N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). The problem is leadership on autopilot. In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle.

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Career Advancement

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

To get there, she knew she had to focus on growing her leadership skills. She began working with an executive coach who gave her weekly exercises to do in order to hone those abilities. If you want to aspire toward a career in leadership, work toward building and developing these characteristics.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Low team morale Alan Clark, senior vice president of strategy at staffing agency Randstad USA, says a low-energy team that’s missing deadlines is a sign that an IT manager isn’t clearly communicating to their team or to management. Focus on small daily improvements and foster open communication with the team.”

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

Most of us can say we have worked with a bad boss before. They can make a job exhausting and confusing, eating up energy that could be better spent enjoying life beyond the nine-to-five. For managers, leadership isn’t one-size-fits-all. What qualities separate the effective leaders from the draining leaders?

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CO2 Business Leadership

JULY 25, 2023

“I need to restructure my business — I’m thinking of eliminating my acquisitions team,” said the CEO of a large professional services firm. But once they take the helm, what distinguishes good from bad leaders is not whether they have the answers, but how often they ask questions. People get promoted for having good answers.

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Career Advancement

AUGUST 12, 2019

Renae Asks: I’m trying to use my time wisely, and that means being strategic in the leadership training opportunities I pursue, as well as the ones I set up for the team I manage. Which qualities would you say are most necessary for people to develop if they wish to become key leaders in their organization ?

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 19, 2021

One of the big themes I’m already working on with my leader clients this year is how to keep their teams energized and engaged as we all push through this pandemic. Here are the big three followed by some resource recommendations that can help you as a leader to give your team what it needs. To have empathy, they need connection.

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CO2 Business Leadership

JULY 25, 2023

“I need to restructure my business — I’m thinking of eliminating my acquisitions team,” said the CEO of a large professional services firm. But once they take the helm, what distinguishes good from bad leaders is not whether they have the answers, but how often they ask questions. People get promoted for having good answers.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

While not all leaders will develop their talents and abilities to the same level, all successful leaders more or less begin with the same foundation. Here’s the thing – the foundational elements of leadership require no skill or talent whatsoever. Leadership is a participation sport and never works well in absentia.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

So the team decided to figure out ways to remove these barriers. In addition to matching up founders and engineers, it also offers its community members access to an active remote-first community of fellow engineers for peer support and career advice, as well as coaching and other transition services.

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Experience to Lead

MARCH 24, 2021

Resilient leaders are some of the greatest leaders, identified by their ability to persevere through the tough times and maintain energy levels under pressure. Resilient leadership helps people manage disruptive changes in an organization and adapt to challenges. And how can they convey that dynamic thinking to a larger team?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

While not all leaders will develop their talents and abilities to the same level, all successful leaders more or less begin with the same foundation. Here’s the thing – the foundational elements of leadership require no skill or talent whatsoever. Leadership is a participation sport and never works well in absentia.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

” In fact, that phrase consistently ranks in the top “ Asking for a Friend” questions in our Leadership Development Programs. Why can’t my team see these issues and fix them?” Micromanagers get over-involved in their team’s day-to-day work. Do you implement the coaching you receive?

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The Empowered Buisness

JANUARY 9, 2015

Do you know how current trends will change the face of leadership in your company? Is your company ready to meet the new leadership challenges in the coming years? Are you aware of how leadership is evolving to respond to those trends? As a result, millennials are being pushed into leadership roles before they are ready.

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CoachStation

AUGUST 26, 2022

Developing the skills to engage team members is important. The risk of not getting leadership and culture ‘right’ are significant. As a leader you are obligated to develop your skills to influence and support each and every team member. Every employee has to own their development and situation too.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

Managers who match the classic bad boss stereotypes of the prior era—managing by fiat, feeding their own ego, giving orders with no context, seagulling with unexpected changes, treating employees like “resources”—will often see their teams evaporate quickly out from under them, or even find their own job at risk.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Here’s the thing – the foundational elements of leadership require no skill or talent whatsoever. Clearly the difference possessed by all great leaders is that they refine, develop and build from their foundation – they don’t ignore it or take it for granted.

