15Five

MARCH 23, 2017

Building a vibrant workplace requires a foundation of trust, respect, and honest communication. It also requires employee appreciation. Over 200,000 global employees were studied by the Boston Consulting Group , and the top reason they reported enjoying their work was, “feeling appreciated”. Number 2 was having a good relationship with their supervisor, and number 4 was that they had a good relationship with their colleagues.

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Nir Eyal

MARCH 30, 2017

Until recently, when I needed a break I’d grab my phone. Whether I was bored, mentally fatigued, or just wanting a pick-me-up, I felt relief checking the news, Facebook, or Instagram. However, new research suggests there are good ways and not-so-good ways to spend our break time. While some breaks can leave us refreshed and […]. The post Research Reveals How to Take a Better Break appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 3, 2017

The likelihood that you run productive meetings is roughly the same as a coin toss.* Keep in mind that the higher you go in organizational life, the more meetings you lead. If you want people to respect your leadership, run meetings high performers love to attend. 3 things high performers hate about meetings: #1.

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Kevin Eikenberry

MARCH 27, 2017

Questions in general can be incredibly powerful, and the right one asked at the right time can change a situation, a relationship and even the world. But while lots of questions are great, there is one that is simple, universally used, and incredibly powerful – and that power can be for good, or for ill. […]. The post The Most Powerful (And Dangerous) Question in the World appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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Management30 Change Management

MARCH 8, 2017

by Sarah Baca Recently I had a doctor’s appointment, and the doctor was talking about how when he works with patients he gives them lots of information. That information includes exercises to help them manage pain. But getting them to actually do those exercises seems impossible. This sounded like a familiar problem to me. I. The post How to run a Lean Change Cycle appeared first on Management 3.0.

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Brian Balfour

MARCH 21, 2017

Most growth communities, forums, and email lists will inevitably have that thread that goes: “Hey, what are the benchmarks everyone’s seeing for X?” I constantly find people seeking out benchmarks or pointing to benchmarks, and we’ve all been there -- who doesn’t want some normalizing data to understand whether we’re on track or not? The desire is further fueled by many companies releasing “benchmark reports.

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Nir Eyal

MARCH 6, 2017

Nir’s Note: Gad Saad is a professor of marketing at Concordia University and the author of The Consuming Instinct. He’ll be speaking at the upcoming Habit Summit in April. (You can register here!) In this interview with Max Ogles, Saad discusses the role of evolutionary psychology in modern marketing. Q: Let’s start with a simple […]. The post The Secret Marketing Power of Evolutionary Psychology appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 30, 2017

Step one: Ask your boss to talk about her aspirations for your department or team. Provide focus. You might say, “I’m thinking about the big picture for the next year.

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Leadership Development 81

Kevin Eikenberry

MARCH 20, 2017

Communication is a proverbial, organizational, and leadership challenge. Even the best leaders and organizations know they can improve in how they communicate with others. For that reason, this is a topic we are often asked to help people improve. The obvious reason people and organizations want to improve communications is that it is important – […].

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LSA Global

MARCH 22, 2017

The research around talent management has uncovered some surprises. We had thought that the best performing companies had the most star talent. But it turns out that, according to Bain & Company , “A” players are pretty evenly distributed across the workforce from company to company. They found that about 15% of all employees are what you could consider both high performing and high potential.

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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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Nir Eyal

MARCH 20, 2017

Nir’s Note: Jane McGonigal is a game designer at The Institute for the Future and bestselling author of Reality is Broken and SuperBetter. She’ll be speaking at the upcoming Habit Summit in April. (You can register here!) In this interview with Max Ogles, McGonigal discusses impact of future technologies on behavior, habits, and the way […]. The post The Unbelievable Future of Habit-Forming Technology appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Nir Eyal

MARCH 16, 2017

Nir’s Note: Below is the transcript of an interview I did with David Burkus, an award-winning podcaster and author of Under New Management: The Unexpected Truths about Leading Great Organizations. This interview was part of a Heleo Conversation on the topic of technology obsession, work-life balance, and challenging assumptions in order to change behavior.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 6, 2017

Innovative initiatives require quick wins. But unable to choose is unable to move. 7 principles of success for leading innovative initiatives: #1. New initiatives need to inspire energy to survive and thrive.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 7, 2017

Overbooked, overwhelmed, and over-committed … You have slop in your bucket. Life grows meaningless as time passes, unless you pour out the slop. 5 guaranteed ways to pour slop out of your bucket: #1. Identify slop: The trouble with slop is it comes disguised as fulfillment. You end up carrying a bucket of putrescent slop.

