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Why Product Market Fit Isn't Enough

Brian Balfour

This post is an introduction to a five part series where I explain for frameworks you need to align to grow to a $100M+ company. Subscribe to receive the rest of the series. I’ve been lucky to have been part of building, advising, or investing in 40+ tech companies in the past 10 years. Some $100M+ wins. Some, complete losses. Most end up in the middle.

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Growth is getting hard from intensive competition, consolidation, and saturation

Andrew Chen

The end of the cycle. One of the best essays written last year was Elad Gil’s End of Cycle? – referencing our most recent 2007-2017 run on mobile and web software, and the implications for investing, startups, and entrepreneurs. Although he doesn’t directly talk about it, the end of a tech cycle has major implications for launching new products, growing existing product categories, because of a simple thing: It gets much, much harder to grow new products or pivot existing one

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Where Foolish Leaders Become Wise

Leadership Freak

The pain foolish leaders inflict on teams and organizations is tragic. (The damage foolish leaders cause warrants the uncomfortable term.) But there’s exciting news. Anyone with average intelligence can develop wisdom.

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Top 9 change management infographics

Torben Rick Change Management

Change is the new normal for leadership. Motivating people to change direction, building new strategies, transforming business models, and adopting new ways of collaboration. Quite a challenge. The post Top 9 change management infographics appeared first on Torben Rick.

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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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Performance Management Doesn’t Have to Suck!

Kevin Eikenberry

If your organization’s performance management processes are working great, you can save some time and skip this post. But if you are like most organizations, leaders, and individuals you have at least some pain or frustration with this process (and maybe a whole lot, you are still reading.) Good – stay with me. There are […]. The post Performance Management Doesn’t Have to Suck!

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How to Build a Better Training Assessment

LSA Global

We get asked by many learning and talent leaders about How to Build a Better Training Assessment. Getting training assessments right is an important topic because most training assessments are not only statistically invalid, but they are often implemented in a way that inhibits trust, decreases relevance, and wastes time. We believe that the fundamental purpose of a training assessment should be to answer the questions: “What is holding us back?

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The Only One On One Meeting Checklist You Will Ever Need

15Five

“I’m so sorry, I need to reschedule our one on one meeting again.”. When employees hear that, they will likely either feel relief, frustration, or anger. If they’re relieved, that means you’re missing a major opportunity to discover exactly what it is that employee doesn’t want you to know. If they’re frustrated, that’s because they genuinely need your help to move their work forward.

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Convincing Senior Management That Change Is Needed

Kevin Eikenberry

In a request for questions that I made on an episode of Remarkable TV, Frank asked me, “What are the best ways for middle managers and human resources to convince upper managers/ owners (if a smaller business) of needed change?” It is a great question, but more than I wanted to tackle in a short […]. The post Convincing Senior Management That Change Is Needed appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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How Can New Managers Help their Direct Reports – Just Ask!

LSA Global

A smart question for new supervisors to ask – how can new managers help their direct reports to succeed? Being a new manager is not easy. Going from counting on yourself to having to count on others can be a big change. Letting go of your ego after you are promoted can also be tricky. And because more companies are flattening their organizational structure to gain efficiencies, managers have wider responsibility over more employees.

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The Risky Business of Dealing with an Indecisive Boss

Leadership Freak

A common complaint about bad bosses is they won’t make decisions. An indecisive boss seems cowardly, lazy, short-sighted, or self-serving. It’s risky to take action when you have an indecisive boss.

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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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Why You Should Put Your Feet On Your Desk

Leadership Freak

Formal conversations promote guarded fakery and artificial relationships. Team members put on their professional faces. Recently, a team member explained how a business owner made it safe to connect.

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How to Put People in Stressful Situations

Leadership Freak

What gives you the right to put someone in a situation that makes their palms sweat? Positive intention. Shared values. Known commitments. Open relationship. Challenge or coddle: Coddling prevents people from soaring.

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One Leader’s Surprising Experience with One-on-Ones

Leadership Freak

One of my coaching clients is developing his skill at holding one-on-ones with his management team. He’s learning you don’t have to choose between strong relationships and great results.

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Why Sulking Succeeds and What to Do About It

Leadership Freak

Kids sulk to get their way. I sulked when I did poorly at a carnival game. Surprisingly, it worked. But I didn’t win on my second try either.

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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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Understanding the Employee Experience with Jacob Morgan

Kevin Eikenberry

Regardless of your leadership status, you should treat your role as if your job to make other people successful. Jacob Morgan didn’t always feel he has those type of managers and as a result decided to look at the workplace from the people to the infrastructure. In his latest book, The Employee Experience Advantage, Morgan […]. The post Understanding the Employee Experience with Jacob Morgan appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Lessons from the Missing Hotel Room

Kevin Eikenberry

A major hotel mishap in Atlanta for me, equals a major leadership lesson for you. Check it out below! Tweet it out: Customer satisfaction can be increased with great service recovery. @KevinEikenberry From This Episode: Learn more about and sign up for our free video leadership program, 13 Days to Remarkable Leadership, here. The post Lessons from the Missing Hotel Room appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Do Employees Really Value Training as Much as a Raise?

LSA Global

Do Employees Really Value Training as Much as a Raise? Could it be true? According to a recent study of nearly 5,000 workers in Spain by Santiago Budría of the University of Madeira, company-provided training has the same effect on job satisfaction as a 17.7% net wage increase. While that may sound surprising and pay levels certainly need to be competitive , more and more studies are finding that younger workers expect their employers to invest in their learning and development to improve their

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For Talent Management Success, How to Best Reward High Performers?

LSA Global

There is some controversy in the talent management arena about how to create and reward high performance and about the role that extrinsic motivators like money can play in creating a high performance culture. While the majority of our clients use pay-for-performance as a component of their total rewards and recognition philosophy to create a high performance culture, a recent survey by Willis Towers Watson found that: Only 20% of employers believe merit pay is effective at driving higher levels

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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 Can New Managers Help their Direct Reports – Just Ask!

LSA Global

A smart question for new supervisors to ask – how can new managers help their direct reports to succeed? Being a new manager is not easy. Going from counting on yourself to having to count on others can be a big change. Letting go of your ego after you are promoted can also be tricky. And because more companies are flattening their organizational structure to gain efficiencies, managers have wider responsibility over more employees.

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How to Build a Better Training Assessment

LSA Global

We get asked by many learning and talent leaders about How to Build a Better Training Assessment. Getting training assessments right is an important topic because most training assessments are not only statistically invalid, but they are often implemented in a way that inhibits trust, decreases relevance, and wastes time. We believe that the fundamental purpose of a training assessment should be to answer the questions: “What is holding us back?

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Do Employees Really Value Training as Much as a Raise?

LSA Global

Do Employees Really Value Training as Much as a Raise? Could it be true? According to a recent study of nearly 5,000 workers in Spain by Santiago Budría of the University of Madeira, company-provided training has the same effect on job satisfaction as a 17.7% net wage increase. While that may sound surprising and pay levels certainly need to be competitive , more and more studies are finding that younger workers expect their employers to invest in their learning and development to improve their

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The 3 Management Basics of Effective Performance Management

LSA Global

Unfortunately, too many managers struggle to follow the management basics of effective performance management. To add to the challenge, old school performance management processes and performance reviews are struggling to align with today’s more fast moving organizations and employees who have different expectations. For example, my old employer, Accenture , is replacing annual evaluations and rankings with more timely and personalized feedback for all employees.

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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