February, 2017

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Your Ability to Focus Has Probably Peaked : Here’s How to Stay Sharp

Nir Eyal

Having a hard time focusing lately? You’re not alone. Research shows interruptions occur about every twelve minutes in the workplace, and every three minutes in university settings. In an age of constant digital interruptions, it is no wonder you’re having trouble ignoring distractions. In their new book, The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech […].

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You Aren’t Fit to Lead if Your Greatest Strength is Seeing Weakness

Leadership Freak

You aren’t fit to lead if your greatest strength is seeing weakness. Smart talented leaders find it easy to point out inadequacies, describe what’s wrong, and explain disagreements.

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The True Bottom Line In Business: An Interview With Dov Baron

15Five

Dov Baron is recognized as one of the top 100 leadership speakers to hire and a brilliant corporate cultural strategist. He is the founder of Full Monty Leadership , and provides essential soft leadership skills to good leaders who are committed to becoming great while growing their people and the bottom line. This is the second part of my interview with Dov.

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Solving Mobile Growth & Retention with Andy Carvell, ex Growth at SoundCloud

Brian Balfour

Andy Carvell joined SoundCloud in 2012, when the company was just over 80 employees and 10 million monthly active users. The service now boasts over 150 million registered users, and monthly actives in the high tens of millions. I recently spoke with Andy as part of a 1 hour interview covering: How he brought a web-first product to mobile Activity notifications, rich push, and other techniques for driving mobile growth and retention Andy’s “Mobile Growth Stack” for 2017 You can watch the full in

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Finding Common Ground: Leadership and Communication Lessons in a Fractured World

Kevin Eikenberry

The current climate of politics and opinions in the United States is contentious and fractured, to say the least. With a long historical perspective, it has been like this before; there has been wide and deep discord in this country in the past (as just one example, we had a Civil War, after all). Today’s […]. The post Finding Common Ground: Leadership and Communication Lessons in a Fractured World appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Don’t Ask People What They Want, Watch What They Do

Nir Eyal

Nir’s Note: Irene Au is a design partner at Khosla Ventures and former Head of Design at Google, Yahoo, and Udacity. She’ll be speaking at the upcoming Habit Summit in April. (You can register here!) In this interview, she chats with Max Ogles about design strategy for startups. Q: You have an impressive background as […]. The post Don’t Ask People What They Want, Watch What They Do appeared first on Nir and Far.

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How to Achieve Your Goals By Creating an Enemy

Nir Eyal

DJ Khaled, the one-man internet meme, is known for warning his tens of millions of social media followers about a group of villains he calls “they.” “They don’t want you motivated. They don’t want you inspired,” he blares on camera. “They don’t want you to win,” he warns. On Ellen DeGeneres’s talk show, Khaled urged the host, “Please, Ellen, stay away from them!

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How Cognitive Biases Can Help (and Hurt) Your Business

Nir Eyal

Nir’s Note: Buster Benson is a product manager at Slack who worked previously at Twitter and Habit Labs and is working on a new book about cognitive biases. He’ll be speaking at the upcoming Habit Summit in April. (You can register here!) In this interview, he chats with Max Ogles about how cognitive biases affect […]. The post How Cognitive Biases Can Help (and Hurt) Your Business appeared first on Nir and Far.

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How to Find the Courage to Fulfill the First Responsibility of Leadership

Leadership Freak

There are always good reasons to play it safe. Repeating the past may be painful, but at least it’s predictable. Fear is the reason today is like yesterday. Every meaningful act requires courage.

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How to Find the Courage to Fulfill the First Responsibility of Leadership

Leadership Freak

There are always good reasons to play it safe. Repeating the past may be painful, but at least it’s predictable. Fear is the reason today is like yesterday. Every meaningful act requires courage.

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Change Management 101: A Practical 3 Part Guide

Implementing new tools or business processes in your organization? Lemon Learning put together a practical 3 part guide to prevent the pitfalls of change management. Drive a successful change management project from diagnosis through to measurement.

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10 Questions Humble Leaders Ask Themselves

Leadership Freak

Self-importance blocks leadership. The difference between self-importance and knowing you matter is ego. Humble leaders know that others make their leadership. Humility enables confidence. Self-importance reflects ego.

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10 Questions Humble Leaders Ask Themselves

Leadership Freak

Self-importance blocks leadership. The difference between self-importance and knowing you matter is ego. Humble leaders know that others make their leadership. Humility enables confidence. Self-importance reflects ego.

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How to Help Reluctant Team Members Move From Self-Doubt to Gusto

Leadership Freak

He wanted the new opportunity. Yet, he sat there wondering, “What if I fail?” Finally I said, “I have a word for you. ‘Gusto.’ How might you pursue this opportunity with gusto?

