April, 2018

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How to Foster Belonging and Inclusion in the Workplace

BetterUp

Robin Ely and Fern Mandelbaum recently spoke in a fireside chat moderated by Ellen Levy at BetterUp Shift 2018. The event brought together the most innovative leaders and thinkers in HR and people development to discuss how to infuse greater meaning into the employee experience. Ely and Mandelbaum discussed some of the most effective practices for creating diverse and inclusive work environments, and recruiting diverse teams.

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How Netflix’s Customer Obsession Created a Customer Obsession

Nir Eyal

Nir’s Note: This guest post is by Gibson Biddle, former VP at Netflix and CPO at Chegg. Gibson is speaking at the Habit Summit in San Francisco on April 11th. In 2005, as I joined Netflix as VP of Product, I asked Reed Hastings, the CEO, what he hoped his legacy would be. His answer: “Consumer science.” […]. The post How Netflix’s Customer Obsession Created a Customer Obsession appeared first on Nir and Far.

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How Leadership Can Reap Big Rewards By Creating A “Self-Care Culture”

15Five

We used to just call them “mental health days.” Those days when you just need to get some separation from the daily grind, refresh yourself, and do whatever it takes to get a break from multitasking and workplace tech. Of course, now we understand more clearly the link between employee happiness and outcomes like higher engagement, increased productivity, and business growth.

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Choose Your Focus Because Your Eyes Control Your Tongue

Leadership Freak

Teams and organizations move in the direction of the words they use. The most important thing I can say about your tongue is it’s a rudder. 7 powers of words: Words determine direction.

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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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Meet the Coach: Giuseppe De Simone

Agile42

Following the announcement of the public launch of agile42 in Sweden , we bring our series "Meet the Coach" to Stockholm to meet Giuseppe De Simone. Born in Italy, Giuseppe is a Certified Enterprise Coach and Certified Team Coach and his relationship with agile42 goes way back. We exchanged a few words while he plans for busy weeks ahead. How did you start as an Agile coach and how many times did you cross path with agile42?

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Four Ways to Avoid Catastrophic Thinking

Kevin Eikenberry

Catastrophic thinking is a term used to describe extreme worrying. It is the thought cycle we go through when we think about the worst possible outcome, and those thoughts make it hard to think about anything else. This happened to me today. I have this article to write for you and slides to finish/polish for […]. The post Four Ways to Avoid Catastrophic Thinking appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Peak-end rule: Why You Make Terrible Life Choices

Nir Eyal

It’s New Year’s Eve. There I am on the dance floor – it’s teeming with people and there’s hardly space to breathe. Loud thumping music pierces my eardrums and I have no idea where my friends are. Then, the guy next to me takes a misstep, spills an entire cup of beer down my shoulder. […]. The post Peak-end rule: Why You Make Terrible Life Choices appeared first on Nir and Far.

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While Employee Development Programs Fail, Growth Organizations Help Everyone Succeed

15Five

Over the last several years a performance management revolution has taken place, and businesses are now focusing more on the growth and wellbeing of their employees. This has led to the implementation of employee development programs that annually cost companies hundreds of billions of dollars. While it makes sense to respond to employees’ desires for growth in the workplace, many executives still grapple with how to improve the effectiveness of these programs.

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10 Ways to Start Your Day Like a Leader

Leadership Freak

Peak performance is built on rest. Exhaustion breeds discouragement and fear. I hope you woke up this morning refreshed. 10 ways to start your day like a leader.

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Welcome Sweden!

Agile42

It’s been a long journey of collaborations and discovery and now we are extremely happy to officially launching the local presence of agile42 in Sweden, agile42 Consulting AB. Based in Stockholm and working closely with the company presence in other Nordic countries and all over the world, we will able to deliver the same range of training and coaching opportunities for our clients.

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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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Fusion: How Integrating Brand and Culture Powers the World’s Greatest Companies

Kevin Eikenberry

by Denise Lee Yohn Organizational culture is one of the most talked about and written about topics in leadership literature these days. There is good reason this is true: Peter Drucker’s famous line says it best – “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” But as is often the case, once an important topic becomes trendy, so […]. The post Fusion: How Integrating Brand and Culture Powers the World’s Greatest Companies appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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3 Ways to Create More Strategic Urgency

LSA Global

Do You Need to Create Strategic Urgency? Our high performance research identified complacency as one of the top five strategy execution warning signs. Often, the most vulnerable time for an organization is when you are at the top of your game. If you are looking to take your performance to the next level, you should consider creating some strategic urgency.

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Peak-End Rule: Why You Make Terrible Life Choices

Nir Eyal

Nir’s Note: This post part of a series on cognitive bias co-authored with and illustrated by Lakshmi Mani. Discover other reasons you make terrible life choices like confirmation bias, hyperbolic discounting and distinction bias. It’s New Year’s Eve. There I am on the dance floor – it’s teeming with people and there’s hardly space to […] The post Peak-End Rule: Why You Make Terrible Life Choices appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Employee Feedback But Were Literally Afraid To Ask

15Five

Woah! What an April! More articles about continuous employee feedback were published in this one month than we’ve seen in any other month over the last half-decade. Amazon and Nike both made headlines, the former for a company-wide roll out of Connections , a daily Q&A feedback program that is being received with some employee skepticism.

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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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37% of Managers Don’t Give Positive Feedback – How to Stop Complaining

Leadership Freak

It’s easier to complain than take responsibility to make something better. One morning, not long ago, I set out to NOT complain for a day. That morning at 7:00 a.

