N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 15, 2024

Strong leadership and strategic acumen are crucial, as the president must inspire and align various stakeholders—faculty, staff, students, alumni, and the broader community—toward a common goal and vision for the institution’s future. Recognizing when it’s time for a leadership change can be a key driver for this process.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 15, 2025

Their significance extends beyond simply checking regulatory boxes; evaluations offer a nuanced perspective into board composition, performance, corporate culture, and risk management. Self-assessments bring personal introspection to the forefront, while peer evaluations add depth through candid critiques of leadership style and teamwork.

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Chartered Management Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2024

I’ve given evidence to a House of Lords select committee. Jenna Jenkins CMgr FCMI is senior operations manager at Nationwide Building Society. Article Our extensive range of articles are designed to keep you in the loop with all the latest management and leadership best practice, research and news.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Leadership today seems to be all too often confused with playing a game of dodgeball. We have too many people in leadership positions who can’t or won’t accept responsibility for anything. Put simply, leadership is about accountability, and not only being willing to take the hit, but also being capable of surviving the hit.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2023 curated just for you. The Leap to Leader : How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership by Adam Bryant The chasm separating managers from leaders is widening as the skills required to be an effective leader grow in number and complexity.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 9, 2012

I’ve recently had the opportunity to help design a brand-new open-enrollment Woman’s Leadership Development Program to be offered through the University of New Hampshire’s Executive Development Program. Here are 10 Elements of a Great Woman’s Leadership Development Program: 1. Start with a solid research foundation.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 3, 2012

This post was first published in SmartBlog on Leadership on 11/29/2012: Have you ever noticed that committees or management teams tend to spend way too much time in meetings endlessly debating the most unimportant or mundane topics, while at the same time, not enough time on the most important or strategic issues?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 2, 2014

One school of thought feels that cybersecurity is the responsibility of the entire board and another believes its rightful place is in the hands of the risk committee. But what if the board does not have a risk committee? Someone who understands enterprise technology systems and has managed decisions relating to them.

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Rich Gee Group

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Management teams are always looking at the bottom linealways. But management will notice if youve been pushing papers the same way for the last five years or youve settled into a routine that doesnt push your boundaries. Even if youre producing results, new leadership might look for fresh talent to align with their new vision.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 28, 2013

An earlier post listed the 7 Principles of Leadership Development in no specific order of importance : Necessary Skilled-Knowledge. Education for Leadership. Strategy for Leadership Development. Exploring lessons learned and how an organization and I developed a leadership development process for high potential employees.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 19, 2011

A colleague and I recently talked about the challenge of selecting participants for leadership development programs. Use these guidelines (1-7) for participant selection for leadership development programs, and you’ll ensure that the right person gets the right development at the right time. Use 8-10 to waste your time and resources.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 16, 2011

That moment when all of what you’ve put into your leadership comes to fruition. They have a sphere within which they can make decisions as opposed to a committee-based or team-based approach where there’s a bunch of people who kind of share the decision. It’s the moment of truth.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Posted in Character Based Leader Book Check out this great interview with Author Jennifer Miller: Chapter Title: “Trust Touchstones” Jennifer Miller Managing Partner, SkillSource Since the age of seven when she became a big sister for the first time, Jennifer V. Miller has been living a life of character-based leadership.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 24, 2013

“The truth is that no one factor makes a company admirable; but if you were forced to pick the one that makes the most difference, you’d pick leadership.”. When it comes to leadership development, the commitment of the CEO and top dogs is the #1 most important success factor. Thomas Stewart. How can this be?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

To be recognized on the 2020 Top CHRO List, the words leadership, team, succession, purpose, culture, governance, and diversity are not just buzzwords – they represent who a CHRO is, what they believe, and where they work every day. and a development manager at Oracle Corp. “What makes a great CHRO, great? CHRO for HSBC.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 6, 2014

Read my latest article over at About.com Management and Leadership to get my take on fun at work. fun at work fun committees workplace fun' Work should be challenging, engaging, energizing, and maybe even enjoyable (at least more often than not). But should work be “fun”?

