N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

To meet these challenges, we leverage our healthcare sector knowledge and a rigorously developed methodology that goes beyond reviewing a candidates CV. Linking Effective Leadership to Measurable Patient Outcomes The correlation between strong leadership and patient outcomes is well-documented.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 14, 2025

While 68% of executives dismiss AI’s impact, artificial intelligence already executes core management functions with unprecedented efficiency. Organizations implementing AI management tools eliminate mid-level leadership positions at accelerating rates, with projections indicating 37% of current management roles become obsolete by 2026.

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Emotional Intelligence Scenario Planning Leadership Styles Metrics 148

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Posted in Leadership Development Team Dynamics “The key to sustained happiness, health, and longevity is flexibility.” –Ev Duran There is a parable here in Afghanistan about a mule and a well that speaks to the value of flexibility in our lives. He and his wife, Stacy, enjoy life with their daughter and son in California.

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Emotional Intelligence Document Leadership Development Mentor 298

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

To further document empathy’s advantages at work, the Global Empathy Index, published in the Harvard Business Review , examined data from employee’s responses to questions ranging from a CEO’s approval ranking to their own happiness level in their job. It’s a quality that shapes our quest to meet unmet needs of customers.

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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. Foresight and proactive management must command the planning process.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Don’t say you invested in developing your team; instead share that three of your team members were promoted. Nothing impresses me more than when employees come to their review with a spot-on list of what they could have done better, areas for development, and how I can help. Write Down Where You Need to Improve.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Conversely, poorly managed transitions invite uncertainty that can erode employee morale, undermine client trust, and weaken competitive advantage. This framework involves a systematic approachidentifying leadership gaps, assessing candidate readiness, designing tailored development plans, and positioning top talent to assume critical roles.

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CEO Planning Succession Long-term 195

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Then jointly create a development plan with a specific timeline. Make sure in these cases that you document all the conversations, so you have established a pattern of behavior and the steps taken to address the situation, and the employee’s failure to change. And answering yes gives you permission to share your feedback.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Nearly every office has gone digital, but many still live in the dark ages when it comes to protecting their documents. Here are the top tricks to protect your digital documents: 1. Outsource Technology Management. While you may be a pro at problem-solving or managing a team, computers may not be your specialty.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A few years ago, I wrote “Avoid These Infuriating Phrases in End-of-Year Feedback” to encourage managers to stop making stupid comments when giving a performance review. This heartfelt post came from years of listening to high-performing employees vent their frustrations about the stupid things their managers said.

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Rich Gee Group

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Once the novelty fades, you risk cruising on autopilot, and thats where your personal development stalls. Have the Hard Conversation: Talk to your manager or team lead and be straight-up about needing more challenging tasks. Life is too short to spend your working hours tiptoeing around an impossible manager. Take action: 1.

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Short-term Micromanagement Webinar Self-aware 195

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Therefore, offering training and development options that make your staff members feel seen, heard, and valued is essential. Here are some things you can do to use training and development opportunities to motivate your staff. . Employee development helps to ensure that everyone is on board with your practices and procedures.

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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. Collaboration tools like virtual whiteboards or shared documents can facilitate a more interactive and engaging coaching experience.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Let me make this as simple as I can; managing expectations is gamesmanship – aligning them is leadership. Leaders who deliver on promises quickly rise to the top, and those that fail to develop this skill won’t survive long.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 21, 2023

T OO MANY grantors feel that just preparing the documents for the passing on of the wealth — such as setting up a trust — is the end of the process. Grantors need to share what they’ve learned about managing wealth. The way I like to describe wealth management and transfer is that it’s like running a relay race.

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Leading Blog

MAY 21, 2021

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. Lesson: A profitable company may be chronically short of cash.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 26, 2019

Often, if they have a strategic focus, it resides in the minds of the principal actors in the business, rarely shared and certainly not captured anywhere in a document. It is a lost art to make them meaningful and valuable to the process of leading and managing any organisation. Performance Management. Annual Planning.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Because value chains are independent of existing organizational structures, staff and work locations, they are less intimidating to the management and staff that have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. To close, once the value chains are defined for a business, each core business activity should be thoroughly documented.

