Nir Eyal
JUNE 14, 2017
Nir’s Note: This guest post is by Darren Austin, Partner Director of Product Management at Microsoft. Last year we added a new member to our household. I must admit that upon first meeting her, our initial impression was that she was a little creepy. Today though, we can’t imagine life without her. We’ve never seen […]. The post Here’s How Amazon’s Alexa Hooks You appeared first on Nir and Far.
Leadership Freak
JUNE 15, 2017
When was the last time you left a meeting ready to charge hell with a squirt gun? Lousy meetings are problem-solving activities with the wrong people in the room.
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Kevin Eikenberry
JUNE 12, 2017
Tomorrow is my mother’s birthday. I won’t tell you which one it is, but like all the rest of them, it is worth celebrating. As I’ve been thinking about Mom’s upcoming birthday, I’ve been reflecting on what she’s taught me – it’s a long list. To celebrate her birthday, I’ve identified some of the most […]. The post What I Learned About Leadership From My Mom appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
LSA Global
JUNE 15, 2017
Organizational change management consulting experts know organizational structure is important during change. From our perspective, organizational structure encompasses the goals, roles, tasks and processes used to organize the flow of work to meet specific objectives. When roles and success metrics are unclear, it is difficult for teams to perform beyond the sum of their parts.
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!
Nir Eyal
JUNE 14, 2017
Nir’s Note: This guest post is by Darren Austin, Partner Director of Product Management at Microsoft. Last year we added a new member to our household. I must admit that upon first meeting her, our initial impression was that she was a little creepy. Today though, we can’t imagine life without her. We’ve never seen […] The post Here’s How Amazon’s Alexa Hooks You appeared first on Nir and Far.
Leadership Freak
JUNE 12, 2017
Bravado impresses the blind, intimidates the ignorant, comforts the fearful, and offends the skillful. Confidence doesn’t need to brag, impress, outdo, or put others down.
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LSA Global
JUNE 15, 2017
New manager training focuses primarily on helping new managers navigate their own careers successfully. But we maintain that it is critical that new managers also pay close and regular attention to the careers of their individual team members. Here is why…. We know that in most high growth organizations the annual performance review is quickly on its way out, shifting toward consistent and more frequent performance conversations.
Andrew Chen
JUNE 12, 2017
[Hi readers, my good friend Darius Contractor (currently growth eng at Dropbox) has a brilliant new framework how user psychology has driven growth at companies like Bebo, Tickle, PhotoSugar and of course, Dropbox. Thanks to Darius and the folks at Reforge for putting this together. Hope you enjoy the writeup here! -Andrew]. Increase your funnel conversion by getting users Psych’d – by Darius Contractor.
Leadership Freak
JUNE 14, 2017
We’ve all had leaders we wished would sit down and stop talking. Don’t be one. 15 ways to talk so people will listen: Decide if you care about great communication skills.
Kevin Eikenberry
JUNE 11, 2017
For several years I’ve walked out of my office and gone downstairs to the studio here at Remarkable House (our offices) to record video. I answer questions on the Bud to Boss blog and as a weekly episode of Remarkable TV. The source of many episodes have come from viewers, Clients, and participants in workshops. […]. The post What Do You Want To Know?
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.
LSA Global
JUNE 15, 2017
A recent CEO asked me, “How can we grow our workforce without sacrificing our Culture?” For any leader, the risk of sacrificing your culture is real. If your strategic success depends on growing your workforce fast, you do not have to sacrifice your culture on the altar of speed. In our twenty-five years of culture change and change management consulting we have learned that a clear business strategy must come first.
Leadership Freak
JUNE 16, 2017
Mom is my mom. Dad adopted me when I was two. But I didn’t know I was adopted until 2017, five years after he died. He raised me as his own.
Leadership Freak
JUNE 11, 2017
The unimaginative and uncommitted blame lack of money for lack of action. But you don’t need money, position, or resources to make a positive difference where you work.
Leadership Freak
JUNE 13, 2017
Leaders say teamwork is important, but spend most of their development-time working with individuals. Isn’t that inconsistent? Could three-on-ones be more effective than one-on-ones?
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.
Leadership Freak
JUNE 10, 2017
Feelings matter more today than they did when I was young. I’m old school. It doesn’t matter how you feel. You show up and do the work.
Kevin Eikenberry
JUNE 13, 2017
Self-assessment is extremely valuable, AND, it’s also really hard to do successfully and accurately. Here are four questions to ask yourself to overcome bias and to help you do a better job of self-assessment. Tweet it out: Self-assessment is important, but remember our assessment will always have blindspots. @KevinEikenberry From This Episode: Email Barb to […].
LSA Global
JUNE 13, 2017
Solution selling training emphasizes using your time wisely. But that’s such a general piece of advice! More specifics around top sellers’ best practices or which activities really make a difference would be much more helpful for those who seek to turbo charge their sales effectiveness. Our over twenty years of designing and delivering customized solution selling training programs and working with sales teams to improve their performance has taught us a thing or two.
LSA Global
JUNE 16, 2017
Strategy matters. Our organizational alignment research found that strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing organizations in terms of revenue growth, profitability, customer satisfaction, leadership effectiveness and employee engagement. You can spend all the time you like creating a strategy designed to improve and grow your business but, if you don’t execute against that plan, what good is it?
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.
LSA Global
JUNE 12, 2017
Most managers (me included) dread difficult performance conversations with their direct reports and are willing to take advice about how to make difficult performance conversations better. Whether it is delivering bad news or firing an employee, the most upsetting performance conversations are the ones that evoke anger, yelling, accusations, defensiveness or tears.
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