March, 2015

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12 Ways Leaders Humiliate Others

Leadership Freak

'Foolish leaders use power and position to make others feel insignificant. Humiliation motivates, but never in positive directions. Showing disrespect invites disrespect. Stealing someone’s dignity destroys passion and encourages disloyalty.

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The Language of Encouragement

Kevin Eikenberry

'Some of the most powerful things in life are simple. Such is the case with encouragement. People are more productive, more focused and more successful in a positive and supportive environment than in a negative one. And we can help create that environment by being more encouraging. John Adair wrote, “Praise and recognition based on […]. The post The Language of Encouragement appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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12 Ways Successful Leaders Find Energy

Leadership Freak

'Success requires energy. No energy – no success. Passion is focused energy. No passion – no leadership. The most important thing you manage is your own energy. 7 energy drains: Self-importance.

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12 Ways to Overcome Fear and Confront Like a Master

Leadership Freak

'Excellence requires confrontation. Leaders who can’t confront: Live with nagging frustration. Fall below their potential. Lead unremarkable organizations. 4 reasons you avoid confrontation: Self interest. What if they get upset with you?

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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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What Leading By Example Really Means

Kevin Eikenberry

'Any discussion of great leaders will include the cliché that the best leaders lead by example. Stated in conversation, everyone will nod and agree. And if you are reflecting personally on the attributes of those you have willingly followed, you will find that common trait too. It seems there is little doubt that we influence […]. The post What Leading By Example Really Means appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Four Things I Wish Bad Bosses Would Do

Leadership Freak

'65% of the workforce would choose a new boss over a raise.* Bad bosses: Focus on problems. Treat people like tools. Know it all. Isolate themselves. Can’t make decisions. Need the spotlight.

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Ten Tips for Great Results Through Serving

Leadership Freak

'Self-serving feels safe, but it’s a lonely dead-end. Have you ever heard anyone say, “My purpose in life is to serve myself?” Yet, we all know self-absorbed, self-serving leaders.

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Seven Ways Curious Leaders Succeed

Leadership Freak

'Question what you know; explore what you don’t. Curiosity is a way of seeing. 4 powers of curious leadership: Curious leaders: Lower resistance. Ignite energy. Expand potential. Explore possibility. Lower resistance expand opportunity.

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3 Simple Keys to Remarkable Results

Leadership Freak

'Talking about poor performance doesn’t improve performance. Talking about what went wrong doesn’t produce results. You can’t deliver positive results by “not doing” things. Conversations that deliver results face forward.

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Five Powerful “C’s” For Leadership Success

Leadership Freak

'5 powerful “C’s” for leadership success: Cultivation: Grow as you go, not before. Find new capacity by embracing inadequacy. Sufficiency is the enemy of growth. Curiosity: The second solution is often better than the first. But, you can’t find the second solution when you’re defending the first. Stay open minded after you find an answer.

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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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Solution Saturday: How to Inspire

Leadership Freak

'Today is the first Saturday of an experiment I’m calling “Solution Saturday.” Julie asks, “How do you truly inspire people?” 17 ways to truly inspire. Realize true inspiration is internal. People inspire themselves.

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Jack and Suzy Welch on Marriage and Career

Leadership Freak

'“Where marriages go off the rails is where you get married to your job and you start making decisions with your boss first, and then you come home and inform your spouse.

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Seven Ways Coaching-Managers Get Things Done

Leadership Freak

'All managers get things done through people, the question is how. 7 ways coaching-managers get things done: Connect. Traditional managers believe business is relationships, except when it comes to their own team.

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Leadership in Full Color

Kevin Eikenberry

'Recently I had a conversation with my father-in-law who used to sell and repair televisions as a side business. Somehow we started talking about early color sets. He mentioned that he owns the first color set he ever sold, and we reminisced about the first color sets we had. We got ours when I was […]. The post Leadership in Full Color appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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10 Essentials for Exponential Growth

Leadership Freak

'Every time you accept an unsatisfying present you shrivel and die a little. You don’t have to change everything. But, you have to change something. Stop thinking about growth and get busy growing.

