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How to Improve Your Vibe and Flourish as a Leader

Leadership Freak

Leaders send vibes to everyone in their proximity. If you want to flourish, choose how you show up. Leadership vibes: Inner thoughts and attitudes radiate through facial expressions, body language, tone, and language.

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One Thing People Want From Their Leaders

Kevin Eikenberry

Ask leaders what they want from their team members, and you will get a fairly consistent list: They want people to: Work hard Be productive Be safe at work Listen Be trustworthy. Fill in your blanks. Fundamentally, on top of all of that, they want their people to follow them. So, if […]. The post One Thing People Want From Their Leaders appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Lack of Strategic Clarity – Only One Reason Your Strategy is Failing

LSA Global

Much has been written about strategic clarity and why it is so critical to effective strategy execution. When strategies are unclear or unbelievable, plans never make it across the finish line. And what good is a strategy if it is not translated into actions that carry the organization forward? We know that executing strategy is difficult. A study by IBM found that less than 10% of well formulated strategies are effectively executed.

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The Road to a $100M Company Doesn’t Start with Product

Brian Balfour

This post is part of a 5-part series on the frameworks you need to align to grow to a $100M+ company. Subscribe to get the rest of the series and access to the videos. In the introduction to this series I made the point that Product Market Fit isn't the only thing that matters. It is actually only one of four fits needed to grow a product to $100M+ in a venture-backed time frame.

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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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How to Stop Obsessing Over Negatives and Become a Positive Leader

Leadership Freak

Like a drop of poison in a glass of water, one problem has the power to pollute everything. It’s natural to obsess over one bad thing and forget many good things.

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The Balance Between Now and Next

Kevin Eikenberry

My daughter’s recent graduation (or rather, commencement, as you will hear in the video below) has me thinking about the importance of balancing living in the present while preparing for what’s next. Tweet it out: High achievers celebrate current successes, while looking forward to the future. @KevinEikenberry From This Episode: Sign up to receive our […].

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4 Forms of Stagnation that Defeat Leaders and Destroy Organizations

Leadership Freak

Stagnation serves up death in sugary bites that taste like cake. Regardless of the contents of your leadership, you found it moving forward. The opposite of forward is stagnation.

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How to Spot Surprising Opportunities to Develop Team Members

Leadership Freak

Trying to fix someone is insulting to them and arrogant of you. Development is a partnership, not a dictatorship.

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How to Find Advantage in Office Politics

Leadership Freak

What seems like weakness may be advantage. Your manager’s obsession with the opinion of upper management may drive you crazy. But political skill is one reason they earned their position.

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Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

Kevin Eikenberry

by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz This is a book about social science, that could not have been written 20 years ago. Why? Because Google wasn’t born until September 4, 1998. And Facebook wasn’t born until February of 2004. Why does that matter? Because data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz uses date from sources like Google and Facebook to understand […].

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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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It’s Good to Be a Leader! with Jim Kerr

Kevin Eikenberry

Jim Kerr, one of today’s foremost thinkers on organizational design and culture transformation, joins Kevin to talk about culture creation in your organization and how leaders at all levels can use stories to engage and create buy-in. He also shares some insights from his latest book, It’s Good to Be King. Jim focuses on the […]. The post It’s Good to Be a Leader!

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Talent Management Changes Need to Be Carefully Considered

LSA Global

Corporate change is never easy and, when it touches your entire workforce, you had better consider carefully how it will affect your talent management strategy. Will your top talent accept and adjust to the change or will it push them toward dis-engagement and perhaps to the competition? IBM has recently made a risky move. It has mandated that thousands of its employees no longer work remotely but in set locations or they must look for another job.

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Can Uber’s Corporate Culture Be Re-set?

LSA Global

Uber and its difficulties continue to dominate Silicon Valley business news as its corporate culture deteriorates despite former CEO Travis Kalanick’s recent ouster. The critical question is whether or not the needle on the culture dial can be moved significantly from the negative to the positive. And can it happen fast enough to save the now over $70 million organization?

