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 1, 2024

How to help your team challenge assumptions for better creativity and problem-solving In our Courageous Cultures research, 67% said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” ” That’s not just a lack of imagination. What would you add as #8?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 19, 2014

I love this Harvard Business Review video, The Biggest Mistake a Leader Can Make. Team leaders operate under constant pressure- up-down-and sideways- coupled with limited control. They manage them like employees instead of connecting as humans. Do what you can to manage up and sideways to make your team’s job easier.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

As you meet more people and learn about the business, validate or invalidate your hypotheses, which will become the basis of your future vision, strategies, and/or operational plans. Share this information with your manager as a head start to your performance review. Capture your hypotheses, ideas, and observations in a journal.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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HR Digest

MARCH 3, 2023

The introduction of HR technology has revolutionized the way HR departments operate. To this effect, it’s important for HR managers to determine and focus on the technology trends that play a role in HR operations. We will explore how these technologies can be leveraged to streamline HR operations and improve overall efficiency.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

London Business School strategy professor, Freek Vermeulen , wrote in the Harvard Business Review , “One major reason for the lack of action is that ‘new strategies’ are often not strategies at all. What has become more clear about our business and the way we operate this year?

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

Armed with these insights, I developed a service proposal that described how we would work together in creating a strategic plan and implementing a strategic management process. We agreed to postpone the discussion about establishing a strategic management process until our work was further along. Employees and their needs change.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Between surging demand, labor shortages, outdated air traffic management, and travel reservation I.T. That’s a shame because the aviation industry as a whole still continues to be an industry model for how to operate with extremely high reliability despite having a highly fragmented set of organizational entities. In the U.S.,

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2024

The Benefits of Salon Management Software Integrating management software in a salon environment brings a landslide of operational benefits. Salon owners leveraging these digital solutions find they can more accurately manage bookkeeping, streamline appointment schedules, and keep a vigilant eye on stock levels.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

The Current Digital Landscape Today’s digital landscape is constantly changing, revolutionizing how businesses and industries operate. Extensive networks, data streams, and state-of-the-art digital technologies are increasingly becoming the foundation of modern operational strategies.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

It’s about cultivating a diverse pool of talent that reflects the world we operate in and the clients we serve.” This means actively promoting gender balance, ethnic diversity, and inclusivity in all talent management processes.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Robust supply chain leadership ensures effective oversight and management of the end-to-end supply chain processes, from procurement to delivery. Effective leaders in this space have the ability to optimize supply chain operations, streamline processes, and identify cost-saving opportunities.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

A significant area of responsibility you’ll find yourself taking on board when running a business is managing its finances. Operate to a Budget. You’re going to need to operate to a budget , meaning that you should take into account how much money you have available to spend within your business and where you want to attribute it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

What I can do is (insert your “yes” here, for example, recommend another resource; meet with you for an hour to review your approach; or remove a roadblock). In our Courageous Cultures research, 67% of employees said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.”

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

Review any list of positive leadership traits and “ passion &# will undoubtedly rank near the top – rightly so. Another trait of healthy passionate thinking is to recruit tier-one talent at the executive leadership and senior management levels in order to stimulate innovation and thought growth.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Identifying, attracting, and retaining top healthcare executives who can harmonize quality care, regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, and long-term growth is no small task. To meet these challenges, we leverage our healthcare sector knowledge and a rigorously developed methodology that goes beyond reviewing a candidates CV.

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Management Excellence

JULY 25, 2021

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Persuasive Powerhouse

APRIL 9, 2019

Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of meeting some pretty awesome managers who are also awesome leaders. But the difference between these really smart and driven managers and those that are operating in a less-then-optimal way is that they also do things that aren’t in their job description. They need to hear it from you.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Coaching sharpens essential leadership skills such as decision-making, strategic thinking, and people management. Track Progress and Adapt: Regularly review your progress against your goals. Focus on Continuous Improvement: Regularly review and refine business processes and strategies.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 30, 2012

The team didn’t live up to its expectations, and your operating division is going to miss its budget target. I was noting a string of bad behavior incidents and morale issues, and suggested that the manager there needed to “get tougher” with his team. You’ve had a difficult year.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 2, 2019

Guest post from Alexandra Levit: As a futurist, it’s my job to track the evolution of the 21st century organization, and as of late we’ve come upon new challenges in reputation management, intellectual property, and digital transformation and disruption. To operate effectively in this climate, planning and investment is essential.

