Career Advancement

JUNE 15, 2020

As a manager, take action now to make sure your organization maximizes the potential of all its people, helping them develop the most vital skills for their shifting roles and functions. The following are some of the key skills of the future workforce that employees across a broad range of organizations will need to develop.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

One of my mentors once cautioned me about treating people as furniture saying that “individuals are not inantimate objects to simply be moved around and discarded, but that people require a constant investment of time and money to develop to their full potential.&# Don’t hype…stop complaining…fix the problem.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Jonathan is a culture evangelist who focuses on leadership development behaviors and communications strategies. He has worked in a variety of verticals including Finance, Utilities, Tech, and Telecom. This is a guest post from Jonathan Green. His expertise is service models that provide world-class experience.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Mentoring is defined as career advice and guidance and sponsorship is advocacy. Usually sponsors have more senior positions than mentors, and it is their responsibility to advocate for an individual and pull them up the ranks to a top level position in the company. Your mentor might be able to help identify and facilitate this.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 13, 2012

Until… a good friend of mine in Finance (p.s. always have a good friend in Finance) batted the conversation my way. Yesterday I attended an important meeting with important people. I was not scheduled to speak. What’s our channel’s mission? How are our results? What’s our team best at? How have we improved?

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Career Advancement

DECEMBER 14, 2020

By developing the right mix of skills, you’ll have the confidence and assertiveness to thrive in a changing organizational environment. That means if you know how to mentor people, engage your team, be transparent with your staff, and guide your team through changes, you’ll be an asset in any organizational context. Coaching ability.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

I’m a huge advocate of refining initiatives that allow any level of talent to be developed to the maximum potential. Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. I’m just not a believer in attempting to label someone as a leader, and develop them as such when they are clearly not.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

I believe great leaders will mentor and coach subordinates for the purpose of identifying and developing other great leaders. While there is an element of truth in that statement if this is what you aspire to as a leader it constitutes a complete under-utilization of leadership responsibility.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The more partners, sympathizers, champions, allies, supporters, enablers, influencers, advisers, mentors, friends, and family you have helping you succeed, the faster you will achieve your goals. For sometime now believing in the power of mentor-ship. Its easy to ask for help when you first make a decision and develop it as a habit.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

In fact, there are some very bright people who believe you cannot become a good leader without developing a mastery for using the word no as evidenced by the following quote from Tony Blair: “The art of leadership is saying no , not saying yes.” It means you’re not teaching, mentoring, communicating, or leading.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

In today’s post I’ll quickly examine the merits of developing your listening skills. Listen to those that confront you, challenge you, stretch you, and develop you. The information they gain through questioning and listening lays the groundwork for reflection, making decisions and/or mentoring. What say you?

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Here are some key areas where women can help other women start taking the lead: Mentor Each Other. Whether it is listening, offering words of encouragement, or providing advice on how to start or grow a business, women can serve as mentors to guide other women to fulfill their own goals and shoot to the top.

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Leading Blog

JULY 17, 2019

Take care of your health and finances on a daily basis. Lisa Shumate is General Manager of Houston Public Media, Associate Vice President at the University of Houston, and also Executive Director of the Houston Public Media Foundation.She is a mentor in the University of Houston PropPel Leadership Development Program for high potential staff.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Take a sincere interest in the success of others, work on your likability factor, become adept at gaining commitment, develop your authority and control, and have access to things of value or scarcity and your influence with others will increase. Bottom line…Don’t manipulate for personal gain, rather facilitate for mutual benefit.

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Jackie had just accepted a promotion and was working to develop a grasp of whom she needed to influence in her organization. Her mentor helped her to map out the key people she needed to influence at this stage in her career, and this is what they came up with. Finance departments. Other colleagues.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2023

The challenge is most acute for small businesses, whose finances can be particularly vulnerable during crises. In this in-depth exploration, we will delve into tips and strategies to manage your small business finances during a crisis and emerge more resilient than ever.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

They develop leaders. I am a teacher, a counselor, a social worker, a mom, a minister, a finance advisor, and more. Today, Cheryl serves on boards, mentors CEOs, and invests in philanthropy. This drives me crazy. I know amazing people who work in the restaurant business. They feed people. They help kids get through high school.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you believe you possess a fully developed competency in a section give yourself 10 points. If you find that you lack skill sets and competencies in certain areas seek out mentors and coaches to shore-up your weaknesses, and more importantly, use your professional advisors to assist you in leveraging your strengths. myself that.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

UK's new finance reforms part of a 20-year plan to be world's next Silicon Valley. Is It Time to Get Back in the Mentoring Game? See more on Twitter. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. Boss’s Tip of the Week: Build on your strengths, but. by @JenniferVMiller.

