February, 2019

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When corporate cultures breed dishonesty

Torben Rick

Many of the corporate scandals in the past several years have been cases of wide-scale dishonesty. It’s hard to fathom how lying and deceit permeated these organizations. The post When corporate cultures breed dishonesty appeared first on Torben Rick.

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Sally Helgesen | How Women Hold Back Their Leadership Success

Tanveer Nasser

There's been a number of studies that have illustrated the challenges and obstacles women face that men don't in trying to move into leadership positions. But are there actions and behaviours women are doing that are also impeding their ability to grow into effective leaders? That's the focus of the fascinating conversation I have with my guest in this latest episode of my podcast, “Leadership Biz Cafe”.

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The One Fitness App That Hooked Me For Good

Nir Eyal

Could there be a behavior more antithetical to human nature than exercise? Our caveman ancestors, if they could observe our workout habits today, would think we’ve lost our minds. We lift heavy objects into the air and return them to the exact spot where we picked them up. We buy ridiculous gadgetry to get in […] The post The One Fitness App That Hooked Me For Good appeared first on Nir and Far.

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From Agile to agility: Andrea Tomasini and Dave Snowden keynote at Agile Beyond IT

Agile42

agile42 founder Andrea Tomasini and Cognitive Edge Chief Scientific Officer Dave Snowden will take together the stage for the keynote From Agile to agility during Agile Beyond IT, the conference held in Berlin from 12 to 14 March 2019. Despite the Agile manifesto commitment to Individuals and interactions over processes and tools the reality too often degenerates into certification schemes focused on structured methods or even worse it degrades into tool implementation.

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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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Collecting Questions – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

We are in the middle of a series of videos about collections. And if you haven’t noticed yet, some of these collections are of “things” that you might not have thought of collecting. In fact, most of them aren’t anything that you can put on a shelf or in a room of your house. Today’s […]. The post Collecting Questions – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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9 Best Practices to Keep Employee Satisfaction High

Vantage Circle

What is Employee Satisfaction? Employee satisfaction is the level of happiness or contentment an employee feels for his/her job. Employee satisfaction is an essential aspect of any business or organization. When employees are happy and satisfied with the management and work culture , they put their best effort to make the company successful. If the employees in an organization are not happy and content, it directly impacts the bottom line.

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Answers To Your Top 10 Diversity And Inclusion Questions

15Five

By now, you’ve heard of Diversity and Inclusion. You know the benefits of having a diverse workforce and a culture that includes every possible viewpoint. But how do you create that in your business? Lever recently co-hosted an amazing webinar panel on Building a Diversity and Inclusion Program from Scratch. The speakers included, Katee Van Horn, Founder & CEO at Bar the Door, Shavonne Hasfal-Mcintosh, Inclusion & Employee Experience Lead at Shopify, and Raena Saddler, Head of Prod

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The One Fitness App That Hooked Me For Good

Nir Eyal

Nir’s Note: This article is part of a series on “The Hooked Model in Action.” Previous analyses have included Slack, Fortnite, Amazon’s Echo, Tinder, and The Bible App. Note, I never take compensation for writing articles on my blog. Could there be a behavior more antithetical to human nature than exercise? Our caveman ancestors, if they […] The post The One Fitness App That Hooked Me For Good appeared first on Nir and Far.

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How to plan and create a structured approach to coaching?

Agile42

Observational Coaching Starting out as a new agile coach is difficult. Where do you go? How do you start? Learn to leverage a structured approach to coaching that defines a way to prepare and execute coaching activities. This starts with making observations and identifying what behavioural goals you would like the coachee(s) to achieve. As coaches, our opinions and unconscious biases can mislead or misdirect those we are coaching.

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The Trouble with Comparisons

Kevin Eikenberry

We all do it. We see someone doing something that we value – and doing it very well. If we want to be better at what they are doing, at first it makes sense to look at them and compare ourselves. Comparisons like this rarely help. In fact, they can be quite damaging to our […]. The post The Trouble with Comparisons appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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8 Ways To Improve Employee Morale in Your Workplace

Vantage Circle

Employee morale is the overall attitude, emotion and satisfaction of employees towards their jobs and workplace environment. The way they perceive their workplace often decide their productivity. An employee with high morale is happy and enjoys his work. On the contrary, employees with low morale are dissatisfied and keep a negative outlook towards his/her work.

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Why Lousy Leaders Succeed

Leadership Freak

The worst result of bad leaders is they deflate the drive to be good. Why try, if lousy leaders succeed? A few weeks back a reader asked why bad leaders succeed.

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Working Retention Into Your Employee Lifecycle Management Strategy

15Five

Investing in your employees is the most financially sound place you can put your time, effort, and money as a business. While recruiting great talent can help ensure your company comes out on top, your job isn’t over when a candidate signs their offer letter. In fact, that’s just the beginning. The six stages of the employee lifecycle are attraction, recruitment, onboarding, development, retention, and separation.

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5 Field-tested Steps to Restructure Your Team

LSA Global

The Definition of Organizational Structure. Effective organizational structures help teams to perform beyond the sum of their parts. Before embarking on steps to restructure your team, leaders should be clear about what their current and desired organizational structure encompasses in terms of goals, roles, tasks, and processes used to organize the flow of work.

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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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Presenting at ScanAgile 2019

Agile42

We are very happy to have two great agile42 coaches presenting at ScanAgile 2019 , the Scandinavian Agile Conference to be held in Helsinki on March 13th-14th. ScanAgile also displays some of the cutest conference artwork in the community! Cliff Hazell will present Moving Beyond Cargo Cult Agile : Most companies claiming to, or wanting to, be agile, start at the team level.

