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5 Powerful Ways to Answer Self-Doubt and Step into Your Greatness

Leadership Freak

The Little Engine kept saying, “I think I can,” until he climbed the steep hill. But the story is wrong. Thinking you can is helpful, but never enough to step into your greatness.

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Technology is Distracting and Addictive. Here’s How to Fix It. (Video)

Nir Eyal

Our personal technology is becoming more pervasive and persuasive. Critics claim it is addictive, irresistible, and hijacking our brain. Instead of offering another knee-jerk reaction, here’s my take on the perils and promise of persuasive technology. This is the talk I gave at the 2017 Habit Summit where I discuss and offer some solutions for: […].

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Leadership Insights: What To Do When Your Employee’s Heart Just Isn’t In It

15Five

You could tell his heart just wasn’t in it. I’ve always liked that phrase. Or rather, I appreciate the reverse, that a person who is fully present and contributes something valuable does so because they feel inspired, alive, and open-hearted. Is that true though? Is positive emotion really what creates the highest levels of employee engagement ? Well, not according to this disheartening Gallup post : Measuring workers’ contentment or happiness levels, as well as catering to their wants, of

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The Procrastination Addiction

Kevin Eikenberry

It is said we are all addicted to something; and while some addictions may be more harmful to ourselves and others, few are more prevalent than our addiction to procrastination. I’ll go first: Hi, I’m Kevin and I’m addicted to procrastination. While I am confident that there are people who procrastinate more frequently and with […]. The post The Procrastination Addiction appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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Practical Tips for Winning with the 7 most Provocative Challenges of Leadership

Leadership Freak

The saddest state of leadership is thinking you’ve mastered something you haven’t. 7 Provocative Challenges: #1. Courageously leading into the future while diligently managing the present. Over-led organizations become unstable.

Manager 69
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8 Strategy Questions to Minimize Confusion and Inaction

LSA Global

A clear, believable and implementable business strategy is the bedrock of a high performing organization. Without it, your employees lack direction, are confused about where they are headed and why, and spend far too much time in unproductive or misguided efforts. The best leaders begin by creating a business strategy that outlines clear and compelling choices about what actions to take and where to “play.

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How to Ignite Development in the Arrogant and Resistant

Leadership Freak

Arrogance can’t see a need for development. Ask egotistical managers if they run great meetings. (Insert any management skill.) Of course they do! There’s no point in telling them they don’t.

Manager 61
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Eat That Frog: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

Kevin Eikenberry

by Brian Tracy You might be thinking this is a strange title for a book, especially one that has sold over 1.5 million copies in it’s first two editions. The metaphor is that if you eat a live frog first thing in the morning, everything else the rest of the day will be easy. Because […]. The post Eat That Frog: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The Magic of the Reboot

Kevin Eikenberry

When we’re talking about technology, the idea of a “reboot” is pretty commonplace. If a computer or tablet or phone is unresponsive and you’ve tried everything, a “reboot” is almost always recommended and often quite successful. Well today, we’re talking about a reboot for leadership, for you. If you’ve ever been frustrated, befuddled, stuck on […].

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Brian Tracy with Three Questions to Supercharge Your Abilities

Leadership Freak

New Giveaway!! 40 free copies of the classic book, Eat That Frog!

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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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The Right Corporate Culture Helps Employees Choose the Right Path

LSA Global

Organizational culture can be simply defined as the way things get done in a business day by day. Every company has a workplace culture , whether by default or design. The right kind of corporate culture—one that supports a positive, open, trusting, learning environment—rarely occurs on its own. We maintain that a healthy cultural environment can be created over time given the right purpose, commitment and encouragement.

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The Unexpected Answer that Solved One Department’s Issues

Leadership Freak

It’s wasteful and frustrating to talk to the wrong people about the right things.

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How to Accelerate Productivity of Your New Talent

LSA Global

The statistics on the high dissatisfaction rate of new employees should capture the attention of every HR department and leader looking to engage, develop and retain high performing talent. Studies by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology show that 50% of all hourly employees leave their new jobs within 120 days and that 50% of senior level outside employees fail before they reach Year 3 on the job.

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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures

LSA Global

To perform and thrive, you have to be able to adapt to an ever changing environment. If you resist and defy change, your company is not long for this world. Here are a few examples from decades of change management consulting projects of now-defunct organizations that, in order to avoid disaster did not. foresee the necessity for change soon enough or. adapt in a way that made good business sense.

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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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How to Build Environments Where Teams Thrive and Talent Wins

Leadership Freak

Structure trumps talent. Badly designed organizations sabotage the best performers. 4 structural saboteurs: Overlapping domains: Managers with overlapping territories are paid to compete with one another.

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