Sat.Jan 21, 2017 - Fri.Jan 27, 2017

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What Most People Don’t Know About Behavioral Design

Nir Eyal

Nir’s Note: Susan Weinschenk is a behavioral scientist, author, and speaker at the upcoming Habit Summit in April. (You can register here!) In this interview, she chats with Max Ogles about some of the overlooked principles of behavioral design. Q: You’re the author of the book, One Hundred Things Every Designer Should Know About People. […]. The post What Most People Don’t Know About Behavioral Design appeared first on Nir and Far.

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3 People to Throw Off the Team

Leadership Freak

Teams have more potential than individuals, only if individual members make them function effectively. Danger: Poorly functioning teams: Waste time. Squander resources. Discourage talent. Drain organizational energy.

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The Role of Pride in Effective Leadership

Kevin Eikenberry

Pride, like many words in the English language, can be complicated. Pride, as a noun means delight, pleasure and joy – a feeling of deep satisfaction; and it also means arrogance, vanity and egotism – an excessively high opinion of one’s self. Pride is also a verb, meaning to take satisfaction in. Why the vocabulary […]. The post The Role of Pride in Effective Leadership appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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10 Years Later: Are People Really More Productive Working Remotely? (Infographic)

15Five

We did it! We lived through that whole extra second in the last minute of 2016, and have begun setting our sights on a successful 2017. (Wait what extra second? Is it the end of days!? Nah. Every so often the Earth’s rotation doesn’t line up perfectly with the atomic clock, so scientists cheat a little.). 2016 was a highly transformational year, and the workplace was not immune from these shifts.

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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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What’s next in growth?

Andrew Chen

[I recently gave the keynote at the largest startup conference in Australia, StartCon. Many awesome growth folks were there, including Elena Verna at SurveyMonkey, Nate Moch at Zillow, Sean Ellis at GrowthHackers, etc. My talk is below, with links to my talk, preso PDF, etc at the bottom. If you want to see all the conference talks, they’re here. 25% off code: WHATSNEXT.

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3 People to Throw Off the Team

Leadership Freak

Teams have more potential than individuals, only if individual members make them function effectively. Danger: Poorly functioning teams: Waste time. Squander resources. Discourage talent. Drain organizational energy.

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Work with True Believers – Smile and Ignore the Rest

Leadership Freak

Someone who doesn’t believe in your vision never helps you achieve it. Unbelievers: Don’t waste time convincing unbelievers to support an effort they understand, but don’t believe in. Work with true believers.

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Work with True Believers – Smile and Ignore the Rest

Leadership Freak

Someone who doesn’t believe in your vision never helps you achieve it. Unbelievers: Don’t waste time convincing unbelievers to support an effort they understand, but don’t believe in. Work with true believers. Encourage weak believers. Ignore unbelievers. One passionate unbeliever has more power than many half-hearted believers.

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The Three Dumbest Things Leaders Do When Things are Going Well

Leadership Freak

Play to win or get out of the way. Successful leaders focus on success. Progress, momentum, and growth are precious things. Fuel them with all you have in you.

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The Three Dumbest Things Leaders Do When Things are Going Well

Leadership Freak

Play to win or get out of the way. Successful leaders focus on success. Progress, momentum, and growth are precious things. Fuel them with all you have in you.

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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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How to Accept Imperfection Like a Leader

Leadership Freak

If I could begin my leadership journey again, I’d accept imperfection. Leadership begins after you accept imperfection.

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How to Accept Imperfection Like a Leader

Leadership Freak

If I could begin my leadership journey again, I’d accept imperfection. Leadership begins after you accept imperfection.

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How to Inspire Teams to Pull Together Rather than Fall Apart

Leadership Freak

I asked a group to talk about a time when they saw an organization pulling together. They talked about shared problems and crisis.

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How to Inspire Teams to Pull Together Rather than Fall Apart

Leadership Freak

I asked a group to talk about a time when they saw an organization pulling together. They talked about shared problems and crisis.

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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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The Butterfly Dust Incident

Leadership Freak

He looked up from the back deck and said he was going to fly. “How are you going to do that?” his mom asked.

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The Butterfly Dust Incident

Leadership Freak

He looked up from the back deck and said he was going to fly. “How are you going to do that?” his mom asked.

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How to use Caution Like a Leader and Act with Discreet Boldness

Leadership Freak

Do something where failure matters. Too much caution results in inactive leadership. All leadership requires action.

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How to use Caution Like a Leader and Act with Discreet Boldness

Leadership Freak

Do something where failure matters. Too much caution results in inactive leadership. All leadership requires action.

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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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Your Lesson from Undercover Boss

Kevin Eikenberry

Every week on the show, Undercover Boss, a CEO or Senior Executive disguises themselves as someone else for one reason: to spend a day in the life of one of their employees and to see what is really happening inside their organizations. Now this might seem a little extreme just to get some feedback and […]. The post Your Lesson from Undercover Boss appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Lessons for Today from Teddy Roosevelt with Jon Knokey

Kevin Eikenberry

Leadership is not charging the hill; that is authority. Leadership comes before that. Jon Knokey, former NCAA quarterback, businessman, and author of Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of American Leadership, shares leadership lessons from Teddy Roosevelt. Learn about ‘work at the center’ and how Roosevelt looked at the big picture and positioned himself and America […].

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