15Five

MARCH 23, 2017

Building a vibrant workplace requires a foundation of trust, respect, and honest communication. It also requires employee appreciation. Over 200,000 global employees were studied by the Boston Consulting Group , and the top reason they reported enjoying their work was, “feeling appreciated”. Number 2 was having a good relationship with their supervisor, and number 4 was that they had a good relationship with their colleagues.

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Nir Eyal

MARCH 20, 2017

Nir’s Note: Jane McGonigal is a game designer at The Institute for the Future and bestselling author of Reality is Broken and SuperBetter. She’ll be speaking at the upcoming Habit Summit in April. (You can register here!) In this interview with Max Ogles, McGonigal discusses impact of future technologies on behavior, habits, and the way […]. The post The Unbelievable Future of Habit-Forming Technology appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 24, 2017

The tragedy of organizational life is incompetent leadership. If everything rises or falls on leadership, why aren’t you systematically developing leadership skills?

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Kevin Eikenberry

MARCH 20, 2017

Communication is a proverbial, organizational, and leadership challenge. Even the best leaders and organizations know they can improve in how they communicate with others. For that reason, this is a topic we are often asked to help people improve. The obvious reason people and organizations want to improve communications is that it is important – […].

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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

MARCH 21, 2017

It’s no surprise that employee engagement numbers have been abysmal for the last few years (and if that is a surprise, you need to read our blog more often.) According to Gallup, engaged employees comprise only around 30% of the workforce. No wonder this post on 2016 engagement trends was so popular. . Until engagement numbers dramatically increase, we are going to continue presenting these trends.

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Brian Balfour

MARCH 21, 2017

Most growth communities, forums, and email lists will inevitably have that thread that goes: “Hey, what are the benchmarks everyone’s seeing for X?” I constantly find people seeking out benchmarks or pointing to benchmarks, and we’ve all been there -- who doesn’t want some normalizing data to understand whether we’re on track or not? The desire is further fueled by many companies releasing “benchmark reports.

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Kevin Eikenberry

MARCH 19, 2017

By Mark Miller Mark Miller is a smart executive who has written several popular books about leadership. His style is to write about important topics using the fable approach; so his books are stories that make important points and leave lasting impressions. His earlier books, like most in this genre, focus on topics for an […]. The post Leaders Made Here appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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LSA Global

MARCH 22, 2017

The research around talent management has uncovered some surprises. We had thought that the best performing companies had the most star talent. But it turns out that, according to Bain & Company , “A” players are pretty evenly distributed across the workforce from company to company. They found that about 15% of all employees are what you could consider both high performing and high potential.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 21, 2017

To empower people, you must give them some control. One-on-ones where employees control most or all of the agenda transfer power to employees. But it’s intimidating if employees haven’t done it before.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 19, 2017

“I’m living the dream,” is sarcasm. The only dream you’re living includes stinky sweat and purposeful perseverance. The only thing easy about big dreams is dreaming them.

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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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Leadership Freak

MARCH 20, 2017

“The biggest hiring mistakes happened when I was tired and under duress. We really needed help.” Jeremie Kubicek, co-founder of the GIANT companies, mentioned two worst case scenarios.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 23, 2017

Mom told me not to pick at scabs and pop zits. “You’ll get scars.” The opposite is true in organizations. The things you don’t say, but should, cause scars.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 22, 2017

This book expanded my thinking!! New Giveaway!! 20 free books!!! Leave a comment on this post by Monica C. Worline and Jane E.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 18, 2017

Dear Dan, Over a year ago I took a new position. We have been enjoying great success with record results.

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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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LSA Global

MARCH 23, 2017

Designing and delivering solution selling training with sales teams over the last two decades, we have seen that most solution sellers have absorbed and put into practice the idea that value can trump price. But they often define value myopically…they interpret value from their own perspective and overlook value from the customer’s perspective. Many sales reps then try in vain to convince the customer of “the value” to justify a higher price.

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