Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2016

In yesterday’s post , I shared eight things I know now, that I wish I had known when I had started my career. Being agile and ready to bend and adapt to changing circumstances is an absolutely vital skill set to develop if you want to have a career that’s as frustration free as possible. But not over the long run.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Afterall, we got this far in our careers by following our instincts, practicing what we learned, and applying appropriate business strategies. Over the course of a career, we gain a myriad of tools and tips on how to lead. Fashion optimistic environments where people feel engaged and where they trust one another.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

As an international speaker, mental health expert and author, I have been fortunate to travel around the globe throughout my career meeting with hundreds of business owners and entrepreneurs about mental wellness. So, how can you get started to ensuring that your employees have good mental health in the workplace?

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2019

Too many leaders approach complexity the wrong way—they push their people harder and harder and tackle problems one at a time over months, sometimes even years, and nearly always in a linear fashion. Grace : A Leader's Guide to a Better Us by John Baldoni. We call it grace, the disposition to do something more for others.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. By actually seeking out areas of potential conflict and proactively intervening in a fair and decisive fashion you will likely prevent certain conflicts from ever arising.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2012

Sadly, too many leaders believe their legacy is something to be constructed at the end of their careers in an attempt to preserve a testimony to their accomplishments and achievements. A real legacy is lived in the present, and as a result it endures the test of time in magnificent fashion.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 14, 2013

He went on to explain that this kind of feedback was confrontational and would only be accepted and processed by the recipient if it was delivered in an extremely caring fashion. He is the author of Shortcut to Prosperity: 10 Entrepreneurial Habits and a Roadmap For An Exceptional Career. He called it carefrontation.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

These employees have to be led in a systematic fashion to ensure that all efforts are channeled towards a common goal. On the other hand, an organization whose leadership has a proper communication flow ensures that the information reaches its destination in a timely and orderly fashion such that the message is not distorted in any way.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 24, 2012

If that isn’t bad enough, the use of vulgarity has pervaded the business world to the extent you’re hard pressed to get through the day without having to deal with it in some form or fashion. As a leader, is this acceptable to you? It is not to me.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 25, 2018

Once upon a time, you would often start and end your career at the same company, gradually moving up the ranks as you grew older. This is because jobs for new graduates rarely offer much in the way of a career ladder. Millennials are facing a radically different job market, though, and they know it. Provide a Modern Workspace.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2017

We’ve got a lot of old-fashioned ways of thinking and being around here… but you’re bigger than all that. I had a masters degree and most of a Ph.D., I was gung ho working really long hours, thinking strategically, and contributing in any way that I could. Stay the course. ” And so I did.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 21, 2013

These two findings reveal how men are more likely to make career decisions based mostly on their ability to do work that provides a sense of meaning, compared to women who tend to take into consideration personal/family responsibilities when making decisions about their career path.

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Leading Blog

JULY 26, 2021

The idea of curated customer experiences was something that had to be taught, and we chose candidates who wanted to learn and improve their careers. This may seem like an easy requirement for today’s workplace, but in the tattoo and piercing industry, it was a relatively unknown concept. Invest in strategic partnerships.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In the same fashion that being the source of gossip is destructive, so is furthering the damage by ratcheting up the rhetoric by participating in gossip. If someone comes to you about a problem with another person, immediately redirect that individual back to the person in question.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Describe every aspect of life you can think of: career, family, leisure, and so on. The progress occurred because I was always moving in an incremental fashion toward my vision. Taken together, the research made clear that writing down the things you want to accomplish increases your odds of success at doing those things.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2016

Yes, I did it the old fashioned way — I bought books and read them. It’s laughable by today’s standards, but, back in 1988, I spent countless hours in the New York City Library doing the research needed to complete my first book…and, it was that first book that launched my career.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

I am a huge fan of the benefits of professional development gained from good old-fashioned reading. What distinguishes members of one group from another rarely has anything to do with intellect, wealth, social pedigree, career standing, or other like pursuits…It has everything to do with desire. Thanks again for stopping by Dan.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 24, 2017

One of the most important questions you can ask your team (or yourself) is “What will it take to make 2017 the very best year of your career?” This can be done in email, or the old fashioned way. 2017 was the very best year of my career. A Fresh, Fast, and Fun Way to Focus Your Team (or Yourself).

