Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 29, 2023

” If you loved his book “The Coaching Habit,” I know you’re going to dig this conversation. It will get less awkward, and it can be a game-changer.” Watch the video and please share your comments and questions below or join the conversation on LinkedIn! And let us know what you think!

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Agile42

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Q: How did you first start your agile path and end up coaching with agile42? As I progressed into management positions, I began practicing the Agile values in my leadership. Many of the organisations I worked for were proactively adopting Agile transformation initiatives, in which this was when I started coaching.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

It’s what I call a “ Game Changer. ” A game changer is that ah-ha moment that creates an extreme, disruptive advantage or improvement. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers. Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc.,

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CO2 Business Leadership

APRIL 24, 2018

What led you to seek coaching, and why did you choose your particular coach? I was fortunate to move into a leadership role at, what I consider, a fairly young age. I knew I would benefit from a coach when I was hired, and the search committee agreed that it would be a valuable investment for the organization.

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scruminc

JULY 30, 2021

This will be a dynamic dual in-person and virtual experience featuring a mix of lectures and working sessions designed to generate new understanding and thought leadership targeted towards advancing the agile implementation skill set. Sustaining Scrum in the military. ? Gaining approval and buy-in from senior leadership. ?

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JULY 17, 2017

It’s the greatest game in the business world right now, and necessary for long term survival, but such digital reinvention is also one of the hardest journeys to make. Better and New Types of Leadership = Effective Digital Transformation. Better and New Types of Leadership = Effective Digital Transformation.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

There are warning signs you may be stuck in founder-mode and not making the turn to leadership. When you make the turn you accept that your job is to build and sustain a strong team with the alignment and capacity to engage one another and all your people to make the idea real. Leadership is uncomfortable sometimes.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. If you check your ego at the door and give a thoughtful, introspective evaluation of your ability, it is likely that you’ll learn something about your leadership abilities or lack thereof.

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Accenture

MAY 29, 2019

Expanding our brand reach and service delivery this way will help us better serve clients in the region, helping them to realize and sustain their full potential no matter how the environment changes around them. It’s no wonder that some people become very attached to it, whether it’s a VP, a coach, a manager, or team member.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Executive search firms use their unique approach to assess their candidate pool, conduct a robust search process, and fill executive roles with game-changing leaders. . They will also take a personalized approach, which can be extraordinarily detailed, allowing time and space for listening, connecting, coaching, and advising.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

They either weren’t capable of doing what was necessary to polish the rough edges and take their game to the next level, or they failed to recognize their shortcomings to begin with. A cavalier reliance upon what has worked in the past will only take you so far.

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Capgemini

AUGUST 27, 2020

The case for DevOps leadership. DevOps transformation is a symbiosis between top-down leadership commitment and bottom up change from the team level. This client saw DevOps as the solution to address these tensions and knew that leadership was at the helm of making a DevOps transition successful. How do we bring this to life?

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2010

  We'd done a lot of brain work in the morning, had an in-depth discussion with a senior exec over lunch and were getting ready for more coaching and brain work in the afternoon.    Leadership lesson learned? .    Leadership lesson learned?   Leadership lesson learned?

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Accenture

OCTOBER 29, 2018

A universal feature of all the site visits was a recognition that achieving these benefits is dependent on the requisite leadership mindset. Experienced Agile coaches and consultants have regularly observed that the greatest impediment to transforming organizations is transforming the mindsets of its members.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Next week will mark 20 months since the day we all learned that Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson were quarantined with COVID in Australia and the NBA shut down its season on a dime when a player was diagnosed with COVID during pre-game warmups and the arena was cleared of fans. In the United States, March 11, 2020 was the day the pandemic got real.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

But I think it is also a sign that the job of engineering manager has gotten harder, and in many organizations, it can now feel like an unwinnable game, caught between two distinct and sometimes conflicting generations of expectations. This is good. New expectations for managers.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

They either weren’t capable of doing what was necessary to polish the rough edges and take their game to the next level, or they failed to recognize their shortcomings to begin with. A cavalier reliance upon what has worked in the past will only take you so far.

