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When corporate cultures breed dishonesty

Torben Rick

Many of the corporate scandals in the past several years have been cases of wide-scale dishonesty. It’s hard to fathom how lying and deceit permeated these organizations. The post When corporate cultures breed dishonesty appeared first on Torben Rick.

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The One Fitness App That Hooked Me For Good

Nir Eyal

Could there be a behavior more antithetical to human nature than exercise? Our caveman ancestors, if they could observe our workout habits today, would think we’ve lost our minds. We lift heavy objects into the air and return them to the exact spot where we picked them up. We buy ridiculous gadgetry to get in […] The post The One Fitness App That Hooked Me For Good appeared first on Nir and Far.

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From Agile to agility: Andrea Tomasini and Dave Snowden keynote at Agile Beyond IT

Agile42

agile42 founder Andrea Tomasini and Cognitive Edge Chief Scientific Officer Dave Snowden will take together the stage for the keynote From Agile to agility during Agile Beyond IT, the conference held in Berlin from 12 to 14 March 2019. Despite the Agile manifesto commitment to Individuals and interactions over processes and tools the reality too often degenerates into certification schemes focused on structured methods or even worse it degrades into tool implementation.

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9 Best Practices to Keep Employee Satisfaction High

Vantage Circle

What is Employee Satisfaction? Employee satisfaction is the level of happiness or contentment an employee feels for his/her job. Employee satisfaction is an essential aspect of any business or organization. When employees are happy and satisfied with the management and work culture , they put their best effort to make the company successful. If the employees in an organization are not happy and content, it directly impacts the bottom line.

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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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Collecting Memories – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

We are continuing in our series of videos about collections and today’s video is about collecting memories. I’ll talk about WHY we should collect memories and HOW to do it better and more often. Tweet it out: What would you do differently today if your goal was to start collecting great memories? @KevinEikenberry From This […]. The post Collecting Memories – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The One Fitness App That Hooked Me For Good

Nir Eyal

Nir’s Note: This article is part of a series on “The Hooked Model in Action.” Previous analyses have included Slack, Fortnite, Amazon’s Echo, Tinder, and The Bible App. Note, I never take compensation for writing articles on my blog. Could there be a behavior more antithetical to human nature than exercise? Our caveman ancestors, if they […] The post The One Fitness App That Hooked Me For Good appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Alla ricerca di nuovi compagni di strada

Agile42

agile42 Italia è alla ricerca di nuovi coach Agili per ingrandire il team di consulenti. Continue reading Alla ricerca di nuovi compagni di strada at agile42.

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The Case for Progress vs. Perfection

Kevin Eikenberry

Coaching success as a leader ultimately rests on answering one question: Did the person being coached reach the level of performance or behavior desired at the start of the coaching? Reaching the objective is one thing, yet the process of coaching is more nuanced than that. And there is often much time between the setting […]. The post The Case for Progress vs.

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The 7 Best Practices to Keep Employee Satisfaction High

Vantage Circle

Employee satisfaction is the level of satisfaction or contentment an employee feels for his/her job. It is obvious that employee satisfaction is an important aspect of any business or organization. When employees are happy and satisfied with the management and work culture, they put their best effort to make the company successful. If the employees in an organization are not happy and content, it directly impacts the bottom line.

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Engaging the Secret Power of Identity

Leadership Freak

You’re better at every aspect of leadership when you have a clear sense of personal identity. The path toward self-knowledge requires self-awareness, but 85% lack self-awareness.

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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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Should Lies Be Part of Your Sales Negotiation Strategy?

LSA Global

Lies and Sales Negotiation Strategy. How often do you think lies have been a part of your sales negotiation strategy – either implicitly, explicitly, on your side or on the other side of the table? Should they be? Are lies effective in the short term? Do lies work as part of a long term sales negotiation strategy? Do You Know When You Are Being Lied To?

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Leadership Lessons in Casual Conversations

Kevin Eikenberry

Have you ever noticed that some of the best conversations happen when people are relaxed and in their element? While you might think the best leadership development lessons might come from a board room, or a classroom, sometimes they come in the casual conversations. What if you could listen into 24 of those conversations and […]. The post Leadership Lessons in Casual Conversations appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The 7 Best Practices to Keep Employee Satisfaction High

Vantage Circle

Employee satisfaction is the level of satisfaction or contentment an employee feels for his/her job. It is obvious that employee satisfaction is an important aspect of any business or organization. When employees are happy and satisfied with the management and work culture, they put their best effort to make the company successful. If the employees in an organization are not happy and content, it directly impacts the bottom line.

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Michael Jackson on Leadership

Leadership Freak

If you think leading others is tough, try self-leadership. Bill George said, “The hardest person you will ever have to lead is yourself.” Self-leadership means: High standards.

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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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4 Steps to Create Strategic Alignment

LSA Global

What Is Strategic Alignment? Strategic alignment occurs when your business strategy is clearly articulated, fully understood, and consistently executed across your organization. The steps to create strategic alignment set you and your team up to be collectively firing on all cylinders. Strategic alignment is also a prerequisite for creating an aligned culture and a high performing workforce.

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These 5 Management Practices Create Uncommonly Successful Workplaces

15Five

Want to know a modern management secret? Ok, it’s not exactly a secret. I started explaining how we developed the Best-Self Management methodology in our last post. I shared how 15Five is a company of nearly 80 people, with near zero attrition in our company’s history. We’ve been extraordinarily capital efficient, and based on a reputable benchmark , we were recently producing about 2x the average revenue per employee of companies at a similar size and stage.

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Basic Desires and coaching

Agile42

Agile Finland, our local association in Finland on all things agile, organizes regular Coaching Circle events that gather people together interested in agile and coaching. Sessions open with an introduction to a specific topic/methodology and then are followed with a practical exercise on that topic/methodology. We learn new things and practice coaching in a safe to fail environment.

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Under-Whelming Advice from a former CEO of Southwest Airlines

Leadership Freak

I’m still grappling with Jim Parker’s advice. He was the CEO of Southwest Airlines during the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. Jim said, “I don’t think I smiled for two years.

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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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Are the Best Company Cultures Internally or Externally Focused?

LSA Global

Best Company Cultures. The best company cultures attract and retain top talent while simultaneously making it easy to execute their business strategy. We define company culture as the way things get done in an organization on a day-to-day basis – especially when no one is looking over your shoulder. It is the way employees behave on the job and is based on intangibles such as the pervasive values, beliefs and attitudes that characterize a company and guide its practices.

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Everything that Sucks Energy Begins with “P”

Leadership Freak

Only 11% of us had a great deal of energy yesterday.* I asked a group, “What aspects of work suck the life out of you?

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