N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Interim executives have become indispensable in addressing immediate leadership needs, whether due to sudden departures, organizational restructuring, or transformational change management. This data highlights the growing recognition of soft skills as a cornerstone of effective leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Understanding the Digital Frontier’s Impact on Leadership Needs The rapid advancement of technology has created a landscape marked by constant change and disruption. Visionary Leadership: Exceptional executives have the foresight to anticipate industry shifts and envision how technology can transform business operations.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 10, 2022

What’s your most valuable leadership practice? At the start of our work together, we’ll ask leaders and managers around the world for their most valuable leadership practice. But What’s the MOST Valuable Leadership Practice? What’s the most valuable leadership practice? It’s not flashy or charismatic.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 21, 2025

This might include an employee who is not pulling their weight, runaway projects, and so on. Project management, encompassing issues that crop up during planning and issues that show up during execution, is another area that may require your overview and handling.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

” Why is a Check for Understanding a Powerful Leadership Communication Best Practice? Of all the leadership communication techniques we share in our leadership programs , the check for understanding always rises to the top as one of the easiest to do, while having the fastest impact. I’m so excited.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Today, organizations face multifaceted challenges that demand agile and decisive leadership. The increasing demand for interim executives reflects a broader shift toward flexible leadership models. By leveraging their extensive experience, interim executives deliver immediate impact while laying the groundwork for sustained success.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Many leaders focus on giving answers, yet the most profound leadership moments come from asking the right questions. Leadership transforms when you master the art of inquiry—pushing beyond surface conversations to uncover deeper truths. As a leadership coach, I’ve guided leaders through these five powerful questions.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Each year, after reading dozens of leadership books I select my pick for “best new leadership book” of the year. Even though this book came out in late 2023, it is better than any other leadership book I read during 2024, so that is why I choose it. It’s that good. Even families want to read this together.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Richard Farson on contradictions: Contradictory impulses to both succeed and fail can be found in every project, every work team, even every individual. Source: Management of the Absurd: Paradoxes in Leadership II. Source: The Contrarians Guide to Leadership * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Balancing leadership strategy and tactics is critical for leaders at every level of an organization. When you embrace effective leadership strategy and tactics, they’ll work together to help you, your teams, and organization thrive. Resolving the Tension Between Leadership Strategy and Tactics.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A fter reading Gartner’s report on How to Build Leadership Bench Strength , these are my conclusions: HR already invests 23% of its Training and Development budget in Leadership and 27% on the high potential professionals. How do they affect Leadership? First, leadership is more complex.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 13, 2025

Its called Reflect to Connect, and its one of the most powerful tools you can add to your leadership toolkit to build stronger relationships at work. For example, if a colleague seems excited, you could reflect, “You seem really energized about this project. Is it exciting?”

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in March 2020. Leading with Gratitude : Eight Leadership Practices for Extraordinary Business Results by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton. The Blueprint : 6 Practical Steps to Lift Your Leadership to New Heights by Doug Conant. Friedman and Alyssa F.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 28, 2025

Traditional leadership approaches are destroying innovation potential at an alarming rate, with 76% of employees reporting their best ideas die in bureaucratic approval processes. The insights that follow reveal why conventional leadership approaches fail and what successful organizations do differently.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In today’s digitized business era, where artificial intelligence (AI) continually reshapes industry dynamics, a new breed of executive leadership emerges at the forefront. Tapping into this requires a distinctive leadership mindset. Let’s dive deep into why the C-suite’s creative minds have never been more crucial.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Welcome to the July 2021 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. You may have a leadership dysfunction problem. Communication. Creativity/Inspiration.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

In the realm of leadership, EQ stands as a pivotal trait. EQ, in a nutshell, underpins effective leadership, shaping workplace dynamics and directly influencing productivity, morale, and overall success. This leadership facet is important as it avoids conventional transactional styles.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