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CO2 Business Leadership

APRIL 19, 2018

Our goal in conducting these client interviews is three-fold: We encourage self-reflection, and these interviews provide clients with a chance to consider why they sought coaching, what the process has meant to them, and what they might do next. As coaches, we want to learn more about what we do well and why, as well as how we can improve.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Through multiple acts of leadership they have organized themselves to take care of their bodies, minds and spirits. Here’s some of what we can learn from the miners: Leaders share the role:   You might assume that the miners’ shift supervisor would take over the sole leadership role. Today was not one of those days.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 30, 2014

England lost 2 games, tied one, finished last in Group D, and was sent home early. In my view the only real approach to sustainable business success is an internal “grow your own” management and leadership program. This year’s 2014 world Cup performance is no exception, despite all the marketing hype and social media frenzy.

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QAspire

JUNE 26, 2014

Old ways of leadership have to give way to newer mental models based on agility in decision making, critical thinking, adaptable learning, people orientation and responsiveness to change. If you don’t have Learning Agility, it’s game over. ~ @JoyAndLife. - – - – -. VUCA is about on-the-go. Amazing, isn’t it?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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Gorilla Logic

JANUARY 10, 2019

kicked off the summit with a look at how organizations can transform themselves into lean enterprises that provide competitive systems and solutions to their customers in the shortest sustainable lead time. Coaching Leaders within Digital Transformation. Inbar Oren , Methodologist and SAFe ® Fellow at Scaled Agile, Inc.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

If you’re interested in becoming a more effective leadership meteorologist, here are a few things to pay attention to: Your Energy Level:   Just like the sun, your energy probably has the biggest impact on the weather.   Is that the kind of climate that will sustain long term results? Is it low, medium or high? Click Here.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 18, 2010

This is the career record of Larry Gelwix, coach of the Highland High rugby team (Salt Lake City) for more than three decades. What struck me the first time I listened to this podcast is how beautifully these principles apply to product management, to leadership and to life in general. Focus on the final score.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The short answer is yes…There are in fact a great number of tests that can quickly assess leadership ability. Something as simple as a 360 Review, or as complex as a deep psychological profile (both with weighted emphasis on leadership aptitude) can point out an individual’s leadership capabilities.

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Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 2, 2013

Home About Coaching Contact Guest Posts Archives. Leadership Profile: Zig Ziglar. Personally, one of my goals is to step up my cooking game! Professionally – grow my side career coaching business. Toastmasters my leadership coaching courses were the best communication training I’ve gotten.

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The Empowered Buisness

OCTOBER 1, 2013

This final part of the article series addresses my top 10 leadership and culture practices for a strong accountability organization. From Accountability to High Performance: Top 10 Leadership and Culture Practices To Make That Giant Leap. Below are my top 10 most important leadership and culture practices necessary to make that leap.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. However my question to you is this: What is leadership without action? Sound harsh?

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

APRIL 30, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus talks with Rich Archbold, vice president of engineering at Intercom.io, about developing an inclusion and diversity plan for his company. Speaker 1: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy high-performing software teams.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Thoughts on Effective Management Consulting Consulting is a trust game. With all this, they might get the first assignment with a customer, but never a sustainable engagement. The more trust you are able to build with your customers, the more you earn (money, respect and credibility).

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It is precisely the dispensing of one-size fits all advice that has allowed the ranks of consultants, coaches, mentors and other professional advisers to swell to historical proportions. Cost cutting and process improvements always have their place, but on their own accord don't constitute a sustainable business model.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. It is the responsibility of executive leadership to set the tone for great teamwork by putting forth a clearly articulated vision, and then aligning every aspect of strategic and tactical decisioning with said vision.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

MAY 28, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus talks with salary negotiation expert Josh Doody about how this counterintuitive decision can benefit you over the long term. Understanding the long game (16:23). You’re taking really big risks because you have to take those risks or you will not win the game. Episode 45.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 6, 2013

Because the culture at Geneca encourages personal and professional development and there was buy-in from the leadership team, the preconditions for innovation already were in place. The executive team conducted multiple one-on-one sessions with the finalists, coaching them on their business plan. The Innovation Group is Born.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2012

In Front Line Heroes , Bruce Hodes offers executives and business leaders advice culled from 30 years of coaching privately held companies ranging from $5 million to $100 million in size. If you are ready to stop playing victim to the times, Front Line Heroes will arm you with the tools you need to achieve sustainable business growth.

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QAspire

JULY 27, 2010

So, quality is a moving target – each time a customer comes back to you, you need to deliver similar or better quality (of products, services and experience), you need to demonstrate improvement, care enough about them, stay on top of market trends and keep changing the rules of the game (innovation). Check it out if you haven’t already !

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