Peter Drucker’s 9 Functions of a Mentor
Leadership Freak
MAY 14, 2014
'I don’t care who you are or what you do. Be a mentor. Have a mentor. Don’t worry if you don’t understand mentoring. Just go engage in one of the nine behaviors that follow.
Leadership Freak
MAY 14, 2014
'I don’t care who you are or what you do. Be a mentor. Have a mentor. Don’t worry if you don’t understand mentoring. Just go engage in one of the nine behaviors that follow.
Kevin Eikenberry
MAY 11, 2014
'Unless you live under a rock, live outside the United States or are a non-sports person, you know the National Football League held their draft of players last week. If you don’t know, this annual event allows teams to pick players based on a prescribed order that they have the right to hire for their […].
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Leadership Freak
MAY 17, 2014
'Stop assigning tasks to yourself. Successful leaders leave meetings with fewer tasks, not more. Delegating is taking stuff off your plate and putting it on someone else’s.
Leadership Freak
MAY 8, 2014
'You’ll never know who you might have been if you don’t grow. Success is about personal growth not techniques, strategies, or methods. Awkward: Growth feels awkward because it means not yet and not there.
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
MAY 31, 2014
'There are no casual words, when it comes to leadership. Every word delivers results. Determine desired results before opening your mouth. Words: Build or destroy. Energize or anesthetize. Push forward or hold back.
Leadership Freak
MAY 23, 2014
'It takes a miracle to re-ignite a fire once you’ve hosed it down. Skillful leaders use words to energize and release. Foolish leaders reign in and control. Everyone has a fire inside.
OrgDev Digest brings together the best content for management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Leadership Freak
MAY 1, 2014
'The more you’re pushing, the less you’re doing what you love. Love pulls. “It’s not just about pushing yourself. It’s about finding your tennis ball.” Drew Houston, Co-founder and CEO of Dropbox.
Leadership Freak
MAY 21, 2014
'The problems of leadership begin with words. Say the wrong thing and clients head for the door. Relationships blow up. Production declines. Tensions escalate. Employees lose motivation.
Leadership Freak
MAY 22, 2014
'Only fools say dumb things, intentionally. Think back to the last dumb thing you said. Did you think it was dumb, before you said it? The dumb things you’ve said seemed smart at first.
Leadership Freak
MAY 27, 2014
'Organizations that ignore dreamers die. The two most dangerous people in organizations are dreamers who lack experience and dream-killers. Dream-killers roll their eyes and say, “They don’t know what it takes.
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
MAY 15, 2014
'Everyone has dumb ideas, even you. The real problem isn’t dumb ideas, it’s no one challenges them. Untested brilliance is stupidity waiting to happen. I’m filled with ideas.
Leadership Freak
MAY 20, 2014
'Failure is the result of lack of urgency. Comfortable rhythms set-in. People wander toward fuzzy goals. Focus becomes drifting. Complacency drives real leaders crazy. Goals without urgency are fantasies.
Leadership Freak
MAY 28, 2014
'Past tense leaders don’t clarify results or methods, before you take action. But, when it’s over, they critique and tweak what you did. Lousy leaders are wise after the fact.
Leadership Freak
MAY 13, 2014
'If the people you push felt powerful, they’d reject you. In their hearts they do. Pushing people isn’t leadership. Sometimes people need a swift kick in the pants.
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
MAY 6, 2014
'It takes more than good character to be a trustworthy leader. Don’t trust leaders who can’t get the job done, even if they are wonderful people.
Leadership Freak
MAY 30, 2014
'Frustration is unrealized potential. Frustration drives ineffective leaders backward, inward, and downward. Backward facing frustration reacts against an unsatisfying past. Top leaders disappointed. Results fell short. Teammates hung you out to dry.
Leadership Freak
MAY 7, 2014
'Give yourself 10 minutes for reflection before tackling today’s challenges. You’ve been so busy solving urgencies and pressing into future goals that you haven’t taken time reflect, prepare, and give feedback.
Leadership Freak
MAY 25, 2014
'When failure is imminent, it doesn’t matter why it happened. Just shut-up and fix it. Unskilled leaders expand problems. Unfocused leaders make matters worse by doing too much.
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
MAY 12, 2014
'Beautiful obsession is the predecessor of greatness. The Russian dancer, Mikhail Baryshnikov, considered to be one of the greatest ballet dancers in history, said, “Dancing is my obsession.” Obsession leads to exceptional.
Leadership Freak
MAY 29, 2014
'“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” Abraham Maslow Your strength is your hammer. If only the world was a nail. Strengths pull toward “right” solutions.
Leadership Freak
MAY 3, 2014
'Don’t avoid, reject, or smother anxiety. Use it to help you win. Dark emotions have been slandered way too long. Fear, anger, frustration and anxiety all have useful purposes. Use emotions.
Leadership Freak
MAY 9, 2014
'Life without passion is going through the motions like the walking dead. Remember your own passionless days. Not pretty! Shift your thoughts to colleagues and teammates.
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
MAY 16, 2014
'Extend your influence by following the example of Peter Drucker. Drucker’s 9 channels of influence: “Define the landscape.” “Expose ‘white space’ – define opportunities – what is needed now.” “Clarify strengths and capacities.
Leadership Freak
MAY 19, 2014
'Weak, foolish leaders constantly test the water. Strong, wise leaders dabble and jump, or move on. Fearful leaders circle the present, wringing their hands. Courageous leaders create the future. Dabbling leaders lead dying organizations.
Leadership Freak
MAY 5, 2014
'Projects get to a point when things start falling apart. Failure rises up. Some panic. Others give up. Reality: Competency in one area doesn’t transfer to other areas.
Leadership Freak
MAY 2, 2014
'Don’t pat yourself on the back if you’re skilled at saying no and lousy at saying yes. Weak leaders hide behind bureaucracy and love making people beg.
Kevin Eikenberry
MAY 26, 2014
'“Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday you leader. Happy Birthday to me.” Today is my 52nd birthday – a year for every week in a calendar year. The other day I was thinking about how birthdays are different as an adult than as a kid. If you are […].
Kevin Eikenberry
MAY 20, 2014
'There are many leadership lessons we can learn from the day’s headlines and today, I’m focusing on an underutilized coaching skill as taught by Gregg Popovich. Check out today’s episode to learn more. The best coaches sometimes let people figure it out for themselves first. @KevinEikenberry (Tweet It!) Check out our Remarkable Coaching workshop here. […].
Leadership Freak
MAY 26, 2014
'The voice in your head is someone else, who sounds like you. Don’t trust it. Inner voices are the disguised voices of people from your past.
Kevin Eikenberry
MAY 9, 2014
'The longer I live and the longer I lead, the truer I believe today’s quotation is. The lesson in it for you today may be personal or professional. Sam, “Mr. Walmart” Walton clearly believes it applies to everything. Questions to Ponder - How high are my expectations in different parts of my life? - How […].
Kevin Eikenberry
MAY 4, 2014
'The inspiration for this comes in celebration of my son Parker’s graduation from Ball State University this weekend. This is one of thousands of graduation exercises for high schools, colleges and universities that will take place across the country in the coming weeks. My focus is on six lessons new leaders will need to learn […].
Kevin Eikenberry
MAY 29, 2014
'A few weeks ago, I had the incredible opportunity to tour one of the most productive coal mining operations in the United States. The River View Mine outside of Waverly, KY is also the largest mine of its type in the U.S. – bringing 62,000 tons of coal and rock out of the mine each […].
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