Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Welcome to the November Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, customer service, development, engagement, and more. This one suggestion will help you reduce the volume in your inbox and free up time for more important needs.”

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Workers show up; they are at their desks, but they are not as engaged as they could be. This paper is about rethinking the practice of leadership and reforming the way we approach the development of leaders and leadership in our organizations. The problem is leadership on autopilot. What is expected of leadership today?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Effective leadership development fosters adaptability, resilience, and long-term organizational success. Administrator: Focuses on structure, rules, and operational efficiency. Our Approach to Leadership Development While Quinn and Adizes have value, such assessments have been enhanced to meet leaders’ demands today.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. I’m not talking about square dancing, line dancing or break dancing but the kind where you drum up your courage, look someone in the eye and ask: “Will you dance with me?”. It builds confidence, creates agility and develops grace. Follow me on Twitter @brianlayer.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Welcome to the September 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! This month, we are mixing things up! Below you will see we broke up the submissions based on their similar themes. Development. Development. ” Follow Chris on Twitter at @scedmonds. Company Culture. Inspiration/Creativity.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. to discuss what operational screenings and organizational development exams you need and when you need them. WHY ARE ORGANIZATIONAL CHECK-UPS IMPORTANT? Your operations deserve a longer, healthier life. By Damian “Skipper” Pitts. How assured?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

A Forbes article in 2017 titled “If You Want To Be ‘CEO Material,’ Develop These 15 Traits,” created a laundry-list of traits needed to be a great CEO. We chose to address the following traits in this article: . As we grow and learn, our neural networks become more developed. Grit and courage . Decisiveness/judgment .

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 8, 2014

It’s better to know what you’re up against so youcan prepare well. don’t look up their children’s little league stats), but a little preparation can go a long way in helping grease the skids to powerful connection. One of the reasons for a panel interview is to see how you operate in a group setting.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Welcome to the February Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, productivity, development, engagement, team-building, and more. Development. Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership provided Leadership Development Goals for 2019.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Building on the shoulders of such philosophical giants and the subsequent research over millennia, science has further defined, assessed, and developed the concept of character to apply findings to organizational leadership. How likely are employees going to speak up under these conditions?

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Organizations have many walls that hamper culture, development, and operations. Follow Paul. Follow Jim. Follow Mary Jo. Follow Julie. Follow John. Follow Abby. Follow Dan. Follow Bruce. Follow Lisa. Read on… Follow Bob. .” – Michael Jordan.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2021

Or, maybe you’re leading a fast-growing start-up, and it’s no longer feasible to have the direct influence you once had with every employee and customer. I regularly held town-hall meetings and other motivational meetings to get the team fired up and connected to our bigger purpose. Here are a few tips that can help.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Welcome to the November 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! As I was reviewing this month’s submissions to the Leadership Development Carnival, I was wishing we could all get together in a room to exchange these ideas more deeply and directly. ” Follow Anne on Twitter at @bizshrink.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 16, 2017

Next month’s Frontline Festival follows up on this month’s with a theme all about growth and change. 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. Follow Susan.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 24, 2020

The situation is too fast-moving, fluid and unprecedented for any of us to settle in for whatever the long haul is and keep on truckin’ with the same operating rhythm we’ve used up until now. For years, I’ve been a big proponent of identifying and following through on your optimal operating rhythm.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Following is the methodology used in selecting this year’s winners: Peer recommendations and interviews. Take stock of the progressive development plans and programs they’ve made available to the workforce. But you’d be woefully mistaken if you think UP is a legacy based company from a bygone era.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

People listen to what you have to say, and follow you, because they want to, not because they have to. In my new book, Influence and Impact: Discover and Excel at What Your Organization Needs From You The Most , written with George Bradt, we provide the tools every leader needs to grow and develop into the leader that others want to follow.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Steenkamp begins to shore up that deficiency, by looking at the lives of 16 men and women and the decisions they were faced with that changed the course of history. Developed from Isaiah Berlin’s expose of the Greek poet Archilochus statement that “the fox knows many smaller things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 3, 2023

Great Results Teambuilding is the home of the April 2023 Leadership Development Carnival… And it is an honor to host this impressive version of monthly curated articles with insights that will equip you to become a more effective leader! Solving the Talent Development Puzzle We don’t often know who’s on first or what’s on second.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

What if, in the spirit of development, you worked with the team to build your own? Ask each person to envision the highest performers in the role and privately write down their thoughts on the following, putting one competency on each card. Partnering up team members as peer support to help one another. An Example.

