Niagara Institute

DECEMBER 20, 2023

However, as you soon found, managing people requires different skills than what is needed to excel as an individual contributor. You’ve recently received a promotion to a people management role - congratulations! Anyone can take on a new title and delegate tasks , but there is much more to being an effective manager than that.

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Manager 98

BetterUp

APRIL 27, 2023

They’re essential for leaders and individual contributors to hone. Communication skills are some of the most utilized and the most sought after in the workplace.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

That idea of judgment in the age of AI was a central tenet of the work of the authors’ late colleague, visionary friend, and longtime HBR contributor Alessandro Di Fiore. Alessandro believed in putting humans at the center and considered technology to be a way to help people augment their creativity, autonomy, and critical thinking.

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Forbes Leadership

MARCH 22, 2023

Featuring Maggie McGrath, Editor, ForbesWomen, Huma Abedin, Vice Chair, 30/50 Summit, MSNBC Contributor and Author and Mika Brzezinski, Founder, Know Your Value, Co-Host, Morning Joe; and Forbes 30/50 Summit Chair.

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Forbes Leadership

MARCH 22, 2023

Jessica Alba, Founder & Chief Creative Officer, The Honest Company talks with Suneera Madhani, Founder, Stax, Kelly Sawyer, Co-CEO of Baby2Baby and moderator, Huma Abedin, Vice Chair, 30/50 Summit, MSNBC Contributor and Author.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 20, 2022

Within the workplace there are Contributors and Impact Players – each representing a distinct way of working – the first leads to a job well done while the other carves a path to true leadership and generates immense value. Interestingly, Wiseman explains that having the Impact Player mindset does not lead to workaholism or burnout.

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Energy Manager 78

Forbes Leadership

MAY 26, 2023

New research shows diversity, equity, and inclusion are valuable contributors to a company’s ability to navigate change.

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Inclusion Diversity 77

Alison Green

APRIL 17, 2024

I do wonder if Fiona will reflect on her own behavior after time passes and realize she was the main contributor to the problem. I directed our team strictly not to engage with her over any work-related issues. She could have continued to work part-time as initially agreed if not for all these issues. This was a bizarre experience.

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Manager 102

David Grossman

MAY 2, 2024

Our recent research conducted in partnership with The Harris Poll underscores this, as many employees and managers we surveyed identified constant change as a primary contributor to mounting burnout levels. Naturally, all that change can feel overwhelming for employees and their supervisors.

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Change Fatigue Manager Change Management 58

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

He is a prolific writer, a frequent contributor to HBR and other outlets, and a sought-after commentator on technological change – especially, these days, on the potential of generative AI. Andrew McAfee is a principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Manager Digital Transformation Organizational Development 87

Forbes Leadership

JUNE 16, 2022

I gathered data from 2,571 individual contributors from Marketing, Operations, HR, Finance, Product Development, Legal, Engineering, IT, and Research and Development.

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Engineering Operations Marketing 71

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 18, 2022

But before we get to that, I want you to think about it as a team member, as an individual contributor. Most of us have plenty of goals that we set in our lives – health, financial, personal. And today we’re talking about team goals or organizational goals. Have you ever had someone hand you […].

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 28, 2022

Within the workplace there are Contributors and Impact Players – each representing a distinct way of working – the first leads to a job well done while the other carves a path to true leadership and generates immense value. Interestingly, Wiseman explains that having the Impact Player mindset does not lead to workaholism or burnout.

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Energy Manager 52

Rhythm Systems Growth

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

For many team leaders, HR professionals and individual contributors, the performance review process is one of the most dreaded exercises there is. HR leaders hate nagging managers to complete them, tracking who has done what when, and following up to ensure compliance.

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Performance Review Compliance Manager Accounts 86

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 26, 2023

These contributors answer the following five questions for Debbie and the answers are both informational and interesting: Which three business books have made the biggest impact on your career?

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Nonprofit Marketing Manager 72

Tanveer Nasser

APRIL 7, 2020

So how can they overcome this hurdle and become more valued contributors to their organization? Bonnie is a renowned executive coach who specializes in helping women decode their organization's culture in order to not only help them advance in their careers, but become stronger contributors to their organizations goals.

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Niagara Institute

APRIL 27, 2023

It was recently uncovered that managers are two times more likely than individual contributors to seek a new role. The sheer volume of obstacles those in management face is nothing as they’ve experienced before, and unfortunately, many managers are ready to throw in the towel.

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Manager 52

Peter Winick

DECEMBER 30, 2022

There are budgets that are at the discretion of a leader or a manager or an individual contributor. So, there are developmental budgets. There are event budgets. There are marketing budgets.

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Marketing Manager 130

Kevin Eikenberry

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Perhaps the toughest transition people make in their professional lives is the transition from being an individual contributor to being a leader. Many years ago, we started calling that the move “from bud to boss” and 10 years ago this week, our book with that title: From Bud to Boss: Secrets to a Successful Transition […].

