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Contingency Planning | N2Growth Blog

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As a result, many of them tend to have a major blind-spot (translation: weakness ) when it comes to the anticipation of set-backs. While this is understandable, it is nonetheless naive, and it constitutes a major flaw in the business logic of most strategic plans. link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.]

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When to Restructure | N2Growth Blog

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What do great CEOs do when the business model, the strategic plan, and the revenue hurdles don’t seem to be in alignment? They make changes. They don’t sit idly by and watch the business lose market share, suffer margin erosion, see their competitive value propositions vaporize, or watch their brand go into decline.

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Creating Customer Focused Teams, Part 3

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In time, Stage 1 teams arrive at Stage 2. Stage 2 teams will either get stuck in Stage 2 or move on to Stage 3. Stage 3 teams can slip back into Stage 2 or move on to Stage 4. Progress or slippage depends on whether the team builds on its momentum or rests on its laurels.

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The Advisor’s Corner – Are People Listening to Me?

Strategy Driven

Poor communications skills are rampant in the workplace. The DDI study validates how important emotional intelligence competencies, particularly self-awareness and social skills are in human interactions. When communication is poor or stops, the relationship is poor or stops and vice versa. What happens instead?

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

Professional education is an important ingredient in corporate development. Employees and executives are rarely mentored on the people skills necessary to have a winning team. Team building must be part of the corporate Vision first, not as a series of exercises delegated to trainers. 7 Steps of Professional Development : 1.

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The Advisor’s Corner – How Should I, as a Leader, Communicate?

Strategy Driven

A recent Development Dimensions International study, Driving Workplace Performance through High-Quality Conversations: What leaders must do every day to be effective , reminds us in no uncertain terms, that leaders, peers and direct reports need to hold more effective conversations at work to receive more effective business performance.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Every sound business initiative begins with a solid strategic plan. However while most anyone can cobble together a high level strategic plan, very few can author a strategy that can be successfully implemented. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity.