June, 2016

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What These Experts Are Saying About Employee Appreciation

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When was the last time you appreciated an employee ? When Emily says “Great job Phil!” to her direct report, that might make his day (and have Emily feel great, since sharing gratitude is proven to make those on the giving end also feel happier). But is that enough to have Phil feel motivated, engaged, and truly appreciated? Let’s set a bit of context, since Emily’s seemingly innocent gesture can actually have the opposite impact: 1) Phil was overlooked for a promotion, which was given to

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5 Ways Incompetent Leaders Dis-Empower Good People

Leadership Freak

Don’t expect bold performance from dis-empowered people. You drain, discourage, and demotivate, if your goal is conformity. An egotistical need for control – in those with positional authority – dis-empowers others.

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Father’s Day Celebration

Kevin Eikenberry

My father taught me a lot of lessons in my life and I’ve shared many here on this blog. And today I want to share one in particular that you can benefit from directly and immediately. Learn more in my short video below. Check out these leadership learning opportunities: Bud to Boss – powerful […]. The post Father’s Day Celebration appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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12 Don’ts of Tough Conversations

Leadership Freak

Success includes not shooting yourself in the foot. 12 Don’ts of Tough Conversations: Don’t use “we” when you mean “you” Never allow fuzzy language. Exercise candor and precision when fuzzy feels safe.

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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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12 Promises to My Future Self

Leadership Freak

I’m often asked what advice I’d give to my younger self. Trouble is, my younger self wouldn’t listen. “What would I say to my future self?” is a more interesting question.

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Crafting the Perfect Push Message

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So you have an app for your employees. Great! Now the engagement begins. The best way to continually keep them coming back for more? Push. But where do you start? Research from Localytics and our own experience show that there are five factors for a perfect push: Topic – It’s relevant to me. Quality – The subject line engages/teases me to open it.

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5 Ways to Stop Fixing and Start Developing

Leadership Freak

One of my deepest disappointments with myself is judging people through the lens of my strengths. If they aren’t like me, they need to be fixed. Fixing is rejecting. Judging blocks growth.

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4 Ways to Throw Gas – not water – On Dreams

Leadership Freak

People are excited to do what they want to do, not what you want them to do. The sooner you embrace this idea, the more successful you’ll become. Control resources. Release people.

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7 Ways to Get What You Want

Leadership Freak

You don’t have what you want because you haven’t asked for it. Fear of asking for what you want results in not getting what you want.

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The 4 Hidden Agendas Concealed in Complaints

Leadership Freak

The “make it go away” fairy doesn’t exist. Ignored complaints fester. Uncover the real dissatisfaction before solving complaints. The 4 hidden agendas concealed in complaints: “You should have ….

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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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Stop Wasting Energy – Deliver the Real Results of Leadership

Leadership Freak

Confusion regarding the real results of leadership causes leaders to waste their time doing the wrong things. The real results of leadership are people and teams who live up to their potential.

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10 Ways to Defeat the Evil Monster of Defensiveness

Leadership Freak

Defensive leaders bristle at the hint that they could have done better. Defensive leaders believe something’s wrong with you. Self-protective leaders justify themselves and attack others. 4 reasons leaders justify defensiveness: Defensiveness finds reasons to throw stones. They lack experience. Inexperience is the reason you can ignore people. They don’t see the whole picture.

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Don’t Make Enemies of People You Depend On

Leadership Freak

Organizational life often feels like being bossed around by people who don’t get it. Leaders are well served to remember that organizations run on the backs of front-line managers. Don’t make enemies of people you depend on. 4 weaknesses of arrogant higher-ups: Prideful leaders degrade minion-managers. Superiority expresses itself in demeaning behaviors.

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The Top 12 Missed Opportunities of Leadership

Leadership Freak

I’m sure you’re rowing hard. But are you rowing like a leader? In order to seize opportunities you must recognize them. The top 12 missed opportunities of leadership: Eliminating ambiguity. Lean into confusion and frustration with openness and optimism. Hearing people’s stories. You can’t effectively lead people you don’t know.

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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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You Work too Hard – Just Show Up

Leadership Freak

You’re working way too hard. “80% of success is just showing up.” Woody Allen Show up by wandering around. 4 reasons to wander around: You get smarter.

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The 7 Step Map to Management Success

Leadership Freak

Create a map and pursue success. Don’t wait for it to find you. The 7 step map to management success: #1. Make people matter. The heart of making people matter is enjoying them.

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The Simplest Coaching Pattern Imaginable

Leadership Freak

Coaching closes gaps between current and desired states by tapping strengths. Six leadership styles*: Visionary leaders move people toward shared dreams. They are most useful when organizations need change or clear direction.

