June, 2014

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10 Things Young Leaders Need to Succeed

Leadership Freak

'The Success of young leaders is the future of organizations. Old leaders, who cling to leadership, limit their legacy. Act like you’ll be gone next year. Rigor: Call for commitment.

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Four Leadership Trust Busters

Kevin Eikenberry

'Trust. Your ability to lead is severely hampered without it, and the more of it you have, the easier leadership becomes. Plus, with greater trust comes greater speed of implementation, clearer communication and much more. It is certainly something that leaders must spend time creating and working intently to maintain. There are many things that […].

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12 Ways to Become Extraordinary

Leadership Freak

'Some leaders become extraordinary. But, average is normal. You climb and struggle toward extraordinary. Mediocrity is a comfortable slide. Extraordinary leadership is rare because it requires: Fierce focus. Finely honed skills. Fanatical commitment.

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32 Things to say to Young Leaders

Leadership Freak

'Why aren’t you asking for feedback? Tell me who you want to become in behavioral terms. Why do you matter? Tell me what you expect from yourself. Pursue clarity by asking more questions.

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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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7 Marks of Engaged Leadership

Leadership Freak

'Disengaged leaders lead by decree. The ability to calculate percentages isn’t leadership. It doesn’t take a college education to raise last quarter’s results by 5% and call it next quarter’s goal.

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10 Ways to Become the Leader Others Value

Leadership Freak

'It’s not “just” business. We are born to connect. The greatest “ship” in leadership is relationship. The priority of relationship came home to me in a follow-up call with Bob Buford.

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How to Deal with People Who Drive You Crazy

Leadership Freak

'Crazy people are everywhere. Changing jobs won’t help. Deal with them now, or deal with them later. You can’t escape! 12 Crazies: Dramatic Dennis thinks everything’s a crisis.

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7 Ways Quiet Leaders Get the Most From Talkers

Leadership Freak

'Quiet leaders struggle with talkers. They wonder if we’ll ever shut up. Leaders should be wondering if they talk too little not too much. 10 dangers of talkative leaders: Forgetfulness.

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7 Ways to Have Tough Compassion

Leadership Freak

'Compassion goes wrong when it coddles. Tough compassion calls for extraordinary commitment that stretches people. Coddling prevents people from achieving their best. Image source Coddling compassion: Don’t coddle at the beginning of challenging projects.

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The Leadership Freak Code of Leadership

Leadership Freak

'Leaders without a code follow the course of least resistance. Life becomes unstable, stressful, and frustrating. Leaders without guiding principles are undependable followers. Power: Your leadership code is the foundation of decision making.

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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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One Response to Ten Dangers Leaders Face

Leadership Freak

'Every leader wonders if its worth the struggle, from time to time. Only the naive make light of the difficulties ahead. Washouts line the shore. The greatest dangers lie within.

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12 Ways Young Leaders Earn Admiration from Elders

Leadership Freak

'You can’t succeed if people don’t admire something about you. The more admiration you earn, the further you’ll go. Opportunity and admiration go hand in hand. Don’t set out to be admired.

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Don’t Spank the Gorilla

Leadership Freak

'Don’t expect the gorilla to cooperate if you’re spanking him. Insults don’t enhance influence. You can’t antagonize and influence at the same time.

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How to Motivate Others to Commit

Leadership Freak

'Frustrated leaders ask, “How can I convince others to do what I want them to do?” Why is commitment so low? Reluctance: Reluctance to commit is natural and healthy.

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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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Winning with Leadership’s Greatest Danger

Leadership Freak

'Success destroys leaders by encouraging them to repeat the past. Leadership is always about the future. Repetition: Repeating the past prevents you from building on it. Success confirms and solidifies, then it destroys.

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10 Ways to Deal with Weaknesses in Others

Leadership Freak

'Everyone is great at some things and lousy at others. Arrogant leaders compare the weaknesses of others to their strengths. Don’t judge others by the way they compare to you.

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Results Aren’t the Real Issue

Leadership Freak

'Results never magically appear just because you want them. Wanting and producing are two different things. Future results aren’t real. Its easy to want to be a successful leader. Only fools want to fail.

