May, 2017

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How to Use Psychology to Make Persuasive Video

Nir Eyal

Nir’s Note: This guest post is excerpted from Nathalie Nahai’s best-selling book, Webs Of Influence: The Psychology of Online Persuasion. A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world. – Alan Rickman, Actor What Makes Video Special? Compared to other media types on the web, […].

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How to be the Inspirational Leader you Aspire to Be

Leadership Freak

Criticism and complaint seldom inspire people to take on new challenges. 4 essential for inspirational leadership: Belief: You must believe in people in order to inspire them.

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Lolly Daskal | What's Stopping Leaders From Achieving Greatness

Tanveer Nasser

As leaders, how aware are we of the obstacles we create for ourselves that impede our ability to achieve our own form of greatness? That's the question that served as the basis of my conversation with my fellow leadership expert and friend, Lolly Daskal. Lolly is the president and CEO of Lead From Within, a global consultancy that specializes in leadership and entrepreneurial development.

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Building a Growth Team from Zero to Fifty

Brian Balfour

Growth is still an emerging discipline, and not everyone has a structured growth team within their org. But, let’s say you get to start from scratch and build the ideal growth team. What people and roles would you start with? Andrew Chen and I recently sat down to look at a few configurations to consider as you're scaling up a team around growth. We've broken up the conversation into three videos, with notes below each video.

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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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Having Great One-on-Ones with Employees

Kevin Eikenberry

As a leader, you need to stay connected to the members of your team – so you know what they are doing, how they are progressing, and have a chance to provide support for them and much more. You can call these meetings lots of things; I’ve heard them called weekly meetings, touch-in meetings, coaching […]. The post Having Great One-on-Ones with Employees appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Case Study: Growing Your Marketing Agency With Automated Employee Feedback

15Five

Every company has growing pains , especially as they reach certain size thresholds. When you reach around ten to fifteen employees, in-person status meetings are no longer tenable. I want to share the story of how a successful organization used technology to overcome their growth challenges. Influence & Co. , a con tent marketing agency that creates engaging content to fuel the marketing efforts of their customers and positions their key employees as influencers in their industries, has grow

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Nearly 40% Never Give Positive Reinforcement

Leadership Freak

For many, it’s easier to talk about what sucks than what’s great. There’s a negative voice in our heads. Personally, you can’t speak well of yourself. Why? Humble leaders don’t brag.

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4 Major Challenges New Managers Must Overcome to Succeed

LSA Global

New manager training programs exist by the hundreds. They teach all kinds of leadership skills necessary for new managers (or experienced managers for that matter) to succeed. The challenges of the transition from individual contributor to leading a team are significant. But still…does it have to be so difficult? At first it can feel as though you are one against many.

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How to Develop the 3 Most Neglected Leadership Qualities

Leadership Freak

The three most neglected leadership qualities are kind candor, courageous transparency, and forward-facing curiosity. You might be good at one, but very few excel at all three.

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How to Show Compassion and Get Results

Leadership Freak

Done poorly, compassion prolongs weakness, propagates irresponsibility, and validates destructive behaviors. Compassion, like all great virtues, requires insight to be practiced skillfully. People first: Compassion is a ‘people first’ approach to leadership.

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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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Four Ways to Deal with Negativity in a Positive Way

Leadership Freak

I’m a no nonsense farm boy originally from a dairy farm in Central Maine. We’re not impressed with positivity. I recently reconnected with my friend Jon Gordon (Mr. Positive Leadership).

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3 Ways to Create a Culture of Accountability

Leadership Freak

New Book Giveaway!! 20 free copies of Culture Works. Leave a comment on this guest post by Kris Boesch to become eligible to win one of TWENTY complimentary copies of Culture Works.

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How Doers and Dreamers Drive Each Other Crazy

Leadership Freak

One of my biggest regrets as a leader is misunderstanding the unique viewpoints of Doers, Dreamers, and Feelers. Facing obstacles: Doers and Dreamers face resistance, obstacles, and failure differently. Doers push through.

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3 Wise Sayings You Need to Stop Saying Today

Leadership Freak

Some ‘wise’ sayings are evil affirmations that staying the same is a good thing. They’re dangerous because they’re half true. #1. We did our best. Bull crap! You didn’t do your best. You don’t even know what your best is.

