N2Growth Blog

JUNE 16, 2019

Twelve years after launching culture change consulting services, I am finally sitting down to write about six defining values of a leadership culture. These are factors I’ve learned that define whether an organization can improve their Culture or not. How does that define one’s culture?

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CIO

DECEMBER 4, 2024

And to ensure a strong bench of leaders, Neudesic makes a conscious effort to identify high performers and give them hands-on leadership training through coaching and by exposing them to cross-functional teams and projects. “But for practical learning of the same technologies, we rely on the internal learning academy we’ve established.”

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

To be clear, many women leave for better opportunities or because of a mismatch with their current employers workplace culture factors that arent related to gender and likewise prompt men to leave their roles, says Kristen Lamoreaux, president and CEO of Lamoreaux Search.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 29, 2021

This article explores probable sources of mental breakdowns and lack of motivation and confidence along with types of burnout and describes the role agile coaches and organizational leaders can therefore play in addressing burnout. Burnout is not only an individual issue, it happens in teams and organizations. By Anna Lavrova.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 29, 2020

Introducing business-oriented automated testing can involve a huge cultural change. For this we really need a Test Coach role, just like we have agile coaches and scrum masters.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 30, 2019

A resilient culture is built one person at a time, winning companies cultivate cultures that enable their people to develop the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties. Resilient people make resilient cultures. It is through that community of leaders that the culture shifts.

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CO2 Business Leadership

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Executive coaching has become a pivotal strategy for businesses aiming to navigate the complexities of modern leadership. Understanding the ROI of Executive Coaching is crucial for organizations committed to fostering growth, innovation, and sustainable success. What is ROI of Executive Coaching Mean?

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 4, 2021

Virtual coaching can help to improve group interaction or social dynamics in virtual settings where people work together remotely as a group or team. By William Rothwell, Cho Hyun Park.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Martin Fowler wrote an article in 2003 titled Cannot Measure Productivity. The founders were immersed in XP, and XP is where we want to return, but there was a period of time where the company grew quickly and lost that XP culture. This is a matter of changing organizational culture, and organizational culture isnt easy to change.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 12, 2022

This article describes how staff+ engineers transition to supporters, enablers and force multipliers of others and what technical leadership looks like away from the management track. It explains the benefits for organisations to have leadership roles that are focussed on technical enablement and support. By Nicky Wrightson.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 19, 2021

However, so many of the articles from the first half of the year are so timely now, we wanted to give you a chance to read any you may have missed. This leadership blog from 2014 continues to be our most-read leadership article. Read the article here. Most Popular Leadership Blog Articles. Read more here.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MAY 23, 2022

Having found what I thought was my calling as an agile coach, I took the tough decision to move sideways into Product Management in the hope of using what I’d learned to one day run my own department. I believed that coming from coaching would allow me to see things others could not and create something special.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In this article, we take a deeper look at the practice and purpose of agile coaching. We find out why interactions are the most essential focus in agile coaching - and also the basis of learning and professional development for the agile coaches themselves.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

AUGUST 23, 2022

This paper presents how agile coaching has been employed to run an SRE transformation in a 25-teams strong product delivery organization. Establishing SRE in a software delivery organization typically requires a socio-technical transformation. By Philipp Gündisch, Vladyslav Ukis.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

This article explores four key areas that can help a change consultant succeed when dealing with toxic people. Psychopathic or narcissistic toxic employees can slow down the adoption of change in the company. Many of the techniques or practices you use with healthy people do not work well with psychopaths or narcissists. By Erich Bühler.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JANUARY 29, 2024

In this article, you will discover how and which parts of coaching and nuanced language can help you leverage your interactions to yield better results in product management.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 15, 2020

As a coach, what do you need to know to have more success, getting your foot in the door of a client company? What obstacles will you have to overcome?

