want it to say about you?

Brand

Rich Gee Group

MAY 2, 2025

Upward mentors broaden strategy; downward teaching sharpens leadership credibility. Productize Your Personal Brand: Create a onepage YouInc. brand statement: promise, proof, and payoff. Great brands dont beg for shelf space - they get featured endcap placement. Align your LinkedIn banner, bio, and posts around it.

Career

Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2025

Strong operational leadership plays a crucial role in achieving this goal. Operational Leadership: The Backbone of Stability Operational leadership focuses on managing daily processes while driving forward-looking improvements. Operational leadership is the bridge between a company’s vision and what happens on the ground.

Long-term

Skip Prichard

MAY 20, 2025

Interview with Taylor Scott Effective leadership transcends traditional metrics and strategies. And that’s where hospitality leadership comes in. Beyond his professional achievements, Taylor is a passionate advocate for human-centric leadership. How did these experiences shape your leadership philosophy?

Taylor

Eric Jacobson

APRIL 24, 2025

As the creator of the iconic Corner Office column in the New York Times , Bryant has spoken with more than a thousand leaders over the years about the challenges and nuances of leadership. He adds that the book is useful to everyone who is interested in leadership, regardless of where they are in their career.

Management

Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Meaningful Recognition Is Vital for Team Morale and Productivity Recognition is a cornerstone of great leadership. While it may have been well-intentioned, the underlying message is clear: This is about promoting the brand, not about valuing you as an individual. These types of gifts fall flat because they feel impersonal.

Team

The Center For Leadership Studies

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The Power of Storytelling in Leadership: Engaging Your Audience When you’re engrossed in a good book or television series, it’s tempting to stay up late and read the next chapter or watch one more episode. What Is Storytelling in Leadership? That’s the power of good storytelling.

Storytelling

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 15, 2025

This can bolster retention, elevate employer branding, and solidify a companys position as a destination for top talent. When approached strategically, this integration of culture, technology, and leadership fosters a collaborative workplace that attracts new talent while inspiring the existing workforce to reach higher.

Absenteeism

Eric Jacobson

APRIL 29, 2025

Fortunately, Kohuts new book, Speaking Out: The New Rules of Business Leadership Communication , details a new framework for understanding how to manage corporate communications challenges with a shared emphasis on actions and words. However, those whose only strategy is to avoid risk by saying nothing do so at their own peril.

Politics

Rich Gee Group

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Even if youre producing results, new leadership might look for fresh talent to align with their new vision. Build (or Rebuild) Your Personal Brand You might be a rock star in your corner of the company, but does the rest of the world know it? Start sharing insights, get your name out there, and expand your network.

Execution

Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 17, 2025

It was a short five-episode series documenting the scandals, love, and downfall of the American Gladiators brand. In interviews with the cast and crew, Netflix created the documentary Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story Of American Gladiators. This was an adult audience.

Audience

The Center For Leadership Studies

JANUARY 13, 2025

Cary, NC January 14, 2025 The Center for Leadership Studies (CLS), the global home of the Situational Leadership Model, is proud to announce the release of two new courses to our Performance Curriculum, Building Trust and Your Leadership Brand.

Course

Frank Sonnenberg Online

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

From a business standpoint, how much do you invest in: Branding? Branding emphasizes long-term customer loyalty by cultivating a distinctive identity, while sales prioritize short-term revenue generation and meeting immediate targets. Research and development? Moral character?

Cost

Eric Jacobson

JULY 5, 2025

This book is the result of what we have learned teaching leadership and business acumen classes to rising and senior leaders at Fortune 500 companies for twenty years,” share authors Nathan Kracklauer and Bjorn Billhardt. Abilitie’s clients include some of the world’s most recognizable brands such as Coca-Cola, The New York Times , and Dell.

Skills

leaderCommunicator

APRIL 21, 2025

External stakeholders namely, customers or business partners crave stories as well to feel connected to a brand. Much of whats communicated to employees is dry, procedural, and seemingly unconnected to the work they do every day.

Storytelling

Strategy Driven

JUNE 24, 2025

Learning-Focused Gatherings With Industry Thought Leaders If your audience includes knowledge-hungry professionals, consider events centered on learning and thought leadership. These sensory engagements help your brand stand out and leave attendees with a truly memorable evening. Curated Micro-Experiences Sometimes, smaller is better.

Innovation

HR Digest

JANUARY 4, 2025

HR Tip: Treat laid-off employees with dignity and respect to foster goodwill and protect the companys employer brand. With careful planning and collaboration with legal counsel, HR can turn a difficult process into an opportunity to demonstrate leadership and compassion.

Compliance

The Center For Leadership Studies

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In todays competitive landscape, one of the strongest predictors of a companys potential for success is not its brand recognition or market share but its company culture. The post The Trust Fall: 6 Reasons Why Trust Is Essential for a Healthy Workplace appeared first on Situational Leadership Management and Leadership Training.

Construction

Eric Jacobson

MAY 26, 2025

Its about sustaining a cherished brand while disrupting the very essence of how it has done business in the past. Talent : Value the leadership talent of your team and invest in the continued growth and development of those who are able and willing to cope with change as the company evolves. It is never too much.

Company

Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In an era where brand loyalty was sacred, he made the seemingly crazy decision to open Amazon’s platform to competitors, allowing other retailers to sell directly on Amazon’s site. That’s the essence of Catalyst Leadership—making decisions with the customer (or end-user) at the center of every strategy. No—he did the exact opposite.

Leadership

Rich Gee Group

JUNE 24, 2025

Part One: Nail Your Core Value Before the Axe Swings Executives everywhere are watching respected brands - Disney, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble—shrink white-collar headcount like it’s a new sport. 15 min) Schedule a 30-minute meeting with your boss to learn which metrics they quote to leadership. (30

EBITDA

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2025

Listening to your customer—through data—can help refine products, improve services, and boost brand loyalty. Leadership should champion new ideas and be willing to take calculated risks to maintain a competitive edge. Rather than guessing what your audience wants, adopt tools that gather actionable insights.

Compliance

Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2025

Whether it’s a set of core values displayed in a team workspace, a branded recognition post for an employee win, or a visual story of company milestones, these artifacts help employees connect to something bigger than their daily to-do list. Visuals play a powerful role in shaping that experience.

Content

Mark Sanborn

MARCH 15, 2025

However, when it comes to leadership, disruption can be not only good but essential for success. Heres why embracing disruption in leadership can unlock extraordinary potential. Why Disruptive Leadership Matters Disruptive leadership goes beyond just causing change for the sake of it.

How To

Skip Prichard

MAY 27, 2025

That means aligning your brand identity, systems, employee engagement, and measurementnot just improving what the customer sees, but how the entire organization delivers it. If the customer experience does not reflect the brand identity, customers will, at best, be confused. The authors dont stop at theory.

Strategy

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2025

Listening to your customer—through data—can help refine products, improve services, and boost brand loyalty. Leadership should champion new ideas and be willing to take calculated risks to maintain a competitive edge. Rather than guessing what your audience wants, adopt tools that gather actionable insights.

Compliance

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2025

For example, 30% of the companys leadership is from underrepresented groups, and 78% of its employees scored the business positively on its Inclusion index overall. Everyone is welcome under our Golden Arches, and this broad-based appeal is why McDonalds is one of the worlds most beloved brands.

Trends

Strategy Driven

JULY 2, 2025

This approach is about more than just good service—it’s about creating a lasting impression that propels your brand to new heights. Consistent Brand Messaging Your brand’s message must be consistent across all touchpoints. As people, we naturally gravitate toward brands that we trust and respect.

Reputation