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Top 4 Performance Management Mistakes to Avoid

LSA Global

Because performance management is at the heart of a high performance culture, performance management mistakes can be costly. What is a High Performance Culture? We define organizational culture as how things truly get done in an organization. It can be measured by understanding the way people think, behave and work. A high performance culture is an environment that is getting the most from its people in both the short- and long term.

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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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Surprising News about Bonuses that Really Engage Employees

LSA Global

Most leaders want to use bonuses that really engage employees to strive to do their best work and be loyal over the long-term. Talent management strategies and total rewards programs typically hand out bonuses to spur motivation and reward high performance. Most often these bonuses come in the form of financial gifts and the recipients are expected to spend the money on themselves in a way that makes sense for them.

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How to Engage Employees Through Meaningful Recognition

LSA Global

Smart talent leaders and effective talent management strategies engage employees through meaningful recognition programs. Ever since that first gold star on a homework assignment, we all crave recognition for jobs well done. But the methods of how to engage employees through meaningful recognition have changed…the “gold star” is not enough to motivate your teams to higher levels of performance.

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4 Change Risks and How to Overcome Them Conversation-by-Conversation

LSA Global

Our change management consulting experts suggest a new, simplified way to look at managing organizational change effectively. Think of the change process as one that occurs conversation-by-conversation. After all, aren’t most changes catalyzed through dialogue…productive discourse where ideas are exchanged and modified according to the influence of others?

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Talent Management Changes Need to Be Carefully Considered

LSA Global

Corporate change is never easy and, when it touches your entire workforce, you had better consider carefully how it will affect your talent management strategy. Will your top talent accept and adjust to the change or will it push them toward dis-engagement and perhaps to the competition? IBM has recently made a risky move. It has mandated that thousands of its employees no longer work remotely but in set locations or they must look for another job.

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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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Can Uber’s Corporate Culture Be Re-set?

LSA Global

Uber and its difficulties continue to dominate Silicon Valley business news as its corporate culture deteriorates despite former CEO Travis Kalanick’s recent ouster. The critical question is whether or not the needle on the culture dial can be moved significantly from the negative to the positive. And can it happen fast enough to save the now over $70 million organization?

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Top 4 Performance Management Mistakes to Avoid

LSA Global

Because performance management is at the heart of a high performance culture, performance management mistakes can be costly. What is a High Performance Culture? We define organizational culture as how things truly get done in an organization. It can be measured by understanding the way people think, behave and work. A high performance culture is an environment that is getting the most from its people in both the short- and long term.

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Surprising News about Bonuses that Really Engage Employees

LSA Global

Most leaders want to use bonuses that really engage employees to strive to do their best work and be loyal over the long-term. Talent management strategies and total rewards programs typically hand out bonuses to spur motivation and reward high performance. Most often these bonuses come in the form of financial gifts and the recipients are expected to spend the money on themselves in a way that makes sense for them.

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How to Engage Employees Through Meaningful Recognition

LSA Global

Smart talent leaders and effective talent management strategies engage employees through meaningful recognition programs. Ever since that first gold star on a homework assignment, we all crave recognition for jobs well done. But the methods of how to engage employees through meaningful recognition have changed…the “gold star” is not enough to motivate your teams to higher levels of performance.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha

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Lack of Strategic Clarity – Only One Reason Your Strategy is Failing

LSA Global

Much has been written about strategic clarity and why it is so critical to effective strategy execution. When strategies are unclear or unbelievable, plans never make it across the finish line. And what good is a strategy if it is not translated into actions that carry the organization forward? We know that executing strategy is difficult. A study by IBM found that less than 10% of well formulated strategies are effectively executed.

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Donald Trump – The Declaration and Real Leadership

Leadership Freak

Anger motivates change. Donald Trump isn’t the first President who formed a coalition driven by discontent and frustration. The U.S. was born in discontent. Destruction: The U.S. Declaration of Independence expresses aspirational anger.