Nicole Phelon

Nicole Phelon

@flamingred.bsky.social

ALL the black cats, rock climber, learning to drum, writer, silversmith, crystalline (un)tie dye diva, curious & creative. Liberal; ally; love & kindness not cruelty, inclusion not exclusion. 💙💙🌈 Ready to resist!!!

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Nicole Phelon
@flamingred.bsky.social

As with so many things, it all comes back to good management. Train your managers & give them the time/resources they need to be present & manage people genuinely, & a good culture will build itself!

Growth Resources Institute@griplatform.bsky.social

The pandemic created a lasting paradigm shift in work, establishing hybrid & remote as the new standard. Our latest article explores this transition, focusing on how the move to WFA necessitates a management revolution & significantly impacts practices, team collaboration, & culture. bit.ly/474mqsS

Nicole Phelon
@flamingred.bsky.social

Great episode, and not too long!

Growth Resources Institute@griplatform.bsky.social

Most companies think they understand why high performers leave. They're wrong. On the podcast @flucasconwell.bsky.social reveals the behavioral mismatches that drive your best people away—and the surprisingly simple changes that can keep them engaged. Listen here: bit.ly/4ojC4WY

Nicole Phelon
@flamingred.bsky.social

Love this! @griplatform.bsky.social on the cutting edge, proposing that human beings aren't just incidental "resources" at work, but valuable participants in the modern workplace whose behaviors & preferences need to be understood. And can be, with the objective, nuanced data the GRI profiles offer.

Growth Resources Institute@griplatform.bsky.social

Leadership 3.0 transforms leadership from a guessing game into a data-driven science, empowering thriving teams and creating organizations built on measurable intelligence. Find out why it's the future of leadership! #leadership #managers bit.ly/3JJTI7n

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Growth Resources Institute
@griplatform.bsky.social

Ethics in mngmnt is an important but often powerless concept w/out valid info on how others view the world differently than you. Private techniques dont offer this information accurately & without bias. You CAN get it via a standardized process & by applying statistics, as in GRIs adaptive profiles

Nicole Phelon
@flamingred.bsky.social

Great #leadership can exist in very different styles. Command & Control is not the only way to lead. I love that the GRI assessment helps all styles of leaders to be effective & successful! #behavior #personality #workplace

Growth Resources Institute@griplatform.bsky.social

Leadership 3.0 is a way of applying existing theories with a more realistic view of how people work. It starts by assessing your unique #mindset & how it translates into action, as in your adaptive profile. Then apply that to better lead people & orgs w/ your best #leadership theory in mind.

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Growth Resources Institute
@griplatform.bsky.social

Meet GRI: George Northup is on the GRI Advisory Board. He served as CEO at several companies, built four co's w/ more than $2B cumulative revenues, & is an investor, board member & advisor to multiple venture-backed tech co's. George started at Deloitte & Touche and has a BS with honors from Duke.

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Growth Resources Institute
@griplatform.bsky.social

Meet GRI: Andre Litmanowicz is GRI Mging Partner, Brazil. He deployed GRI at Guabi, is CEO of Great People Sales & Healthy Place to Work Brazil, & director on the boards of Fisher Piscicultura Água Vermelha & Instituto Jô Clemente. Andre develops successful employees thru exceptional leadership.

Nicole Phelon
@flamingred.bsky.social

Just as there is a vast difference btwn being an individual contributor & a manager, there is a distinct difference btwn managing & leading!

Growth Resources Institute@griplatform.bsky.social

Interesting study fr Harvard. When hiring a CEO, companies don’t always attend to the difference between leading & managing, & put the wrong person in charge. Survey of 5,000 CEOs in 42 nations shows firms underperform w/top executives whose skills differ fr what the co actually needs bit.ly/4lCkqwf

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Growth Resources Institute
@griplatform.bsky.social

GRI helps you incorporate different theories into your leadership 3.0 practice. Theorists like Drucker & Porter, practitioners like Lincoln, Gandhi, Churchill had theories as unique as yours. What succeeded for them must be adapted to fit your situation. GRI boosts your leadership theory & practice.

