15Five

JUNE 14, 2018

The traditional office landscape is changing and has been for quite some time, but the degree to which it should be shifting is subject to debate. Many employees consider their local coffee shop to be the ideal work environment, while traditional company leaders consider remote work to be a threat to their ability to manage employees. Perhaps Gallup CEO Jim Clifton said it best in the 2017 State of the American Workforce Report : “The very practice of management no longer works.”.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 12, 2018

( dmagazine). We’ve heard about Facebook ads, Google adwords – but today let’s talk about the “IRL Channel.” The IRL channel is an underappreciated advantage of companies that exist in the real world – Amazon Echo, Envoy, Lime, Uber, etc – that use constant in-real-life reminders to try out and use the product.

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 10, 2018

Many emails I receive concern frustration caused by feeling powerless. Something’s wrong and change seems unlikely. Abuse gives power a bad name, but you need power to get things done.

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Agile42

JUNE 14, 2018

One of the techniques I have come to greatly appreciate as a facilitator is the diamond of participatory decision making (see “ The Leader’s Guide to Participatory Decision Making ”, 1998 by Sam Kaner). This technique/framework allows facilitators to better harness team’s collective intelligence. What problem does the diamond solve? As part of a business writing course I took years ago I learned about writer’s block: a state of mind in which professional writers (such as a novelist) cannot find

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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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15Five

JUNE 14, 2018

It’s often said that employees don’t leave companies; they leave bad bosses. But put a great manager at the head of a team, and the opposite happens. (To see what I mean, consider the case of Christian and Netflix mentioned here.). If you read our earlier discussions on managing your managers and evaluating their performance , you know how 15Five feels about the need for effective people management.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JUNE 10, 2018

Often in this space, I talk about a webinar where an expert will share powerful ideas with everyone who registers. Those learning experiences give you access to that expert, and even though we open those sessions for questions, it is mostly one-way – expert to audience. Today, I announce a very different learning experience. This […]. The post Get Answers to Your Most Pressing Leadership, Communication, and Remote Leadership Questions!

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LSA Global

JUNE 11, 2018

Missed Sales Opportunities. Heaven knows, with the increase in competition and expectations it’s hard enough to hit sales quotas on a regular basis. But it’s near impossible if you are guilty of some of the most common missed sales opportunities even the most seasoned solution sellers make. The Top 4 Missed Sales Opportunities. We are often called in to help clients improve the revenue, margin, win-rate, portfolio mix or retention of their sales force.

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Vantage Circle

JUNE 14, 2018

Employee Benefits are those benefits that an employee receives by virtue of being a part of an organization. These are benefits or perks which lie outside the monetary compensation of a company and have traditionally been limited to insurance, provident fund, etc. But all these are methods which have been done and dusted with. With the workforce employing a large number of diverse employees today, it has become extremely important that an all-inclusive employee benefits program, catering to the

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Kevin Eikenberry

JUNE 11, 2018

All effective leaders must learn to delegate effectively, and increasingly, they are leading hybrid teams – where some of the team members are co-located and others work away from the rest of the group. This fact changes delegation dynamics in ways you may not have considered. If you want to delegate more effectively to a […]. The post Delegation on a Hybrid Team appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 15, 2018

Arrogance holds you back. Humility propels you forward. Courage and humility: You’d be wrong if you said humility is kin to fear.

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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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LSA Global

JUNE 10, 2018

Corporate Culture Affects Revenue Growth. If you want to create year over year revenue growth , be sure you understand the relationship between corporate culture and growth. Smart leaders know growth strategies must go through culture to produce results. How the company culturally views areas like decisions, customers, markets, quality, and risk tolerance plays a key role in go-to-market strategy execution.

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 14, 2018

Feedback is wasted on Mr. Defensive. He closes his mind to anything that feels threatening. The chronically defensive can’t benefit from helpful suggestions or constructive feedback. Strategies of Mr.

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 13, 2018

It was 1988. Jim Collins was a first year faculty at Stanford. Jim writes, “… I sought out Professor John Gardner for guidance on how I might become a better teacher.

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Leadership Development 57

Leadership Freak

JUNE 15, 2018

Breakthroughs are rare when you avoid where they happen. #1. Breakthroughs happen when you accept ignorance. You wouldn’t need a breakthrough if you already knew what to do.

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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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Leadership Freak

JUNE 13, 2018

It’s great to have someone show interest in you. A friend, Richard Croad from New Zealand, just asked about highlights I have experienced over the last couple years.

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 12, 2018

Squeaky wheels suck the life out of leaders, teams, and organizations while they claim the high ground for themselves. Squeaky wheels have aspiration for others and exemption for themselves.

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 12, 2018

#1. Fuel, manage, and monitor energy, first your own, then others. You can’t get there with an empty tank.

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 11, 2018

Nurse Alice Tittle said Claudia Alta Taylor was, “… as pretty as a lady bird.” At two years old, Claudia became, “Lady Bird.

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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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LSA Global

JUNE 14, 2018

Rapid Advances in Technology Are Changing the Way We Live and Work. The exciting and sometimes scary growth and application of technology to enable innovation and development appears to be here to stay. Kids are growing up with it, and entire industries are being disrupted by it. So, is leadership still important? Does leadership EQ beat AI? On a macro scale, the World Economic Forum reports that a 10% increase in broadband penetration is associated with a 1.4% increase in GDP growth in emergi

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