N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, leaders frequently face various tactical and operational challenges. When it comes to managing day-to-day operations and responding to unforeseen problems, the frenetic pace of the immediate can become a zone of comfort.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 5, 2022

No matter which industry your organization operates it, there’s a pretty high chance that you’re grappling with how to motivate and engage your employees in the daily work they do. This challenge has manifested itself in various ways – from the Great Resignation to more recently the notion of quiet quitting.

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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

You need every single brain cell operating on full cylinder at times like these, not censored with fear of making mistakes. Career & Learning Communication dealing with ambiguity dealing with uncertainty leading your team through change' Envision Alternative Scenarios. ” That’s seldom true. Benchmark externally.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

These changes necessitate a keen understanding of the current landscape to successfully navigate the complexities and ensure organizations’ continued operations and survival. They must maintain transparent communication on career progression and potential succession strategies.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The Chief Operating Officer is an organization’s powerhouse, ensuring every process and experience in your business runs like a well-oiled machine. This key executive monitors daily operations, ensuring efficient and effective methods. Tech Savviness: Leveraging technology to boost operational efficiency.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

Career Development and Organizational Growth Participating in a junior advisory board is not only a prestigious role for millennials , but also a valuable addition to their professional portfolio.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 19, 2014

Team leaders operate under constant pressure- up-down-and sideways- coupled with limited control. Career & Learning Energy & Engagement frontline leaders HBR leadership mistakes mistakes team leaders' If I had my life to live over again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. Tallulah Bankhead. Who’s in?

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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. Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve experienced that plenty of times in my career, at one moment preaching about a “BHAG” – the Big, Hairy Audacious Goal – and just a few moments later drilling down and coming to terms on a missed quarterly target) . Unrealistic budgets and operational goals are morale (and job) killers.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

A- Authenticity: Identify your values, operating principles and define your brand. Authenticity & Transparency Career & Learning goal setting visualizing success' T- Transformation : Identify who or what will be transformed as a result of your efforts. Ask yourself: What does success look like? goals are vital.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2014

Unfortunately, diving deep into operational details carries a heavy opportunity cost. Career & Learning big mistakes leadership mistakes mistakes' I have seen this failure happen with highly skilled technical professionals. You have less energy to think about strategy. That means less time to think about developing your people.

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General Leadership

MAY 7, 2014

Consider the following: If EQ is to us, what an engine is to a car – then self-regulation is the drive train that powers how we operate. “…self-regulation is the drive train that powers how we operate…” Our capacity for self-regulation acts in the same way. Lose situational awareness. Lose opportunity.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Operational Excellence is a systematic approach to improving business processes and performance. Employee Empowerment: A core aspect of operational excellence is empowering employees to contribute to continuous improvement. Innovation Opportunities: Operational excellence involves embracing innovation.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 6, 2023

But we’re gonna start with a conversation about strategy and tactics, because leaders and managers can often struggle with the difference between strategy and tactics or vision and operations. The trail ahead, to the exclusion of the operational and management realities that you face today, that is the ground beneath your feet.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In our research for Courageous Cultures , 67 percent of respondents said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” It’s easy for your team to get stuck in old ways of doing things, particularly if they think that’s what you want. Teach your team to be curious and to look for alternative solutions. “I

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2020

Arjan van Weele , a Professor of Purchasing and Supply Management living in the Netherlands , discusses his perspective on leadership competencies that apply for any leader, no matter where you are within your career journey. Interview Summary. JH: The Fourth Industrial Revolution brings unique and new dynamics when it comes to leading.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Narrowly defining leadership restricts innovation by excluding countless points of view and modes of operating. When leaders are pressured into leadership styles that go against their natural way of operating, they are set up for failure. Focusing solely on skill development Early in my career, I worked as a corporate trainer.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

There was one time in my career where I was absolutely certain that my team didn’t like me. And, fourteen out of fourteen had been in retail sales for their entire careers. The Associate Director of Operations on the team, “Greg” was an absolute rock star and was the obvious successor for that role.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