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InfoQ Culture Methods

DECEMBER 26, 2022

This article provides an introduction to group coaching and explains how it is different from individual coaching.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

While these articles tended to stir the pot a bit, they were in my opinion mostly missing the mark. The articles should have been written on the topic of poor leadership. It’s also important to understand that a toxic culture cannot exist if toxic people are not allowed to take up residence.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

AUGUST 4, 2021

This article shares how Padawans and Jedis can inspire and teach us how to help people of a wide variety of backgrounds, ages, and experience levels to observe and understand failures in production. It covers practical lessons learned and shares how you can create and rollout a program for SRE Apprentices within your organization.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 10, 2020

Change is our work as agile coaches and leaders. As online collaboration technologies improve and we begin to understand how flexibility and choice become critical in distributed work, modeling and teaching experimentation is important for agile coaches all leaders. By Mark Kilby.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 12, 2019

My such experience has inspired this article, 10 exceptional strategies for extraordinary executives. As a coach, my goal is always to see my client succeed. In the process of implementing employee engagement studies, in almost every case, this is one of the most challenged corporate culture areas. 2 by their side.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 20, 2021

Test Leadership means focusing more on raising the awareness of testing across an organisation, and coaching/mentoring your team to be passionate advocates for quality. Test management is dead, it just really needs to evolve.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 5, 2023

As a person with autism or other neurodiversity, it’s important to get to know yourself really well. It’s even better if another person can get to know you from the inside-out. Dennie Declercq and his mom Ivette Marchand found a way to allow for open and vulnerable communication between them.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JANUARY 4, 2021

Niall McShane has written a book Responsive Agile Coaching, aimed at people who are coaching individuals, teams and organisations in new ways of working to help guide others in adapting to changing circumstances and responding to new demands.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Culture and Teamwork. Organizations have many walls that hamper culture, development, and operations. Jim Bouchard of The Sensei Leader shares that leadership by example should be part of the culture at every rank. The first step is creating a great workplace culture. ” – Michael Jordan. Follow Jim.

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Moreover, it helps sustain the company culture and largely benefits the organisation, particularly employee productivity and performance. Company/Organisation Culture Benefits. This makes a cultural shift from output to outcomes. If you liked this article, feel free to visit my company Products and Services pages.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 8, 2022

When you see a consistent pattern of negativity from someone on your team, it can be tempting to jump in and try to coach them out of it. There are four areas that can create the behaviors we interpret as negative—and only one of them is a situation where coaching would be most appropriate. You can use the I.N.S.P.I.R.E. Exhaustion.

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2023

I’ll be covering more examples of force multipliers in upcoming articles, and here are three to start that should apply to most CIOs and their IT organizations. The organization’s size, types of programs, compliance requirements, and cultural readiness are just a few of the key variables requiring consideration.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

What we want on our “billboard” influences the clients we choose to work with and the commitments we make; the books and articles we write (and read); the guests we invite to our shows ; and how we design every l eadership development program and keynote speech. Related Articles on Managing Your Leadership Brand.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 15, 2023

Topics such as trauma-informed law, volleyball coaching, legal counseling, education, and social activism have arisen. Scientific and clinical understanding of how the human nervous system develops and works has increased tremendously. Its implications are so profound they radiate far beyond the field of psychology. By Anton Skornyakov

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InfoQ Culture Methods

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In this article, Carly Richmond ponders the successes and challenges of adopting their first Obstacle Board. Life is full of obstacles, there’s bound to be a few blockers along the way.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

Those folks had deeper issues going on and probably needed a therapist more than an executive coach. This article is not for them, but for you, the well-intentioned, human-centered leader looking to gain the respect of their team. In Courageous Cultures , I share a story of a well-intentioned manager who was coming across as a bully.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 28, 2023

In this article, Dietrich Moerman tells his own story about ADHD while working as a software developer and becoming a team lead, what he learned, and what he found to be working well to help people with ADHD and more to thrive in their teams and companies.

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

While a vision can sound witty and unforgettable, it is meant for your team and culture. If you liked this article, feel free to visit my company´s Products and Services pages. We provide Team Coaching , Agile Training and Agile Consulting , OKR Training and OKR Consulting , Innovation Training and Innovation Consulting.

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Agile42

JUNE 29, 2020

I noticed an article in the news the other day about the toxic culture in one of South Africa’s large organisations. The article was speaking about how that toxic culture was impacting the bottom line of the company. How culture impacts more than we can see. Cultures of blame can be similar.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 20, 2014

Bill Benoist of Leadership Heart Coaching shares Accepting Change. Brian Sooy of Lead Change Group offers Positive Communication Leads to a Culture of Innovation. In this article, David shares a practical tool you can use to reduce and eliminate wasted change-related emotional energy. Follow Bob @rwhipple.

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