Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Narrowly defining leadership restricts innovation by excluding countless points of view and modes of operating. When leaders are pressured into leadership styles that go against their natural way of operating, they are set up for failure. It’s like wearing a set of clothes that don’t fit.

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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. Tech Savviness: Leveraging technology to boost operational efficiency.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

A 2024 report from Wiley supports this shift, with 63% of those who received soft skills training reporting a positive impact on their job performance. For instance, an interim CFO is expected not only to manage day-to-day financial operations but also to craft and execute innovative financial strategies to drive growth.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 22, 2023

This meant around 70% of gig workers reported feeling insecure about their reputations. ” What’s more, the researchers believe that companies were often operating with insufficient checks and balances to ensure the ratings were reliable, and neither were robust processes in place to help correct or redress the balance provided.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 10, 2014

I was pretty shocked by the reports of how Laura had acted in that impromptu encounter. What I do know for sure is that my rage had me operating out of the wrong side of my brain. Clearly I had to address the “rude and snarky attitude” but first I had to understand it. “Can you tell me what happened?,”

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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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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Operational Excellence is a systematic approach to improving business processes and performance. Gallup reported that over 50% of employees surveyed in 2015 were not engaged, and 17.2% Employee Empowerment: A core aspect of operational excellence is empowering employees to contribute to continuous improvement.

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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. 3) Build Multiple Relationships Within your first week on the job, host 1-hour on-boarding meetings with each of your direct reports.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 8, 2021

After conducting a few million DILOs (Day in the Life of) across 30,000 organizational operations assessments, we found one thing in common. Take the data from your reporting and use it to engage your teams in conversation about their work. Supervisors hold the success of a business in their hands, and it’s all in how they manage.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 22, 2013

One extremely successful leader who understands the importance of this best practice is Admiral Vern Clark, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 2000 until his retirement in 2005. Provide your direct reports autonomy to set their Top Five, 4. As head of the U.S. Communicate Your Top Five. Provide Autonomy. When you: 1.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

to discuss what operational screenings and organizational development exams you need and when you need them. Your operations deserve a longer, healthier life. And according to heath data reports, only about half (47%) of people with high blood pressure have their condition under control. Treatments when your operations are sick.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2014

Ian McAllister, General Manager at Amazon, reports that one of his greatest challenges as a new manager was thinking too small. Unfortunately, diving deep into operational details carries a heavy opportunity cost. I have seen this failure happen with highly skilled technical professionals.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Ned used the learning cycle to approach a difficult conversation with a direct report, Chuck. He could point to the economic impact of Ed’s actions by reviewing financial reports. Instead of operating habitually, you can use this process deliberately to improve performance, learn something new, and achieve your goals.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 8, 2017

Regardless of titles or functional position, the lead role in a security organization is expected to wear many hats and solve a myriad of strategic, operational and tactical problems. Today’s information security leaders are faced with: Technology aligned reporting structure. Security leaders are primarily reporting to the CIO.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

The hotel opened in 705 AD and is still operating. Professor Makoto Kanda from Meiji Gakuin University studied the Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan Hotel and other long-term operating businesses to understand their longevity. An orientation to something more than money and metrics is hard to find in most Wall Street analyses and reporting.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 23, 2020

Yet Gallup reports that 55% of Millennial employees remain disengaged at work. Nathan is also a military veteran, having served with the Army Special Operations in Operation Iraqi Freedom. If you want an engaged and productive young professional workforce that isn’t looking to jump ship to your competitor, the answer is yes!

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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.” In 2021, the Harvard Business Review reported that “companies with more diverse management teams have 19% higher revenue due to innovation.”

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Leading Blog

JULY 20, 2020

You’ve probably asked your direct reports to work things out at their own level, too. You, your colleagues, and your direct reports are grappling with what I call “the authority conundrum.” The same goes for your direct reports. Align with Your Direct Reports. Remember, somebody is always in charge.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

There are news reports of leadership misdeeds almost daily; leaders who pursue unethical approaches display a significant lack of regard for the dignity of others. Instead, people want to know that the way their organizations operate is ethical. Leaders who do this respect others’ dignity. Do you see me? “Do Do you see me?”