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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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Leadership Freak

MARCH 28, 2017

When you know what’s next you can prepare and perform. Structure provides predictability. Predictability enables preparation. Preparation raises confidence. Confidence is energy. A 5 step one-on-one any leader can do: #1.

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15Five

MARCH 8, 2017

What matters most to your employees? This is the third time we are asking that question, because what could be more rewarding and fruitful than fostering a supported and thriving workforce? Every year we review the Society for Human Resource Management’s Employee Job Satisfaction and Engagement Report , an enormous undertaking that produces nearly sixty pages of data on what employees want most, how responsive their employers are, and what they need to be engaged in their work.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 24, 2017

The tragedy of organizational life is incompetent leadership. If everything rises or falls on leadership, why aren’t you systematically developing leadership skills?

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Leadership Development 74

Leadership Freak

MARCH 21, 2017

Some of the best things leaders do, they do when they’re new. Show up today likes it’s your first day, even if it isn’t. You wanted to learn everything when you were new.

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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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Leadership Freak

MARCH 12, 2017

I saw a breathtaking thing of beauty in an executive coaching session. I asked a client, I’ll call him Carl, to take a courageous step and he did.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 27, 2017

Reverse delegation happens when delegated tasks end up back in your bucket. Reverse delegation stalls the trajectory of your career, the growth of your team, and the success of your organization.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 13, 2017

Over-engaged leaders work way too hard. Over-engaged leaders produce disengaged teams. Work to make space for others, if you’re an over-engaged leader. Over-engaged leaders: Love check lists.

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Leadership Development 67

Leadership Freak

MARCH 5, 2017

Don’t wait for poor performance to discuss high performance. Make ‘getting better’ normal by scheduling bi-monthly coaching conversations. The anatomy of performance enhancing coaching conversation: (Consider this list a loose structure for a coaching conversation.

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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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15Five

MARCH 6, 2017

Please. I’m begging you. Don’t run your own employee engagement survey. If you are currently doing so, please consider my admonition below. Of course, as someone who facilitates an employee engagement survey , I’m biased—but that doesn’t mean I’m wrong. The problems with running an internal survey are significant enough that I consider it a dangerous option for companies who want to genuinely understand employee well-being and engagement.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 21, 2017

To empower people, you must give them some control. One-on-ones where employees control most or all of the agenda transfer power to employees. But it’s intimidating if employees haven’t done it before.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 2, 2017

Aiming high is overrated. Aim ridiculously low if you want swift response and immediate action. Big goals are marshmallow clouds on chocolate rain Mondays, unless they distill into small daily behaviors.

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Leadership Development 63

Leadership Freak

MARCH 14, 2017

It’s an ego boost to sit in the power chair and see heads turn in your direction. You enjoy it. You come to expect it.

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Leadership Development 77

Leadership Freak

MARCH 17, 2017

The questions you answer determine the direction you go. In order to find the right answer, you must ask the right question.

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Manager 72

Leadership Freak

MARCH 4, 2017

Hi Dan, My organization is going through a very large merger with a lot of unknowns in there. Do you have advice on preventing employee cynicism?

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Leadership Development 66

Leadership Freak

MARCH 9, 2017

April 16, 2003 Yesterday Dale went shopping for clothes without me. (We usually shop together.) She came back with two summer dresses that look very comfortable. One was pleasing to my eye.

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Leadership Development 52

Leadership Freak

MARCH 19, 2017

“I’m living the dream,” is sarcasm. The only dream you’re living includes stinky sweat and purposeful perseverance. The only thing easy about big dreams is dreaming them.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 20, 2017

“The biggest hiring mistakes happened when I was tired and under duress. We really needed help.” Jeremie Kubicek, co-founder of the GIANT companies, mentioned two worst case scenarios.

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Leadership Development 50

15Five

MARCH 16, 2017

Sales teams are the lifeblood of every company that has reached a certain stage in their growth trajectory. Whether sales are stagnant or growing, many leaders of sales teams face the same challenges – they need to understand why their methodologies worked or didn’t work, so that insights and learnings can be shared throughout. In either of these scenarios, the sales organization needs a solution to navigate through underperformance or growing pains.

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