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Skills Aren’t Enough (To Be a Remarkable Leader)

Kevin Eikenberry

When people want to become a more effective leader they ask, “What skills do I need?” When organizations plan their leadership development programs, they start with the skills that will be needed to be successful. It is an understandable goal – to know what people need to be able do in order to lead. Here’s […]. The post Skills Aren’t Enough (To Be a Remarkable Leader) appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Workplace Loneliness- The Silent Killer Of Your Organization

Vantage Circle

Workplace loneliness is a growing epidemic. Loneliness at work is a real problem and it’s affecting businesses, relationships, and wellbeing. Research has revealed that loneliness has the same health risks as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. In spite of the world being connected with the advent of technology and social media, people are lonelier and feel isolated than ever before.

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7 Ways to Inspire Initiative and Eliminate Toxic Indifference

Leadership Freak

You’ve been asking permission all your life. In school you raised your hand for permission to speak. When I was in first grade, we raised our hands to ask Mrs.

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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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These 5 Management Practices Create Uncommonly Successful Workplaces

15Five

Want to know a modern management secret? Ok, it’s not exactly a secret. I started explaining how we developed the Best-Self Management methodology in our last post. I shared how 15Five is a company of nearly 80 people, with near zero attrition in our company’s history. We’ve been extraordinarily capital efficient, and based on a reputable benchmark , we were recently producing about 2x the average revenue per employee of companies at a similar size and stage.

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Should Lies Be Part of Your Sales Negotiation Strategy?

LSA Global

Lies and Sales Negotiation Strategy. How often do you think lies have been a part of your sales negotiation strategy – either implicitly, explicitly, on your side or on the other side of the table? Should they be? Are lies effective in the short term? Do lies work as part of a long term sales negotiation strategy? Do You Know When You Are Being Lied To?

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Alla ricerca di nuovi compagni di strada

Agile42

agile42 Italia è alla ricerca di nuovi coach Agili per ingrandire il team di consulenti. Continue reading Alla ricerca di nuovi compagni di strada at agile42.

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Collecting Relationships – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

We are continuing in our series of videos about collections and today’s collection topic is one that I can almost bet you have never thought of collecting: relationships. And yet, as a leader, when you do this and do it right, I can almost guarantee that you will see your success skyrocket. Tweet it out: […]. The post Collecting Relationships – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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Let's Burst the Bubble of Employee Engagement Myths

Vantage Circle

Employee engagement is an indispensable part of the growth of any organization. It is a broad, abstract and ever-evolving process and because of its nature, it is a common ground for myths and misunderstandings. By bursting each employee engagement myth you will get a clearer and more precise idea for building an engaged workforce! Employee Engagement Myth 1: Sincere employees = Engaged employees.

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4 Things High Performers Do that Low Performers Neglect

Leadership Freak

High performance isn’t an accident. #1. Plan it: I have a friend who transformed his body from jelly to steel. He doesn’t simply show up at the gym. He plans his workouts.

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Does Performance Management Really Help Every Employee Become Their Best Self?

15Five

I’m about to introduce you to a proven methodology called Best-Self Management , that has led to unbelievable success at my company, and for every employee. By building a work culture and instituting practices that supported each person in being and becoming their best self, high performance and uncommon loyalty resulted naturally across the board. But first it’s important for you to understand how I got here.

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4 Steps to Create Strategic Alignment

LSA Global

What Is Strategic Alignment? Strategic alignment occurs when your business strategy is clearly articulated, fully understood, and consistently executed across your organization. The steps to create strategic alignment set you and your team up to be collectively firing on all cylinders. Strategic alignment is also a prerequisite for creating an aligned culture and a high performing workforce.

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agile42 is offering Scrum trainings in USA - Which Scrum course is right for you?

Agile42

In partnership with Aaron Sanders , agile42 is offering 25 certified Scrum courses (incl. CSM , CSPO , A-CSM , and A-CSPO ) across 9 different states in the US. To see which Scrum course matches your needs, refer below for a summary of each course. CSM: Target Audience: Whether you are looking to adopt or are currently implementing Scrum, anyone who is interested in Scrum or Agile can attend the CSM.

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Collecting Memories – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

We are continuing in our series of videos about collections and today’s video is about collecting memories. I’ll talk about WHY we should collect memories and HOW to do it better and more often. Tweet it out: What would you do differently today if your goal was to start collecting great memories? @KevinEikenberry From This […]. The post Collecting Memories – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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E-learning: The New Way of Employee Training

Vantage Circle

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn. – Benjamin Franklin. Learning is a way of life. There can be no alternative to acquiring knowledge other than learning and training. Employee training is a crucial part of an employee’s journey. Proper training prepares employees to meet the objectives and challenges of the job.

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7 Boring Things Successful Leaders Do That Failing Leaders Neglect

Leadership Freak

I asked the mechanic if they rotated the tires on my vehicle. Tire rotation is included in the price of an oil change. His report was, “Your tires look great.

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Engagement Data Reveals Which Leadership Qualities REALLY Matter in Management

15Five

It’s one of the greatest mysteries of the modern workforce: What really makes outstanding managers so darn effective, and how can companies repeat their successes? While there have been countless studies and surveys related to this topic, few have tackled it from an employee engagement perspective. We’ve long had a hunch that there’s more to learn, and decided to conduct our own research here at 15five.

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How to Deal with Negative Employee Engagement Feedback

LSA Global

Deal with Negative Employee Engagement Feedback. Know that if you ask for honest feedback through an employee engagement survey it won’t all be positive. If you have created an environment of trust and continuous improvement, some of what you hear will be negative. The question is whether or not you are in the right frame of mind to deal with the negative feedback effectively.