And we find that the leadership approaches and the language used aligned itself with that goal. It is this need that David Marquet thoroughly discusses in Leadership Is Language. This is the subject of Leadership Is Language. What he needed was people to consistently perform in an efficient manner. No variations.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in March 2021. The CEO Test is the authoritative, no-nonsense insider's guide to navigating leadership's toughest challenges, brought to you by authors uniquely qualified to tell the stories. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Today, we will explore some of the key strategies we’ve noted at our firm that have proven successful in maximizing the attraction and retention of top leadership talent. Understanding the Modern Recruitment Landscape Recent technological advancements and evolving workforce demographics have revolutionized recruitment processes.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This multifaceted role requires rapid decision-making and strong leadership capabilities, enabling the COO to manage day-to-day activities while enhancing operational efficiency effectively. This ensures a robust alignment between the candidate’s leadership style and the company’s strategic objectives.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

After everyone has selected their habit, have them share why they chose that habit and how they see it impacting the project. Once you have your two habits, commit to them and get ready to build your leadership blueprint. This is where you’ll start to see patterns emerge: Are there common habits or themes? And that momentum?

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 21, 2023

AskingForaFriend This fantastic question came in during one of our recent leadership development programs. Not modeling the way I can’t tell you how often someone in our leadership programs raises their hand and says, “This is fantastic! Three Mistakes that Will Sabotage Growing Leaders 1. Have you taught my boss?

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Decker Communication

MARCH 27, 2025

When a senior leader entered the all-hands meeting at a major pharmaceutical company, he faced a room of scientists whose research project had just been shelved after two years of work. The air was thick with the disappointment that follows a clinical trial failure, that weighty moment when data crushes hope.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The longer you’re in a leadership position, the more decisions you will have to make. 6 Uncomfortable Leadership Decisions. Let’s look at 6 of these leadership decisions you’ll face. The decision can be uncomfortable when we place a timeframe around a project. Photo by Nik Shuliahin on Unsplash.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JANUARY 6, 2025

They demonstrate a clear ability and willingness to work through setbacks to keep the project moving forward. Leaders who communicate their vision for a project early on give their teams a chance to embrace it as their own. With the freedom to openly and honestly communicate comes the opportunity to inspire.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 27, 2025

In our leadership development programs, we talk about being interested and interesting. What to Ask: What would a successful outcome look like for this project? The Four Cs in Action: A Quick Scenario Lets say your team is struggling with a delayed project. Ill take the lead on preparing an update for leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Welcome to the June 2021 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Robyn McLeod provided The Do’s and Dont’s of Inclusive Leadership.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

As an executive leadership coach, my role is to help leaders develop the skills and strategies needed to effectively manage and inspire their smartest team members. They create an environment where challenging projects, complex problems, and continuous learning are the norm.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2024

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2024 curated just for you. The Goodwill Jar : Reflections on Leadership and Legacy by Nick O. Our leadership foundation begins when we are very young, setting the core values that drive choices for the rest of our lives. Every choice builds a legacy.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In this heartfelt episode, Tim Lupinacci, CEO and Chair of Baker Donaldson Law Firm shares his leadership journey and how you can invest in continuous learning and personal growth. You’ll get practical tools for a leadership journey of continuous growth, resilience, and empathy. And can further your leadership journey.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

How Big Things Get Done : The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner (Currency, 2023) Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant, new reality. These are wonderful stories.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 31, 2022

I was six months into a new job and my boss’s boss asked me to take on a major project. I worked hard and gave the project my evenings and weekends until it was done. When I returned the completed project to my boss’s boss (ahead of schedule and with better quality than anything he’d seen), he frowned. Celebrate effort.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Practical Tips to Give Better Feedback If you want to level up your human-centered leadership game, you need two things: The ability to give and receive feedback like a pro. Next time, adding a few graphs would help leadership grasp key points even faster. They get better feedback because communication is a team sport.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 22, 2023

My latest book, Reel Leadership, is now available on Amazon. If you love movies and leadership, you will love this book. But don’t forget; there are leadership lessons in Plane. We will look at those leadership lessons in this article. Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Plane 1. They begin to ask questions.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Genuine gratitude transforms your leadership. An Inexhaustible Source of Leadership Gratitude. Even your direct reports don’t have to follow your leadership. When you embrace this fundamental truth – that everyone is a volunteer – it will change your leadership forever. They choose to.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Gain advanced techniques to strengthen your leadership communication at all levels. Now, discover the communication skills that will transform your leadership and improve team cohesion! Find out how to eliminate communication gaps that slow down progress and create stress. 01:52] The Problem with Asking “Do You Understand?”

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