January, 2016

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Anything but Performance Management (Please!)

Kevin Eikenberry

You might call it something different; but whatever you call it, you know what it is: Performance Management Performance Reviews Performance Assessments Performance Evaluations Performance Appraisals These are ubiquitous in organizational life; so much so that they are typically greeted with apathy, cynicism or even distain. In fact, few things in organizational life are more […].

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The First Habit of Highly Successful People

Leadership Freak

Stephen R. Covey forgot an essential habit of successful people. Don’t misunderstand me. After scanning my copy of, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, I resolved to read it again. It’s brilliant.

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Four Ways to Reach The Leader’s Ultimate Goal

Leadership Freak

Lousy leaders are over-involved and frantic. The leader’s ultimate goal is building teams that excel without them. #1. Identify influencers. Look beyond job titles or positions that may obscure true influencers in your organization. The self-protective good ole boy’s club may be a roadblock to maximizing true influencers.

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Five Questions that Release the Power of Humble Leadership

Leadership Freak

Overconfidence provides courage to begin, but blocks effective leadership. If overconfident leaders were half as talented as they believed, they would be twice as successful as they are.

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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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Success is Never about being Successful

Leadership Freak

You lose yourself when success is all about being successful. Arrogance or discouragement rule the day. When success is about being successful, it controls and eventually destroys you.

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The 10 Practices of the Coaching-Leader

Leadership Freak

Top talent doesn’t like being told what to do. Authoritarian leaders are becoming dinosaurs. Expect to coach, if you expect to lead. The practices of coaching maximize talent and enable fulfillment.

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Four Ways to Unleash the Power in Others

Leadership Freak

Weak teams waste resources, distract organizations, and hobble progress. It drives leaders crazy. Lousy leaders promote and protect their own power. Unfortunately, power-hungry leaders make others weak. Elevate your power by unleashing the power in others.

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Yapping Dogs Make Lousy Leaders

Leadership Freak

Yapping dogs make irritating leaders. Successful leaders don’t run around barking. Don’t aspire to lead because you want to tell people what to do. Seek to release, not control. Talented people don’t enjoy being barked at. Downside: Yapping leaders end up with de-energized teams. People stand around waiting for the latest round of barking.

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Six Ways to Move Your Team Toward Tenacity

Leadership Freak

Leaders call themselves and others to discomfort, not ease. If it’s easy to achieve, it’s below your potential. The more meaningful your dream, the more it requires of you.

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Four Ways to Become a One Word Organization

Leadership Freak

I’ve been practicing, “One Word,” for three years. It’s a fascinating practice that I learned from Jon Gordon, Dan Britton, and Jimmy Page. “Ask,” is my word for 2016.

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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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The Things that Make Your Remarkable Go Beyond Talent

Leadership Freak

Lack of self-awareness is a great comfort to arrogance. It’s taken me half a life-time to see that I’m not nearly as talented as I thought. That’s not a pathetic plea for sympathy.

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One Thing All Remarkable Leaders Learn to Do

Leadership Freak

All successful leaders universally share one quality. I’ve interviewed and learned from some of the world’s most respected leaders and thinkers. James Whitehurst – CEO and President of Redhat.

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How to Energize Your Organization with One-on-One Conversations

Leadership Freak

You can’t lead and neglect people at the same time. Busyness that distracts from people is deadly to organizational energy. Don’t let paperwork and meetings prevent you from quarterly one-on-ones with your team.

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Three Anchors to Release Before You Fly

Leadership Freak

Only a fools expect to get ahead with anchors tied to their feet. But, everyday, leaders cling to beliefs and behaviors that prevent success. Success requires letting go.

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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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Leaders, Flies, and Manure

Leadership Freak

A leader without a problem to fix is like a fly searching for stink. If you aren’t fixing something, you’re buzzing around looking for something that’s broken.

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Why Leaders Need to be Abundance Thinkers

Kevin Eikenberry

What we believe about ourselves, our situation and our world drives our thoughts and actions, and therefore has a huge impact on the results we achieve. While this is a profound fact for us as individuals, as a leader, those beliefs (and the resulting thoughts actions and results) have a significant impact on many others […]. The post Why Leaders Need to be Abundance Thinkers appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The 10 Practices of Coaching-Leaders Pt. 3

Leadership Freak

Leaders who neglect their team’s energy, inevitably encounter an energy crisis. Energy management is people management. The ten practices of coaching-leaders pt. 3: #7. Monitor and manage energy. Energy makes results possible.