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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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The Real Truth About Encouragement

Leadership Freak

The wrong approach to empathy and encouragement validates poor performance, frustrates leaders, and hinders teams. Encouragement is better than empathy. Responsible failure calls for empathy and encouragement.

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7 Powerful Performance Conversation Starters

Leadership Freak

Have performance conversations so frequently that they feel natural. Repetition builds confidence and culture. Cheer, clap, and pat: If you wait until something goes wrong to give positive feedback, it’s too late.

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The People Who Lead the Best Try the Least

Leadership Freak

Leaders work too hard at the skills of leadership and not hard enough at becoming themselves. Genuine leadership: Real leaders change us effortlessly.

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5 Ways to Succeed with an Inflexible Pigheaded Boss

Leadership Freak

Small adjustments create drama for bosses and team members who find security in predictability. Rigid people expect others to adapt to them. Change sends them off the deep end.

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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 Puzzle without the Cover

Leadership Freak

Leading is like working on a puzzle without the cover. In turbulent times, throw three puzzles in the same pile. In crisis, hide the edges. Certainty about the future is illusion.

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How to Make Negative Feedback a Positive Thing

Leadership Freak

Someone said something to you that transformed the way you saw yourself. It felt like a punch in the gut. It challenged assumptions you held about yourself.

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A Look Under the Hood of What Drives Great Doers

Leadership Freak

Everyone has an idea of how to achieve success. Doers think it’s about getting things done. Dreamers think it’s about dreaming big dreams. Both are wrong.

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What is Your Change Personality?

Kevin Eikenberry

If you are reading this you likely have many different experiences with change. Those experiences give you a wide variety of thoughts and feelings about this complex and common process. Like with most things in our lives, our past change experiences help create who we are and how we respond to future change scenarios. Having […]. The post What is Your Change Personality?

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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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Successfully Leading the Change Personalities on Your Team

Kevin Eikenberry

As a leader, like it or not, you are in the change business. You are leading people to a new and better future which means that things will change on that journey. If they don’t, you will certainly never reach your desired outcomes. And even if you are trying to preserve the status quo for […]. The post Successfully Leading the Change Personalities on Your Team appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The Surprising Face of Belief

Leadership Freak

Believe in people if you expect greatness from them. But what does it look like? 4 faces of disbelief: Accepting mediocrity. There’s nothing inspiring about being average when people are capable of remarkable.

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Solution Saturday: Help! My Leader is a Morale Buster!

Leadership Freak

Dear Dan, We have a new principal who is a morale buster to say the least, but teachers have also described her as “bully”, sneaky, liar, plays favorites, doesn’t listen, doesn’t care, condescending,… Continue reading →

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Don’t Believe Your Momma

Leadership Freak

Don’t believe your momma. She kept telling you to be careful. Fear is resistance to greatness. Encourage greatness: We have a daredevil granddaughter.

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How to Succeed with Mules in a Beauty Pagent

Leadership Freak

Mules come in many forms. Some are loud, opinionated, and adversarial. A pleasant mule is stubborn in a beauty queen’s skin. Beauty queen mules are more dangerous than conspicuous resistance.

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A Young Leader Receives a Sh*t Sandwich

Leadership Freak

Incompetent leaders only have performance conversations when someone screws up. Things get worse when inept leaders finally have performance conversations. Michael Lapointe reminded me that incompetent leaders suck at performance conversations.

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4 Neglected Essentials of Engagement they didn’t Teach you in School

Leadership Freak

Engagement is freely given. Forced engagement is coercion or intimidation. Four neglected essentials of engagement: #1. Model the way. Pull with others, if you expect them to pull with you.

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How to Read Company Culture

Kevin Eikenberry

Today I’m answering a question from one of our viewers with four questions to ask yourself to know… How do you read company culture to see if you’re fitting in or not? Tweet it out: Fitting into a company culture starts with understanding what the culture really is. – @KevinEikenberry From This Episode: If you’re […].

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5 Ways to Solve the Dung Fly Problem

Leadership Freak

Teams and organizations always have a few members who leave smelly droppings everywhere they go and wonder why everything stinks. Sometimes it’s leaders. Dung fly leaders: #1.

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Solution Saturday: A Simple Strategy to Take Control of Your Future

Leadership Freak

Dear Dan, There are few things which look nice in theory but not in the real world, for example, “If you can’t say what you think, you can’t become who you were meant to be.” What happens when you say what you think and you get into trouble? Dan, what type of leadership is this?