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How to Achieve Your Goals By Creating an Enemy

Nir Eyal

DJ Khaled, the one-man internet meme, is known for warning his tens of millions of social media followers about a group of villains he calls “they.” “They don’t want you motivated. They don’t want you inspired,” he blares on camera. “They don’t want you to win,” he warns. On Ellen DeGeneres’s talk show, Khaled urged the host, “Please, Ellen, stay away from them!

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How to Help Reluctant Team Members Move From Self-Doubt to Gusto

Leadership Freak

He wanted the new opportunity. Yet, he sat there wondering, “What if I fail?” Finally I said, “I have a word for you. ‘Gusto.’ How might you pursue this opportunity with gusto?

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The True Bottom Line In Business: An Interview With Dov Baron

15Five

Dov Baron is recognized as one of the top 100 leadership speakers to hire and a brilliant corporate cultural strategist. He is the founder of Full Monty Leadership , and provides essential soft leadership skills to good leaders who are committed to becoming great while growing their people and the bottom line. This is the second part of my interview with Dov.

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Solving Mobile Growth & Retention with Andy Carvell, ex Growth at SoundCloud

Brian Balfour

Andy Carvell joined SoundCloud in 2012, when the company was just over 80 employees and 10 million monthly active users. The service now boasts over 150 million registered users, and monthly actives in the high tens of millions. I recently spoke with Andy as part of a 1 hour interview covering: How he brought a web-first product to mobile Activity notifications, rich push, and other techniques for driving mobile growth and retention Andy’s “Mobile Growth Stack” for 2017 You can watch the full in

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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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The Benefit of the Doubt Principle

Kevin Eikenberry

When we fail to give others the benefit of the doubt, it’s entirely too easy to perceive one’s words or actions in the worst possible way – which isn’t good for us and isn’t good for the other person. However, when we give people the benefit of the doubt, a lot of good happens. Check […]. The post The Benefit of the Doubt Principle appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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How to Help Reluctant Team Members Move From Self-Doubt to Gusto

Leadership Freak

He wanted the new opportunity. Yet, he sat there wondering, “What if I fail?” Finally I said, “I have a word for you. ‘Gusto.’ How might you pursue this opportunity with gusto?

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10 Heart-Based Questions that Produce the Very Best Decisions

Leadership Freak

The future is shaped by today’s decisions. Failure to make decisions ends leadership. Forward-facing decisions always impact behaviors. If behaviors don’t change, everything stays the same. Decision making tools are useful and necessary, but fall short.

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5 Ways to Help Teammates Navigate Butt Kicks

Leadership Freak

We all encounter arrogant leaders. You might be one. You probably have one on your team. Butt kicks are a wake up call for arrogance.

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5 Ways to Help Teammates Navigate Butt Kicks

Leadership Freak

We all encounter arrogant leaders. You might be one. You probably have one on your team. Butt kicks are a wake up call for arrogance.

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How to Stop Wasting Time in Meetings

Leadership Freak

If high blood pressure excites you, call a meeting with an ineffective, malfunctioning, low-performing, time wasting team.

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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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How to Stop Wasting Time in Meetings

Leadership Freak

If high blood pressure excites you, call a meeting with an ineffective, malfunctioning, low-performing, time wasting team.

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Sincerity Doesn’t Erase Ignorance: 7 Ways to Capitalize on the Strength of Your Leaders

Leadership Freak

Everyone knows what you don’t do well. Confused or inexperienced leaders pay too much attention to people who point out their lack and challenge them to improve weaknesses.

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Sincerity Doesn’t Erase Ignorance: 7 Ways to Capitalize on the Strength of Your Leaders

Leadership Freak

Everyone knows what you don’t do well. Confused or inexperienced leaders pay too much attention to people who point out their lack and challenge them to improve weaknesses.

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How to Build Vibrant Connections and Energize Meaningful Results

Leadership Freak

Strong organizations are a collection of vibrant connections that energize meaningful results. Leaders that connect: Disconnection is expecting more from others than you expect from yourself.

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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 to Build Vibrant Connections and Energize Meaningful Results

Leadership Freak

Strong organizations are a collection of vibrant connections that energize meaningful results. Leaders that connect: Disconnection is expecting more from others than you expect from yourself.

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Solution Saturday: How do I Express Concerns without Losing My Job

Leadership Freak

Dear Dan, I work in education. I’m an older union worker, near retirement. Education is funded, the administrators don’t have to sweat sales.

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Solution Saturday: How do I Express Concerns without Losing My Job

Leadership Freak

Dear Dan, I work in education. I’m an older union worker, near retirement. Education is funded, the administrators don’t have to sweat sales.

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What Excuses are You Looking For?

Kevin Eikenberry

Listen in to any conversation for very long and you will hear them… Excuses. Excuses are so prevalent in our words and thoughts that we often miss them. Why are they so pervasive? Because they work. We tend to excuse people for things when they share an excuse, so we have created a self-perpetuating loop. […]. The post What Excuses are You Looking For?

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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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Share the Love (and Learning)

Kevin Eikenberry

With all respect to the State of Virginia, February is for lovers. We at The Kevin Eikenberry Group think celebrating love is a good idea, and so we decided to celebrate something we love a lot – learning. All this month, when you register for any of our eligible workshops, you get to “share the […]. The post Share the Love (and Learning) appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Leadership Moxie (and More) with John Baldoni

Kevin Eikenberry

“You’ve got moxie, kid”. We hear it in the moves but what does it mean? Join Kevin and John Baldoni, author of MOXIE: The Secret of Bold and Gusty Leadership (among other books), as they discuss gumption, guts and the resilience to pursue. Leaders need to be open to the learning process and not ashamed […]. The post Leadership Moxie (and More) with John Baldoni appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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