Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Under-helpful leaders seem distant and uncaring. Over-helpful leaders encourage irresponsibility and low engagement. 3 rules for “not helping” like a leader: #1. Don’t fix the mistakes of capable team members.

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15Five

JANUARY 31, 2018

A surprise resignation here; a rumor of resentment there… these are indications that there are problems within your management team. If this is happening, the time to take action is now. Great managers build trust , inspire individuals, and motivate teams. Bad managers breed resentment and make people want to quit. Problem is, you may not realize what’s happening until smaller managerial issues have spiraled into much bigger problems.

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Mind Tools Problem Solving

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Annie McKee, Ph.D is an adviser on happiness to leaders of multinational companies and governments around the globe. So I was surprised to learn that, not so very long ago, she was cleaning houses and waiting tables. These are not jobs designed to make people happy. McKee mentions those early career experiences in her new book, “ How to Be Happy at Work.” When I talked to her for our Expert Interview podcast, I asked her how she found happiness when she was doing that low-paid menial

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 30, 2018

We are all busy. Ask five people how they’ve been and I can almost guarantee that you will hear more than once, “I’ve been busy.” In fact, the idea of “busyness” has almost become a badge of honor. But the whole idea behind busy is it’s all about activity. We’re doing a bunch of stuff, […]. The post Focus on Accomplishment – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The top three communication issues that hold leaders back: 63% – Not recognizing employee achievement. 57% – Not giving clear direction. 52% – Not having time to meet with employees.

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Leadership Development 67

LSA Global

JANUARY 27, 2018

Do You Need to Improve New Manager Training? It is not easy to find an organization that does not want to improve new manager training. Why are so many leaders disappointed in the impact of their new manager training? Managers are Being Asked to do More. To increase productivity and speed up decision making, most companies have flattened their organizational structure giving their managers wider responsibility over more employees.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 29, 2018

Every coach wants to give feedback that works. Every leader knows that giving effective feedback is part of their job. Heck, every parent would like the feedback they give to their kids to work. Yet far too often, it doesn’t. I believe the missing link is not understanding the true goals of feedback. Much has […]. The post The Three Goals of Feedback appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 30, 2018

Drooping shoulders and hanging hands point to dark water ahead. There’s a word for low energy leaders and low aspiration teams. Dying!

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 29, 2018

You can’t succeed as a leader if your need to be liked exceeds your drive to achieve. There are three options in the tension between results and relationships. Results without relationships. (Jerk-hole.) Results through relationships. Relationships without results. (Pushovers.) Counterpart: My wife and I are watching Counterpart on TV. The main character is Howard Silk.

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Leadership Development 53

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 29, 2018

Successful leaders have high drive for results (hi-DFR) and low need for approval (lo-NFA). The rule: The rule of drive: As drive for results (DFR) goes up – social courtesy goes down.

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Energy Leadership Development 52

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.

Change Management

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 27, 2018

The issues you avoid morph into future-crushing gremlins. A surprising suggestion: I suggested a negative project to a coaching client who wants to take initiative when issues are stressful.

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Accounts Leadership Development 51

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 31, 2018

Don’t be offended at today’s title. Stupid comes before smart. If you aren’t stupid, you’re “too” smart. But repeated stupid in the same way is dumb.

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Leadership Development 52

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 31, 2018

The #metoo movement represents a culture shift that’s long overdue. I wouldn’t want my daughter or granddaughters to feel they had to sleep with the boss to get a promotion.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 28, 2018

Listening to learn expands your influence. Reflection solidifies learning. I’m reflecting on what I learned from Jenny Dearborn, SVP and CLO at SAP.

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Leadership Development 48

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.

Engineering

Kevin Eikenberry

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Andy Cunningham knows that positioning is more than just a marketing term, it is the formulation of a business strategy. Andy is the author of Get to Aha! Discover Your Positioning DNA and Dominate Your Competition and shares the framework she uses to transform markets and industries. Regardless of your title within the organization, you […]. The post What Leaders Must Know About Positioning with Andy Cunningham appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 28, 2018

Let’s face it, leading can be hard. It can be especially hard when times are tough. What kind of situations do I mean? … When the pressure is on – either from your boss, a key Customer or the economic conditions. … When you personally are dealing with a challenge and aren’t sure how you […]. The post Leading in Tough Times appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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