November, 2014

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Seven Ways to Be Grateful Like a Leader

Leadership Freak

'The opportunity and ability to contribute is the great privilege of leadership. Be grateful every time you open your hand and heart, even if results fall short. Generosity expands life.

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Five Ways Gratitude Will Change Your Life

Kevin Eikenberry

'“Thank you” Saying “thank you” is something most of us learn at a young age. It’s something we teach to our children too. We all know that gratitude is important, which is why in many parts of the world, we have a day called Thanksgiving to remind us to be thankful. It is unfortunate in […]. The post Five Ways Gratitude Will Change Your Life appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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10 Ways Leaders Increase Stress Unnecessarily

Leadership Freak

'The way you think about yourself is the biggest factor in stress and productivity. Stress isn’t “out there,” it’s inside you. 10 ways to increase stress: Hide mistakes. Pretend you know. Make excuses. Expect perfection.

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The Real Truth About Authority, Power, and Position

Leadership Freak

'You don’t need authority, power, or position to lead. Sometimes they get in the way. Leading is serving, nothing more, nothing else, nothing less. Become a leader by serving.

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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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10 Reasons You Lose Gratitude and 16 Ways to Find It

Leadership Freak

'Gratitude is a form of happiness. Ungratefulness, unhappiness, and ugliness travel in the same circles. Ungratefulness paints everything ugly. 10 gratitude robbers: The belief that leadership is anything other than service. Self-importance.

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How to Lead with Compassion but Not Be a Pushover

Leadership Freak

'Compassion goes wrong when it goes too far. Too much compassion prolongs helplessness, failure, and mediocrity. Compassion done well fuels confidence, excellence, and success. Organizations without compassion are fear-filled, ugly places to work.

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How to Expand Leadership with Gratitude

Leadership Freak

'Leadership implodes on itself apart from gratitude. Richness of life is contingent on gratitude. Behavior not feeling: Think of gratitude as a behavior not a feeling.

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13 Things You Don’t Need to Lead

Leadership Freak

'Pressure that’s rooted in unrealistic expectation; frustrates, defeats, even crushes. Self-imposed pressure drains joy, prevents progress, and invites leaders to become isolated and self-protective. Leaders don’t need to: Stand up front.

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10 Invitations to Transformation

Leadership Freak

'Ask people to talk about what they’re good at and their eyes light up. For some, the topic of their strength is so awkward that it takes them time to get their bearings.

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Avoid 4 Dangers of Impatience – Still Get Things Done

Leadership Freak

'Show me a leader with patience and I’ll show you someone people trust. Dealing with people requires patience. They’re putting up with you all the time. 4 dangers of impatience: Fractured relationships.

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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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Seven Secrets to Success

Leadership Freak

'Hard work and sincerity are a beginning. #1. Offer solutions, but always begin with problems. Every time you say, “It’s not that bad,” you minimize the value of any solutions you find.

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10 Ways to Cut to the Chase and Get Stuff Done

Leadership Freak

'You grow quiet when someone with more power is in the room. You blab when you’re perceived as the big cheese. How many times have you wished the boss would just shut up?

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The Easiest – Most Dangerous – Thing Leaders Neglect

Leadership Freak

'Dirty culture distracts, repels, and destroys organizations. The most important thing about us is the way we treat each other while we fulfill our mission.

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How Positive Thinking Really Works

Leadership Freak

'I start feeling negative when I hear, “Stop thinking negative thoughts.” Positive thinking is important. Successful leaders are optimistic about success. But, positive thinking that results in fantasies about easy success are ridiculous.

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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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How to Maximize Frailty

Leadership Freak

'The frailty you hide is a door of opportunity, once it’s embraced. Covering frailty causes more frailty. Couples who pretend they’re happy grow unhappy. Leaders who pretend they’re strong grow weak.

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Why Poor Performers Don’t Get It

Leadership Freak

'The unskilled often feel they’re doing better than they are. Poor performers, who lack skill, don’t realize their performance is poor. They think they’re fine. You think they’re failing.