Nicole Phelon
@flamingred.bsky.social

I don't usually post fundraisers, but this feels different to me. It feels like contributing to Narciso's legal fund is an important act of resistance, & an act of solidarity. #resist #bluecrew gofund.me/649197a5

gofund.meDonate to Justice for Narciso: Assaulted and detained by CBP, organized by Jacqueline VasquezToday June 21st 2025, NARCISO BARRANCO, husband and father, whom… Jacqueline Vasquez needs your support for Justice for Narciso: Assaulted and detained by CBP
Nicole Phelon
@flamingred.bsky.social

Listening to all voices is good for people, and also happens to be good for business and profits!

Growth Resources Institute@griplatform.bsky.social

Despite ongoing challenges w/DEI initiatives, the LGBTQ+ community consistently champions these principles. Their continued advocacy underscores the importance of DEI, & Pride Month reaffirms an enduring commitment to diversity, inclusion, & belonging for all. #pride2025 #inclusion #belonging

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@griplatform.bsky.social

Leadership 3.0: Steph Curry’s #leadership at the Warriors is worth studying because it applies to more than just sports. In any org sustainable superior performance depends on high standards & strong relationships. Curry leads w/skill & heart, bringing out the best in those he leads. bit.ly/3SWyggI

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Growth Resources Institute
@griplatform.bsky.social

Leadership 3.0 moves beyond trad self-focused leadership development to encompass broader human behaviors & organizational needs. It requires not just empathy, but a deep understanding of individual motivations & the factors driving company performance thru people. #leadershipdevelopment #motivation

Nicole Phelon
@flamingred.bsky.social

"Mattering" is an actual concept in psychology. It's fascinating how much we all want to make a difference, no matter how small.

Growth Resources Institute@griplatform.bsky.social

When people know that they matter at work, they thrive, strengthening performance. Mattering is different than belonging, & more critical to organizational success; it doesn’t result from pay, policies, or perks. Here, they show leaders how to apply this concept in the workplace. bit.ly/43J1PIY

Nicole Phelon
@flamingred.bsky.social

Especially important to surround yourself with people whose skills and abilities and BEHAVIORS are different from yours!

Growth Resources Institute@griplatform.bsky.social

What does #Leadership 3.0 entail? Being realistic about the specific style you naturally exhibit, adapting your style while understanding the effort it takes to flex it, and ensuring you add people to your team who compliment you, to do the things you don’t want to do.

Nicole Phelon
@flamingred.bsky.social

This is absolutely a leadership issue. When leaders prioritize skills like collaboration and cooperation, it improves!

Growth Resources Institute@griplatform.bsky.social

Even individual-centric occupations where mastery is crucial require collaborating & using a range of cooperative characteristics. But purposely investing our time & resources to maintain cooperation can involve navigating busyness, indifference, & conflict. Thoughtful MIT article bit.ly/4koRKqb

Nicole Phelon
@flamingred.bsky.social

GRI's perspective on the need to enhance and increase focus on the "human skills"; the things that AI can't, and will never, be good at!

Growth Resources Institute@griplatform.bsky.social

Read the latest GRI newsletter, with a recap of the Human Skills Imperative and links to a handful of insightful, related articles.

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Growth Resources Institute
@griplatform.bsky.social

Knowing how people will behave & be engaged, & setting the right targets, ensuring they perform, is a critical skill. You don’t know what will happen tomorrow. You need to be ready to face future uncertainty. Making sure you’re properly equipped to perform as a #manager is GRI's # 1 mission.

Nicole Phelon
@flamingred.bsky.social

Hopefully this message is getting through to those in charge, because most of us recognize intuitively the need to bolster and encourage the human elements of work, even as we deploy AI in the workplace!

Growth Resources Institute@griplatform.bsky.social

McKinsey identified four critical strategies that form the foundation for embedding #GenAI within an organization, and most of them focus on the human skills imperative. bit.ly/3F3r8vN

Nicole Phelon
@flamingred.bsky.social

Share this everywhere! This is important. We must find ways to ACT to prevent the destruction of our democracy. Here you'll find tactics & strategies along with explanations & some commentary. And if you aren't following on Substack, please do! criticalresistance.substack.com/p/how-to-bre...

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