Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This time of disruption demands that organizational leaders take an honest look at their teams and how they function and then apply accurate data to inform new ideas, explore strategies, and pursue professional development to position themselves for success. Systemizing communication. Understanding the influence of power.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

By ensuring that operational procedures and systems are efficiently implemented, the operations executive bridges the gap between strategic intent and practical execution. A data-driven approach is essential, enabling leaders to understand current performance metrics and pinpoint areas for development.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 4, 2025

This post was adapted from Endless Customers: A Proven System to Build Trust, Drive Sales, and Become the Market Leader * * * Follow us on Instagram and X for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Here's What Matters Most by @gavin_adams Music Has Charms To Make You a Better Writer by @wallybock See more on Twitter. * * * Follow us on Instagram and X for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

This time of disruption demands that organizational leaders take an honest look at their teams and how they function and then apply accurate data to inform new ideas, explore strategies, and pursue professional development to position themselves for success. Systemizing communication. Understanding the influence of power.

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Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Santa Claus asks, What do you want? Leaders get further when they know what the people around them want.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

For instance, AI-powered Applicant Tracking Systems can efficiently sift through resumes to identify promising candidates based on predefined criteria, thereby reducing time-to-hire. Understanding the Modern Recruitment Landscape Recent technological advancements and evolving workforce demographics have revolutionized recruitment processes.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 17, 2025

Our SynergyStack Team Collaboration System includes a set of 48 habits that would be a great start to choose from. Contact us at info@letsgrowleaders.com to learn more about our SynergySprint Team Retreat or leadership development program. We can help.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 14, 2024

If the main characters (your leaders) are poorly developed or behave unpredictably, the story won’t hold up no matter how compelling the plot. See Also: Leaders Coaching Leaders: How Leadership Development Leads to Sustained Culture Change 2. But even the best people need a clear direction and intentional leadership development.

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QAspire

JULY 18, 2024

Everything that is found in documents, systems, process flows and tool kits is “explicit” knowledge that is useful to sustain the business and keep the “status quo”. Developing people and seeing them grow was even more gratifying. Knowledge in organizations flows “across” people and teams.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

An interim Chief Technology Officer could be brought in to oversee the implementation of new technological systems, ensuring that the transition enhances operational efficiency without disrupting ongoing projects. For example, consider a technology company undergoing a digital transformation.

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Leading in Context

JUNE 14, 2023

By Linda Fisher Thornton Research is showing that diet sodas do not help prevent weight loss, and in fact may be a cause of weight gain. How can this be? Since the way we understand it depends on which kind of thinking we use, let's examine the issue using several different kinds of thinking.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In fact, the human biological alert system cant tell the difference between a saber-tooth tiger encounter, a critical table tennis match at the US Open, or a high-stakes sales presentation. This activates your parasympathetic nervous system, engaging a calming, rest and digest mode. So, denying fear or trying to block it out is futile.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

You can’t build a business if you are not alive, so creating a system of true balance was necessary. The person who had shared the vision for Alkemy Partners, who had been a sounding board and a support system, was no longer by my side. But I also realized I could not do it alone. I needed help. I took this as a vote of confidence.

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2024

For example, recognizing how a surge in customer demand might stress operational systems allows leaders to act preemptively, rather than reactively. Conscientiousness (C) : Critical for maintaining structure, ensuring processes and systems scale effectively.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 11, 2025

Check out more easy-to-facilitate team-building activities: Employee Development Activity: Focus Your Team in the New Year Compassionate Conversation Starters: How to Help Your Team Connect More Deeply Year in Review: 7 Questions to Help Your Team Reflect on Success and Key Learnings And if you’ve not checked out our SynergyStack Team Development (..)

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 6, 2024

02:12] – Early Leadership Lessons Lisa reflects on her childhood and how self-awareness and emotional clarity helped her develop her leadership skills. 37:29] – Walking Around the Problem Lisa discusses how stepping back and viewing problems from multiple angles leads to systemic solutions.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

This involves providing insights into AI’s potential and limitations, developing tailored strategies to manage these risks, and fostering a culture of ethical AI use. Establishing Ethical AI Frameworks to Mitigate Risks Developing and implementing ethical AI frameworks is crucial for mitigating risks.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The process can feel overwhelming—from analyzing existing processes and software systems and choosing where to apply AI automation, to preparing every tier of the organization for the transition. 16:32 AI Systems are here to make us a lot more productive. What Leaders Need to Know About AI. Connect with Kavita. Get the Book.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Developing future visionary leaders is essential for sustaining organizational growth and maintaining a competitive edge in dynamic markets. Investing in their development is not merely prudent it is a strategic imperative. Tailoring training and development programs to meet individual leadership needs enhances their effectiveness.