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How to Help Reluctant Team Members Move From Self-Doubt to Gusto

Leadership Freak

He wanted the new opportunity. Yet, he sat there wondering, “What if I fail?” Finally I said, “I have a word for you. ‘Gusto.’ How might you pursue this opportunity with gusto?

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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In nearly 25% of Businesses Leaders Believe 30%-50% of Employees Avoid Responsibility*

Leadership Freak

If you want people to take responsibility, hold yourself accountable. Hold yourself accountable. Invite others to hold you accountable. Expect others to take responsibility. 4 powerful expressions of leadership accountability*.

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How to Interrupt Others and Get to the Point

Leadership Freak

You wouldn’t be polite to someone who reached into your pocket to steal your credit cards. Don’t be polite with people who persistently steal your time by talking on and on. Common rules of courtesy don’t apply to unrepentant blabbermouths. Politely break the rules of courtesy: Interrupt – Confess confusion.

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How to be a Leader who Hears What’s Not Said

Leadership Freak

30 free books! Leave a comment on this post by 2/17/2017 to become eligible to win one of thirty complimentary copies of Mark Millers new book, Leaders Made Here: Building a Leadership Culture.

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10 Heart-Based Questions that Produce the Very Best Decisions

Leadership Freak

The future is shaped by today’s decisions. Failure to make decisions ends leadership. Forward-facing decisions always impact behaviors. If behaviors don’t change, everything stays the same. Decision making tools are useful and necessary, but fall short.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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10 Heart-Based Questions that Produce the Very Best Decisions

Leadership Freak

The future is shaped by today’s decisions. Failure to make decisions ends leadership. Forward-facing decisions always impact behaviors. If behaviors don’t change, everything stays the same. Decision making tools are useful and necessary, but fall short.

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Solution Saturday: My Team Struggles with Communication and Follow-Through

Leadership Freak

Dear Dan, My team has been struggling with communication. We have talked about it all, run through problems and nutted out imperfect solutions.

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Solution Saturday: My Team Struggles with Communication and Follow-Through

Leadership Freak

Dear Dan, My team has been struggling with communication. We have talked about it all, run through problems and nutted out imperfect solutions.

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5 Ways to Help Teammates Navigate Butt Kicks

Leadership Freak

We all encounter arrogant leaders. You might be one. You probably have one on your team. Butt kicks are a wake up call for arrogance.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha

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5 Ways to Help Teammates Navigate Butt Kicks

Leadership Freak

We all encounter arrogant leaders. You might be one. You probably have one on your team. Butt kicks are a wake up call for arrogance.

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10 Relational-Steps to Improve Performance and Elevate Satisfaction

Leadership Freak

It’s energizing to work with people who are devoted to improvement and painful working with self-justifying losers. Anyone who isn’t dedicated to improving their performance ends up: Complacent. Complaining. Mediocre. Blaming. Detached.

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10 Relational-Steps to Improve Performance and Elevate Satisfaction

Leadership Freak

It’s energizing to work with people who are devoted to improvement and painful working with self-justifying losers. Anyone who isn’t dedicated to improving their performance ends up: Complacent. Complaining. Mediocre. Blaming. Detached.

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How Leaders Expand Their Future and Enhance Their Success

Leadership Freak

Your future shrinks or expands in relation to the strength of your connections. Depth of connection determines breadth of influence. 3 dangers of disconnection Disconnected leaders: Feel blindsided and violated by negative feedback. Disconnection gives birth to feelings of persecution. Come off as uncaring.

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7 Ways Leaders Seize the Opportunity of Second Failure

Leadership Freak

You hoped they would do better but they failed again. Why? Second chances – by themselves – prolong failure. People will fail tomorrow in the same way they failed today, unless they change.

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How to Stop Wasting Time in Meetings

Leadership Freak

If high blood pressure excites you, call a meeting with an ineffective, malfunctioning, low-performing, time wasting team.

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How to Stop Wasting Time in Meetings

Leadership Freak

If high blood pressure excites you, call a meeting with an ineffective, malfunctioning, low-performing, time wasting team.

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How to Resolve 4 Reasons People Don’t Follow Through for You

Leadership Freak

A person who doesn’t follow through is worse than having no one at all. How to resolve 4 reasons people don’t follow through: #1. No follow up results in no follow through.

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How to Resolve 4 Reasons People Don’t Follow Through for You

Leadership Freak

A person who doesn’t follow through is worse than having no one at all. How to resolve 4 reasons people don’t follow through: #1. No follow up results in no follow through.

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3 Simple Steps that Resolve the Lies in Excuses

Leadership Freak

Excuse-makers are blamers. They might not point a finger in your face, but their failure will eventually be your fault. Successful leaders identify and counteract excuse-makers.