Leading Blog

AUGUST 19, 2024

When I looked back into history to track the origins of some of the everyday innovations we take for granted today, I found that every inventor tended to embody some or all of these same traits. Further, the approach taken early in a career can help or hinder in the future, and that goes for any field. Spitz immigrated to the U.S.

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Career Advancement

MAY 10, 2021

Striving to be a top performer, not only doing what is expected but taking on higher-level projects and responsibilities whenever possible. State specific, concrete project outcomes, illustrating what your successes mean for the company. Volunteer for more challenging projects that help you meet the personal goals you’ve set.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I guide them to understand that engagement, empowerment, and an innovative work culture are key to loyalty and performance. Offer Challenging Projects Top performers thrive on challenge and innovation. Encourage Professional Growth Leaders must facilitate opportunities for career advancement to retain top talent.

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Career Advancement

AUGUST 17, 2020

In every career path, there’s a level at which leadership skills and visibility play a much stronger role in promotions than job skills. Find out what’s most important to your boss as well as your boss’s boss, and seek out opportunities to volunteer for those projects. Resourceful” and “innovative” topped the list.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2020

Embarking on a journey of self-reflection and discovery, he forged a path to revolutionize his leadership and transform his career trajectory. It wasn't until Doug worked through these six steps that he was able to lift his leadership to heights that ultimately brought him career success, joy, and fulfillment. Friedman and Alyssa F.

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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. Brian Sooy of Lead Change Group offers Positive Communication Leads to a Culture of Innovation. Managing Through Career and Life Changes. Do you encourage innovation? Jennifer V.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 13, 2023

Stop that Credit Stealer and Get the Recognition You Deserve “I was in a meeting the other day, and one of the executives thanked my boss for the success of a project I’ve been working on all year. The really infuriating thing is that she had NOTHING to do with that project. And you know what she said next? Thank you.

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 30, 2024

For example, two team members may disagree on who the best college basketball team is… or the best approach to a project. In fact, healthy disagreements can foster creativity and innovation by bringing diverse ideas to the table. For example, imagine two team members are in conflict over the allocation of resources for a project.

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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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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

With the finish line in sight, you can innovate without fear, tossing out time-saving hacks like confetti. We can’t tell you how many times employees have come to us feeling overloaded at work, and when we encourage them to talk to their boss, the hours the employee works or the level of effort they give to a project shock their boss.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

a middle manager, frustrated in his current role, overlooks his long career of exciting challenges and developmental experiences. Every ounce of energy they spend on a project is a gift. Gratitude is missing when…. a team member resents the promotion of a coworker, and overlooks all the ways he has grown himself in the past year.

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Rich Gee Group

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In the journey of your career, the phrase "Put on your big-boy pants" (or big-girl pants) is more than just a call to maturity; it's an invitation to step into the realm of personal growth and professional excellence. Let's break it down: Pushing Yourself Beyond Comfort Why It's Crucial : Comfort zones are career stagnation in disguise.

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Decker Communication

MARCH 27, 2025

When a senior leader entered the all-hands meeting at a major pharmaceutical company, he faced a room of scientists whose research project had just been shelved after two years of work. Rather, they were led by individuals who excelled at contextualizing setbacks within larger innovation narratives.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 24, 2012

Turn Innovation Inward. Innovation continues to be a hot topic, and rightly so. Few things can change the course of a project, career, company, category, or industry like successful efforts in innovation. Don’t Wish for Change – Demand It. So, how do we get leaders to change – we demand it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

He’d taken on several cross-functional projects and nailed those too. The more people you have thinking strategically, even at the frontlines, the more innovative and dynamic your company will be. John’s frustration had turned to exacerbation. He’d done everything he could to position himself for the next promotion.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

An Overview on the Importance of Change : While there is little debate that the successful implementation of change can create an extreme competitive advantage, it is not well understood that the lack of doing so can send a company (or an individual’s career) into a death spiral. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 13, 2013

At Facebook, allegiance to the hacker way permeates every aspect of the business, from product innovation to organizational structure to management and training. 2) Offer your employees a nontraditional career path that is based on their contributions and value-based behaviors, and not on their age or credentials.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

How Big Things Get Done : The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner (Currency, 2023) Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant, new reality. These are wonderful stories.

