Sat.Nov 04, 2023 - Fri.Nov 10, 2023

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Overloaded at Work: How to Ask For the Support You Need

Let's Grow Leaders

What to say next when you’re overloaded at work (without sounding whiny) Ever found yourself cackling at the monstrous to-do list glaring back at you, thinking “Right, that’s not happening,” only to gulp back a sob as you realize none of it’s optional? You’re overloaded at work. Stuck in a world where productivity meets panic and trying to be a ‘team player’ feels like a conspiracy against your sanity.

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Nonprofit Executive Search Firm: Your Ally in Mission-Driven Hiring

N2Growth Blog

What is a Nonprofit Executive Search Firm? A nonprofit executive search firm is a specialized recruitment agency that finds and places top-level talent within nonprofit organizations. These firms understand the unique challenges and needs of the nonprofit sector and have extensive experience in identifying candidates who possess the specific skills and values required for success in mission-driven roles.

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The Performance Paradox

Leading Blog

D O YOU get stuck in chronic performance? It’s that pressure you feel to get every task done as flawlessly as possible—and then some. A never-ending game of catch-up. So, we work harder to get things done. Hard work leads to better performance, right? The answer to that question is what Eduardo Briceño calls The Performance Paradox. The performance paradox is the counterintuitive phenomenon that if we want to improve our performance, we have to do something other than just perform.

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Stop Hedging – It Makes You Sound Weak

Leadership Freak

Yesterday, a leader I respect said, “I almost teared up.” Then I spoke directly, “You didn’t almost tear up. Either you did or you didn’t.” How to stop hedging?

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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Help Your Boss Stop Wasting Time with Bad Delegation

Let's Grow Leaders

Episode 237: Do you ever get frustrated that your manager wastes time with bad delegation? They ask for something to be redone over and over, never seeming to know what they want? Or they change their mind after you’ve already finished what you thought they asked for? In this episode, David gives you practical tools to help avoid these frustrating moments and build a far more effective, collaborative relationship with your leader.

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Assessing to Ascend: The Value of Executive Leadership Team Assessments

N2Growth Blog

The Strategic Advantage of Executive Leadership Team Evaluations & Assessments Executive leadership team evaluations provide a critical strategic advantage for organizations. By assessing the effectiveness and alignment of executive leadership teams, these evaluations offer valuable insights into the dynamics and performance of top leadership groups.

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21 Things Leaders Don’t Need to Do

Leadership Freak

Leadership is challenging enough. Don’t make yourself miserable by doing what you don’t need to do. Here are 21 things leaders don't need to do. What's on your list?

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How to Break Monotony at Work for Better Employee Engagement

Let's Grow Leaders

Hi Karin, I’ve got to tell you my team’s work is pretty monotonous, so filled with repetitive work. Sometimes it feels like a merry-go-round week after week. How do I keep my team motivated when there is so much monotony at work? #AskingforaFriend Breaking the Monotony: 6 Ways to Keep Your Team Fired Up Feeling stuck on the monotony at work merry-go-round?

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Advancing the Agenda: Executive Leadership Team Coaching for Modern Businesses

N2Growth Blog

The Value of Executive Leadership Team Coaching in Today’s Business Landscape In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, the value of executive leadership team coaching cannot be understated. Strong leadership has never been more crucial as organizations face an increasingly complex and volatile environment. Executive leadership team coaching provides a unique opportunity for top-level executives to enhance their skills, gain fresh perspectives, and navigate the challenges of le

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Leading Thoughts for November 9, 2023

Leading Blog

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. William H. Danforth , founder of the Ralson Purina Company on giving your life away: “Our most valuable possessions are those which can be shared without lessening: those which, when shared, multiply. Our least valuable possessions are those which, when divided, are diminished.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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5 Phrases to Watch For: Ignoring Ethical Boundaries

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Boundaries can be simply described as lines that we don’t cross when doing business. Respecting these (sometimes clear, sometimes hazy) boundaries is an important part of today’s ethical leadership.

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3 Kinds of Leadership for 3 Kinds of Innovation

Leadership Freak

I'm delighted to host another important book giveaway. Do you know the three kinds of innovation and three factors for leadership success in each?

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Building a Legacy: How Our Coaching and Consulting Solutions Foster Success

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Role of Coaching and Consulting Services in Legacy Building Coaching and professional consulting solutions play a vital role in the process of building and sustaining a legacy. As a trusted advisor and expert in leadership development, I have witnessed first-hand how these services have transformed organizations into powerhouses of success.

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Out of Context: The Difference Between Character and Personality

Leading Blog

C HARACTER is often confused with personality, but they’re not the same. Personality is your predisposition—your basic instincts for how to think, feel, and act. Character is your capacity to prioritize your values over your instincts. Knowing your principles doesn’t necessarily mean you know how practice them, particularly under stress or pressure.

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5 Ways to Improve DE&I in the Workplace

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are critical for an organization’s success. And companies that take bold action to help ensure an inclusive workplace will win every time. Discover how your company can create a culture that celebrates DE&I while achieving higher revenue and growth.

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Harnessing Optimism to Spot Opportunities: The Cocktail Party Effect.

Rich Gee Group

In a bustling room filled with chatter, how can our ears zero in on our name uttered across the room or tune into a conversation of interest amidst a cacophony of distractions? This ability to filter and focus auditory attention is known as the Cocktail Party Effect, an auditory phenomenon where the brain can hone in on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other noises.