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The Real Truth About Dreams

Leadership Freak

It doesn’t matter how inspired you feel, if others don’t feel it. Martin Luther King Jr. inspired people, not because he had a dream, but because others felt the dream in themselves.

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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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The 10 Practices of Coaching-Leaders Pt. 2

Leadership Freak

You’re a jerk-leader if you aren’t passionate about developing people. Develop your coaching skills in order to effectively develop people. The ten practices of coaching-leaders pt. 2: Part one. #4. Cling to forward-facing curiosity.

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Elevate One-On-Ones to Power Moments

Leadership Freak

Saying “we” is weaker than saying “you” during one-on-ones. Don’t say “we” when you mean “you”. It might feel like good manners to say “we”, but it’s disingenuous.

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How to Maximize Life’s Rhythm While Setting Goals

Leadership Freak

Goal setting conversations are best held after the holidays. December is a month of endings; January beginnings. It’s difficult to dream about new things when you’re wrapping up old.

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The Question I’ve Never Asked

Leadership Freak

Two young men, in a small coffee shop, taught me about leadership. George and Tyler left on Christmas Eve to serve at a children’s home in Beirut. They’re back for classes.

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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 Three Time Filters Impact Leadership

Leadership Freak

Your view of time impacts relationships and decisions. Time is a way of seeing. Some leaders make decisions with the past in mind, others focus on the present.

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Say Yes to Training: How to Get Approval for Your Development

Kevin Eikenberry

If you are reading this, I think I know something about you. You have an achiever’s mindset. You might not be satisfied with what you have achieved to date or in a certain area of your life, but you have an achiever’s mindset because you want to get better; you want to make a bigger […]. The post Say Yes to Training: How to Get Approval for Your Development appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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On the Horns of a Dilemma

Leadership Freak

The first issue is finding a little clarity. The deeper issue is finding courage to act, after the light comes on. Sometimes one question flips the switch.

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Solution Saturday: Can’t Get a Word in Edgewise

Leadership Freak

Dear Dan, Our small work group has many discussions. In these discussions people talk over each other and vie for the opportunity to share. I feel uncomfortable interrupting.

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Remarkable TV: How Much Should a Leader Talk at Meetings?

Kevin Eikenberry

If you want more engagement, more participation and better meetings, try this ONE tactic to turn your next meeting around. Tweet it out: If you want others to participate more in your meetings, you are likely talking too much. via @KevinEikenberry Listen to the audio-only version of this episode. From This Episode… Learn more about […]. The post Remarkable TV: How Much Should a Leader Talk at Meetings?

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Straight Talk About Rewards and Recognition

Kevin Eikenberry

Rewards and recognition is a topic often discussed at HR conferences, in leadership workshops and anyplace where leaders congregate. It’s a big business and the topic of choice for many speakers, trainers, consultants and authors. Type in Rewards and Recognition into Google and you will get 89,200,000 results. So here I am, another consultant, speaker, […].

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Remarkable TV: Your Leadership Theme

Kevin Eikenberry

When I recently asked a group of workshop participants what their expectations were for the session, one person’s response was extremely insightful and is the topic in today’s video. It will help focus you and make you more successful in 2016. Check it out below! Tweet it out: Picking a verb to be the focus […]. The post Remarkable TV: Your Leadership Theme appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Solution Saturday: Teammates Hate Each Other!

Leadership Freak

Warning: I’m violating my self-imposed 300 word limit. At 787 words, this is the longest article I have ever posted on Leadership Freak.

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Bad Habits are Never Intentional

Leadership Freak

The rush to get things done is one reason you grow frustrated with the way things get done. You didn’t get up this morning with aspirations to go home discouraged.

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Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age

Kevin Eikenberry

By Sherry Turkle If I told you there was a book on a topic that is important to anyone who wanted to communicate more effectively and build better relationships, that would offer solid suggestions, challenge your way of thinking, and change the way you see everyday interaction. would you be interested? If […]. The post Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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