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How to Know if You’re a Manager or a Leader

Leadership Freak

You’re not managing just because you run meetings or have a title. You might own the place, but that doesn’t make you a leader.

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Accelerating Your Learning in a World of Accelerating Change

Kevin Eikenberry

Here is a news flash – the world is changing. In fact, by many measures (including your own experience), it is changing faster than ever. For an achievement minded person, like you, this is exciting news, but it also creates an important reality: it is harder than ever to be truly great at anything. Since […]. The post Accelerating Your Learning in a World of Accelerating Change appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Slideshare: Ask Your Employees These Questions To Improve Workplace Culture & Team Performance

15Five

Curiosity. Introspection. Integrity. These are some of the most sought after traits in both company leaders and employees at any level. So whether they are inspiring self-reflection or soliciting information, good questions (and people who are willing to answer them honestly) are vital to a thriving workplace. Questions are not only core to the 15Five product but also core to our workplace culture.

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3 Ways to Accelerate Strategic Growth

LSA Global

If You Want Strategic Growth, Your Leadership Team Must Think Bigger. If you want strategic growth, you must start with strategic clarity. Our organizational alignment research found strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low growth companies. Those that outperform their peers, think bigger. How To Beat the Odds. There’s something seriously wrong with the way most companies conceive, design and implement their strategic growth plans if, as most studies say, only 1

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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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3 Principles of Feedback that Works

Leadership Freak

I wrote, “Don’t give your boss feedback on his poor performance,” in, “Solution Saturday: My Boss is a Terrible Leader.” So, what makes feedback work?

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Be More Aware – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

No one will argue that they want to work for a selfish or ego-maniacal boss. That’s pretty basic. And…in order to ensure that we aren’t being selfish and that we are being selfless, we need to be more aware of our behavior and how it’s perceived. So today, I’m giving you simple tips for how […]. The post Be More Aware – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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How to Beat Your Inner-Critic into Submission

Leadership Freak

Inner-critics stomp around smashing hope and shattering confidence. The goal of your inner-critic is safety. The top 7 expressions of inner-critics: You should have. Inner-critics love the negative past. You screwed up.

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7 Secrets to High Performance

Leadership Freak

Challenges to high performance include entitlement, unfocused energy, and soul-sucking systems. Questions that expose high performers: #1 What makes you think you want to be a high performer?

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Solution Saturday: My Boss is a Terrible Leader

Leadership Freak

Hi Dan, I’ve been visiting, enjoying, and learning from your blog for few months now. Thank you for all the insight and wisdom you share on a daily basis!

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Secret Sauce Sunday: Fortune 300 CEO Shares Top Secret to Success

Leadership Freak

Secret Sauce Sundays are my opportunity to invite leaders who I respect to share ideas that have changed their leadership. Today, Doug Conant shares his secret sauce.

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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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High-Stakes Leadership with Constance Dierickx

Kevin Eikenberry

You don’t need to be a special person to be a high-stakes leader; we all have those qualities. Further, these qualities can be strengthened in those who want to reach their leadership potential. Constance Dierickx specializes in working with organizations in high-stakes transitions (such as mergers and acquisitions) and is the author of High-Stakes Leadership: […].

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6 Steps to Take After an Employee Engagement Survey

LSA Global

What You Do After an Employee Engagement Survey Matters. Good for you! You recognized the importance of assessing your level of employee engagement as part of your talent management strategy to improve employee advocacy, discretionary effort and retention. In our experience, designing and administering employee engagement surveys is the easy part. While it is a great start, the survey is just the beginning.

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3 Basics for Improving Employee Engagement

LSA Global

Improving Employee Engagement Matters. Let’s get back to basics and make your approach to improving employee engagement simple but effective. Do You Agree? Can we assume you: Are convinced that employee engagement matters? Believe, along with the experts, that when employees are more engaged they are more likely to stay put? Accept the research that reports that engaged employees —those who experience high job satisfaction—are over 40% more productive and effective than their unengaged counterpa