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 23, 2022

By understanding the complexities involved in automotive logistics and utilizing the latest technologies and methods, companies can improve operations across all stakeholders, including customers, employees, and shareholders. . Process automation is a great way to reduce manual labor while increasing the speed and accuracy of operations.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It’s the board’s prerogative to chart a strategic course, oversee the operational ambit, and instill a culture of accountability—morphing it into a cornerstone of organizational governance. It orchestrates the operational rhythm, supervises decision-making, and enforces accountability across the hierarchy.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

In all my years of experience as a leader and manager, in the public, private and voluntary and community sectors, I have tried to keep things simple. I still encounter too many organisations that operate by the seat of their pants – no vision, no values, no mission, and no strategy. Focus on basics and keep it simple.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This includes evaluating whether the board composition is diverse and well-aligned with the organization’s goals, whether there are clear roles and responsibilities defined for board members, and whether the board operates with transparency and integrity.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

High-performance leaders operate with a growth mindset and are great communicators. A growth mindset means they operate with: 1. They operate with an abundant, as opposed to a scarcity, mindset. Titled Leaders” operate from a scarcity mindset. Leadership gets the team going and management keeps it going.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 29, 2014

When you’ve been writing a blog for 5 years as I have starting this month, one of the things you appreciate as being a key factor behind your longevity in this sphere is the importance of taking a vacation break to employ the 3 R’s – rest, review, and reflection.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Let me make this as simple as I can; managing expectations is gamesmanship – aligning them is leadership. Once you have gained clarity as to the perceived need to be fulfilled, place your understanding of the deliverables in writing by outlining key business points and circulate the document for review and comments.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 30, 2021

They’ve been following through on advice they’ve been given by colleagues that can be summed up as being more proactive and less reactive in their approach to time management. Here’s what they’ve been doing to reap the benefits of managing their time more proactively (and, in the interest of you doing the same, I’ll keep this brief!)

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

AND then, I became a large team operations leader. Review what worked and the habits that got you there. You can manage your team as a portfolio of S curves. Is it familiar, yet novel? One hundred percent. The first decade of my career (and all my formal education) was about leadership development and communication.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 15, 2020

Unfortunately, I rarely see leaders and managers looking up for a view of their direction and keeping busy, busy, busy! Our current health crisis provides an ideal opportunity, and yet I wonder how many leaders and managers are truly taking advantage of it or will continue with it, post-COVID? How productive is it? Does it add value?

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Yet it affects so much of a how a business operates, from the individual in the team to the company as a collection of teams to the entire market place. Many of these have different reporting lines with team managers who sometimes have different agendas for the success of the team. Michael Jordan. It is definitely a case of 1+1=3.

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Leading Blog

JULY 20, 2020

And the conundrum emerges even when you are a manager. If you are going to have the power to operate without authority and work things out at your own level—what I call working sideways (and diagonal)—then, first, you’ve got to align yourself with the people making decisions: you’ve got to go vertical. What can you do?

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

John Hunter , from Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog , says “ One item I think every leader should have in their IDP is to continue to improve coaching their staff. Examples: an accounting manager could shadow HR for a day or an person in operations could learn more about the sales process. Tacy Byham, Ph.D.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 12, 2024

This inevitable change can sometimes cause instability and uncertainty within the workforce if not managed carefully. Effective leadership succession fills the vacancy left by a departing leader, ensuring a seamless transition and continuity in the organization’s strategic direction and operations.

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