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Rich Gee Group

APRIL 11, 2022

History: Developed and used by many consulting firms, it’s a mainstay of many HR departments to quantify and compartmentalize large swaths of employees. You want the high-potentials to perform better and the high-performers to develop their potential — so that means one-on-one coaching from you and your top talent people.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

A great example of this would be carving out time in your already too busy schedule to mentor someone in your organization with great potential. Clearly this endeavor will take time, and may not yield immediate results, but the payoff organizationally, relationally, culturally, and in terms of future contribution can be huge.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model. Where there is disagreement there is an inherent potential for growth and development. Thanks for taking the simple and taking it deeper than most of us pastors have time to develop. Thanks again.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2020

You will notice a steady decline in finances, returns, and the amount of work you are getting from your clients. Institutions teach many of these as part of the college curriculum or develop them through training and workshops. Here is a list of the few essential leadership skills all business owners should develop over time.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Leaders get too caught up in trivial things and don’t pay enough attention to leadership development. The lack of leadership development in most organizations is tragic. Smart leaders leverage influencers by involving them in modeling, mentoring and coaching. Play offense - Try desperately not to be on defense.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Thanks in advance for sharing… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] However, humility can also effectively (and less painfully) be learned through coaching and mentoring. The benefits of humility are most often learned through painful life experiences.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

All great leaders develop a sense of their blind-spots and weaknesses as they mature. I really appreciate Pete’s insights into the necessity of self-leadership and his honesty in admitting that this is his own area of struggle.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Great CEOs not only view their interactions with team members as coaching and mentoring opportunities, but also as learning opportunities for themselves. Who are your strongest leaders and how are you developing them to handle more responsibility? Are all your resources properly aligned and connected?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Why didn’t Folgers recognize the retail consumer demand for coffee and develop a Starbucks type business model? Does anyone on your executive team have a coach or mentor? Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming? How did Microsoft not keep Google at bay? Has your business embraced social media?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. If your mentoring and training programs don’t focus on the development of action oriented leaders then you are simply breeding obselesence, and utlimately…failure. When an organization stops learning they begin dying.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

When you develop the skill to transform negative conflict into creative tension is when you will begin to earn and hold the respect of even those individuals who don’t agree with your positions. I have always found that rapport is quickly developed when you listen, care, and attempt to help people succeed.

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CEO Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

2 - Spend time coaching, training and mentoring the entrepreneurs. VC can often: 1 - Provide more money and more follow on rounds of financing. Do not read this blog without first reading FTC notice - [link] About Me Name: Jim Estill Location: Long Island, NY My views on leadership, time management, personal development and life.

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Thin Difference

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Most everyone I meet likes the idea of having a mentor, especially younger leaders. While most people seem to want a mentor, it’s rare to find someone who actually has one. But it seldom seems to go beyond this stage to a defined mentoring relationship. I like the idea of a mentor, but I haven’t had the “Will you mentor me?”

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

With good mentoring, that new leader will be effective. I am a firm believer that even when certain traits are not present they can be acquired, developed and refined so long as one thing is present – the desire to do so. Inexperienced, yes — ineffective…that remains to be seen.

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Career Advancement

MAY 25, 2021

By developing the right mix of skills, you’ll have the confidence and assertiveness to thrive in a changing organizational environment. That means if you know how to mentor people, engage your team, be transparent with your staff, and guide your team through changes, you’ll be an asset in any organizational context. Coaching ability.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 28, 2011

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Five Minutes – a Key to Successful Time Management by Kevin Eikenberry on January 28, 2011 in Decision Making , Leadership , Learning , Manage Projects , Personal Development Every leader I talk to tells me they are busy.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? I could go on ad-nauseum with this line of thinking, but I’m sure you get the point by now.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

As my grandfather, my own mentor in management, would remind me, “delegate, but don’t abdicate.” For me, this is a positive development. As Executive Director, he is responsible for crafting Mali Health’s strategic vision, communications, programs, financing, and fundraising. Just ask my staff.

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