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Empathy Protects You From Being a Jerkhole

Leadership Freak

Boldness, toughness, and grit are great leadership qualities, but empathy makes them effective. Apart from empathy leaders are jerkholes. Empathy is: Empathy is stepping into someone’s experience.

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Tim Sanders | Why Bizlove Is Critical For Today's Leadership

Tanveer Nasser

When it comes to our leadership, how generous are we with the knowledge we have and the people we know in terms of helping others to succeed? And why is this so critical to our ability to succeed as leaders? That's the focus of my conversation with best-selling author and former executive Tim Sanders. Tim is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and former Yahoo Chief Solutions Officer.

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Get Out of the ARPU-CAC Danger Zone with Channel Model Fit

Brian Balfour

This is part four in a series about 4 Frameworks To Grow To $100M+. Subscribe to get the rest of the series. In the introduction to this series, I explained there are two types of companies : Tugboats, where growth feels like you have to put a ton of fuel in to get only a little speed out, and Smooth Sailors, where growth feels like wind is at your back.

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Creating Great Informal Coaching Moments

Kevin Eikenberry

Some organizations are eliminating their performance management processes, some are revamping them with new tools and approaches, and some are maintaining the status quo. Regardless of your organizational approach to performance management, the need and desire for coaching has never been greater. Here are two examples: If your organization is reinforcing performance management, coaching is […].

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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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10 Things that Make Dumb Leaders Smart Today

Leadership Freak

One of the best things to discover is your own lack of brilliance. Brain function goes down when you’re: Stressed out. If stress makes you dumb, some leaders must be dim-wits.

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How to Set Goals for a High Performance Culture

LSA Global

Some leaders think they must set goals for a high performance culture that are impossible (or almost impossible) to reach in order to motivate their teams to provide maximum effort and peak performance. Other leaders believe success metrics must be set low enough so that people can consistently exceed expectations without setting themselves up to fail.

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Places for Productivity

Kevin Eikenberry

Today I’m talking about productivity and how our physical location is extremely important to our level of productivity. Check out the video below for my Productivity Checklist and start getting more done RIGHT NOW. Tweet it out: Consider your environment if you want to increase your productivity. @KevinEikenberry From This Episode: Sign up to receive […].

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4 Ways to Win Over Negative Team Members

Leadership Freak

#1. Don’t minimize the concerns of negative people. When you say, “It’s not that bad,” to someone who thinks it’s bad, they think that you don’t get it. You’re out of touch.

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3 Steps to Combat Disturbing Employee Engagement Statistics

LSA Global

Are you and your talent leaders doing what it takes to combat disturbing employee engagement statistics? As a company leader, how many of your employees would chime in honestly with an overall “I love my job” reply to your employee engagement survey ? According to a recent report by Gallup on the State of the American Workplace, only about one-third of American workers are engaged on the job.

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Startups are cheaper to build, but more expensive to grow – here’s why

Andrew Chen

Startups should be getting cheaper to build. After all, the industry’s created several waves of innovation that’s supporting this across multiple layers in the stack: Open source software instead of paid developer tools. AWS instead of your own datacenter. Per-click ads instead of Superbowl commercials. Off-the-shelf SaaS tools versus building your own.

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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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Do You Have a Coach?

Kevin Eikenberry

Some have one, some want one, some think they should have one. Some that do have one aren’t getting the value they could, and some don’t have one because they don’t know how to get that value. I’ve been coaching for many years; I’ve seen the mistakes clients make, the misconceptions they have, and how […]. The post Do You Have a Coach? appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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How to Overcome Bitterness After Being Passed Over

Leadership Freak

Disappointments brings you to a perilous series of choices. I don’t mean to speak lightly, but if you’re bitter, you chose it. Feeling hurt isn’t a choice.

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4 Strategy Warning Signs that Short-Term Pressure is Making You Lose the Marathon

LSA Global

Are you neglecting worrisome Strategy Warning Signs? Too many companies become slaves to short-term quarterly targets and neglect to simultaneously focus on the long-term winning strategy. As one client put it: “We go on 13-week death marches wearing blinders. The last week of the quarter is about doing whatever it takes to close deals, ship inventory and hit targets.”.

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Practical Ready Made Agenda Items for Your Next Meeting

Leadership Freak

One sure way to lead lousy meetings is to rely on spontaneity. Never let spontaneity be an excuse for lack of preparation.

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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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Recommended Summer Reads for Leadership Freaks

Leadership Freak

The thing I love about good books is they help me think my own thoughts.

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One Essential After Being Passed Over For Promotion

Leadership Freak

They chose someone else. You were passed over for promotion. You keep telling yourself there’s a silver lining.

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Are Your New Managers Ready to Lead?

LSA Global

Are Your New Managers Ready to Lead? There is much you can, and should, do to prepare for your role as a new manager. Hopefully, your promotion has not come as a total surprise and you have spent time laying the groundwork for your upcoming leadership responsibilities. Taking on a management position is a wonderful opportunity to grow and to have a real impact on your company’s success.

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Sales Coaching + Solution Selling Training = Success

LSA Global

Based upon over 800 sales training measurement projects, we have come to believe that solution selling training on its own is often an exercise in futility…and we say this as a business consulting and training company. Sure, customized and targeted solution selling training helps sales reps to become more aware of what it takes to succeed and the skills they need to improve their performance.

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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.