Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 6, 2015
Your leadership is doomed if you pay attention to everything. Urgency and priority may be separate issues. Ignore things or waste your leadership on things that don’t matter. 7 things successful leaders ignore: #1.
Kevin Eikenberry
SEPTEMBER 7, 2015
How many times have you gotten a flash of insight, a great idea or remembered the name of that person you couldn’t come up with, while taking a shower? I’ll bet it is more than once. In fact, one survey of highly creative people found that 19% of those people get their best ideas in […]. The post Why You Get Your Best Ideas in the Shower (and Why Matters) appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
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Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
When was the last time someone let you know you mattered by listening to you? Real listening is the dodo bird of leadership. 13 reasons leaders don’t listen: Time. Be honest.
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 22, 2015
Agreement hinders effective decision-making. The bobble-heads that surround leaders may soothe the leader’s ego, but they harming organizations. They’re protecting their salaries. Agreement before dissent is a pathetic waste of talent.
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!
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 15, 2015
I don’t want to be a pessimist, but I think there’s more sickness in organizational cultures than health. Healthy organizational culture results from focused attention. Sick cultures indicate distraction and neglect. 7 signs your culture is sick: Isolation prevails. Leaders and employees work in silos. CYA dominates.
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 4, 2015
Action begins with belief. Wrong beliefs result in wasted effort. Ineffective leaders believe wrong things about themselves, others, situations, and organizations. 5 deadly beliefs that limit leaders: Deadly belief #1. The problem is out there. Helplessness, irresponsibility, and recurring frustration are the result of blame. The first responsibility is taking responsibility for yourself.
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Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 10, 2015
Busy is a badge of honor in business circles. But, running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off isn’t a sign of importance. We falsely believe that busyness reflects significance.
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 27, 2015
Fear might feel safe, but leadership requires boldness. Fear congeals the past. Boldness builds the future. Fear is survival-mode. Boldness is opportunity-mode. Boldness follows hope. 4 ways to build bold teams: Provide training. Celebrate mistakes.
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 14, 2015
Don’t go through the motions for another day. Survival might be success during crisis, but it’s failure over the long-term. Define success in order to win. Purpose defines winning.
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 18, 2015
George asked, “Do you ever feel pressure?” He was thinking about the breadth and depth of the Leadership Freak audience, as well as, the rigorous writing schedule I maintain.
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.
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
High performance is about inspiring not pressuring. #1 Philosophies in high performance cultures: Servant-leadership. Leaders serve teammates. Teammates serve each other. Everyone serves customers. Maximize strengths.
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
Evaluate leaders on their ability to inspire. If I surveyed your team, would they say you inspire them? Any fool can suck the life out of people. Successful leaders aspire to inspire.
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
The Proximity Principle: Leaders tend to serve people they see, touch, and spend time with. Leaders who huddle rather than mingle grow inward and serve each other. Distance allows detachment.
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
There are a million reasons to stay the same, when you feel pressure to change. In my opinion change is great as long as someone else is doing it.
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.
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 17, 2015
The path to remarkable is paved with feedback. Feedback, received well, transforms leaders. However, the behavior leaders fail at most is seeking feedback. Feedback that hurts the most often helps the most.
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 16, 2015
There is no secret to success, but some qualities and behaviors make success more likely. 25 qualities and behaviors that make success more likely: Intelligence. Authenticity. Talent. Sociability and connections. Resilience. Seeing the big picture. Hard work. Starting. Finishing. Inspiring others. Focus. Vision. Surrounding yourself with talent. Solving problems Adding value.
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 7, 2015
Repetition forms patterns. Patterns define the future. Successful leaders are repeaters. Don’t repeat: Gossip. Repeated words seem truer, even when they’re not. Gossip weakens relationships. Criticism. Disapproval is more powerful than approval.
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 28, 2015
You care, even though you might feel uncomfortable showing it. Personally, for years, I’ve joked, “I’m from Maine. We have feelings on Christmas Eve and the Fourth of July. I’m not a touchy-feely.
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.
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
Life’s darkest frustrations hover over the gap between feeling unimportant and hoping to be significant. Desires for greatness are holy. No one wakes up in the morning with burning desires to be trivial.
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 11, 2015
(Warning: This post is approximately 350 words!) “Do you think we have to fight to be our true selves?” The question came from a busy leader with global impact. I replied, “The fight for our authentic self is seen in toddlers and teenagers. But, I wonder if fight is the best word?
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 2, 2015
Curiosity makes you interesting. (Especially if you want to talk about me.) A participant at a recent presentation asked me about qualities of successful leaders.
Kevin Eikenberry
SEPTEMBER 14, 2015
If you are a leader, you make decisions, large and small, every day. Many are straightforward and take very little time, but if you have been a leader for very long at all, you have had to face a complex, multi-faceted and difficult problem, where the decision was far from easy or obvious. Often when […]. The post How Leaders Make Hard Decisions appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
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
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 8, 2015
Leaders squander new talent when you give too much guidance. Don’t give instruction that’s rooted in the past, if you want something new. Encourage people to bring themselves to opportunities.
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 20, 2015
Don’t you “love” it when someone asks, “Do you mind if I give you some feedback?” You can’t say, “Yes, I do mind,” especially if it’s the boss.
Kevin Eikenberry
SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
It’s time, and you know it. You and your team have identified the idea that will change your world and results. It’s your Disney World, your iPad, or your DVD player. OK, it might not be that big, but it will be a game changer for you. It is big, it is bold, and it […]. The post How To Implement Your Game Changing Ideas appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 26, 2015
Dear Dan, I built what I thought was a pretty solid relationship with some colleagues. Recently they hired a new person. Once she got comfortable she started becoming the backstabber.
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 19, 2015
Cowards love procrastination. Aspiring authors would kill for the opportunities that come my way. But, I’ve procrastinated on writing a book for three years. I’m afraid of it. Fear blocks possibility.
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 30, 2015
If you didn’t have authority, how would you hold people accountable? Don’t demand what must be given.
Kevin Eikenberry
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
You can tell them, you can order them or you can persuade them…but there’s only one right answer to get people to understand the importance of attending, participating and engaging in training. Remarkable TV: Persuading People to Attend Training Listen to the audio-only version of this episode. Learn more about Remarkable Leadership Workshop, Bud to […].
Kevin Eikenberry
SEPTEMBER 28, 2015
If you have been leading for very long, you’ve had bad news to deliver to someone or to your entire team. I do realize that there is “bad news” and there is “seriously-work-and-life-changing-bad-news”, but regardless of the depth, leaders worry about the impact the news will have on the psyche, attitude and motivation of their […].
Kevin Eikenberry
SEPTEMBER 6, 2015
By Geoff Colvin Geoff Colvin, the senior editor-at-large at Fortune wrote one of my favorite books of 2008 – Talent is Overrated. Now he’s written what will clearly be one of my favorites of 2015. This book took me on more of an emotional roller coaster ride than any great novel or whodunit. The first […]. The post Humans are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
Kevin Eikenberry
SEPTEMBER 20, 2015
By Adam Galinsky and Maurice Schweitzer This is a brand new book with an intriguing title from two accomplished professors at highly respected institutions. The title and recency might be leaning you in favor of purchasing this book. The third fact might not. If you are worried that this book is stuffy or academic, fear […]. The post Friend & Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
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