January, 2019

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6 Steps to Help Create a Clear Vision for Your Organization

Organizational Development Solutions

A clear organizational vision is one of the greatest predictors of employee engagement. Read these 6 tips to set a clear vision for your company. “Leadership requires two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist. and the ability to communicate it.”. – Simon Sinek. The main skill that differentiates a leader from the rest of those in the organization is the ability to create and communicate an inspiring vision.

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How To Launch A Product or Feature To Maximize Growth

Brian Balfour

Superhuman was founded in 2015 (3ish years ago at the time of writing this). From their landing page, they are building “The Fastest Email Experience Ever Made.” To this day, you can still not sign up and instantly gain access to their product. Yet, they have received more press, word of mouth, and funding than 95%+ of other products. Why? Because they've done the exact opposite of what most do for product and feature launches.

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James Strock | 4 Powerful Questions To Improve The Way You Lead

Tanveer Nasser

These days it seems like we're seeing more and more high profile leaders being caught taking actions that clearly are meant more to serve themselves and their interests, rather than those they have the responsibility to lead and how they can help their employees, or their citizens, achieve success and prosperity under their leadership. So how do we as everyday leaders ensure we're serving our employees over ourselves, especially in light of the growing war for talent in the face of increasing em

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23 Awesome Ways To Make Every Employee Work Anniversary Memorable

Vantage Circle

How would you feel if it’s your birthday and no one ends up wishing you? Obviously, that will be quite disappointing and it may ruin your mood for the rest of the day. Amidst a busy schedule, it’s quite obvious for us to miss out on special occasions. However, as professionals there’s one special event that we shouldn’t forget i.e. the work anniversary of your colleagues and employees.

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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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5 Business New Year’s Resolutions For Leaders And How To Actually Keep Them

15Five

I’m going to find a new hobby. I’m going to stick with the diet. I’m going to finally take my dream vacation. Sound familiar? These are all perfectly good examples of New Year’s resolutions so many of us tend to make in one form or another. All too often things start out strong, but the best laid plans seem to go by the wayside after a while as other priorities take over.

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Don't Panic Series (Part 3): How can you change organizational culture through stories?

Agile42

There are four different ways a story can be told: Top-Down, Bottom-Up, Inside-Out, or Outside-In. All of these story types play an essential role in cultural change. Continuing with the Don't Panic series, Dave Sharrock and Melissa Boggs will provide examples for each story type and how they can be used to change the organizational culture. 1. Top-Down Melissa Boggs (MBO): The story we want to start with is Top-Down.

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96% Believe They are Good Listeners and That’s Baloney

Leadership Freak

Chances are you’re a lousy listener – even though you think you’re good at it. The problem is, 96% believe they are good listeners according to Accenture.

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Take Control of Your Organizational Culture

Mind Tools Strategy

What is corporate culture? Ask a random group of people and you’ll likely get vague and varying answers. “It’s the atmosphere in the office,” someone might say. “It’s just how work gets done around here. It’s HR policies and procedures.” Karen Jaw-Madson: “The definitions of work are changing.” Ask organizational expert Karen Jaw-Madson, though, and the answer gets more specific.

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7 Easy Steps To Build a New Employee Onboarding Process

Vantage Circle

Without employee onboarding, companies lose 25 percent of all new employees within a year. – Allied Workforce Mobility Survey (Source). Both you and your new hires have to go through lengthy and laborious processes to hire and get hired. You have to sort through the long list of candidates and find those whose expectations align with yours. Therefore, it’s crucial that these top talents feel engaged from their first day itself.

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What Can Leaders Do To Drive Employee Career Development?

15Five

When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? That was the question a friend posted on her Facebook page several weeks ago. I wanted to be a paramedic, because I loved the television show Emergency! (redundant exclamation mark included in the title). Back then I was more concerned with my crush on one of the actors than on the concept of career development.

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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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Don't Panic Series (Part 2): How does culture change?

Agile42

Fundamentally, changing culture is going to require some pretty significant changes. There’s going to be a new direction on where to go, and you’re almost certainly going to have to stop doing something. This means interrupting the way you normally work because in order to change direction, you have to pause and put the brakes on. Continuing with the Don’t Panic series , Dave Sharrock and Melissa Boggs will explain how culture changes as well as discuss the technique of storytelling.

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Collecting Ideas – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

This is the third video in a series on “collections” You can watch the previous videos here: Collecting Lessons and What Do You Collect. Now to the casual observer, a series on collections might seem an odd choice for a leadership blog. But trust me, it’s not. Because we aren’t talking about things that take […]. The post Collecting Ideas – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The Ability to Say NO is the Power to do What Matters

Leadership Freak

You can’t say YES to everything and excel at anything. Most people don’t enjoy saying NO to their boss, colleagues, or employees. But a world without ‘NO’ is filled with distraction, chaos, frustration, and burnout. Internal: Pressure to say YES is ultimately about you, even when your boss is a pushy jerk. You’re a people-pleaser.

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How to Ensure Smart Talent Management

LSA Global

Smart Talent Management. Smart talent management is all about deploying your workforce where they need to be, doing what they’re good at, when they need to be there. Smart talent management is doing it right, individual by individual, job by job, role by role. And it matters. Our organizational alignment research found that talent accounts for 29% of the difference between high and low performing companies.

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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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10 Ways To Develop Strong Work Ethics Among Employees

Vantage Circle

If there is one common trait shared by every successful person, it is their solid work ethic. From Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos to Pepsico's CEO Indra Nooyi to Apple's Tim Cook, they have all achieved success after working incredibly hard on their way up. Sports legends like Serena Williams and Michael Jordan achieved incredible feats in their careers because of their hard work, perseverance, and discipline.