This process helps organizations align their current and future business goals, promotes employee career development, and ensures smooth leadership transitions. This groundwork helps to minimize disruption during the transition period, ensuring business operations continue seamlessly.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Balances day-to-day operations with a longer term view. Career & Learning Communication build your own competency model competency model team activities you can do yourself' Is an artful coach and works to draw out the best solutions from the team. A Legacy Mindset. Invests deeply in developing her leadership team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 24, 2022

When I think of the most courageous leaders I’ve worked with over my career, it’s not the BIG decisions they made or the SINGLE TIME they made the tough call that created a legacy of courage. Question that decision that just doesn’t make sense? Raise your hand to try something new? Ask for feedback?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 11, 2021

A former marine, Virg is an absolute expert in creating an operating cadence to build a high-performing team. What an operating cadence is (and why it matters). Best practices for establishing your own operating cadence. How to build a high-performing team through an effective operating cadence. ” Your turn.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 30, 2020

We are creatures of habit and operate much of the time on autopilot. We reflexively seek confirmation of what we expect to see, feel, or think; to protect our egos; and to strive for cohesiveness of our personal stories of how our world works. All of that inhibits Exploration Excellence.

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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. The S Curve of Employee Growth.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 21, 2024

Advancing your career in hospitality management is about more than just moving up the ranks—it’s about continuously growing and adapting in a dynamic industry. Whether you’re in Tennessee or anywhere else, success in this field requires a blend of experience, education, and smart career moves.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

There was one time in my career where I was absolutely certain that my team didn’t like me. And, fourteen out of fourteen had been in retail sales for their entire careers. The Associate Director of Operations on the team, “Greg” was an absolute rock star and was the obvious successor for that role.

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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? (And if you haven’t, it could be time you need to!)

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

When the business environment in which leaders and organizations must operate has changed considerably. Or clogged, as most successor candidates do not perceive the significant opportunity for career progression at their companies. Design leadership career paths around a few diversified, not targeted, experience requirements.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

With this post I’m pleased start a 5-part series that outlines 25 timeless leadership lessons – lessons that I’ve applied successfully during my 30+ year career as a leader and businessman. In my career I have observed that a lot of managers like to stay in the middle of a management “spectrum”. Be Ever the Statesman.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 23, 2020

Where past generations tended to pursue career options for more practical reasons (e.g., Nathan is also a military veteran, having served with the Army Special Operations in Operation Iraqi Freedom. to earn a living), young professionals instinctively desire to make a difference through their work.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I’ve written about these and other crucial tools for helping leaders improve relationships, gain executive presence and succeed in my new book, The Heart of a Leader: 52 Emotional Intelligence Insights to Advance Your Career. She is also author of The Heart of a Leader: 52 Emotional Intelligence Insights to Advance Your Career.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We’re changing jobs more than ever and pursuing multiple careers and projects simultaneously. Take a moment to consider how many jobs you’ve had and how many careers you’re yet to embark upon? Many workers now function like Apps on a smartphone, sitting pretty on top of a company’s operating system (OS). Vital Ingredients.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2023

Admiral McRaven was honored to receive this honor in 2011 when he took charge of the United States Special Operations Command. When McRaven retired in 2014, he had 37 years as a Navy SEAL under his belt, leading men and women at every level of the special operations community.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

Look in the mirror and own your natural-born strengths and fix any real or perceived career-limiting deficiencies. The author will inspire readers to examine the effectiveness of their current strategies, using the model that has served him in his distinguished career. Dig deeper. The outcome was phenomenal.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Uncommon Greatness is the key many leaders have been searching for their entire career. A shining testament to the value of being an authentic leader and never sacrificing your integrity, Lutoff-Perlo details the ins and outs of her extraordinary 40-year career. Former Vice President of High Performance Leadership at Chick-fil-A, Inc.,

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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. Step 4: Operations alignment. Step 2: Culture alignment. Step 3: Strategy alignment. And why is that?

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