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Satisfaction 131% Knowledge Gain 88% Net Promoter Score This global biotech leader knew that transforming from a successful individual contributor to effectively leading people doesn’t happen by accident — especially with scientists and highly technical employees. The new manager training results were: 93.5% Job Relevance 97.6%

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Biotech Diversity Leadership Development Manager 36

Niagara Institute

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The kind of manager that you always wanted to work for when you were an individual contributor. You didn’t set out to be the absolute greatest; you simply wanted to be a good manager for the people in your charge and yourself too.

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Manager 52

Association Now Leadership

MARCH 14, 2024

That makes them enormously valuable contributors to your organization—and deserving of recognition for it. Too often, “introvert” is defined as insecure or shy, when it’s really just a different, less showy way of going about one’s business. The post How to Support Your Introverts appeared first on Associations Now.

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Compensation Workflows Energy Manager 102

Scott Elbin

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Keep things focused and efficient by keeping the table populated with key contributors and decision makers. Keep the Table Small : Limit the number of participants in your meetings to primary principals only. No observers, no people who “need to know,” no back benchers.

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Niagara Institute

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Understandably, this can make the transition from doing the work (individual contributor) to leading the people doing the work feel like a real challenge. The job of a supervisor is to manage employee and team performance, deliver results, promote best practices, and tackle challenges as they arise.

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Manager 52

Leadership Freak

MAY 5, 2020

You’re an individual contributor – not a leader – when you work in isolation. You might think leadership would be easy if it wasn’t for people. Try sending everyone home! Relationship… Continue reading →

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Leadership Development 68

Get Lighthouse

JANUARY 5, 2024

Wondering how to advance past your team of individual contributors to leading a group of managers? 2) Be a great manager of individual contributors. To tell if you're ready, ask yourself if you are a great manager of individual contributors today. Are you managing your own team? There's a lot to learn to reach the senior level.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

93% Job Relevance 95% Satisfaction 67% Knowledge Gain 93% Net Promoter Score This fast growing Healthcare Leader knew that transforming from a successful individual contributor to leading a team of people doesn’t happen by accident.

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Manager Diversity Inclusion Implementation 36

Alison Green

MARCH 20, 2024

” Fast forward two months and four more interviews (this was for an individual contributor role, not a manager), and I get a job offer. I even acknowledged that and said something along the lines of, “I know that’s right up to the top of the range.”

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Get Lighthouse

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

When you take the leap from individual contributor to managing a team, a lot changes. As an individual contributor, you are judged only on your own work and results you deliver. Because you are no longer an individual contributor, you need to think about what work you can do that has a multiplier effect for your team.

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Lolly Daskal

MARCH 9, 2023

This lack of personalized, impactful training is a significant contributor to the failure of these programs to yield positive results. As an executive leadership coach, I have observed that most organizations’ leadership development programs are standardized and one-size-fits-all. I always encourage my clients to try something new.

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Alison Green

APRIL 15, 2024

Annie was more of a star individual contributor than Beth, and also had more experience covering the open position. A reader writes: I am a long-time manager, but promotions are a rarity on my team. When an unexpected opportunity for a promotion arose earlier this year, there were two obvious candidates: Annie and Beth.

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Energy Manager 111

Rhythm Systems Growth

MARCH 28, 2022

Perhaps you use a hiring method like Topgrading to ensure that you bring in only the best people - the ones who are superstar contributors and a good fit for your culture and Core Values. Many successful mid-market companies have cracked the hiring code. But, then what? How do you win the talent war ?

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Marketing Accounts 52

Kevin Eikenberry

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The transition to leadership – moving from individual contributor to a leadership role – is one of the most challenging moves in anyone’s career. While many make this jump, few succeed as quickly or completely as they, their team, or their organization would like. Would you like a clearly defined path of what to do […].

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 21, 2014

Leaders who think like individual contributors demoralize their team and devalue their leadership. Lousy leaders think like individual contributors. Leaders fail when they don’t think like leaders. 10 radical shifts in thinking: From “I” to “we.” ” Leadership begins with we. From controlling people to aligning passions.

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Leadership Development 109

Leadership Freak

JUNE 27, 2019

Respectful treatment of all employees at all levels was rated as very important by 67% of employees in 2015, making it the top contributor to overall employee job satisfaction for the second year… Continue reading →

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Leadership Development 61

AIHR

MARCH 21, 2024

Through this lens, we redefine HR’s role as a strategic contributor essential for business success. HR as a strategic contributor to overcoming these challenges While HR has made great strides in securing “a seat at the table”, there is still an opportunity to play a more active role in strategic planning and execution.

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Operations Performance Management Accounts Manager 67

Chief Executive

JUNE 13, 2022

The expectations of a managers’ responsibility to connect with teammates and the expected results of contributors who choose to do remote work should both be raised. My goal is to enable leaders to create communities where remote workers can excel and lead and for that to happen we need to raise the bar.

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