Sat.Sep 16, 2017 - Fri.Sep 22, 2017

article thumbnail

7 Ways to Receive Feedback You Don’t Like

Leadership Freak

Short-sighted people plug their ears when they hear feedback they don’t like. These people receive praise and reject messages that suggest they aren’t perfect. Feedback you don’t like is likely the most useful.

article thumbnail

The Potential Principle with Mark Sanborn

Kevin Eikenberry

Improvement is not linear. We get better and we hit a plateau. Further, it becomes difficult to find the resources to help us get better. Mark Sanborn, president of Sanborn & Associates, Inc., an idea studio dedicated to developing leaders in business and in life and author joins Kevin to discuss potential and results. His […]. The post The Potential Principle with Mark Sanborn appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

50
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Don’t Neglect Human Capital if You Want to Grow

LSA Global

Do You Invest In or Neglect Human Capital? At most companies, more time and energy is spent investing and analyzing the financial end of things rather than looking closely at the human capital side of your company – how you attract, develop, engage and retain the talent required to execute your strategy. Financial Health Matters. Don’t get us wrong.

Energy 39
article thumbnail

The 5 Languages Of Appreciation In The High-Tech Industry: A Tool For Engineers To Grow Soft Skills

15Five

High-tech companies are known to offer competitive financial rewards and employee recognition programs to encourage and motivate employees to keep delivering high quality work. To some extent these performance management programs have been effective. For example, eCard Shack’s infographic reveals that young and inexperienced employees across high-tech companies like Facebook, Google, and Apple experience high levels of job satisfaction, mainly as a result of being highly paid.

article thumbnail

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!

article thumbnail

An Acronym That Explains Mentoring

Leadership Freak

I could use some help. I’m trying – without success – to create an acronym that captures the essence of mentoring. How would you use MENTOR or MENTORING as an acronym?

59
article thumbnail

The Starting Point of All Improvement

Kevin Eikenberry

Most everyone wants to improve. And if you have chosen to read this, I can say with certainty that you value improvement – for yourself, for your team and for your organization. There are many things that can help us improve; in one respect, that is the topic of most all my writing. But there […]. The post The Starting Point of All Improvement appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

44

More Trending

article thumbnail

How to Bridge the Gap that Holds You Back

Leadership Freak

The way people experience you is often different from the way you intend. You hoped to hear, “Thanks for the encouragement.” Instead you heard, “You’re pushy.

article thumbnail

How to Say No to the Boss When You’ve Always Said Yes

Leadership Freak

You’re trapped if you can’t say no to the boss. My first no. The first time I said no to my boss was a painful moment of clarity.

article thumbnail

7 Profound Benefits of Navigating Storms

Leadership Freak

There will come a time when things get worse, even when you try to make them better. Optimism is an attitude toward storms, not exemption from them.

article thumbnail

7 Questions That Lower Resistance to Negative Feedback

Leadership Freak

Great feedback often surprises recipients. They don’t see themselves clearly. Frankly, none of us do. Your feedback was rejected. Now what?

61
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

One Acronym That Captures the Essence of Mentoring

Leadership Freak

Thank you for the comments and emails on making an acronym that explains MENTOR. Your suggestions are incredible. I’ve decided to add “ing” to expand possibilities. With your help, here’s where I landed.

50
article thumbnail

How Ego Squanders Talent and Chokes the Life Out of Meetings

Leadership Freak

A great meeting is as rare as a white moose. Count yourself fortunate if you ever see one.

article thumbnail

The Camino Way: Lessons in Leadership From a Walk Across Spain

Kevin Eikenberry

by Victor Prince Take a successful leader in both the corporate and Federal Government worlds, a leader with a taste for adventure and some athletic skills, and you get Victor Prince. This is a rare combination to be sure, and lucky for us it takes a rare leader and author to write this book. Victor […]. The post The Camino Way: Lessons in Leadership From a Walk Across Spain appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

article thumbnail

Giving Yourself a Deadline – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

One of my mentors, Zig Ziglar, has a well-known story that I refer to as his “Vacation Story” In this story, he says that the day that people are most productive is the day before they go on vacation. And that’s for one pretty big reason: Because they have a DEADLINE. They need to get […]. The post Giving Yourself a Deadline – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

Manager 40
article thumbnail

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.