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Secrets to Great Presentations

Leadership Freak

'Leaders who present well, extend their influence, broaden their impact, and advance their careers. Great talkers have an advantage. Two questions: Ask the most important question presenters forget to ask.

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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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10 ways to Enhance Charisma

Leadership Freak

'Admiration converts to influence. Charismatic leaders achieve results through presence and personality. People seek the approval of charismatic leaders. They love giving them what they want. Magnetism and influence characterize charismatic leaders.

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How Two Conversations Changed A Life

Leadership Freak

'You are who you are today, in large part, because of words you heard, not words you said. Unfocused: Mark entered college, like so many, unsure of what he wanted.

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The Little Eye and the Big Eye

Leadership Freak

'Leaders who can’t focus, fail. The benefit of focus is the power to disregard. Leaders with focus, like horses with blinders, ignore distractions. Distraction: Distraction makes weak leaders feel powerful.

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7 Ways to Break the Bondage of Old Patterns

Leadership Freak

'Predictability is stability, until it shackles. Old patterns are hard to break because they worked, once. But, you’ve changed and what worked once is bondage now.

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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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When “But” Makes you a Sphincter-Leader

Leadership Freak

'Sphincter-leaders unwittingly throw cold water on enthusiasm. A happy employee catches you in the hall. “Project ‘A’ is going well,” they report. It’s obvious they feel good.

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Maya Angelou’s Leadership Advice

Kevin Eikenberry

'It is three simple lines and the words I most connect to Maya Angelou. After I heard of her passing, they are the words I thought of. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.” - Maya Angelou The advice is powerful and […].

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Five Ways Leaders Can Declare Their Independence

Kevin Eikenberry

'238 years ago this week, a group of men, a group of leaders, risked their lives and livelihoods to declare their (nonexistent) country’s independence from England. If you are from the United States, I wish you a Happy Independence Day! But actually I am wishing that all of you (regardless of the country that issued […].

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Creating Customer Partnerships

Kevin Eikenberry

'Last week, I asked you to walk in the shoes of your Customers for a minute – and closed by asking you four questions with easy answers. but without helping you get to those answers. This week, I will close the loop by helping you lead in a way that creates closer, […].

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Getting the Results Without the Authority: How to Manage a Project & Team That Doesn’t Report to You

Kevin Eikenberry

'Have you ever led a project team? In today’s working world, the answer is likely yes. Have you ever led a project team where some (or all) of the people on the team don’t report to you? My guess is the answer is yes again. Both can be challenging – after all, there are professional […].

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Persuasion and Manipulation – Are They the Same?

Kevin Eikenberry

'Persuasion is not manipulation. If a connection between those words crosses your mind, I want you to break that connection – and I’ve got about 400 words in this space to persuade you. From the Merriam Webster online dictionary. Persuade - to move by argument, entreaty, or expostulation to a belief, position, or course of […].

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Advice From a Hall of Famer

Kevin Eikenberry

'This week, the baseball world lost an all-time great, and from everything I’ve heard and read over the years, the world lost a great guy. Tony Gwynn was without doubt one of the greatest hitters ever, and while this quotation is about baseball, I think there are larger lessons for us about life. Questions to […].

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How to Find the One Thing Everything Else Needs

Leadership Freak

'The success of every project or initiative boils down to one essential behavior. The one thing is – the thing – everything else hangs on.

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Six Reasons Leaders Need to Stop!

Kevin Eikenberry

'Every leader I talk to has plenty to do. We live in an age of the full plate, the fast pace and the stuffed to-do list. While this may be a sign of our times, there is another sign that we see and observe every day; and we don’t really realize that this sign can […].

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Edgy Conversations: How Ordinary People Can Achieve Outrageous Success

Kevin Eikenberry

'By Dan Waldschmidt You know this book is different (OK, the author would say edgy) when you open the cover and instead of seeing testimonials from famous or influential people, you see this: This is where you would normally find opinions and quotes from a bunch of people who say they read the book and […].

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