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Pull Me – Push You

Leadership Freak

'Passionate people pull; dispassionate need pushed. Pull: Passion pulls leaders into the future. But, passion gone wrong is pushy. The more you push, the more you need to push.

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10 Ways to Deal with the Sucky Side of Work

Leadership Freak

'When work sucks, life sucks. You like to think work doesn’t define you, but it sure feels like it. How much suck is too much? How much: Every job has a dark side.

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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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Five Powers of Encouragement

Kevin Eikenberry

'I spent most of last week coaching leaders on their skills, abilities and results through the use of 360 assessments. While the experience, scope and overall skill of these leaders varied widely, one of the lessons I received from this process was a reminder of and deepening appreciation for the power of encouragement. By the […]. The post Five Powers of Encouragement appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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How “Advantage” Solves the 12 Dangers of Leadership

Leadership Freak

'You’ve been wronged, manipulated, or cheated by someone with position or power. Leaders shade the truth, compromise their values, and abuse authority. Just read the news.

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How Questions Hinder Connection

Leadership Freak

'Questions demonstrate interest and make people feel they matter. Questions show respect, but reflection enables connection. 7 questions to evaluate your listening: What do you enjoy about listening?

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What Matters Now

Leadership Freak

'A million small things call you away from what matters now. We sell ourselves to the “devil of busyness” because it’s easier than doing what matters 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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12 Ways to Get Serious about Fun

Leadership Freak

'The law of the sad face says the more important leaders are the less they smile. You can’t milk fun out of self-important, problem-centric leaders.

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7 Ways to Succeed at Telling People What to Do

Leadership Freak

'Being told what to do eliminates ambiguity, uncertainty, and confusion. When I travel, I’m often told where to go, who to meet, what time to be there.

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Running Through the Mud

Leadership Freak

'Your voice is born in solving your own struggle. Wisdom is found while running through the mud. Struggling in the mud makes you useful. You are the message.

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Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work. And What Does: The New Science of Leading, Energizing and Engaging

Kevin Eikenberry

'Today I am making two recommendations in one short post. One for a book, and one for an accompanying teleseminar that we were able to “motivate” the author to lead. That author, a long time consultant, trainer, and coach Susan Fowler says: “Stop trying to motivate people. They are already, but generally in superficial, short-term […].

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A Boy, Ping Pong Balls, and Why it Matters to You

Kevin Eikenberry

'Before you read, do yourself a favor and watch this video. Why did I want you to watch a boy doing amazing things with ping pong balls, plastic cups and household items? Because this video, in less than four minutes, illustrates a number of important points about learning. More than just “points” though, these are […]. The post A Boy, Ping Pong Balls, and Why it Matters to You appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Remarkable TV: What If People Don’t Want to Be Coached?

Kevin Eikenberry

'What if people don’t want to be coached? Check out this episode of Remarkable TV for tips and ideas to coach the “uncoachable”… In a recent Coaching workshop I was asked – what do you do if the person doesn’t want to be coached? It is a good question, and one deceptive in its depth. […]. The post Remarkable TV: What If People Don’t Want to Be Coached?

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Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work

Kevin Eikenberry

'By Liz Wiseman This new book arrived on my desk a few weeks ago, sent in hopes I would review it. Aware of the author, I was confident this would be a good book, and yet the stack of books on my desk was taller-than normal. After looking at it for a few days, I […]. The post Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The Three Eyes of Trajectory

Leadership Freak

'Drift feels great when the sun is hot and the water calm. But, drifters always crash on the rocks. Holding steady is drifting toward oblivion. Trajectory: What is your current trajectory?

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Five Reasons Remote Leaders are Frustrated, Floundering and Afraid

Kevin Eikenberry

'If you have been reading this blog for a while, you know that I lead a remote team, and that we have begun offering some services for leaders in that situation. (Here are a couple of posts of note – here, and here, and here – in video). Recently my collaborator on some of this […]. The post Five Reasons Remote Leaders are Frustrated, Floundering and Afraid appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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10 Ways to Grow into Challenges

Leadership Freak

'Certainty is a symptom of ignorance. You’re never fully up to real challenges. If you feel prepared for the challenge, it’s really just business as usual.