November, 2017

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The Seven Powers of Gratitude

Leadership Freak

Choose the freedom of thankfulness over the headwind of ingratitude. “Un” ruins leaders. Ungrateful leaders become unkind, unhelpful, and unconnected. Ungratefulness is a buffeting headwind. The seven powers of gratitude: #1.

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Kevin Kruse | Understanding The Real Drivers Of Employee Engagement

Tanveer Nasser

It's a common fact of leadership today that if you want to improve productivity and fuel organizational growth, you need to make sure your employees are engaged at work. And yet, despite both the evidence supporting the critical role employee engagement plays to driving your organization's success and most leaders wanting to improve employee engagement levels in their workplace, organizations everywhere are still struggling with this issue.

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Five Keys to Planning Better Virtual Meetings

Kevin Eikenberry

Whenever I ask groups about the effectiveness of the meetings they attend, the responses are dismal; and when those meetings are virtual, rather than in the conference room down the hall, they certainly aren’t better. While there is much known and written about making any sort of meeting better, and much of it applies to […]. The post Five Keys to Planning Better Virtual Meetings appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The Performance Review Is Dead, Long Live The Performance (er…Best-Self!) Review

15Five

When major corporations like Adobe , GE , Deloitte , and Microsoft ditched their annual performance reviews, they set off sea change in the world of performance management. There’s now nearly universal agreement that these antiquated practices don’t work and need to go, but very little agreement about what to do instead. This gap has left HR and business leaders scratching their heads.

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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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5 Benefits of Developing Your Top Talent

LSA Global

Developing Your Top Talent Matters. Our organizational alignment research found talent accounts for 29% of the difference between high and low performing companies. Talent, along with culture and strategy, is one of the three critical elements of high performance. A relevant employee development game plan is the foundation for building and retaining the talent to execute your strategy.

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How to Show Up Like a Leader Today

Leadership Freak

Some leaders work too hard while the people around them don’t work hard enough. You’ll burn out if you’re always the first person to arrive and the last person to leave.

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Feedback Conversations Start in Your Head

Leadership Freak

Feedback conversations begin with the conversation you have with yourself. You’ve been playing scenarios out in your head since you decided to give corrective feedback.

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How to Make a Personal Plan for 2018

Leadership Freak

A good plan is like new shoes. You’re excited to have them but they’re uncomfortable. Safe plans waste time, energy, and talent. Good plans disrupt. Real plans disturb the status quo.

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Seven Ways to be Thankful Like a Leader

Leadership Freak

Gratitude dies when you think it but don’t say it. Problems and pressure suck gratitude out of your soul. But the practice of aspirational gratitude elevates you and energizes the people around you.

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How to Start the Week Like a Leader

Leadership Freak

Everything goes dark if you leave organizational culture to chance. You’re responsible for the way it feels to be on your team. Purpose: Purpose expands the world.

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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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50% of Your Emotional Vocabulary is Negative

Leadership Freak

It’s easy to slip into the dark while grappling with performance issues and people problems. Nagging problems corrode optimism. Capacity for negative: Leaders have opportunity and capacity to become negative. Some have inclination.

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7 Ways to Practice Accountability With Heart

Leadership Freak

You elevate your leadership when you express your heart. Weak leaders hide from heart. All they care about is the bottom line. Heart is the strongest thing about you.

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How to Embrace Your Nobility and Lead with Dignity

Leadership Freak

I decided to begin the presentation, “Thank you for being heroes.” But, I ended up saying the opposite. It was dark while I drove to the hotel.

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Fearful Leaders Hoard Control – Courageous Leaders Give Power

Leadership Freak

Feeling powerful expands possibility, elevates engagement, and enables initiative. Feeling powerless creates weakness, dependence, and fear. People who feel powerful see opportunity. People who feel powerless feel threat. Control freaks make others feel powerless.

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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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How I Drained the Power from a Great Question

Leadership Freak

Bill said, “I remember you asked a really powerful question. I felt the energy go up.” He was reflecting on a coaching conversation I had with him and Kevin months ago.

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The Feeling of an Organization is Leadership’s Responsibility

Leadership Freak

The feeling of an organization is leadership’s responsibility. Left to chance, the lights go out. Organizational morale evaluates leadership. I’ve seen people smile, wave, and shout hey, when leaders walk through a plant.