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Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2024

T HE vast majority of today’s business leaders are either embarking on AI deployment to improve their operations or are considering it. Some 54 percent of organizations say AI has been cost-effective for their business operations. I learned this principle when helping clients brainstorm how best to leverage AI within their operations.

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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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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 10, 2021

It’s one thing to know something intellectually—to learn interesting new data, to gain an understanding of why something works the way it does, to be inspired by a message—but if it stops there and you don’t develop heart knowledge, then you’re less likely to see meaningful or lasting change as a result. Seduced by a Management Fad” fallacy.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

It’s nimble like a start-up. Loaded down with execution work, most companies today typically develop a few ideas handed down from the top, and focus on selling them. he responded, “Day Two is stasis, followed by irrelevance, followed by excruciating, painful decline, followed by death.”. This isn’t quite right.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 11, 2020

People who can step up and show others the way. People who take charge, not in an overbearing way, but in a way that inspires others to follow. After all, you can’t be a leader unless others will follow you. Being positive and encouraging inspires your team to want to follow up. Solution Focused.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 8, 2021

After conducting a few million DILOs (Day in the Life of) across 30,000 organizational operations assessments, we found one thing in common. Those who get out on the floor where the work gets done, who spend time with their teams, who listen and learn about the people and ecosystems that make up their workplace, make better decisions.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

In the words of Robert Anderson and William Adams, authors of Scaling Leadership , “We are running an Internal Operating System that is not complex enough for the complexity we face. This is our Development Gap.” How do you show up as a leader? How do you show up as a leader? We are often pushed to our limits.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of Developing a Positive Culture Where People and Performance Thrive . I empathized too much and picked up on their mood, which left me discouraged and exhausted. This happens because conflict goes up, and morale, trust, and innovation go down. Proof for the Positive.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2014

As a follow-up to our discussion about the Biggest Mistakes Team Leaders make, Bruce Harpham offers his insights on the biggest mistakes NEW leaders make. Unfortunately, diving deep into operational details carries a heavy opportunity cost. That means less time to think about developing your people.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

Other leaders operated machines. Well, they were made up of interchangeable parts. Leaders aren’t super-powerful beings that design and operate organizations. They’re made up of unique human beings, not interchangeable parts. Give up control. Help them grow and develop. Children may pull up plants for fun.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

This challenging and poignant question came up in one of our “ Asking For a Friend” segments following a recent keynote. In our leadership development programs , we often encourage managers to complete a Do It Yourself 360 (Listening Tour), to gather this feedback. How do I gain their respect?”

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

To illustrate the potential impacts, in 2007, Nokia had a little over half the mobile phone market with an operating profit of about $7.8 Nokia just couldn’t keep up. Its phones were quickly viewed as antiquated and difficult to work with for developers. Subsequently, its market share plummeted by 90 percent.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Who would you rather follow, Leader A or Leader B? But here is what is interesting, through a personal assessment I have done with over two thousand leaders and individuals, only 5% consistently operate like Leader B. Fixed: We do not believe that we or others can change or develop our/their abilities, talents, and intelligence.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

They argue that this popular leadership advice glosses over the most important thing you do as a leader: build others up. Rather than dispensing simplistic rules, he mentors readers in the development of a mental toolkit for approaching challenges based on how startup markets evolve in real life. Leadership isn't about you.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Let me be clear, I’m not encouraging giving in or giving up – I am suggesting you learn the ever so subtle art of letting go. A leader simply operates at their best when they understand their ability to influence is much more fruitful than their ability to control. Surrender – control freaks need not apply.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 5, 2024

A more accurate and useful way of putting it is that leadership decision-making has unintended consequences that show up as cultural issues. Take, for example, a recycling plant catastrophe in which three workers are killed following two explosions. Would you want your son or daughter to work there?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

If the position is operational, hire an operations manager and a finance head. . It may be better to focus on someone less tied up in the constraints of an industry and more motivated to apply new thought leadership to create – excuse the cliché – breakthrough performance. Realize that P.E. The post Executive Hiring For a P.E.

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