Next Level Blog

APRIL 9, 2025

It would seem, then, that the leadership curve on mental chatter is up and to the right. And this just in, monkey mind is not a great starting point for positive leadership outcomes. I like to keep things simple, and my simple definition of mindfulness is that it equals awareness plus intention. Clear your monkey mind.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Are you ready to discover the power of building resiliency and how it can redefine your leadership journey? Learn from leadership expert Simon T. In this episode, you’ll gain: Practical self-coaching questions to cultivate resilience and self-awareness every day. ”, “What is right about you?

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Leadership self-awareness is a critical skill for any leader to possess. It involves understanding your own strengths, weaknesses, values, and motivations, as well as how these factors impact your leadership style and effectiveness. Reflection helps move awareness forward. What worked well and what didn’t?

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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. Vanderbloemen : Far and away, the least common habit is “Self Awareness.”

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 15, 2025

Self-Awareness. Self-awareness is the cornerstone of emotional intelligence. Self-awareness is critical for delegation. Self-awareness demands introspectionunderstand if youre a visionary who stinks at follow-through or a conflict-resolution ninja who avoids data. Self-Regulation Is The Key.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

It involves self-awareness , self-regulation, motivation, social skills, and empathy. 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.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Role of High-Impact Performance Coaching in Leadership Development of Executives Performance coaching is pivotal in developing executive leaders in today’s dynamic business environment. One of the key benefits of performance coaching for executive development is the opportunity for self-reflection and self-discovery.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of leadership, how we assess and cultivate leadership qualities is undergoing enormous transformation. We delved into the quickly changing environment of leadership and the critical need for organizations to adapt their strategies to keep pace with shifting sands. What values drive them?

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 7, 2025

The gap in your leadership style is costing your organization millions in lost talent and unrealized potential.Recent Deloitte analysis reveals 82% of senior executives overestimate their leadership capabilities, while only 34% of their direct reports rate them as highly effective.

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Leading Blog

JULY 29, 2020

E MOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE is a prerequisite to good leadership. To attempt to lead without it is self-serving. It’s not the kind of leadership that brings others along. Most of the outstanding leaders were not just aware of their emotions or skillful in identifying what emotions other people were experiencing.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As companies strive to stay ahead of the curve and maintain a competitive edge, the need for effective leadership at the executive level becomes paramount. With the help of a skilled coach, executives can identify and address their blind spots, develop critical leadership skills, and navigate complex organizational challenges confidently.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 26, 2022

This is where The Leadership Pause can help. In this episode, Chris Johnson, author of The Leadership Pause gives you tools to sharpen a skill that leads to clarity of mind and heart, reduces stress, and increases resilience. Leadership Pause. 13:58 – How to build the muscle of attention and awareness by practicing pauses.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Impactful authentic leadership requires careful judgment and context. Authentic leadership matters even more during times of stress, uncertainty, and change. And yet, authenticity, like any other leadership competency can wreak havoc at the extremes. What is authentic leadership? Over-Indexing on Self-Deprecation.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Building on the shoulders of such philosophical giants and the subsequent research over millennia, science has further defined, assessed, and developed the concept of character to apply findings to organizational leadership. This is compounded by the fact that self-awareness — a behavior associated with humility — is exceptionally weak.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

E LEVATING your leadership game is a mindset. In Peak Leadership Fitness , author Timothy Tobin writes, “A leadership mindset is essentially the belief in yourself and your abilities as a leader. A negative leadership mindset is rooted in self-doubt, uncertainty, and lack of inquiry. Where to Begin?

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QAspire

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Self-awareness isn’t just nice-to-have for modern day leaders and professionals. How would we amplify our strengths or manage our weaknesses if we aren’ty even aware of them? Blindspots: Things others know about you that you are not aware of. Unknown: Things abut you that neither you are aware about nor others are.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Im talking about the kind of self-awareness that allows you to acknowledge both your strengths and your weaknesses so that you can use them to balance each other and keep yourself going overboard in either direction. Self-awareness allows you to do more of what youre good at and less of what youre not.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Because once you’re great at something, the economic accouterments of being great at something, the prestige, the relevance, the camaraderie, the self-worth of being great … will make you passionate about whatever it is. They have a high level of self-awareness. New goals don’t deliver new results. New lifestyles do.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 14, 2020

Moral humility is the awareness that no matter how self-assured you are about your moral compass, you are vulnerable, under stress or in certain contexts, to losing your way. Remember the Milgram experiments you studied in your Leadership and Accountability class. This is never an attractive quality.

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Leading in Context

OCTOBER 6, 2021

By Linda Fisher Thornton The journey to authentic leadership is not an easy one. It's full of challenges, and it requires developing a high level of self- and other-awareness over time. Knowledge experiences" alone won't be enough to stimulate the kind of learning that is required on this important journey.

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Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2024

I N THE HIGH-STAKES world of leadership, where every decision can be scrutinized and every failure magnified, the concept of vulnerability often takes on a negative connotation, especially among men, who are taught to equate emotional openness with weakness. This humility not only humanizes you it also strengthens the bonds within your team.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

T HE context of leadership has changed. Rose Patten puts it this way in Intentional Leadership : “The spotlight on leadership has moved to how people lead in challenging and changing circumstances. Good leadership happens when someone, by intention, has a positive impact—whether through empathy, inspiration, or wisdom.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2020

D ESPITE what the title Teaching By Heart might imply, it is really a book about servant leadership. It is a journey into self-awareness so that you can serve those you lead or seek to influence in spite of your self-doubt, anxieties, and insecurities. Self-Awareness and Growth. This doesn’t just happen.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 15, 2021

A Reel Leadership Article. Free Guy’s premise is that an NPC (non-playable character in video game speak) suddenly becomes self-aware. This weekend saw the release of Free Guy, a new Ryan Reynolds movie. He no longer follows the programming he was given.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Overused assets can ruin a positive leadership presence. But somehow, your leadership presence isn’t working. Leadership Presence Mistake #1—Tunnel Vision. Focus is a useful leadership skill, but too much of a good thing becomes a liability. Leadership Presence Mistake #2—Emotional Splash.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 1, 2022

Organizations, particularly startups, require changes in executive leadership talent in the business lifecycle to capitalize on growth potential. NerdWallet is an example of when the rapidly growing company missed profitability targets and subsequently changed its leadership team. Second, self-awareness.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in September 2024 curated just for you. Dynamic Drive : The Purpose-Fueled Formula for Sustainable Success by Molly Fletcher This isn’t just another self-help theory: Dynamic Drive is your practical guide to unlocking your true potential.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 24, 2024

The disconnect between leadership success and help-seeking behavior creates a critical vulnerability in organizational effectiveness. While many executives pride themselves on self-reliance, this mindset can limit innovation, slow decision-making, and increase strategic risk. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 25, 2021

T O LEAD people from one place to another in good times and in challenging ones requires a framework like the one presented in Korn Ferry CEO Gary Burnison’s concise book, Leadership U: Accelerating Through the Crisis Curve. The framework is called, The Six Degrees of Leadership. Degree #1: Anticipate.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 11, 2025

Mindset - how a person thinks - what they value - how they view the world around them - how they do the work - belief in the mission - belief in their team and leadership form the foundation of performance. This requires self-awareness, continuous feedback, and a willingness to confront hard truths.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In Voyager, women finally had a realistic representation of female leadership aboard a Star Trek vessel, one that was determined and decisive but also empathic and willing to listen. In fact, she’s almost a prescient paragon of what good leadership looks like in the 21st century. So what exactly is going on?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

But what really resonates with Mark Cuban is Luka’s leadership potential. He is self-aware. We invite you into Mark Cuban’s personal office for a candid, one-on-one conversation about Luka and leadership. Our goal is to help young talent become more self-aware and reach their full leadership potential.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

Welcome to the March 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. David Moser of Decisive Blog writes The Power of “And” in Leadership Communication.

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Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Leaders who cultivate this balance of celebration and learning create teams that are resilient, self-aware, and ready to continuously improve. They had Ralph Sampson, a towering 7-foot-4 center who would go on to be the #1 pick in the NBA draft, and had just come off wins against elite teams like Houston, Georgetown, and Duke.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

They understand the unique pressures and demands of leadership positions and can provide tailored guidance to help executives develop the skills and competencies needed to succeed. The first notable benefit is increased self-awareness.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 23, 2022

“Self Awareness” Does Your Potential Executive Hire Have It? Each year I debrief leadership assessment results with hundreds of C-Suite candidates as an Executive Coach & Consultant at N2Growth. Self-awareness is critical for growth as an executive leader.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In this episode, leadership expert Phil Geldart shares how bringing genuine, meaningful fun into the workplace can transform team dynamics, engagement, and productivity. 02:52 – 04:05 | Early Lessons in Leadership Phil recalls his first leadership experience as a camp counselor, where he learned the value of making tasks enjoyable.

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