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How To Create A Culture Of Safety With Bystander Intervention Training

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Online visualization workshop with Benjamin Felis

Agile42

In most of our classes, the training participants are impressed by the visualization approach used by our coaches. Instead of relying on a prepared PowerPoint deck, we start with a blank canvas that gets filled with words, symbols and pictures live during the class. The ability to visualize is an essential skill for a coach but also crucial in many fields in our professional work life.

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Why Accountability is So Important

Kevin Eikenberry

Accountability is consistently on the Top Ten of my Hit Parade. Leaders regularly ask me questions about it, hoping I will have the magic answer. They ask, “How can I get my people to be more accountable?” “Why aren’t people accountable anymore?” “Can I coach accountability?” and more. I can answer those questions, but the […]. The post Why Accountability is So Important appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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3 Shifts that Bring Stability to Chaos

Leadership Freak

Environments created by out-of-touch leaders are filled with frustration, distrust, and defeat. Disconnected decision-makers create distress. Deeper concerns: New systems and processes help, but the deeper concern of organizational distress is leadership.

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4 Tips to Keep Your Team Engaged

LSA Global

Keep Your Team Engaged. Engaged teams advocate for their companies, outperform their disengaged peers , and intend to stay for the long term. Based upon surveying over half a million employees across more than 5,000 organizations every year, our engagement research shows that engaged workers are over 40% more productive and effective than their unengaged counterparts.

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Employee Onboarding- Its Benefits and A Detailed Checklist

Vantage Circle

Without employee onboarding, companies lose 25 percent of all new employees within a year. (Source: Allied Workforce Mobility Survey). Both you and your new hires have to go through lengthy and laborious processes to hire and get hired. You have to sort through the long list of candidates and find those whose expectations align with yours. Therefore, it only makes sense if you can retain these employees.

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Webinar Recap: Transforming Bad Managers Into Great Team Leaders

15Five

In a recent study, 56% of American employees said their boss was mildly or highly toxic. In another study , three out of four employees said their manager was the worst and most stressful part of their job. Being a “bad manager” is counterintuitive, especially in today’s business climate, when employees crave authentic relationships and mentorship from team leaders.

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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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The Agile Leaders class of 2019

Agile42

Managers and leaders that want to start the Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) program in 2019 can choose from a calendar of possibilities to attend the 2½-day class that will steer them toward an approach built on flexibility, responsibility, and transparency, that enable organizations to deliver faster and high-quality results. The process works through a combination of self-development, experience, and education.

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The Leadership Mirror – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

Most of us look in a mirror every day – and sometimes more than once! But I’m not talking about looking in a mirror in this regard. In this episode, I am advocating for a mirror as it relates to our leadership and I’m asking a few questions to help you understand what you’ll see […]. The post The Leadership Mirror – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Grateful Leaders are Great Leaders

Leadership Freak

New Book Giveaway!! 20 free copies!! Leave a comment on this guest post by David Nielson to become eligible to win one of twenty complimentary copies of, The 9 Dimensions of Conscious Success.

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Top 4 Sales Leadership Mistakes to Avoid

LSA Global

Top 4 Sales Leadership Mistakes to Avoid – Complex Sales Can Be Complicated. In some respects, selling solutions is pretty basic. You have a product or solution; you find a likely prospect that appreciates your offering; you add value; and you negotiate the deal. But at each stage in the buying process there are potential pitfalls. Are your sales reps fully prepped to win?

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The 8 Key Components Of Employee Engagement

Vantage Circle

Employee engagement levels reached their all time high of 65 percent in 2017. Organisations are finally taking into account that employee engagement is more than just a corporate buzzword. Ken Oehler of Aon lays down the benefits of having engaged employees. He says, “companies with above engagement levels will see better employee productivity , lower turnover rates and higher customer satisfaction- all factors that can significantly contribute to improved financial performance.”.

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Setting Yourself Up to Lead in 2019

Kevin Eikenberry

rThere are predictions and prognostications of all sorts at the start of a new year. If you read enough of these you will find some that completely contradict each other. I will not share either, rather I make five promises. I promise that when you do these five things, leading in 2019 will be more […]. The post Setting Yourself Up to Lead in 2019 appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The Coaching Alphabet

Kevin Eikenberry

Daily, I am asked questions about coaching success. Daily, I strive for greater coaching success for myself. Today, I challenged myself to share three ideas that will, when implemented, help you be a more successful and confident coach. How I came up with them is interesting, but what I came up with is incredibly valuable. […]. The post The Coaching Alphabet appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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What is Your Favorite Habit? – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

It seems only appropriate that today, at the start of a new year, I talk about habits. And I’m starting with a question for you to think about to help you ensure that your habits are serving you as best as they can. Tweet it out: Habits are among the most powerful things in our […]. The post What is Your Favorite Habit? – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Factfulness

Kevin Eikenberry

By Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Ronnlund Few books give you advice on how to think more effectively. Fewer definitively answer big questions. This book does both. On the surface, Factfulness is about the subtitle of the book: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than […]. The post Factfulness appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Performance Management: How To Do It Right?

Vantage Circle

Effective performance management is the key to unlocking your employees’ full potential. The term “performance management” is used widely without understanding its true meaning. A leader has to recognize and value its role in increasing employee job satisfaction levels and improving the organization’s bottom line. Evaluating employees’ overall performance and monitoring their development is crucial that you cannot oversee as a manager.