Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Specifically, both perform best when they are able to enter and maintain a calm, alert state under high stress, whether facing match point on the tennis court or an unexpected setback at the negotiation table, as research suggests. The bottom line: exercise is an important practice for effective leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

With the finish line in sight, you can innovate without fear, tossing out time-saving hacks like confetti. For Managers: Powerful Phrases for Supporting Your Overwhelmed or Overloaded Team First, if you’re a manager, here are a few frequently uttered unhelpful phrases. Embrace the wisdom of knowing what ‘winning’ looks like.

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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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Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

However, in a rush to meet deadlines and manage stress, we must not overlook the significance of relationships and creating connections—both with ourselves and others. Surveys show that managers are the most stressful part of an employee’s job and account for the greatest impact on their mental health.

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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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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2019

There’s increasing pressure on organizations to be more competitive, and leaders need to have the right skills to influence employees’ innovative behavior. Besides helping them better handle workplace-related challenges, leaders evoke innovation and creativity and inspire them to reach their full potential. The answer is both.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2025

This book empowers you to take the first step toward becoming the leader everyone aspires to work with by enhancing your leadership skills, boosting workplace productivity, and mastering innovative conflict-management techniques. Conquering Crisis provides a new set of tools for facing these stressful moments with poise.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 23, 2018

So to get the most out of innovation processes such as design thinking, truly creative leaders also need to master the social dynamics of… [wait for the punchline}…humor! We have witnessed that skilled leaders, those we call “Stand-Up Strategists”, understand the utility of humor to boost innovation.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

Managers and employees are telling you t hey’re way more productive. 4:20 Reaction: How do people (employees and managers) see this situation? Are we able to manage well? Are there fewer distractions, less stress, and more effort expended to help guarantee the remote option continues? Some employees love it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

During times of stress and change, when you most need a resourceful team, it’s easy to clampdown, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow your team down. In our research on innovation and psychological safety, 67% of employees said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.”

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Middle managers are crucial during times of organizational change. This puts them in a tricky position, managing their own stress and uncertainty while guiding their teams through new directives. Responding to change The study found that middle managers generally respond in one of two ways: they either cope or “cop out.”

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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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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In my experience as a leadership executive coach, I have seen how emotionally intelligent leaders are consistently more effective in managing and resolving conflicts. This awareness allows them to manage conflicts with a balanced perspective, ensuring the discussion stays focused on resolution rather than emotional outbursts.

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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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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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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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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 13, 2025

But when it comes to groundbreaking technological innovation, a recent study from the WHUOtto Beisheim School of Management shows that overconfident CEOs need to be balanced by a strong, knowledgeable board of directors. Corporate boards often consist of bold personalities who help push new products and initiatives. ”

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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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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 24, 2024

While many executives pride themselves on self-reliance, this mindset can limit innovation, slow decision-making, and increase strategic risk. This pattern increases organizational risk and stress. The disconnect between leadership success and help-seeking behavior creates a critical vulnerability in organizational effectiveness.

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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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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 2, 2024

A great leader not only steers their team toward achieving business goals but also drives innovation, motivates employees, and adapts to shifting market conditions. Fostering Innovation and Creativity Entrepreneur coaching is much more than just brainstorming or generating ideas.

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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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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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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

For more Clarity-building Habits check out: Great Teams: 12 Practical Collaboration Habits to Create Clarity Curiosity: Unlocking Innovation and Problem-Solving The best teams dont settle for surface-level thinking. Instead of saying, Do you understand, ask: What is your understanding of our response time goal?

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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

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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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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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

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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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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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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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

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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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

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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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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