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 25, 2024

For instance, this is especially so in areas such as providing the right platform for innovation to thrive by helping to simplify processes and operations. This was one of four key elements that technology can help with that will help to drive innovation.

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Leading in Context

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

In the UNESCO report "The Media: Operation Decontamination," Aidan White notes that "Today, it’s not just journalists who need to watch their language and show respect for the facts; everyone with something to say in the public information sphere needs to show some ethical restraint."

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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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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Leading executive search firms operate in very specific ways to find top leaders who can take a company to its desired future state. While executive search firms have been around for decades, there’s been a recent, revolutionary shift in the ways executive search firms operate. How do executive search firms work?

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Ghosn spent two decades building a colossal partnership between Nissan and Renault that looked like a new model for a global business, but the alliance's shiny image fronted an unsteady, tense operation. Expertly reported, Collision Course explores the complex suspicions around what and who was really responsible for Ghosn's ouster.

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Leading Blog

MAY 13, 2021

Power Moms from all generations reported to me that they had become better bosses by raising families. It’s a quality greatly valued by companies because they must operate in an increasingly complex and diverse global economy.”. Motherhood transforms many women into better leaders. They also managed with empathy.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

Thirteen out of fourteen of my direct reports were men. The Associate Director of Operations on the team, “Greg” was an absolute rock star and was the obvious successor for that role. I had been promoted to lead a 2200 person retail sales team at Verizon. The problem was I had zero sales experience.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 26, 2022

An hour a month to get up on the balcony with your team and get clear about how you’re going to operate on the dance floor over the next 30, 60 and 90 days can go a long way to reducing the swirl and churn and the frustration that comes with it. Click here to get a free copy of the template that you can use with your team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

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.” ” It’s tricky to be quick and clever in a scene like that. 7 Ways to Help Your Team Be More Resourceful.

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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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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

Obsessed with a focus on successful reports, these leaders avoided negative news and data. As a strategic leader, you cannot operate in the smaller space that defined you as an expert. It was a major trust-buster, and the survivors lost motivation for the work. It could have been a much different story.

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Execution 360-Degree Feedback Collins Learning-by-Doing 356

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 16, 2018

In 2015 alone, as much as 23 percent of staff reported doing some of their work from outside the office, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In fact, according to a survey report by Citi, workers spend an average of 200 hours per year commuting to and from work, which produces roughly $2,600 in costs. Final Thoughts.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Thirteen out of fourteen of my direct reports were men. The Associate Director of Operations on the team, “Greg” was an absolute rock star and was the obvious successor for that role. I had been promoted to lead a 2200 person retail sales team at Verizon. The problem was I had zero sales experience.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Many corporate HR teams are operating in a legacy model, bogged down with hiring downstream talent and struggling to quickly and efficiently source top-shelf talent. They reported that compensation packages went from $160k to $350k annually to attract and retain the best talent.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Her areas of expertise include talent operations and strategy, and C-suite executive recruitment, mainly but not exclusively in technology organizations. Vukelic served as the chief operating officer of N2Growth. Vukelic has spent more than two decades in executive search. Earlier, Ms. Greater Executive Candidate Pool.

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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. When the business environment in which leaders and organizations must operate has changed considerably.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2019

Trust needs to become baked into the DNA, strategy, and day-to-day operations of all aspects of business because it impacts relationships with all the business stakeholders. A joint report developed with the United Nations Global Compact found that 88 percent of investors see sustainability as a route to competitive advantage.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 2, 2014

Earlier this year, Neiman Marcus reported that they were working with U.S. Getting back to Target, major kudos to the board for having excellent operational experience. Department of Defense, TIAA-CREF and others to defraud these companies and their customers of more than $15 million. CEO’s abound on this board.

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