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Mills Scofield

MAY 29, 2013

Victor’s Leap Year Project “Masters Program” is the wave of the future. Their influence was so great that I wanted my career path to follow their footsteps. My work with students and the building project made me curious about further education in business, design, and social impact.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 20, 2015

Fifteen years ago, I reinvented myself and started a new career in faith-based social services. I have had the privilege of building innovative social service programs for at-risk children and families. This was the first of three bikes that have become bicycle generators for the KidPower2015 project. Children of Inmates, Inc.,

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2021

Successful leaders are not “just lucky”, even when their career may have some seemingly coincidental moments. When it is time for a project or experiment to be laid to rest, all those who worked on it have a chance to discuss what they learned, gained, and regretted from the whole process. They worked hard to get lucky.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

You’ll want to watch the interview, particularly if you, or someone you care about, feel called to take on a new challenge, or are particularly stuck or stagnating in your career. The first decade of my career (and all my formal education) was about leadership development and communication. Their questions can lead to innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2019

Employee engagement is defined as an active state related to productivity and innovation. Engaged employees are more innovative and take the success of the company personally. Engaged employees can be described as being fully immersed in and enthusiastic about their work. Employee Engagement differs from employee satisfaction.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Finally, he shows how collaboration, innovation, intellectual curiosity, storytelling, and creating change that lasts, helped him reach his goals. Further, to support innovative, cross-disciplinary thinking, I set a second ground rule: at the start, we don’t criticize ideas. Innovation. He then links them together with courage.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In our research on innovation and psychological safety, 67% of employees said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” ” It’s tricky to be quick and clever in a scene like that. Ask your team what they love to do most and look for creative ways to use their gifts.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 25, 2013

How many times in your career have you witnessed someone say, “that’s impossible – it simply can’t be done.” Whenever I see leaders focus on maintenance over innovation, I see people who have unnecessarily drawn the line of impossibility in the sand. By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Do employees feel that their boss honors their career aspirations, building needed skills that serve their organization now and in the future? Joel Garfinkle , from Career Advancement Blog , says “ Improve Your Perception: A reputation that took decades to build can be threatened by a single event. Jennifer V.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Regardless of where you are in your life and your career, I can promise you one thing; you will consistently be faced with challenges and obstacles along the way. Anyone who has ever launched a new initiative understands the inevitability of running into numerous barriers over the life-cycle of any project. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

He highlighted the need for change as the main prerequisite of a successful transformation; being ex-McKinsey and a public official before this current role, Boris’s whole career revolved around extensive transformation processes. First of all, there is a follow-up period to ensure a successful outcome.

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Career Advancement

APRIL 27, 2020

Lily, who worked in an architecture firm, felt her career was stagnating. Even though others continued advancing in their careers, she couldn’t seem to rise above the level she was at. Do they frequently introduce innovative ideas at meetings? She’d believed she was a rising star, landing promotion after promotion , until—WHAM!—she

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In survey after survey, year after year, employees express their dissatisfaction with how they are being supported in their careers. What IF… you could more easily and frequently engage in the career development. What IF… you could more easily and frequently engage in the career development. that must get done?

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Dana explains: “ While many of us experience challenges with the Imposter Syndrome earlier in our careers, high stakes jobs bring on imposter feelings with ferocity. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared 5 Tips for Bragging at Work—without Sounding Like You’re Bragging. Find Dana on Twitter at @DanaTheus. Productivity.

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

He couldn’t just shrug off his existing responsibilities, but he didn’t want to give up the exciting new projects he’d taken on. Just as you’re working to step into a higher-level career, some of your subordinates might be itching to take on new responsibilities, too. Tackle your passion projects at times of peak energy.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2012

Here are a selection of tweets from June 2012 that you might have missed: Engines of Innovation by @wallybock. Project M: Thinking Wrong, Doing Right | Metropolis Magazine. SonyaShelton: SAP's CIO: You're Putting Your Executive Career at Risk if You're Not Social - Forbes. Do you make these body language mistakes ? Help us grow!

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HR Digest

JULY 2, 2023

Are you an HR professional looking to take your career to the next level? From honing your technical expertise to cultivating essential soft skills, we’ll explore the key areas that can propel your career forward. So, let’s dive into the key areas you should focus on to advance your HR career.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Once upon a time the portfolio career was seen as pretty sexy and came to typify the “free agent nation” spoken about by Dan Pink way back in 2001. The post The Rise In Portfolio Careers first appeared on The Horizons Tracker. It provides loans of up to €100 billion to member states.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

To this day I’m amazed at how many CEOs still own tasks, roles, projects, and responsibilities that should be delegated to others. Kicking the bird out of the nest and saying go fly with the project is short sighted and very weak leadership. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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