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Where Grit Really Comes From

Leadership Freak

I just spent 13 hours in a car. Because of weather, yesterday’s flight was canceled. Rescheduling was impossible. My first thought was I can go home and take a nap.

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Everything You Think You Know About Culture & Employee Performance Is (Apparently) Wrong

15Five

Back in the day, culture was something you became exposed to when you traveled to a foreign country. And employee performance was as easy to manage as uttering the words, “work harder or you’re fired!” But modern employees and workplaces are far more complex. Counterintuitive management theories now tell us that annual reviews do more harm than good , and people must make space during the day for naps and meditation to enhance productivity.

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The Fine Line Between Intuition and Judgment

Kevin Eikenberry

I could give you examples of the premise of this article every week. This particular week I spent in New York City on vacation with my wife and daughter. I will share two examples from our experiences to define the fine line between intuition and judgment. Sunday, sitting in a restaurant by the street. It […]. The post The Fine Line Between Intuition and Judgment appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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How You Battle the "Data Wheel of Death" in Growth

Brian Balfour

This is the Data Wheel of Death: Data Isn’t Constantly Maintained -> Data Becomes Irrelevant / Flawed -> People Lose Trust -> They Use Data Less If the above looks familiar, you’re not alone. I estimate that greater than ? of data efforts at companies fail. This is trouble because data plays a key horizontal role in the growth process and mindset.

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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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How Dreamers Drive Doers to Distraction and Beyond

Leadership Freak

Organizations need more doers than dreamers. A team of dreamers will start a thousand things and finish none. (Yes, that’s an exaggeration. Everything in this post is a bit exaggerated.

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New Feature Update: The Inappropriate Question Bank

15Five

We’ve known for some time that healthy communication amongst teammates and between employees and managers, drives productivity and builds strong relationships. So we thought, if asking professional questions creates such a powerful impact on the business world, asking unprofessional questions must inevitably foster a more well rounded workplace.

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10 Strategies that Re-energize Demoralized Teams

Leadership Freak

Layoffs, complaints, stress, cutbacks, unrealistic expectations, shortfalls, and more, demoralize teams. 10 Strategies that Re-energize Demoralized teams: #1. Complain a little and move on.

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How Doers Learn to Speak Dreamese

Leadership Freak

Dreamers drive doers crazy. “Why don’t you talk less and do more?” Fear of being saddled with futile work causes doers to resist spontaneous dreamers. Constant disagreement leads to disdain.

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Solution Saturday: High Performers Lumped in with Low Performers

Leadership Freak

Hi Dan, I’m trying to make the argument that it is bad to admonish a team for performance issues exhibited by a subset of the team.

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One Secret to Innovation, Collaboration, and Engagement

Leadership Freak

“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion ….” Albert Einstein 3 advantages of compassion*: Innovation. Compassion enables learning by fostering psychological safety. Collaboration.

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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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Misguided Questions Kill Businesses

Leadership Freak

New Giveaway!! 20 free copies of, Stop Guessing: The 9 Behaviors of Great Problem Solvers.

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The Art of Profitability

Kevin Eikenberry

by Adrian Slywotzky Most business novels or business fables help someone work on an interpersonal or leadership skill, and the best books in this genre do this very well. This book, while clearly in this genre, has a different goal – to help a business owner or leader think about how they make a profit, and […]. The post The Art of Profitability appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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