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.’ Source: Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

From Counting to Quality: Help Your Busy Team Work Smarter Last week, we talked about meaningful metrics , focusing on the game, not the score, and identifying and isolating the daily habits most likely to lead to success. Development plans, check. Focus on Quality Metrics matter. Mid-year reviews, check.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2018

Welcome to the January Leadership Development Carnival! Business leaders have learned that ethical leadership transforms organizational metrics.” Development. Dana Theus of InPower Coaching submitted 4 Tips for Changing Careers. The themes for this month are… Let’s get started! Productivity.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 19, 2011

There’s a “Diversity” strategy driven from one office, and a succession planning and development strategy driven by another. At the risk of oversimplifying, here’s a 9 step process to improve gender balance through succession planning and development: 1. Establish metrics and goals. From a manager’s view, it’s confusing.

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QAspire

AUGUST 8, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Metrics: Are They Mapped With Your Business Objectives? You can measure almost anything in your business, but if those metrics don’t serve a real business objectives, they are just numbers with no real meaning. Identify metrics : What metrics can effectively help you meet your goals?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

By engaging in virtual executive coaching, leaders can maximize their time, focus on their development goals, and maintain productivity in demanding roles. As virtual coaching continues to gain traction, more and more leaders are embracing this powerful tool to enhance their leadership abilities and accelerate their career trajectories.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

It’s fun to watch once all the pieces are in place, and I’ve been fortunate to have been in that position during my career. MEASURE your successes smartly by creating metrics that are truly meaningful and actionable for every team member. Having such metrics is a critical element to employee satisfaction.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 12, 2012

.” –Kimberly Kitchings, vice president of corporate and strategic planning program metrics for Cotton Inc. Whether it’s a three-hour client meeting or I’m at a dinner party and I’m sitting next to someone interesting who I would … like to develop a relationship with, I will send myself emails.

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2021

Just as both “Jobs and Gates reaped enormous benefit from studying the works of their contemporaries, extracting crucial insights, and applying those lessons to develop new products, says Ron Friedman in Decoding Greatness , you can too. Nearly every example you admire was developed using a blueprint. 3 Think in Blueprints.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 7, 2025

Schedule monthly anonymous feedback, work with a coach to address blind spots, and set clear metrics for impact. Your next step goes beyond checking boxesit’s about evolving your perspective and approach. Partner with peer executives for honest accountability. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 29, 2022

Have you ever noticed it’s not necessarily the times in your career that you worked the longest or hardest that led to better recognition? ” “I know all of these metrics matter, but which matters the most? Help your team invest deeply in developing peer relationships in other departments AND with one another.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Effective leadership development programs and a proactive approach can address these challenges, enabling organizations to cultivate a resilient workforce that can efficiently manage crises and strategic succession transitions. They should identify and nurture talent early, widen the candidate pool, and develop leaders from within.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This executive role focuses on developing and implementing human resources strategies to manage the workforce and create a positive organizational culture. They focus on enhancing employee training and development programs to nurture talent and improve skills.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The dilemma is that we all need to collaborate more to create effective organizations and vibrant careers for ourselves. It's never an overnight process, but the long-term payoff is immense: to finally break out of the frenetic day-to-day routine and transform your life and your career. Being vision-driven instead of iteration-led.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 1, 2025

My strategic frameworks revolutionize how multinational enterprises develop exceptional leaders, consistently delivering measurable impact across industries and cultures. New leaders frequently micromanage their teams, struggle to delegate effectively, and fail to develop their direct reports’ capabilities.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Is your team doing what you asked, but they’re focused on counting the metrics, and how busy they are as opposed to the quality metrics of how well they’re accomplishing those tasks? The reader was reading the section on meaningful metrics, and we talk about focusing on the game, not the score. Yep, check.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 14, 2019

The Demand Metric 2013 Employee Engagement Survey concluded that organizations that have more than 50% employee engagement retain more than 80% of their customers. A clear business case for leaders to focus on building engaged teams across the business.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Lucille Ball – This failed actress was told to pursue another career. Their isn’t a hiring metric out there that measures drive, desire, or passion. In an effort to save money we spend less on recruiting and developing, whereas this expenditure done right reaps the greatest benefits financially in the long run.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2019

How does the organization intend to encourage my professional development and career growth? What advice can you offer on ways I can move forward in my career? Is our organization tracking metrics to drive performance or to empower people? How can I be more effective within my role?