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 19, 2011

With all due respect to Google, Zappos, and these guys , here are 11 real-life examples I’ve seen managers try to force their employees to lighten up and have some “fun” at work: 1. Creation of a “fun committee”. BTW, I’ve seen managers pick these committees….it’s it’s usually payback for something bad they’ve done.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 16, 2011

Then you get a committee on snakes, and then you discuss it for a couple of years. In a priceless 1988 interview with Fortune Magazine, Ross Perot boldly confronted General Motors’ corporate culture. He said, “At GM, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is go hire a consultant on snakes.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 16, 2017

If you find yourself on a dysfunctional team, or just want to get a new team off to a great start, ask yourself the following three questions from Susan Mazza of Random Acts of Leadership. You may discover that your team is nothing more than a committee in disguise. Building product is not about having a large team to manage.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Not surprising, I found that one of the most significant drivers of employee engagement is One’s Immediate Manager and all aspects that make up that relationship between a manager and his or her employees, that is, the bond that is created by effective leaders with those they lead.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Shortly after joining a new church, the council president enthusiastically revealed that I (Karin) was part of their “volunteer leadership succession plan.” How to Recruit Volunteer Leaders Leadership is leadership—whether you work in a volunteer organization or a corporation. Or no one asked them to serve.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The management team had done many of the right things in getting the planning program off of the ground – training, governance and executive oversight were all in place. The executive steering committee that was formed wasn’t functioning properly, either.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The post is prompted by a conversation I had last week with a small group of leaders in one of our Next Level Leadership® group coaching cohorts. If you want to be promoted to VP, let key senior leaders, including your managing executive, know that that’s your goal. Executive level promotion decisions are typically made by committee.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2021

The precise difference between managers and leaders has been a topic of discussion in the leadership community for many decades, and the conversations often reveal a clear preference for the seemingly sexier task of leadership over the bean-counting that so often encompasses managerial administration. Overvaluing leadership.

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Chart Your Course

MARCH 1, 2013

Here is a good article on the importance of employee appreciation by Deanna Hartley that appeared in Talent Management. a company that delivers comprehensive incentive management services, and member of The IRF Research Committee. Appreciating Employees Can Do Wonders for Engagement, ROI. Deanna Hartley.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 25, 2010

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit Real Dysfunction Today, Hidden in Plain Sight Published by Michael Lee Stallard on August 25, 2010 04:42 pm under Uncategorized Many individuals and organizations today are in a funk. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

I also believe that if HR is solely charged with the recruiting efforts for senior management and executive level positions you’ll end-up with a very weak management and leadership team. Rather in most instances, I believe HR should be a compliance, training and risk management function.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This tendency is problematic if you are a manager. Our account managers liked candidates who were versatile and had broad knowledge. The Executive Committee and I took particular notice of partners who appreciated skills they themselves did not have. But the majority of the time, you want employees to utilize their best skills.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 16, 2012

In many organizations and occupations, “management by walking around” and micromanagement have fell by the wayside, either by design or out of necessity. The search committee and the Dean told me they were looking for a self-starter that could work with a high degree of autonomy. That’s leadership 101, right?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 27, 2014

This post was first published in SmartBlog on Leadership January 23, 2014. I recently asked readers to submit their burning leadership development questions. This one from Susan Broussard (permission to use full name): “We have started a leadership development program among the top performers in our company.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 23, 2023

Whether you’re in a formal leadership position or are participating on a committee, in a meeting, or on a project team, you have a role to play. You can help everyone have a chance to speak and be heard at work, whether you’re in charge of that scenario or not.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Many top executive feel sidelined by the hands-off approach, which has implicitly been introduced by a rapidly changing managerial environment – companies have simply become over managed and under led. responsibility, creativity, fun of being actively at the company’s steering wheel). The Way Forward.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 7, 2012

There may come times when you are placed in leadership roles. When Woodward and Bernstein first got wind of a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Water Office Complex, they smelled something fishy. Use these three tidbits of wisdom in cultivating your leadership role. See more of their wisdom here.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 6, 2013

The refinery was in search of one lucky individual to navigate the troubled waters between management, the union, and the hourly associates. To put it mildly, there wouldn’t be a welcome committee to greet me on my first day. Jim Leighton teams culture leadership' Do you desire to lead a culture of positivity and growth?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 14, 2018

“What is a committee? You just finished reading Leadership Inspirations - Committees ! The post Leadership Inspirations – Committees appeared first on StrategyDriven. A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.” ” Richard Long Harkness (1907 – 1977).

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

AUGUST 27, 2012

Chris, the leader of the planning committee for the next District Managers Meeting, sent an email to the company’s leadership team describing two possible venues. It’s not clear which decisions are to be made by the planning committee and which by the leadership team. Emails flew around as people weighed in.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

With that in mind, board recruitment should be approached from the angle of purpose-driven leadership, which can drive organizations to nominate Board Directors who bring new skills and experiences to strengthen the board’s overall composition. Why Is Leading With Purpose Important to Board Recruitment?

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