Leading Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Caught in the middle of all this were managers, the face of the organization to their teams. Over the past 15 months, managers spent a considerable amount of effort mediating and negotiating on behalf of their teams to their business and from their business to their teams. Virtual Presentation Skills. Leading in a Virtual World.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Since being human isnt necessarily what got them to where they are in their careers, to begin with, they arent sure if the act of softening is for them. Creativity and Productivity In our lives, we go off instinct, and one of the most popular ways to manage others off instinct is to micro-manage.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

For instance, a mid-level manager we supported rose to a C-suite position within five years, propelled by iterative evaluations that honed his strategic acumen and people-management capabilities. When individuals understand how their performance aligns with overarching objectives, they adopt a deeper sense of ownership in their roles.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

This matters to effectiveness in the business domain, too, where such practices are often ignored or dismissed, even though they support ones centeredness and capacity to maintain focus, be creative, and make good decisions, even under great pressure. The takeaway? The reality is that this is not the key to productivity.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Robert Kaplan on learning to ask the right questions: “Fortunately, the key to managing and leading your organization and your career does not lie in ‘having all the answers.’ Jeremy Utley and Perry Klebahn on creativity: “Regardless of exactly how you define creativity, the key thing is that we never create out of whole cloth.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 1, 2025

Furthermore, when organizations promote star performers into people management, they create a perfect storm where technical expertise collides with human complexity. This mindset stifles creativity, reduces psychological safety, and prevents the honest feedback needed for organizational growth and adaptation.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Whenever I tell someone I’m teaching an evening MBA class entirely devoted to “managing difficult people” the response is the same. With a little risk and creativity, we experienced some significant turn arounds. Tune back in on Wednesday, to hear their biggest lessons in managing difficult people.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

an executive hears a presentation and immediately responds with questions, concerns, critiques and challenges, without a pause to consider the depth and breadth of work entailed, the long hours, and the creative thinking. People don’t have to follow you, don’t have to show up, and don’t have to bring their creativity or initiative.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 20, 2014

Your next promotion won’t happen until you “be the change” that those who have your career in their hands expect to see. Managing Through Career and Life Changes. Steve Broe of My Career Intact brings us How to be a Fast Mover in Your Career Change. Follow Tanveer @TanveerNaseer. Jennifer V.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

Here are a selection of tweets from March 2023 that you will want to check out: Chronos or Kairos—Is it Your Moment for a Career Change? by @artpetty Leaders Love Puzzles (for Better and for Worse) by @edbatista No Time for Career Development? by @Julie_WG Self-Esteem: Why It's Career Rocket Fuel!

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Every manager and team member will be more effective with greater skill in this arena. Put whatever parameters and checkpoints you need to feel comfortable in your world, but allow space for creativity and brilliant thinking. It’s not easy. 7 Ways to Help Your Team Deal With Ambiguity. ” – Julian Baggini.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

Intuitively, yes, entrepreneurship is a risky career path. Managing this tension is the key to success in growing and stable organizations—regardless of industry, size, years in business, or profit motive. Here are my five insights on how to manage chaordic tension: 1. Some statistics show even higher failure rates.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 31, 2023

by @suzimcalpine Ten Critical Keys For Designing a Creative Culture by @PhilCooke Fifty Something with More Gas Left in the Career Tank But Need a Change?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Gratitude is missing when… an executive hears a presentation and immediately responds with questions, concerns, critiques and challenges, without a pause to consider the depth and breadth of work entailed, the long hours, and the creative thinking.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Constraints are the gateway to creativity. For Managers: Powerful Phrases for Supporting Your Overwhelmed or Overloaded Team First, if you’re a manager, here are a few frequently uttered unhelpful phrases. As a manager, you want to do what you can to prevent the snowball of overwhelm from picking up speed as it rolls downhill.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

By collaborating closely with senior management on strategic initiatives, such a board offers a unique viewpoint that can significantly influence the company’s direction. Avoiding bureaucratic entanglements allows these young advisors to freely express their creativity and innovative ideas.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And yet during times of stress, ambiguity, and change , when you need your team to be THE MOST resourceful, some managers clamp down, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow their team down. Or if people think they’ll get in trouble for their creativity, they won’t risk it. ” is a powerful creative force.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 18, 2021

If you follow this blog, it is obvious to you that this impacts relationship, creativity and innovation, energy, and trust. Interestingly, Gallup found that the most important element is career wellbeing. Career Wellbeing: You Like What You Do Every Day. “ My job and my manage r are the two strongest links to net thriving.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 24, 2023

The secret to surviving and thriving in the automation revolution is in what computers can’t replace: human creativity, empathy, and critical thinking—especially in unpredictable environments. How often are your employees speaking up with creativity, empathy, and problem-solving? That’s really important data, but what do you do next?