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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. They also embrace a systems-thinking approach: understanding how one decision affects everything from staff workflows to patient well-being.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 27, 2024

They need sophisticated systems that identify, celebrate, and strategically leverage unique talents. Implement Advanced Development Frameworks Traditional development paths often fail to engage exceptional talent. Organizations must fundamentally reimagine how they recognize, develop, and empower their exceptional performers.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 27, 2025

The one who shows up with Connection, Clarity, Curiosity, and Commitment aka the Four Cs of productive collaboration that ground our book Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict and our SynergyStack Team Development System. In our leadership development programs, we talk about being interested and interesting.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 12, 2023

author of The How and Why: Taking Care of Business with the Enneagram , provides an overview of Organization Development tools and frameworks traditionally associated with solving typical business challenges—infusing and enhancing them with insight from the Enneagram. In this episode Karl Hebenstreit, Ph.D.,

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

He and his colleague developed the TKI assessment to measure the different ways people approach conflict, and it has become a widely used tool in organizations. This week’s podcast discusses the importance of addressing inner conflicts and the role of systems in conflict management. Thank You to Our Guest Ralph H.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Roger Martin on our personal knowledge system dynamics: “Personal knowledge systems are highly path-dependent. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 14, 2025

Through intensive analysis of 300 organizations implementing AI management systems, clear patterns emerge. AI systems now handle reporting structures, performance monitoring, and resource allocation with superhuman precision. The Automation Avalanche Traditional management tasks no longer differentiate exceptional leaders.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Pretty much everyone whos paying attention agrees that AI is going to massively disrupt life and work; they just dont know exactly how yet as the development and deployment of the technology races ahead. So, is leading through a VUCA environment still an important skill set to have or develop? and globally.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 29, 2024

The authority to solve complex problems and challenges will reside in the system of stakeholders, not in the leader. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. Source: Acting with Power: Why We Are More Powerful Than We Believe II.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

But in a world turned upside down — by a pandemic, by climate change, by a reckoning with systemic injustice — what does winning even look like now? Someone who sees the system. Equitable leaders are also skilled at seeing systems and understanding interdependence. They want an equitable leader.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

You also can’t spot and avoid the kinds of codes and conduct that threaten your values if you never even develop a strong sense of what it is that you value. Sometimes compassion means looking in the mirror to see how you or a dysfunctional system lead to the poor judgment or wrong behavior. A consistent system.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 28, 2024

The more you invest in people and the more focused and intentional you become about helping people overcome obstacles, the more you will develop your discernment muscle.” Source: Becoming a Coaching Leader: The Proven System for Building Your Own Team of Champions II.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

A well-rounded leader in this capacity must do more than keep the lights on digitally; they define the very contours of how the organization engages its customers, develops internal talent, and monetizes digital assets. The modern digital chief now wields a broader strategic lens, serving as a linchpin across the C-suite.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Elliott Parker on building resilience: “Resilience is the ability of a system to absorb disturbance and still retain its basic function and structure. Resilience is developed and maintained through learning, optionality, and redundancy. Source: The Seven Frequencies of Communication: The Hidden Language of Human Connection II.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Peter Senge on getting to the root of the issue: “The bottom line of systems thinking is leverage—seeing where actions and changes in structures can lead to significant, enduring improvements. But the leverage in most real-life systems, such as most organizations, is not obvious to most of the actors in those systems.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

When we start to calm our nervous system and move ourselves out of fear and into more rest within interactions, we start choosing different behaviors and words. Where were constantly checking in on our teams, having meetings, 1:1s to make sure everyone is doing their job and on track.

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Great Results Team Building

JANUARY 4, 2025

Systemize Recognition: Use tools or schedules to remind yourself to celebrate successes. Feedback is a leaders greatest tool for guiding and developing their team. With their help, you can uncover blind spots, develop strategies to address them, and unlock your teams full potential. The key is sincerity and specificity.

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