July, 2020

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Intrapreneurs: The Rise Of The Organizational Innovators

Vantage Circle

There was a time when working in a 9 to 5 schedule was the norm for most employees. No , this is not an ancient times scenario but something as recent as two to three decades back. The employees in those days followed the instructions of their bosses to the T. They were hardly expected or encouraged to think and perform beyond their given scope of work.

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Prioritising with Cost of Delay

Agile42

By Niels Verdonk. This week the “Meet the Coach” webinar series delved into the interesting topic of “ Prioritising with Cost of Delay”. The presentation went really well and we had many people listening, once again. It makes us happy to see so many people returning to our webinars, with new faces joining all the time. We hope to see you all again soon!

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Questions to Make Your Virtual Meetings More Effective

Kevin Eikenberry

Few consider meetings the highlight of their workday – more probably consider it the bane of their work life. It is true that meetings, while important and potentially useful, aren’t always very good. Sadly, now that most meetings are being held virtually, it hasn’t gotten any better. The challenge is how to have more effective […]. The post Questions to Make Your Virtual Meetings More Effective appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The Nature Of 1-on-1s Are Changing For The Better

15Five

Although the pandemic has triggered massive shifts in our day-to-day lives and even our long-term view, it isn’t without silver linings. At a high level, organizations are embracing flexibility like never before; employees are trading long commutes for higher levels of productivity; but more specifically, managers and employees are revamping their weekly 1-on-1s.

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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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How to Write a Letter of Recommendation that Works

Liquid Planner Collaboration

There may come a time when you are asked to provide a letter of recommendation for a friend, co-worker, student, or other individuals. And with the mass layoffs and furloughs caused by the Coronavirus pandemic, that time could very well be right now — especially given that approximately 50 million Americans have filed for unemployment. Great Recession unemployment numbers aside, letters of recommendation can be requested for a variety of reasons.

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The Surprising Benefits of Unconditional Positive Regard

Nir Eyal

The post The Surprising Benefits of Unconditional Positive Regard appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Creating Clarity During COVID-19 Crisis | Leadership Espresso Shot 15

Tanveer Nasser

Without question, the COVID-19 pandemic has created unexpected hardships and uncertainty. It's also amplified issues many leaders have failed to adequately address. In this latest edition of Leadership Espresso Shot, I delve into one of these leadership blindspots and reveal why leaders can no longer afford to put it on the back burner. In my previous piece, I shared some strategies based on neuroscience on how leaders can boost their critical thinking in light of the chronic stress environment

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The Procrastination Busting Question – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

I was going to tell you about it but maybe I will wait. I don’t feel like it…right now. This will be hard. I want to get it just right. There are LOTS of reasons why we procrastinate and we all do it at one time or another (and probably even more than that!) And […]. The post The Procrastination Busting Question – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Why 2020 Is The ‘Year Of HR’: A Conversation With Josh Bersin

15Five

Perhaps now more than ever, demands on People Operations roles are incredibly high. Handling just the administrative side of HR while establishing a remote workforce can be a full-time job, let alone the all-important human element that requires your attention and resources. Because the true power of People Ops lies in unlocking the potential of every employee, many HR leaders are discovering or refining new skills in 2020, what today’s guest is calling, “The Year of HR.”.

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Can We Still be Agile?

Mike Griffiths

How does work from home impact our use of agile approaches? If co-location is no longer possible, can we still be agile? Yes, of course we can, and in many ways, now we need to be more agile than ever as we try new approaches, learn and adapt how we work. However, let's address the co-location question and look at agile practices in remote work situations.

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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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What if You Suck at Empathy – 7 Ways to Create an Empathy Advantage

Leadership Freak

Only 18% of people who’ve completed the CliftonStrengths assessment have Empathy in their top five. Which means most of us don’t respond with Empathy immediately, spontaneously and consistently.

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70 Best Compliments For Coworkers

Vantage Circle

Do you compliment your coworkers for their good job? Or, when you are in a team, do you recognize your coworker’s efforts? If you do, then how often? We invest most of our time and energy at work, yet more often we treat each other like outsiders. And when it comes to verbal compliments, most of us lack in that effort, even though we know that it doesn’t cost us any money.

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Dr. Timothy Clark | How Psychological Safety Fuels Growth & Innovation

Tanveer Nasser

Psychological safety in today's workplaces has been garnering a lot of attention as leaders and organizations look for ways to boost productivity and retention in their workplace. But is our understanding of this concept too narrow? Are we missing out on real opportunities to not just fuel engagement and collaboration, but innovation and untapped growth opportunities?

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Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

Kevin Eikenberry

I don’t know about you, but it seems there are more things to distract me than ever. And since distractions are the enemy of productivity and achievement, I’d like to change that. Rather than lamenting those distractions, I’d rather learn the skills for managing distractions. Enter this book, which promises to help us control our […]. The post Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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Managing Project Delays in the COVID-19 Age

Liquid Planner Collaboration

Projects can get delayed for many reasons from third party suppliers failing to deliver on time, to poor communication between project stakeholders sometimes the deliverables are simply not realistic within the project constraints. Then there are the unpredictable and devastating external factors like COVID-19 that disrupt on an unprecedented scale.