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 12, 2023

The first was immaculately dressed in typical Barbie fashion, matching shirt, skirt, shoes, and pearls. Or you might learn of a significant opportunity that will help your career. The other doll had ripped clothes, magic marker on her face, and hair that looked like it had been gnawed by a cat.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

only to fail in miserable fashion. Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. They get the job done, they stand out from the crowd, they don’t need identifying – you know who they are. I’ve seen many an executive or consultant attempt to identify leaders with interviews, tests, evaluations, etc.,

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Ultimately, by holding yourself to the highest standards of character, you enable your employees the free will to make whatever decision that’s in their best interest, whether such a decision involves recommitting to you and the organization or even deciding to move on in their careers. The Ten Elements of Positive Performance Management.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 31, 2018

In uncharacteristic fashion, Lynne did not try to diagnose or fix a problem. Her previous career roles have included: clinical nurse specialist, sales manager, start-up entrepreneur, family-business owner, CEO, and president of a healthcare and library board. Instead of tapping her problem-solving prowess, she tapped into her empathy.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Popular business axioms and management theories are thrown around in such cavalier fashion these days that they can actually result in flawed decisioning. Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors?

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Ironically, a large number of them are written by individuals with little career success other than writing about career success). He then extrapolates the theory into the personal arena is surprising and enlightening fashion. Most tend to be lots of fluff and fancy words, with very little evidence or solid theory behind them.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 1, 2014

Development is important – it truly is where we learn most of our lessons in life. But so is training.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Yet there’s been nothing traditional in sales for the past 15 years thanks, in part, to women making it a successful career path. When it comes to tradition, the challenge today is how to motivate the next generation to work in old-fashioned (read: unsocial as in media and societal interactions) work cultures.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

link] Rob Hiliard Mike: Priceless and savvy advice – If only I’d had this insight early on in my career as a CEO I would have been spared a lot of pain and suffering. Experience, while a great teacher, can nonetheless result in a very costly education that rarely occurs in a timely fashion.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 30, 2011

Early in my career I worked for a company where the CEO loved to have meetings. You should have the discipline to use your facilities in an uninterrupted fashion. Meetings were held ad-nauseum about virtually every topic under the sun.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Social media expands my reach and influence and allows me help people I would not otherwise interact with in a meaningful fashion. Marshall Goldsmith : I could not possibly personally coach or speak to everybody who has an interest in my work. Mike Myatt : What’s been the most rewarding aspect of your work in the leadership field?

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 14, 2021

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack Growing up in the fashion industry, in 1980’s Paris, I forged an exciting global career and experienced, first hand, a diverse range of the most amazingly innovative fashion presentations ever. It was the dawn of … Continue reading →

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

I have seen and worked with several entrepreneurs and CEOs that jump on the fashion band wagon or immediately implement any idea that pops into their head with almost no analysis. This may be the first time in my career that I've been accused of taking a standard management approach.:) I do agree with your basic premise though.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Drawing on her twenty-year career as an advisor to the C-Suite, Davey shares real-world examples and practical tools you and your team can use to handle even the most contentious conflicts as allies?instead He does this by sharing the eleven shifts he made over the course of his long and successful leadership career. Blog Post ).

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2011

I’d say the better course, if you’re serious about your career, is to consider the office party an extension of your work. Resist the urge to make a fashion statement. View it as a great networking opportunity and act accordingly. Think ahead of time about who you’d like to meet – your boss’s boss?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

In Covey’s classic illustration below, you’ll find a simple chart to use as your guide. Another part of the art and science of delegation is understanding how to effectively delegate to others in a fashion that sets them up for success and not failure.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 3, 2020

Julie Winkle Giulioni contributed Want Employees to Own Their Career Development? Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared Time Management Strategies & Prioritizing. Erik Samdahl of i4cp shared Empowering Female Talent by Promoting Career Development. Try These 2 Things. Connect with Erik on Twitter at @i4cp.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

If you’re still on the fence, I would request you try and answer the following question: If you can engage those with whom you conduct business, or otherwise desire to interact with in a meaningful and value added fashion why wouldn’t you do so? Thoughts? Also, It seems like a ton of time needs to be devoted to it all.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

If you are the owner of a women’s clothing line or the Editor in Chief of a woman’s fashion publication and you are interested in getting on The Early Show to discuss spring and summer fashion trends, tailor your pitch to meet the news of that specific audience – (educated, sophisticated, female oriented).

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