Organizational Development Solutions

JUNE 8, 2018

Does your business or organization have a clear organizational goal? Here are five simple steps to take your business to the next level. As CEO, Founder, or HR leader of a rapidly growing or transforming organization, do you wonder how to ensure your organization and team are thriving, meeting, or even exceeding goals? In this four-part series, we will be providing you a simple approach to assess what is working or standing in the way of truly moving the needle on high performance.

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Viima

JUNE 25, 2018

Innovation, innovation, innovation! There’s hardly a business event or conversation you can have without hearing the term.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 4, 2018

[Originally tweetstormed at @andrewchen , Follow me for more!]. Many of the biggest implosions in recent history – especially ecommerce – have been due to startups getting addicted to paid marketing while fooling themselves on Customer Acqusition Costs. As spend scales, it always gets more expensive and harder to track – never less.

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Nir Eyal

JUNE 4, 2018

This week Apple follows Google by announcing features to help people cut back on their tech use. Why would the companies that make your phone want you to use it less? If tech is “hijacking your brain” with their “irresistible” products, as some tech critics claim, why are these companies now acting against their own […]. The post Why Do Google and Apple Want You to Use Your Phone Less?

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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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15Five

JUNE 14, 2018

The traditional office landscape is changing and has been for quite some time, but the degree to which it should be shifting is subject to debate. Many employees consider their local coffee shop to be the ideal work environment, while traditional company leaders consider remote work to be a threat to their ability to manage employees. Perhaps Gallup CEO Jim Clifton said it best in the 2017 State of the American Workforce Report : “The very practice of management no longer works.”.

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 25, 2018

The deadliest person on your team is a high performing toxic person. Toxic people: Brag about using power and manipulation to get what they want out of others.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JUNE 4, 2018

Trust is a critical factor to the success of teams. The more trust exists, the easier and faster the right work gets done. Building this trust on a remote team can be especially tricky, which is why remote leaders must know how to support remote trust building, with and among their team members. Here are […]. The post How Leaders Can Support Remote Trust Building appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 21, 2018

Brand marketing is mostly useless for consumer startups. Startups build a great brand by being successful, finding product market fit and scaling traction, etc. But it’s not a real lever. Let’s not mix up correlation with causation! If this seems contrarian to you, it’s because there’s a vast ecosystem of consultants, agencies, and other middlemen who are highly incentivized to have you spend $ and effort on non-ROI/non-performant activities.

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Nir Eyal

JUNE 4, 2018

This week Apple follows Google by announcing features to help people cut back on their tech use. Why would the companies that make your phone want you to use it less? If tech is “hijacking your brain” with their “irresistible” products, as some tech critics claim, why are these companies now acting against their own […] The post The Real Reason Apple and Google Want You to Use Your Phone Less appeared first on Nir and Far.

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15Five

JUNE 27, 2018

“I just don’t get how they think. Why do they __? Can you help me understand ?” Or perhaps you’ve stated emphatically, “I’m still struggling to know how to manage Millennials and motivate them to do their best work.” As I work with organizations across the country, the issue of understanding, leading, and working with employees from different generations continues to be one of the most common challenges leaders mention to me.

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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.

Change Management

Leadership Freak

JUNE 18, 2018

It takes no courage to stand aloof and complain. Do you wish to lead? Change something. #1. Accept the messy. Acceptance isn’t approval. “The first step toward change is awareness.

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Mind Tools Problem Solving

JUNE 7, 2018

What shall I have for lunch? Tuna or chicken sandwich? Easy. I prefer chicken, so chicken it is. Do I drive to the conference next week, or take the train? I’d have to get up crazy early to catch the train. On the other hand, I could get stuck in traffic if I drive. But the trains are often delayed, and I like driving. Still fairly easy: drive. Should I buy house X or house Y?

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Kevin Eikenberry

JUNE 25, 2018

Some people are “list people,” while others aren’t. Even if it isn’t your general inclination, you have made a to-do list at some point – likely on a day when you had lots to do. There is a question that might change everything for you. If you can’t live without your to-do list this will […]. The post The Question That Can Make Your To-Do List More Manageable appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 12, 2018

( dmagazine). We’ve heard about Facebook ads, Google adwords – but today let’s talk about the “IRL Channel.” The IRL channel is an underappreciated advantage of companies that exist in the real world – Amazon Echo, Envoy, Lime, Uber, etc – that use constant in-real-life reminders to try out and use the product.

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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.

Engineering

Agile42

JUNE 14, 2018

One of the techniques I have come to greatly appreciate as a facilitator is the diamond of participatory decision making (see “ The Leader’s Guide to Participatory Decision Making ”, 1998 by Sam Kaner). This technique/framework allows facilitators to better harness team’s collective intelligence. What problem does the diamond solve? As part of a business writing course I took years ago I learned about writer’s block: a state of mind in which professional writers (such as a novelist) cannot find

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15Five

JUNE 14, 2018

It’s often said that employees don’t leave companies; they leave bad bosses. But put a great manager at the head of a team, and the opposite happens. (To see what I mean, consider the case of Christian and Netflix mentioned here.). If you read our earlier discussions on managing your managers and evaluating their performance , you know how 15Five feels about the need for effective people management.

