N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 2, 2024

Navigating the complexities of leadership and management styles requires more than conventional wisdom; it requires a deep understanding of how different management styles impact an organization. Adizes’ generally addresses four management styles: Creator, Integrator, Administrator, and Producer.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2021

How to Scale Your Leadership For Lasting Results. As a leader of a large team, you’ve got to scale your leadership by creating a solid operating infrastructure and processes that work without a charismatic cheerleader pushing them along. What does that mean for your managers and front-line employees?

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

It’s natural to focus on building a great relationship with your manager. And the good news is that, unlike your manager, who is who they are (and may or may not be able to give you all the support you need), you likely have a number of peers to choose from. How to Build These Important Coworker Relationships. Your turn.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

” How to Say No at Work. “Yes… And” As David Dye shares in, How to Help Your Team Say No at Work, one way to do this is by affirming the request and the value the request might represent—that’s the “yes.” Related Articles: Managing Up With Grace: How to Give Your Boss Better Feedback.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In this week’s Asking for a Friend, I speak with Whitney Johnson, author of Smart Growth, about how to support your team along the S curve of employee growth. When I read Whitney’s new book, I was struck by how her model reflected my own journey of taking the leap from Verizon Wireless executive to entrepreneur.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And yet during times of stress, ambiguity, and change , when you need your team to be THE MOST resourceful, some managers clamp down, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow their team down. The most resourceful leaders I know learned how to do more with less because they had to. A few “How can we?”

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 1, 2025

Furthermore, when organizations promote star performers into people management, they create a perfect storm where technical expertise collides with human complexity. My strategic frameworks revolutionize how multinational enterprises develop exceptional leaders, consistently delivering measurable impact across industries and cultures.

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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 These transformations typically involve a profound change in how a business operates, encompassing people, process, and technology.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

However, when you don’t pay attention to tactics and effective management, you create needless conflicts, frustrations and hurt feelings. Leaders and managers often struggle with the difference between strategy and tactics or vision and operations. But they are both vital to your success and don’t have to be complicated.

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Rich Gee Group

JULY 19, 2024

Bureaucracy : Excessive layers of management and overly rigid procedures that inhibit flexibility and responsiveness. Action Item : Implement Lean Management principles. Action Item : Use project management tools like Asana or Trello to assign tasks, set deadlines, and track progress.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 11, 2025

Develop the Mindset of Leaders, Not Managers Scaling your business requires leaders, not task managers. Task managers oversee checklists and maintain the status quo. Tools like the Leadership Circle Profile (LCP) help identify blind spots and growth areas, allowing leaders to operate at their full potential.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 2, 2024

New analysis from King’s College London has highlighted how effective management strategies are key to scientific breakthroughs at a renowned laboratory that has produced Nobel Prize winners. “This makes a strategic approach to managing science crucial, especially as collaborations between institutions grow in importance.”

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Their impact goes far beyond simply managing the status quo. Their expertise doesn’t stop at the surface; they dive into redesigning workflows, rolling out new systems, and managing high-stakes projects with flair. Provide them with the necessary tools, data, and support to navigate daily operations smoothly.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

How do executive search firms work? Leading executive search firms operate in very specific ways to find top leaders who can take a company to its desired future state. While executive search firms have been around for decades, there’s been a recent, revolutionary shift in the ways executive search firms operate.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2020

Laura Huang explains just how to gain that advantage in her insightful and encouraging book, Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage. Creating an edge starts with pinpointing your basic goods and defining your circle of competence, and operating inside that perimeter.” It’s how you enrich. We need an edge. This is very helpful.

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Chartered Management Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Jenna Jenkins CMgr FCMI is senior operations manager at Nationwide Building Society. She now realises her ADHD has given her the ability to absorb lots of different information, to “popcorn think”, and to juggle a huge number of jobs at once – skills that served her very well as she progressed into management.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

This comprehensive guide explores the multifaceted responsibilities of this executive role, the critical importance of strategic leadership, and how to effectively navigate the complexities of recruiting for this pivotal position. A proficient leader in this role also manages commercial risks and identifies new market opportunities.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

As leaders, we operate within a web of people relationship systems, and the health and power of these relationships are dependent upon the level of trust we carry within ourselves. What goes on between people; employees, customers, suppliers, financiers, management, the board, etc. Reflection Fuels.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 20, 2017

I recently did a follow-up visit to a client who had invested in one of our Winning Well Operations Excellence Rallies. They had identified “Does the Customer Know How Much We Care?” The managers had fun with this for a few days and then did what they call “the reveal.”