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Wanna Calculate Your Employee Engagement ROI?

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The #1 topic on the minds of CEOs and senior HR leaders is ‘culture & engagement,’ according to Deloitte’s 2015 Global Human Capital Trends Report. Employee engagement can be defined as proactively and passionately adding value while aligning with the company mission. Or according to Deloitte, “culture describes ‘the way things work around here’, while engagement describes ‘how people feel about the way things work around here’ ” Engagem

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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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How to Make The Timid Bold

Leadership Freak

He told me about problems and challenges. I asked him, “What qualities and skills do you currently possess that enable you to succeed?” People lose boldness when they forget who they are.

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64% of CEOs Don’t Recognize What Motivates Others

Leadership Freak

64% of CEOs don’t recognize what truly motivates employees.* When you complain about unmotivated employees, you’re making a statement about yourself.

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4 Things To Do About Stuff That Drives You Crazy

Leadership Freak

Leaders go blind when they see things that drive them crazy. 10 things that drive leaders crazy: Whining and complaining. Intervening because some knucklehead upset the office. Naysayers and wet blankets. Can’t-do people drive can-do leaders crazy. Drifting. You’re dead weight if you aren’t pulling your weight. Good enough.

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7 Ways to be Pigheaded without being a Jackass

Leadership Freak

Success requires stubbornness. Think Winston Churchill or Gandhi. Be pigheaded about something magnificent. It can’t be done: Successful leaders find energy in challenge and difficulty.

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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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What My Dad Taught Me About Leadership

Kevin Eikenberry

Phil Eikenberry was my Dad. I was born before he turned twenty, and he died just over nine years ago. During the 45 years in between he had a major impact on my life; after all, he was my Dad. He was a farmer, a business owner and heavily involved in his church and community. […]. The post What My Dad Taught Me About Leadership appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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4 Ways to Deal with Deadweight

Leadership Freak

Successful leaders deal with people who take up space but don’t contribute. 12 ways to be deadweight: Complain about entitled millennials. Have you noticed how entitled older leaders expect young people to bow down to their experience? I can’t tell who’s more entitled. Commit fully to your comfort zone.

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4 Ways to Practice the Art of Commitment

Leadership Freak

Shallow commitment cheapens leadership. Half-hearted leaders may have titles, but they can’t inspire commitment. 7 profound benefits of deep commitment: Self-respect. Drifting dishonors you and your maker. Clarity. Vague commitments cripple and confuse.

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4 Ways to Make the Past a Platform – Not an Anchor

Leadership Freak

Memory predicts the future. You are becoming, to some degree, the person you remember. Character and potential are formed, in large part, through rehearsed memories.

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How to Work Together Without Killing Each Other

Leadership Freak

Leaders say, “Lets build the plane in the air.” It’s not about charts and hierarchy. Managers simplify complexity and deliver consistent results. “Let’s make a plan.

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7 Ways to Sniff the Stink

Leadership Freak

Success hinges on dealing with things others turn from. Plug your nose when something stinks, if you want to fail. Ignore anger. Reject worry. Tell yourself everything will work out on it’s own. Medicate organizational anxiety. Dance around challenges. Discuss comfortable topics – avoid uncomfortable. Affirm the mediocre. Tolerate backstabbers.

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4 Surprising Times to Leap for Joy

Leadership Freak

Issues, problems, and challenges suck the joy out of leaders. Miserable leaders drain organizational energy. (People assume you’re miserable if you don’t express joy.) Joy is energy. Joy is an expression of wisdom and strength, not weakness. Find joy by expressing approval. Successful leaders express joy without being frivolous. Leap for joy when people: #1.

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The Peril of Meaning Well But Doing Harm

Leadership Freak

It’s tragic when you mean well but do harm. 4 ways to mean well but do harm: #1. Allow nagging issues to persist. You’re responsible if there’s a well-worn path around recurring problems.

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10 Smart Questions that Challenge the Drift Toward Irrelevance

Leadership Freak

Organizations, apart from intervention, always drift toward irrelevance. Leaders look like fools when they challenge comfortable patterns. Use courage and tact when challenging drift. Don’t unnecessarily offend those you’re working to influence. 10 smart questions that challenge the drift toward irrelevance: #1. What are we afraid to say out loud? Use an anonymous process for responses.

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Which Leadership Archetypes Make Employees Want To Quit?

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Every employee has their own experiences with management heaven and hell , with the hellish vastly outweighing the idyllic. According to Gallup this is often the result of a system where leadership positions are granted for the wrong reasons. Based on Gallup’s research, only 1 in 10 people possess the talent required to manage effectively, and companies have an 82% failure rate when attempting to choose the right candidate based on their talents.

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