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 10, 2018

Many emails I receive concern frustration caused by feeling powerless. Something’s wrong and change seems unlikely. Abuse gives power a bad name, but you need power to get things done.

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LSA Global

JUNE 21, 2018

How Does Culture Affect the Workplace? As clear and compelling as your strategy may be, it must go through your culture to be successfully implemented. Because your workplace culture must be aligned with your strategy, smart leaders ask “How does culture affect the workplace?”. The relationship between culture and strategy was recently highlighted in a study of 1,200 senior executives by Bain where 91% agreed that “culture is as important as strategy for business success.”.

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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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Kevin Eikenberry

JUNE 5, 2018

Today is a special day at The Kevin Eikenberry Group: my newest book, The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for Remarkable Remote Leadership, is being released! And to celebrate this occasion, in today’s video, I am sharing some of my best ideas from the book for leaders (or future leaders) of remote teams. Tweet it out: Effectively […]. The post What I’ve Learned About Leading Remotely – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 18, 2018

( lime). The scooter startups are way more important than you think, or in emoji-speak: + =. Let me explain. Right now, scooters are a lot of things – fun, cute, adventurous – but here’s a couple words I rarely hear about them: Strategic. Important. Platform play. And yet they are. Chris Dixon has written that the next big thing will start out by looking like a toy.

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Agile42

JUNE 6, 2018

Creditreform , the business magazine of the Handelsblatt publishing group, just published an article by Tanja Könemann on agility as a way to meet the demands of customers and the fast-paced modern marketplace. The article includes discussions with business leaders, CEOs, consulting experts, and an interview with Marion Eickmann, who explains how an agile transformation begins and progresses, and the role of leadership in changing organizational culture to achieve greater resilience.

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15Five

JUNE 21, 2018

“Summertime and the living is easy.” A nice sentiment for Ella Fitzgerald , but for most of us that probably hasn’t been true since grade school. Expectations for productivity are as high as any other time of year, and for some organizations the mid-year performance review is just around the corner. Maybe right now you’re doing performance reviews only once a year.

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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

Education

Leadership Freak

JUNE 8, 2018

Employees talk more and managers talk less in successful one-on-ones. 6 reasons employees don’t talk to their managers: Cold professional culture. Caring happens outside work. Talkative managers. Curiosity about people is rare.

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LSA Global

JUNE 20, 2018

Plan Strategic Changes with Great Care. There are good reasons to plan strategic changes carefully. Sometimes you need to adjust your strategy due to shifts in the marketplace. Sometimes new and unanticipated regulations necessitate a change. And sometimes a change in leadership requires a fresh look at the company’s direction. But, whatever the reason, take care as you make these strategic changes.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JUNE 10, 2018

Often in this space, I talk about a webinar where an expert will share powerful ideas with everyone who registers. Those learning experiences give you access to that expert, and even though we open those sessions for questions, it is mostly one-way – expert to audience. Today, I announce a very different learning experience. This […]. The post Get Answers to Your Most Pressing Leadership, Communication, and Remote Leadership Questions!

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Vantage Circle

JUNE 4, 2018

Defining the ideal Marketing persona for your brand is a job that is easier said than done. Hubspot defines Marketing Persona as fictional, generalized representations of your ideal customers. Personas help in marketing, sales, and relates to your ideal customers as real humans. There is only one winning strategy. It is to carefully define the target market and direct a superior offering to that target market. ~ Philip Kotler.

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Agile42

JUNE 21, 2018

Bringing together an international community of enthusiastic Agilists, Agile2018 is the world’s largest agile software conference - organized by Agile Alliance in North America. agile42 will be heading to sunny San Diego, California to join over 2000 attendees from 40+ countries at Agile2018. Together, we will continue to explore and add to the ever-growing toolbox that makes Agile successful.

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 5, 2018

Don’t ad lib when emotion is high. Prepare yourself to respond to an angry employee. Develop a plan. How to respond to an angry employee: #1. Emotion comes first.

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 14, 2018

Listening is the first step back from the abyss of lousy leadership. But what if your boss is a lousy listener? Listening leaders are better leaders.

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 3, 2018

Humble listening is an aspiration achieved occasionally. But it’s exhausting. The ability to listen requires remarkable confidence. It takes confidence to: Adopt the posture of learner. Turn conversations toward others.

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 15, 2018

Arrogance holds you back. Humility propels you forward. Courage and humility: You’d be wrong if you said humility is kin to fear.

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 20, 2018

Think of someone who found purpose. Were they self-centered or other-centered? Get out of yourself if you want to find purpose. The most surprising truth about finding purpose is it’s about others.

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