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How to Find Vitality when You Feel Down

Leadership Freak

You don’t notice until one morning you're drained. Low vitality equals low confidence. Restore vitality project included.

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Chief Procurement Officer Search: Securing Your Supply Chain Leadership

N2Growth Blog

The Importance of Supply Chain Leadership Starts with the Chief Procurement Officer Supply chain leadership plays a pivotal role in driving organizational success and resilience in today’s dynamic business environment. Robust supply chain leadership ensures effective oversight and management of the end-to-end supply chain processes, from procurement to delivery.

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How to Train Yourself to Be a Great Leader

Lead from Within

Leadership is a skill that can be learned and developed, even for those who may consider themselves “born leaders.” In order to attain long-term success in leadership, it is important to train yourself to become a great leader and you can do it in the following ways: Building trust: Building trust is crucial in leadership. One of the most important ways to do this is by consistently keeping your word.

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No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Drama, End Entitlement and Drive Big Results

Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership

Most HR leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victim-hood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises.

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Bad Boss Behaviors Cause #3: Needing What We Should Be Leading

Modern Servant Leader

The third cause of bad boss behaviors is needing what we should be leading. If a leader needs their job, they will be more susceptible to Bad Boss Behavior ™. The susceptibility stems from prioritizing what is best for their job security over what is best for the organization and all stakeholders. Let’s look at an example. STORY Your boss must choose a new benefits plan for the company.

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The Empathy Advantage: 7 Reasons Empathy Matters in the Real World

Leadership Freak

The empathy advantage: Retention and engagement. Customer service. Collaboration. Crisis management. More.

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CEO Coaching: The Catalyst for Unleashing Your Leadership Potential

CO2

Navigating the Complex Landscape of Leadership Being a CEO is a multidimensional role. You’re at the intersection of strategy, people, culture, strategy, systems, and execution. The responsibility can be overwhelming, yet it offers an unmatched opportunity to make a difference. How do you navigate this complex landscape not only to survive but also to thrive in leadership excellence?

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How to Lead Teams Through the Roughest Times

Lead from Within

Leading a team through tough times can be a challenging task for any leader. Despite being stressful and taxing, crises are opportunities for leaders to rise to the challenges and prove the value of their stewardship. Great leaders know how to steer their organizations through the roughest times by doing the following: Effective communication: As a leader, it is important to be transparent with your team about the challenges and opportunities that the crisis presents.

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The HR Leader’s Survival Guide

HR leaders drowning in paperwork struggle to meet C-suite's strategic expectations. Burnout and high turnover plague the field, with 95% feeling overwhelmed. This guide explores how the right tools can free HR from admin tasks and empower them to become the strategic leaders they’re meant to be.

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The Six Dimensions Of Being A Healthy Leader

Eric Jacobson

In Bob Rosen ’s book, Grounded: How Leaders Stay Rooted In An Uncertain World , he explains that there are six dimensions of being a healthy leader : Physical health : how you live. How you manage your mind and body – managing your energy and living a peak performance lifestyle. Emotional health : how you feel. This is about being self-aware and having positive emotions and the ability to be resilient, catching yourself when you have a counterproductive thought.

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Ask Yourself This One Question Before You Hire a Coach or Consultant

Women on Business

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The Decline In Male Teachers

The Horizons Tracker

In an article last year, a colleague and I pondered the ongoing shortage of male nurses and how this is contributing to the talent shortage in health systems around the world. Nursing is an example of a profession that, while growing in terms of opportunities available, is one that is not traditionally practiced by men. Part of this is due to discrimination.

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6 Habits Of Leaders Who Are Great Communicators

Lead from Within

Leadership and effective communication go hand in hand. In order to lead a team successfully, leaders must be able to communicate effectively with their team members, stakeholders, and other key individuals. There are habits that great leaders do to be great communicators: Active listening: Great leaders are active listeners. They listen to their team members and stakeholders with an open mind, and actively seek out their opinions and feedback.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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How To Transform Your Perspective And Lead With Positivity

Eric Jacobson

Here is a new book I imagine nearly everyone will benefit from. It is, The Negativity Fast. At the core of the book is a thirteen-week negativity fast, during which you’ll progressively eliminate sources of negativity in your life for 90 days. And then from that point, you’ll have a new outlook on life and will have learned how to use gratitude to completely transform your mental outlook as you reframe the negative events in your life into events that made you stronger, more resilient, and bette

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Unlocking the Secrets of Efficient Accounting

Women on Business

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How The ChatGPT Ban Affected Coder Productivity In Italy

The Horizons Tracker

A study of the effects of the ChatGPT ban in Italy, by researchers from Monash University, sheds light on its impact on individual productivity. The ban, which resulted in the prohibition of the generative pre-trained transformer chatbot, had noticeable repercussions on Italian GitHub users. Within the first two business days after the implementation of the ban, their output witnessed a substantial decline of approximately 50%.

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How to Turn Leadership Weaknesses into Strengths

Lead from Within

Leadership is a complex and challenging role, and even the most experienced leaders have areas where they could improve. However, recognizing and addressing your leadership weaknesses can help you turn them into strengths. Here are some tips for turning your leadership weaknesses into strengths: Identify your weaknesses: The best leaders are skilled at turning their weaknesses into strengths.

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The First 90 Days: Onboarding Checklist

While onboarding, don’t let yourself get caught up in administrative details. Automate paperwork & training so new hires can focus on the business at hand from day one. Get Paycor’s checklist to see where your company can make HR process improvements.