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Stick out your thumb, agile42 is looking for a new Agile Coach

Agile42

First, a bit more about us ! We work with a variety of methods, including Scrum, Kanban, Systems thinking, and Lean and Agile Leadership. Our approach allows organizations of all kinds and sizes to change prevailing mindsets and become more Agile in a proven, risk-free, and sustainable way. We always focus on delivering value to our customers. We have colleagues in Germany, the United States, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy, Finland, Turkey and South Africa.

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Understanding Employee Performance – is it Will or Skill?

Kevin Eikenberry

If you coach others you have certainly thought about why people succeed at a task … or don’t. Make no mistake that the solution is complex. There is a question that can help in your thinking: Is it will or skill (that leads them to achieve or not achieve something)? This question has been asked […]. The post Understanding Employee Performance – is it Will or Skill?

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Good Managers Are Great Communicators

LSA Global

Good Managers Are Great Communicators. Managers, listen up…good managers are great communicators. A lot of what makes a good manager is the ability to communicate well. The best managers know how to really listen and how to communicate with both power and empathy. It’s not a matter of adhering to one method as in the cartoon above; but rather, good managers are great communicators because they communicate with clarity, relevance and purpose.

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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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How to Be Indistractable: Video by Nir Eyal

Nir Eyal

In this talk, I describe a new model for managing distraction — how to become “Indistractable.” I’ll write more on this topic in the coming months and I’m finishing a book with the same title. I’d love to hear your feedback in the comments below. Also, please share this video with people who may benefit […] The post How to Be Indistractable: Video by Nir Eyal appeared first on Nir and Far.

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15Five To Pilot New Elon Musk Venture: SpaceAds

15Five

In the wake of SpaceX’s successful launch of a Tesla into space in February, Elon Musk today announced the launch of his latest idea — SpaceAds. This new venture will allow the world’s most innovative companies to place branded artifacts in space to advertise their “out of this world” offerings. Starman Waiting In The Sky. The world stood transfixed earlier this year as the most powerful rocket in operation, the Falcon Heavy, placed a shiny red Tesla Roadster into an ell

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Three Types of Complainers – Which One Are You

Leadership Freak

I wonder if you pat yourself on the back because you don’t voice all your complaints. Withholding complaints doesn’t make you a positive leader. Fun: Complaining is fun at least for awhile.

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Agile, Entropy and Human Systems

Agile42

I have been thinking a great deal about human systems, what makes them tick, what helps them be better and what gets in their way. In this talk, I will dig into human systems, entropy and agile. I will explore the things that I believe can help human systems to be better and share the things that I have seen yield results. This has been topic of the presentation Agile, Entropy and Human Systems I delivered at Agile Days Istanbul 2018, a great event that covered Agile Leadership, Agile for IT-T

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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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A Surprising Secret to Success at Work

Kevin Eikenberry

I wrote this title because people will likely read it – we love secrets to success, and if they are surprising, all the better. Depending on your beliefs and experience, this post may be neither. Either way, what am about to share will make a difference for you professionally and for the organization you serve. […]. The post A Surprising Secret to Success at Work appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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3 Employee Engagement Myths You Need to Know

LSA Global

Employee Engagement Myths. Unfortunately as the field of engagement grows, employee engagement myths also seem to be on the rise. Some reports would have you believe that 7 out of 8 American workers are disengaged. That’s a staggering statistic! But should we believe it? We don’t think so. Those numbers are exaggerated. Most of the workforce is not disengaged.

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How to Be Indistractable: Video by Nir Eyal

Nir Eyal

In this talk, I describe a new model for managing distraction — how to become “Indistractable.” I’ll write more on this topic in the coming months and I’m finishing a book by the same title. I’d love to hear your feedback in the comments below. Also, please share this video with people who may benefit […]. The post How to Be Indistractable: Video by Nir Eyal appeared first on Nir and Far.

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How Netflix’s Customer Obsession Created a Customer Obsession

Nir Eyal

Nir’s Note: This guest post is by Gibson Biddle, former VP at Netflix and CPO at Chegg. Gibson is speaking at the Habit Summit in San Francisco on April 11th. In 2005, as I joined Netflix as VP of Product, I asked Reed Hastings, the CEO, what he hoped his legacy would be. His answer: “Consumer science.” […] The post How Netflix’s Customer Obsession Created a Customer Obsession appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Two Ways To Be Less Critical and More Positive

Leadership Freak

Critics point out what’s wrong but neglect how to improve. Two reasons leaders are critical of others: #1. You assume people have negative motives. He’s late because he’s lazy.

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Whining Wednesday – Share Your Complaints!

Leadership Freak

What are your favorite complaints? Go ahead and let loose. Feel free to type ‘anonymous’ where you put your name when leaving comments. 20 common complaints: Self-centered uncaring bosses. Weather. Politicians. Pay. Customers.

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15 Signs You’re a Complainer and Don’t Know It

Leadership Freak

Complaining is about who you are, not the world around you. Ever notice how two people can experience the same thing and have opposite responses? One remains positive, even grateful. The other complains.

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Dealing with Destructive Leadership

Leadership Freak

Wise leaders give and receive correction. Incompetent leaders tear down and poison relationships. Correction cp. criticism: Correction builds up. Criticism tears down. Correction looks to the future. Criticism camps in the past.

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There Are Only Three Ways to Get More Done

Leadership Freak

Pressure to put more in your cup – when your cup already overflows – stresses you out and drains your energy.

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15 WAYS TO GRAPPLE WITH DISCOURAGEMENT AND EVENTUALLY WIN

Leadership Freak

The only reason encouragement matters is discouragement is real. On June 2, 2011, I woke up discouraged and couldn’t think of anything to write. Then it hit me. Write about overcoming discouragement.

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