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 31, 2024

Harnessing the Power of Interim Management in Uncertain Times Over the years, the role of interim executives has transformed from temporary fill-ins to strategic agents of change and innovation, especially in times of uncertainty. This ability to deliver immediate, impactful results makes interim management indispensable in uncertain times.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In our research for Courageous Cultures, 67% said their manager operates under the notion “this is the way we’ve always done it.” ” And it’s not just managers who can get stuck in a rut. How to Build a High-Performing Team: Ten Vital Conversations. The post Stuck in a Rut?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Let’s dive into how to use this process to set your people and company up for success. Information Transfer New executives can’t operate in a silo and need access to information to fill the shoes of the previous leader, break the mold, and start leading in earnest. What Is Executive Onboarding? Contact us today.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 20, 2023

Second, when your peers are on board, it’s more likely that your manager will take the idea seriously. In our research for Courageous Cultures, 67% said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” Read more about how to engage others as you share your I.D.E.A.s

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 28, 2021

To navigate more demanding customer expectations , an acute distrust of business and so much remote working, leaders need to find new ways of operating. When we operate from a sense of our presence, we are in a state of absorbed relaxation. Guest post from Sarah Rozenthuler: In our rapidly changing world, new pressures are emerging.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 31, 2024

And curiosity about how to approach your work differently. Powerful Phrases for Supporting Your Overwhelmed Team First, if you’re a manager, here are a few frequently uttered unhelpful phrases. As a manager, you want to do what you can to prevent the snowball of overwhelm from picking up speed as it rolls downhill.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Limiting the definition of leadership Many have asked me how to define a leader, but I have refused. Narrowly defining leadership restricts innovation by excluding countless points of view and modes of operating. Capacity is a leader’s ability to contain, manage, or affect change in the evolving circumstances within their role.

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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. Project Management: Mastering the art of overseeing projects from start to finish.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 24, 2022

They earned their reputation as a courageous manager one small daring moment at a time—small micro-moments of courage that led to better performance and deeper trust. Courageous managers will tell you their truth , even if it’s hard to hear. Click on the link above for how to do this well.

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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. Although most C-suite executives, mid-level managers, and data practitioners aren’t AI experts — no one is at this pace of change — they shouldn’t implement AI for the sake of implementing AI.

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HR Digest

JULY 7, 2024

Image: Pexels How to Answer Behavioral Interview Questions Behavior-based interviews are designed to explore a candidate’s personality, problem-solving skills, and general approach to the workplace. Know The Organization and How They Operate When you’re faced with behavior-based interviews you don’t have to lie to impress the organization.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

When it comes to leadership, the terms manager and leader are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing. A manager is responsible for maintaining the status quo and ensuring that tasks are completed on time and within budget.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes. Marshall 's book, Transforming The Way We Work -- The Power Of The Collaborative Workplace , remains relevant today, two decades after Marshall wrote it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Every year he would conduct an operational excellence rally that he personally catered with spaghetti made from homemade noodles, […]. The post How to Find the Great Idea in Your Best Practice appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. He was also an accomplished Italian chef.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 7, 2019

He also gives employees a voice by keeping them informed of how the company is doing financially and by sharing operating metrics. He discusses what he thinks can grow the business and how changes might impact the community — and he asks what employees think about it. Theory C: A New Theory of Management.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 8, 2021

While the last decade has flattened our organizations and reduced the need for some managers, the need to create leaders at every level has never been more necessary. We need frontline leaders to help workers bring their best selves to work each day, to find out what’s holding team members back and how to address it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 6, 2023

But if you don’t pay enough attention to tactics and effective management, you’ll create needless conflicts, frustration, and hurt feelings. And, and it’s not uncommon for people to glorify leadership over management or strategy over tactics. Does your team know how to discuss and resolve day-to-day conflict?

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Many organizations operate out of the belief that people in leadership need a tough mindset to be effective. When you keep that in mind, it becomes a lot easier to manage your attitude and your emotions. Very few understand why or how to prevent it. How to Lead Your Team When The Future Is Uncertain.

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