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 21, 2025

The Metrics Paradox Too many organizations obsess over measuring everything while missing what truly matters. The strongest cultures thrive when leaders focus on meaningful interactions rather than arbitrary metrics. Your team watches what you do far more closely than they listen to what you say.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

They understand the importance of developing their team’s skills and capabilities, nurturing a culture of continuous learning and professional development. Developing a comprehensive search strategy is essential in ensuring that companies can procure the right individuals to lead their supply chain functions.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

Managers keep score of a range of business metrics: market share, revenue, profit margin, growth rate. But that same relentless brilliance that propels you in your career can take a toll on your teams, personal relationships, and even your health. In our personal lives, social media has us keeping score by likes and followers.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

They all speak of the quality of their talent as a key success metric…in fact, many of them will emphatically state that talent is their single biggest competitive advantage. In today’s post I’ll examine one of the most frequent offenders; “ Talent is our biggest asset.&#

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

A robust succession plan also builds a culture of continuous learning, where employees are engaged, curious, and motivated to develop their skills. Once critical roles are identified, the next step is to assess and develop potential successors. With succession planning , you’re not leaving your future to chance.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

This is a guest post by Joel Garfinkle, author of Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level. This is a particularly severe problem where managers are “results-oriented” while paying scant attention to developing the processes and people that bring them those results. Career management is your job, not his.

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2019

What matters to the average worker includes career opportunity, meaningful work, a balanced life, a fair wage, and being treated with respect—not increasing output. As a leader or manager, you have to attend to the goals of your board or bosses and to the career aspirations of your workers.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you believe you possess a fully developed competency in a section give yourself 10 points. They understand the need for talent and are effective at recruiting, deployment, development and retention of tier-one talent. Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.]

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Much has been written about the importance of measuring the impact of leadership development programs or systems. Over the years I’ve been looking for practical, meaningful, and effective metrics. Individual Development Plan (IDP) progress or completion. Leadership development training measures.

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Rich Gee Group

JUNE 10, 2024

Downsizing, salary cuts, and underinvestment in employee development can decrease morale, productivity, and overall company performance, ultimately impacting the bottom line. Discouraging Investments in Skills and Development By viewing employees as expenses, companies become reluctant to invest in training and development programs.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

The basic flaw in most arguments in support of CEO term limits stems from a belief that tenure is somehow a very relevant metric, and that there is some mystical optimum time to serve. And what if a company finds or is built by just that person…and loses them to a term limit?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

They must be relevant, meaningful, in alignment with cultural values, and tied to the right set of metrics. My experience is that bonuses are absolutely effective given this caveat: they must be structured and implemented properly. It is not the bonus that is right or wrong, but the manner in which it is rolled-out.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Even if you don’t find yourself having to frequently deal with extreme situations, it is often nothing more than normal dealings in the ordinary course of business that can place you at a nexus…Do you make your decision based upon the facts at hand and sound decisioning metrics, or do you let your emotions drive your decisions?

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 7, 2019

Article Published by Forbes I believe it’s wise for leaders to develop their organizational culture by being intentional about strengthening the bonds of connection and trust among leaders and employees. There are three steps I’ve developed throughout my coaching practice that can help build strong connections within your organization.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Even today, investing in more formalized measures of self-assessment can be crucial to developing your skills and shifting your attention towards goals that are truly aligned with your strengths. What Is a Career Self-Assessment Test? What Are Five Career Self-Assessments? O*NET Career Exploration Tools Released by the U.S.

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Rich Gee Group

APRIL 23, 2024

The insights below are derived from observing recent developments in the tech industry, especially in recruitment and job application processes. The technology is also extending to social media monitoring and interaction analyses, transforming qualitative attributes into quantifiable metrics.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

Not recognizing, developing, and rewarding talent is the fastest way I know of to drive talent out of your organization and directly into the hands of your competition. I want metrics that mirror experience. link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] the company is not leveraging its true talent base.

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