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Over time, this relentless pace can lead to burnout, diminishing their energy, creativity, and focus. Earlier in our careers, we both thrived with managers who challenged us with new projects or gave us a chance to invest in an exciting opportunity. You can ask: Whats a project or skill youve been wanting to tackle?

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 1, 2014

For example, in “ Seven Ways to Sell Your Ideas to Management ,” Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shares how to present your ideas in order to get them implemented – a skill you need to master if you want to be an influential leader in your company. Management Issues. Need advice on a management issue?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2019

Unlocking Creativity : How to Solve Any Problem and Make the Best Decisions Michael A. Roberto Leaders do not have to conceive innovative ideas, but rather open the path for curious and creative employees within their organization. Creative Construction : The DNA of Sustained Innovation.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

Lead With This by @TerriKlass 4 Kinds of Stress in a Leader’s Life by @DanReiland 5 Outdated Phrases That Really Hurt Your Leadership by @WScottCochrane Do You Promote Your Career with Original Ideas or by Criticizing Others? Smile and Keep Marching by @artpetty Yes, you’re creative!

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

I begin by reassuring them that time-management strategies like these ones can relieve a lot of their stress. Go through your to-do list with a fine-tooth comb, asking yourself if anything simply isn’t necessary or if you’re spending far too much time on it (think about email time management ). Weed out the nonessential tasks.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

As an experienced leadership coach, I’ve helped many organizations actively seek out and cultivate these unconventional leaders – individuals who possess a unique blend of creativity, problem-solving abilities, and the courage to challenge the status quo. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

100 Percent of Managers Fail from @wallybock. Rethinking Capitalism: The Power of Creative Destruction by Philippe Aghion via @INSEADKnowledge. 3 Career Development Questions to Stop Asking Employees by @Julie_WG. The Craft Of Managing And Leading from @JohnBaldoni. What Kind of Team Are We? from @wallybock.

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Rich Gee Group

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Some of the world's most accomplished people, from Maya Angelou to Albert Einstein, have expressed feelings of self-doubt and inadequacy at some point in their careers. Reduced Creativity: A mind consumed by self-doubt can rarely think outside the box. Reduced Creativity: A mind consumed by self-doubt can rarely think outside the box.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

From doctors to teachers to managers to presidents, the more experience the better. From distorting the past to limiting creativity to reducing happiness, experience can cause misperceptions and then reinforce them without our awareness. Our personal experience is key to who we are and what we do. Society venerates experience.

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Lead from Within

MAY 22, 2024

As an executive leadership coach with years of experience, I’ve witnessed firsthand the significant impact that professional relationships can have on an individual’s career success. These connections can lead to career advancements that may have otherwise remained out of reach.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Great leaders understand that flexibility fosters creativity and engagement. They trust their top talent to manage their responsibilities effectively, giving them the freedom to adapt work to their personal rhythms. Encourage Professional Growth Leaders must facilitate opportunities for career advancement to retain top talent.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. Evaluate the creativity, reasonability and effectiveness of the compensation programs in existence. and a development manager at Oracle Corp. CHRO for HSBC.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

People don’t want to be managed; they want to be led. Trust and Inspire is a new way of leading that starts with the belief that people are creative, collaborative, and full of potential. A New Way to Think : Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness by Roger L. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Constant oversight and control erode autonomy and creativity, leading to frustration and disengagement. Leaders who are overly cautious or resistant to new ideas create a stagnant atmosphere where creativity is stifled. This can lead to frustration among high achievers who crave opportunities to explore new approaches and drive change.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 4, 2021

Sean Glaze of Great Results Team Building shared The 3 Most Important Traits Teams Want in a New Manager. Learn 5 ways to manage your mind to better control your mouth. Stephanie Skryzowski of 100 Degrees Consulting provided Four Tips to Manage Your Email. Julie Winkle Giulioni shared What Does a Career Look Like Today ?

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Career Advancement

MARCH 8, 2021

You need to proactively help him develop a strategy for remaining marketable and valuable, helping him define a viable pathway for his career. Embarking on a new career pathway takes courage, especially if it’s substantially different from what this individual once envisioned for himself. Provide learning resources.

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Leading Blog

MAY 31, 2021

Ten Critical Keys For Designing a Creative Culture by @PhilCooke. This Is The Moment To Reinvent Yourself, Your Organization, and Your Career by @PhilCooke. Use Courage—Not Fear—To Manage Your Team by @btreasurer. Use Courage—Not Fear—To Manage Your Team by @btreasurer. Is Virtual The Future Of Executive Coaching?

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

Podcast: @jamesstrock interviews Richard Norton Smith author of An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. by @DrNickMorgan via @publicwords Leader Chracter Framework A definition of leader character based on ten dimensions that interact with an 11th, central quality of judgment.

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