Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

Managing this tension is the key to success in growing and stable organizations—regardless of industry, size, years in business, or profit motive. Here are my five insights on how to manage chaordic tension: 1. One of the assessment tools we use a great deal is the Basadur Innovation Profile. He is the author with Michael G.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Meanwhile, stress, anxiety, and loss of engagement at work are major factors in modern work life and statistics are staggering in a negative direction. Find out how to enhance your personal energy when managing or collaborating with others to become more mentally agile and productive. Episode 233: Is your team ready or reactive?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 29, 2024

He advocates for a transition from traditional management to a coaching approach, emphasizing personal growth and a culture of belonging. 9:30-11:56: Transitioning to Dan’s current endeavors, he introduces us to his innovative approach to fostering connections within organizations, especially in a remote work environment.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 29, 2024

Your leadership success depends on your skill at managing change and embracing the future Are you hanging on to a familiar way of doing your work or leading your team because it’s comfortable? Managing change is critical for your success—too much change, too quickly creates instability. But intentional change isn’t easy.

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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. Interim management provides stability, innovation, and insightful direction to businesses in need.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Diverse teams are shown to be more innovative and resilient, and this shift underscores diversity as a strategic business advantage, particularly in fostering long-term growth. According to Invest Europe’s annual report 2023 , diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have also become critical components of venture capital assessments.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 31, 2017

The word no ends discussions, stifles creativity, kills innovation, impedes learning, and gates initiative. Leaders need to communicate trust in their team – they need to create an environment where people are not afraid to seek opportunity, to pursue innovation, or to change their mind. No is not all it’s cracked-up to be.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

By working closely with leaders, I turn fear into a catalyst for growth and innovation. This approach not only humanizes leaders but also encourages team members to take risks and innovate without fear of judgment. Overcoming leadership fears requires innovative and personalized approaches.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Empathy has been shown to drive positive business results and has numerous therapeutic effects on stressed employees. When leaders expressed empathy for their team, it increased a team’s innovation and engagement, improved customer service, and helped them balance their home and work life. It is also for tough people in any field.

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

I begin by reassuring them that time-management strategies like these ones can relieve a lot of their stress. Go through your to-do list with a fine-tooth comb, asking yourself if anything simply isn’t necessary or if you’re spending far too much time on it (think about email time management ). Weed out the nonessential tasks.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 18, 2021

61% higher likelihood of burnout often or always 48% higher likelihood of daily stress 66% higher likelihood of worry Double the rate of daily sadness and anger. If you follow this blog, it is obvious to you that this impacts relationship, creativity and innovation, energy, and trust. Remove abusive managers.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

When members feel they can rely on each other, they’re more likely to contribute their best efforts, which results in heightened productivity and innovation. They not only manage their own stress effectively but also help to stabilize the team as a whole. She frequently speaks on compliance, leadership, and risk management.

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2020

It generates personal fears, insecurities, and stress, all of which can inhibit high-quality thinking, decision making, and effective collaboration, which is mission-critical in such times. How well one leads, thinks, and engages with others depends on how well one manages and optimizes what’s going on in one’s mind, brain, and body.

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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. Managers brought in their own grills to cook the burgers. Who doesn’t need more of that on their team right now?

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 1, 2021

It’s perhaps no surprise, therefore, that new research from Cambridge Judge Business School reveals that emotionally intelligent leaders are also ideal for innovation to flourish. The researchers define emotional intelligence as the ability to perceive, use, and manage emotions. Supporting creativity.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Surrender fosters collaboration, encourages innovation and enables possibility. When you experience weak teams, micro-management, frequent turf wars, high stress, operational strain, and a culture of fear, you are experiencing what control has to offer – not very attractive is it?

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 29, 2021

Stress has been a constant feature of the Covid-19 pandemic, not least among employees who are fearful for their jobs. New research from Ohio State University reveals that employee stress is reduced if companies are open and transparent about their financial health. ” Stressful times. Knowing the score.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 20, 2017

Most of today’s adults have had no formal training in how to think, how to listen, how to learn and experiment through inquiry, how to emotionally engage, how to manage emotions, how to collaborate, or how to embrace mistakes as learning opportunities. Managing Self—Thinking and Emotions. Negative emotions cause narrow-mindedness.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 13, 2019

“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interactions, conflict, argument, debate.” — Margaret Heffernan. For example, if you see a project getting delayed because the project manager lacks the ability to manage the project team, then as a leader you need to step in and have that crucial conversation with the project manager.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 10, 2020