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Robots and Pencils

MARCH 31, 2022

Gender differences in communication, negotiation, and leadership are real, and as a woman in a male-dominated field, it’ll fall to you to educate your team members on what you need. Find a mentor or coach to discuss the topics you want to advocate for. product manager, software developer, designer, etc?—?but

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 8, 2018

Traditional engagement metrics such as satisfaction, happiness, well-being let alone cannot explain behaviours, actions and motivation of a high-performance team. Given the similar type of environments, two teams with the same level of engagement may have different levels of performance - one can be high-performing another average performing.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 16, 2014

Jennifer encourages leaders to give some thought to career conversations they have with their team. Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership brings us a timeless list of great advice in his post 15 Timeless Work Habits For Career Success. Try these 13 tips from The People Skills Coach™ to take you even further. Follow Ryan @jryan48.

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Nathan Magnuson

APRIL 3, 2017

I recently conducted a needs assessment for a senior executive group and was surprised when one of the highest rated development needs was stress management. Ultimately, it’s not mediocre results that limit effectiveness, it’s any kind of results (good or bad) spent heading in the wrong direction. Clarity brings focus.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Michael Lopp discuss the small practices that make a good leader. Listen to learn about building trust, respect, and relationships in a leadership role. Leadership practices are small things done repetitively over time. @2:29. Leadership is a skill. @3:32.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Michael Lopp discuss the small practices that make a good leader. Listen to learn about building trust, respect, and relationships in a leadership role. Leadership practices are small things done repetitively over time. @2:29. Leadership is a skill. @3:32.

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Change Starts Here

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Listen to hear how to know if you or others have poor “work-life balance” and what the impact on the organization is, and how to go about implementing role integration concepts at work. Beware of Bad Change Management. How can you tell the good ones from the bad ones? Lean Into Authentic Leadership.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Tell them that the role of ScrumMaster is as a servant-leader, coach, and facilitator, navigating the dynamics of the team to ensure Scrum practices are followed and value is delivered effectively. Servant Leadership: prioritizing the needs of the team and helping others to perform as highly as possible.

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scruminc

AUGUST 25, 2021

The World Economic Forum ranked Scrum Master as #6 in their listing of product development jobs of tomorrow. By definition Scrum Masters are “ leaders who serve ” organizations and Scrum Teams in many ways. Sometimes they focus on the needs of a team or an individual, sometimes the organization as a whole. .

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 6, 2014

The implications for how extroverts interact and gain energy are a lot different from introverts. You may ask for the input of other people who know you closely or enlist a coach to help you interpret the results. Look for areas where you can further your development. The truth is that we’re all different. That’s it.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2017

Almost every sales manager was, at one point in their career, a peak-performing sales professional, top dog on the team. This presents a problem because managing and leading a sales team requires a completely different mindset from selling. Great sales managers see themselves as observers and coaches , not players.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

This isn’t rocket science, rather it’s just plain-old, good leadership. It is my experience that they either lack the personal skill sets, or haven’t built the right executive team to lead change, they just don’t recognize the need for change, or they just don’t care.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Scale: Team and/or across multiple teams. Potential Solutions: Service or Servant Leadership. Leadership Focuses on Strategy and Creating an Effective Work Environment. This is a critical consideration because, at the heart of Scrum, we’re attempting to grow a group of people into a resilient, high-performing team.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Lastly, I’ll leave you with this reminder – leadership is not about how many emails, memos and transmittals are sent under your signature – it’s about relationships, service, and engagement. A mouse running on a mousewheel can perfect their stride and reduce the amount of energy it takes to get "moving."

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

[ Today’s guest post is from my friend and colleague Richard Corder Richard is a passionate advocate for patient safety and a high-level coach and consultant in the healthcare industry. He also happens to be a Certified Facilitator of The Extreme Leadership Workshop. —SF Extreme Leadership by Richard Corder.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

APRIL 10, 2013

Let’s say that you’ve built up a great team of IT professionals to run your IT department. Dr. Monika Hamori and her team have done the research to find out what’s going on here for us. What they found out is that a lot of the problem had to do with dissatisfaction with employee development efforts.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Lara Hogan discuss what it means to be a resilient manager. Manager dens- where you can experience coaching, mentoring, and a safe space, Vegas rules session. @23:57. Mentoring is sharing advice and perspective; coaching is helping someone come to their own conclusions.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 18, 2010

  The situation has never been as bad as me being on one side of the window with the audience on the other (if you don’t include video conferences that is), but I have had some set-ups that have been close to that bad. Be as specific as you can be with yourself about the optimal levels of energy and engagement in the room.

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