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 14, 2021

How do you determine your personal-professional development goals? . As a manager , do you ask the people on your teams to identify personal-professional development goals? . Does your performance appraisal ask you to list some personal-professional development goals? . How did I develop or gain those skills/talents?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. The checks and balances our founders developed created a firewall against passionate governing and called for cooperation to get things done. The founders anticipated passion but they also established a legacy of compromise in the creation of the document itself.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The most popular post on this blog continues to be one of my first posts written in 2008 called How to Write a Great Individual Development Plan (IDP). It’s important to acknowledge strengths in a development discussion as they often can be used to help overcome development needs.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Managing people is easier when we know what we are doing and we are doing it in a certain way. It’s much easier and less frustrating to manage by reducing errors than to try to boost insights. Document all sources. In short, we like the status quo. Insights can change how we relate to each other and that creates the unexpected.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Because documents are text-searchable with OCR processing, individuals can use their personal information to access relevant information. Some of the information you can use to access information in a system that utilises OCR processing include the name of documents, reference numbers, and addresses. IMPROVED CUSTOMER SERVICE.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

Loaded down with execution work, most companies today typically develop a few ideas handed down from the top, and focus on selling them. To avoid leaks, Apple’s product development takes place in extreme secrecy. Employees not directly involved in the development are kept in the dark. Not much has changed at Apple since Jobs.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In my work coaching senior executives, I’ve documented a concerning pattern: leaders often remain blind to the behaviors that prompt their most valuable employees to quietly plan their exits. Your high performers hunger for development, yet you serve them a steady diet of criticism.

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Leadership Styles Leadership Micromanagement Letter 113

HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2023

Employee leave and absence management can be a complex and challenging process for many organizations. Managing workplace leave and absences can have significant impacts on productivity , staffing, and overall business operations. Why is managing employee leave and absence important?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2014

An organizational constitution is a formal document that states the company’s guiding principles and behaviors.” You can manage attitudes but you can manage behaviors. Edmonds then explains how to manage, measure, and coach others to embrace the organizational constitution. Management'

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Management guru and prolific author, Patrick Lencioni, wrote about the three characteristics of an ideal team player – hungry, smart, and humble. Learn more at jenniferkahnweiler.com. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Use collaborative tools that make meetings efficient—shared documents, real-time polls, and video conferencing features that enhance participation. Set a time limit, stick to it, and watch as your team becomes more engaged, knowing their time is being respected. Use Technology to Your Advantage It’s 2024, not 1995.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 24, 2019

How long does it take for our managers and staff to implement this process? Do they help us coach, mentor, and develop our people? Does management use performance appraisals to judge, blame, and rate individuals on their performance when instead, they need to be focused on how the system performs?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Companies that invest in board development programs equip their directors with the knowledge and skills necessary to excel, creating an environment where clear expectations, ethical guidelines, and open communication channels unite board members under a shared purpose.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

They know the ins and outs of the business, and can help your organization traverse the landscape and develop new products or services that can help you increase your market share. The project’s team is responsible for keeping the document up to date. These people are called subject matter experts (SME).

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Competitive Advantage Types of Knowledge Document Knowledge Management 212

Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

I recently asked readers to submit their burning leadership development questions. There was also a room full of talent management practitioners, so it was a lively dialog. For example, if you are looking to expand into a new market, are your succession and development discussions aligned towards achieving that goal?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 11, 2013

Last week I wrote about a 2003 study conducting by the Learning and Development Roundtable that found that managers who are very effective at employee development can outperform their peers by up to 25%. Here’s an abbreviated version: A CEO was getting very frustrated with one of his senior managers. But maybe not.

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CEO Goal Learning-by-Doing Executive Coaching 256

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 2, 2013

In the life cycle of management development, we tend to view this as “supervision 101.” Instead, they often develop all kind of ways to work around. They develop the ability to think strategically, lead change, make a great presentation and other executive skills, but it’s like they skipped class when this skill was taught.

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How To Follow-up Learning-by-Doing Commitment 279

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 15, 2021

To better manage and understand yourself and work, you need to seek different patterns. Working with a management team from a health care organization, we used this process early in the covid19 pandemic to understand and look for patterns in the rapid changes. I gathered all the responses and shared them with the management team.

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Management After Action Review Teamwork Health Care 154

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 12, 2021

When I developed the NOISE analysis is was to present a solution-focused alternative to SWOT. Here is the template we developed. NOISE analysis skill/talent development template. Within the company, 106 employees complete this NOISE skill/talent document. Skill and Talent NOISE Analysis.

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