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Revamp Your Employee Engagement Survey with 15Five’s Engagement+

15Five

Today’s business leaders want to understand what truly matters to their people and what really impacts their performance. 15Five’s Engagement+ and its Full Potential Index templates provide unparalleled insights into the elements that build an energized, inspired, and passionate workforce. Some of the key benefits of Engagement+ include: • Evidence-based engagement surveys that measure if your people are reaching their full potential and thriving • The ability to integrate engagement and perform

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An Experiment to Test the Power of Your Influence

Leadership Freak

Incompetent leaders focus exclusively on results. Successful leaders notice their impact on people because leadership is about human beings, not simply producing a product.

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How Digital Natives are Changing the Modern Workplace

Vantage Circle

The future of the modern workplace is all about technology. But above all, it will be about how people adapt to technology. Advancements in mobility, the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud, and artificial intelligence (AI) hold a tremendous amount of promise. The technologically savvy Gen Zs, who grew up using new innovations, are newly joining the workforces.

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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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Meet Richard Sheridan and Andrea Tomasini

Agile42

By Sofia Svanbäck. We are pleased to announce that the webinar that took place on July 2nd, held by agile42's own Andrea Tomasini and his friend and colleague in leadership, Richard Sheridan from Menlo Innovations, was a great success. We had people joining the session from all over the world, asking these two thought leaders great questions, and interacting with us in the chat.

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Making Midyear Check-ins More Meaningful

Kevin Eikenberry

If you are coaching others in the workplace, you probably have some sort of performance management process. While these typically culminate in the annual meeting, many suggest or require at least a midyear check-in too. Even if your process doesn’t suggest that, I believe you benefit everyone by having midyear check-ins. The question is, how […].

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Email Management: How to Hack Back and Cure Inbox Insanity

Nir Eyal

The post Email Management: How to Hack Back and Cure Inbox Insanity appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Business Leaders Having Uncomfortable Conversation About Race

15Five

Since late May 2020, there has been an accelerated evolution of the conversation around race in America and globally. With this latest round of high-profile deadly police encounters with Black Americans and the massive response to it, many of us are at a loss about how to best respond. Business leaders especially may be avoiding the conversation, afraid to risk their futures because they say the wrong thing. .

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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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3 Things Overworked Managers Need to Stop Doing Today

Leadership Freak

Lethargy and laziness aren’t virtues. But overworked managers are their own worst enemy. 3 things overworked managers need to stop: #1. Stop doing people’s work for them.

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7 Noteworthy Tips to Improve Teamwork In The Workplace

Vantage Circle

The progress of mankind has always depended on extending mutual support to each other and working together as a team. This has led us to achieve many great feats from time to time and the same continues even today. The rapid globalization of businesses has now increased the demand for a high-performance workforce to stay on the competitive edge. As a result of this teamwork has now become one of the most followed organizational cultures.

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Oh you agile Augustin! Business agility in the age of COVID-19

Agile42

By Peter Hundermark. I first met leadership and agile consultant, Dr Siegfried Kaltenecker, in 2009 and immediately adopted Sigi as my mentor. During the past ten years, we have shared many experiences, notably designing and delivering a novel training programme named Leading Self-Organising Teams. Fast forward to 2020. Sigi recently published an article based on conversations with clients and colleagues during this period of uncertainty and ambiguity since the arrival of COVID-19 in our lives.

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Creating the New Normal – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

Do you remember back to 2019? Back to when Corona was simply a beer? (Yeah, it’s hard for us too…) Well back then, there was a lot of talk about how many things were wrong, and how we needed improvement everywhere. And yet now, many of us have “the Good Ole Days” syndrome – when […]. The post Creating the New Normal – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The 8 Laws of Power: How to Get Power Using Science

Vanessa Van Edwards

Want to know how to get power in your personal and professional life? Here are my top 8 strategies to launch your power out of this world! The post The 8 Laws of Power: How to Get Power Using Science appeared first on Science of People.

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6 Ways To Build And Maintain High Employee Engagement

15Five

Employee engagement is something that all leaders strive for but can be an ambiguous metric to measure. Academics, psychologists, and HR professionals have disagreed for decades on what actually drives engagement and performance, making it challenging for organizations to understand where they should be investing their time, energy, and money to make positive changes.

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People will Remember How You Treated Them During COVID-19

Leadership Freak

A friend of mine got laid off last Friday. Clients in education are developing three plans for the fall of 2020, but most of their work could be irrelevant.

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21 Best Quotes For Training Employees

Vantage Circle

Training is the method of improving the employees' talents, abilities, and expertise to perform specific work. It enhances the thought process, which contributes to better workplace results. To reap the best benefits, your employee training system should be a continuous and never-ending process. However, many companies still find their training to be ineffective in achieving their goals.

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The Basics of Measuring Organizational Change Success

Wendy Hirsch

Key Points Measuring change results can help you to achieve the vision of the change, and support your organization to build its competency in managing and driving organizational change in the future. Take a multi-dimensional view of change success, evaluating completion, achievement, and satisfaction. Doing so can help you to avoid confusing completing activities (means) with achieving outcomes (ends).

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Creating New Work Routines – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

Last week, I talked about the power that routines can have in our lives. If you missed that, you can watch it here. In this video, I am talking about The thing about routines is that when they change, we are often left feeling a little lost, confused or even discombobulated. And if you’re like […]. The post Creating New Work Routines – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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