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Turkey’s Revenge: I Bought a Bone Turkey for Thanksgiving

Leadership Freak

Friends and food mean a lot when you don’t have much. We were poor college students, over 1,600 miles from home, when we celebrated our first Thanksgiving as husband and wife.

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How Quick Answers Make Us Stupid

Leadership Freak

Leaders who give quick answers end up surrounded by low-functioning sleepwalkers. Quick answers propagate shallow thinking, irresponsibility, and low engagement. The need for quick answers makes us fear the disruption of new thoughts.

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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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Lousy Leaders Enjoy Swinging the Stick of Accountability

Leadership Freak

Lousy leaders enjoy swinging the stick of accountablilty. Ineffective leaders might ask, “How do I hold people accountable?

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The Power of Passion – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

Today’s leadership lesson comes from an unlikely place. I wasn’t expecting a lesson here but I found it all the same. I’m talking about passion and how our passion can help us to be better leaders and better human beings. Tweet it out: Remarkable leaders are passionate leaders. @KevinEikenberry From This Episode: Send us your […].

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Secret Sauce: Mike Bowker Chief Operating Officer of Cable One

Leadership Freak

Welcome to “Secret Sauce Sunday.” I invite leaders who I admire to share real world leadership principles they have learned on their journey. The insights that follow are born in Mike Bowker’s experience.

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The Secret Key to Goal Achievement

Kevin Eikenberry

It’s the time of year when thoughts begin to turn to goal achievement – especially when you haven’t made enough progress on the goals you set at the first of the year. As you reflect on your progress and think about what you might do differently in the coming weeks or months, let me share […]. The post The Secret Key to Goal Achievement appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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An Assessment Tool That Creates Conversation – Not Defensiveness

Leadership Freak

Performance assessments – done well – inspire conversation. Done poorly, performance assessments invite defensiveness, excuses, posturing, and blame. The ultimate goal of assessing performance is growth.

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When Others See Your Value – Others See Your Value

Leadership Freak

Before a recent presentation, a woman asked me a question I’ve never been asked. I was shaking hands with the audience when it happened. “What makes you qualified to give this presentation?

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Accusations of Louis C.K.’s Sexual Misconduct are True

Leadership Freak

Five women accused comedian Louis C.K. of sexual misconduct. He’s the latest in a recent avalanche of accusations that began in October with Harvey Weinstein. Louis said, “These stories are true.

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Cold Leaders Have a 1-in-2000 Chance to Make it to the Top 25%

Leadership Freak

I’m still grappling with the realization that kindness/warmth is inconvenient. I’d be kind if I had the time. Thankfully, when I work with people or organizations, they are my agenda.

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Giving Remote Leaders the Tools to Succeed

Kevin Eikenberry

Leading is hard. Leading remotely is even harder. While you have to master all the leadership skills, you have do it with less interaction with your team, making the job even more challenging. The time constraints for remote leaders can also be frustrating. As difficult as is can be for a traditional leader to free […]. The post Giving Remote Leaders the Tools to Succeed appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The One Question for 2018

Leadership Freak

Your personal plan for 2018 begins with: Exploring ROE (Return on Energy). What jazzed you up in 2017? Exposing things that didn’t work. What sucked the life out of you in 2017?

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Two Hours to Courage

Leadership Freak

Fear talks you out of exceptional and into mediocre. Losing the conversation with fear means: problems persist, teams reach low, and you’re less of a leader than you could be.

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I Hung Up the Phone and Just Started Sobbing

Leadership Freak

I told Jenny Dearborn that our story is the answer. She told me about an unexpected conversation with a nine year old boy. He has dyslexia. So does Jenny.

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Secret Sauce Sunday: The One Thing

Leadership Freak

The one thing I would say to leaders – if I could say only one thing – is, “Make leadership development your priority.” Obsessively develop your leadership, if you hope to serve effectively.

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Three Keys to Greater Focus

Kevin Eikenberry

In the world today with electronics of all kinds beckoning us, with the speed of the world ever quickening, and with work expectations continuing to ramp up with leaner organizations and a 24/7 world, we are all feeling it. In the crunch to be more effective and productive, we yearn for greater focus. If you […]. The post Three Keys to Greater Focus appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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