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Seven Steps to New Leadership

Leadership Freak

'You could be more. Can you live with that? Leaders don’t. There’s hope if you’re unhappy. Contentment chokes growth. 7 Steps to New Leadership: #1. Distress fuels discontent and drives urgency.

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Ten Ways to Expand Power and Get Things Done

Leadership Freak

'Power is the ability to get things done. The more power you have, the more things you get done. 10 Ways to Expand Power: Make others feel powerful. Expand power by giving authority to people who get things done. Hoarded power shrinks, but shared authority expands your ability to get things done. Expose frailties; never whine.

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4 Ways to Energize Through Coaching

Leadership Freak

'Telling-leaders drain and disengage. Coaching-leaders energize. Energize through coaching: #1. Assume others know: Others don’t know everything, but they know something. What do you know about this situation? What’s important about this situation?

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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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4 Simple Projects that Transform Culture Today

Leadership Freak

'You’re under appreciated and overworked. Bitterness follows ingratitude, the most self-destructive quality of all. 10 reasons you’re ungrateful: #1. Expectation ends gratitude. Results are expected.

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How to Energize Yourself and Others

Leadership Freak

'I thought self-awareness was something for dope-smoking hippies. It doesn’t matter how you feel. Just do your job. But… Lack of self-awareness limits leadership. Self-awareness and energy: Self-management requires self-awareness.

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Seven Ways to Rise by Letting Go

Leadership Freak

'Frustration is hoping for change while clinging to the past. The first step into your future is letting go of what stopped working. 6 ways to know you R.U.S.T.E.D.

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5 Power Tips for Powerful Decisions

Leadership Freak

'Frustration, fear, and stagnation are the result of not making decisions. How many times have you heard, “My boss can’t make a decision.” But, leaders who make rash decisions lose credibility.

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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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How to Find Your Great Contribution

Leadership Freak

'Every act of service enhances your worth. As time passes, if you’re fortunate, you’ll make meaningful contributions to growing numbers of individuals, organizations, and communities.

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7 Ways to Enhance Relevance and Increase Influence

Leadership Freak

'You spend the first part of the journey fitting in and pleasing others. In the process you lose relevance. The thing that makes you “other” is the thing that makes you relevant.

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The Unexpected Secret to Becoming a Superstar

Leadership Freak

'Toddler-leaders say, “I’ll do it myself!” Rejecting help is an arrogant leader’s self-limiting blunder. You prefer giving help, but receiving help is what makes superstars.

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3 Surprising Secrets to Finding Your Next Level

Leadership Freak

'Powerful impact requires self-development. Those who make a difference trust their talent, expand their skill, and develop their strength. Lack of self-development is lost potential.

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Well Excuuuuse Me!

Leadership Freak

'Excuse-making is a failure pretending to succeed. No one gets it right all the time. The issue is response. Excuses are the skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.

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When Work is Unbearable

Leadership Freak

'Troubling clients, ungrateful teammates, constant pressure, or an insecure boss drag you to the pits. The thought of going to work is nearly unbearable. 12 reasons you hate work: Pervasive dissatisfaction.

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It Feels Like I’d be a Failure

Leadership Freak

'Everyone knows what they don’t want. Who we want to become is nearly unimaginable when “not wanting” dominates our thinking. Three conversations: An aspiring leader: He confessed he steps on people’s toes.

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What Do You Stand For?

Kevin Eikenberry

'As leaders we are in the influence business. Think about it – while it might be desirable and make our lives easier, we can’t make anyone do anything. (At least not for very long and without there being unintended consequences.) If we as leaders can’t control others, we must influence or persuade them. Without question, […]. The post What Do You Stand For?

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Solution Saturday: How to Cope with Success

Leadership Freak

'It’s “Solution Saturday.” Bob sent a private message asking about coping with success. Failure might hurt, but success might be deadly. 4 dangers of success: Failure opens minds; success closes them. Self-deception.

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The Best Basketball Bracket You Can Join

Kevin Eikenberry

'As you read that headline you may think. I’m already in a bracket. Do I really want to be in another bracket? What is a bracket? In case you were thinking the last thing – the Men’s NCAA Basketball Tournament begins this week – with 68 teams vying to become the National […]. The post The Best Basketball Bracket You Can Join appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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