New research highlights the various factors that can contribute to our procrastination, including poor time management and perfectionism. The consequences are often grave, with stress levels rising and job satisfaction falling. Nonetheless, it’s probably something that both individuals and managers wish to reduce.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 25, 2023

It’s perhaps natural to view conflicts at work as something that will merely add to the stresses of our normal working life. The research found that both types of conflict are associated with stress responses, such as headaches, but task-related conflicts could also help us to reduce stress.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 26, 2021

Another department doesn’t keep their commitment and creates stress for your team. The increased psychological safety permits healthy risk-taking and innovation. . • A disgruntled customer eats up time–not because of a true product or service defect, but because they are having a bad day. 2) Plan for and train recovery.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Stress, disengagement, quiet quitting, and mass resignations… Has all the rapid change led to more workplace conflict? Managers are relearning how to lead and support their teams. For many, the pandemic’s hypervigilance, anxiety, and stress created lasting mental health challenges. Is conflict wearing us all down?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Culture Is the Way : How Leaders at Every Level Build an Organization for Speed, Impact, and Excellence by Matt Mayberry Former NFL Pro, world-renowned keynote speaker, and management consultant Matt Mayberry delivers an incisive and hands-on blueprint to employee engagement and peak productivity. Sound familiar? You can, too.

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 23, 2024

Their keen ability to identify opportunities for innovation and effective risk management sets a clear course for everyone involved. Cultivating Tranquility Among Stressed Teams: A single calm voice can stabilize a stressed team when deadlines loom and resources dwindle. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The Heart of Innovation : A Field Guide for Navigating to Authentic Demand by Matt Chanoff, Merrick Furst, Daniel Sabbah and Mark Wegman Books on innovation mostly focus on how to nurture innovative cultures and brainstorm ideas. Many attempts at innovation fail because customers turn out to be indifferent.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2014

In The Chaos Imperative , co-authors Ori Brafman and Judah Pollack say that “if we want to foster creativity and innovation in our own lives, we too need a bit of chaos.” Creativity & Innovation' Our brains need white space to think creatively. We need white space to think more deeply and completely. It’s a process. Results will vary.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2024

David and Lori highlight the need for more personalized and contextual development, stressing the importance of aligning your thoughts and engaging in open, honest conversations. They stress that training leaders as if it’s still the last century doesn’t work in today’s rapidly changing environment.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 13, 2021

. “A global pandemic can lead some people to think about their own mortality, which will understandably make them more stressed and less engaged at work,” the researchers explain. ” Channeling stress. ” Channeling stress.

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Leading Blog

MAY 10, 2019

His goal is to “teach you how to be both the boss everyone wants to work for and the high achiever every CEO wants to hire—all without drama, stress, or endless hours in the office.”. A culture of trust and psychological safety reduces the magnitude of mistakes and fosters innovation. Shut Off Your Smartphone. Have No Rules.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

In these fast-paced, ever-changing, turbulent, and most stressful times, a major challenge that all leaders face is how to reduce skepticism and build greater trust and confidence in their role, their decisions, and in the organization they lead. A culture of continuous learning will bolster organizational creativity and innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

European venture capitalists are increasingly focusing on how well founders manage these traits, as it can significantly impact a startups ability to scale. However, failure to delegate and share responsibilities can create bottlenecks, stifling innovation and slowing growth.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 6, 2020

Understanding the difference and managing both is key to dealing with a crisis successfully. There is no script for managing it. In a true crisis, you are faced with rapid, real-time innovation under stress “embedded in fear.” Dutch says what crisis management needs is not answers but an effective process.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 15, 2024

01:32) Meet the Expert, Andre Martin : Andre, with his rich background in organizational psychology and talent management, shares his mission to align careers with personal values, igniting a discussion on finding satisfaction and purpose in work. (02:41)

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Leading Blog

APRIL 27, 2020

They are cognitive reappraisal, grit, learning from feedback, finding your spark, innovation, resilience, and building balance. Cognitive reappraisal is our ability to consciously manage our emotional experiences and responses to a setback or challenge and transform the negative emotions we feel into more positive ones.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

25 Ways You May Be Stressing Yourself Out by @FrankSonnenberg. How to Help a Manager Who’s Struggling, Right Now by @lizkislik. How to Create a Permission Structure for Innovation by @ScottEblin. CEO Niels Christiansen on why they're now more important than ever. Essential Decision-Making Emotions: Are You Using These?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Surrender: fosters collaboration, encourages innovation and enables possibilities. When you experience weak teams, micro-management, frequent turf wars, high stress, operational strain, and a culture of fear, you are experiencing what control has to offer – not very attractive is it?

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