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How to Show Compassion and Get Results

Leadership Freak

Done poorly, compassion prolongs weakness, propagates irresponsibility, and validates destructive behaviors. Compassion, like all great virtues, requires insight to be practiced skillfully. People first: Compassion is a ‘people first’ approach to leadership.

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Building a Growth Team from Zero to Fifty

Brian Balfour

Growth is still an emerging discipline, and not everyone has a structured growth team within their org. But, let’s say you get to start from scratch and build the ideal growth team. What people and roles would you start with? Andrew Chen and I recently sat down to look at a few configurations to consider as you're scaling up a team around growth. We've broken up the conversation into three videos, with notes below each video.

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Case Study: Growing Your Marketing Agency With Automated Employee Feedback

15Five

Every company has growing pains , especially as they reach certain size thresholds. When you reach around ten to fifteen employees, in-person status meetings are no longer tenable. I want to share the story of how a successful organization used technology to overcome their growth challenges. Influence & Co. , a con tent marketing agency that creates engaging content to fuel the marketing efforts of their customers and positions their key employees as influencers in their industries, has grow

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What a Leader Must Focus On

Kevin Eikenberry

As a leader, you have a myriad of things that vie for your attention; many things that you feel, or others suggest, you need to focus on. Here is a short list: Budgets Projects Process improvements New product/service development Sales Customer Service Margins I bet at least part of this list resonates with you, and […]. The post What a Leader Must Focus On 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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3 Wise Sayings You Need to Stop Saying Today

Leadership Freak

Some ‘wise’ sayings are evil affirmations that staying the same is a good thing. They’re dangerous because they’re half true. #1. We did our best. Bull crap! You didn’t do your best. You don’t even know what your best is.

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4 Major Challenges New Managers Must Overcome to Succeed

LSA Global

New manager training programs exist by the hundreds. They teach all kinds of leadership skills necessary for new managers (or experienced managers for that matter) to succeed. The challenges of the transition from individual contributor to leading a team are significant. But still…does it have to be so difficult? At first it can feel as though you are one against many.

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How to Succeed with Mules in a Beauty Pagent

Leadership Freak

Mules come in many forms. Some are loud, opinionated, and adversarial. A pleasant mule is stubborn in a beauty queen’s skin. Beauty queen mules are more dangerous than conspicuous resistance.

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Solution Saturday: A Simple Strategy to Take Control of Your Future

Leadership Freak

Dear Dan, There are few things which look nice in theory but not in the real world, for example, “If you can’t say what you think, you can’t become who you were meant to be.” What happens when you say what you think and you get into trouble? Dan, what type of leadership is this?

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Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives

Kevin Eikenberry

by Howard J. Ross As a human, you are biased, and it impacts us in large and small ways, and in many cases for understandable reasons. That’s the message stated clearly in the first chapter title: If You are Human, You Are Biased. The author, founder of one of the largest diversity consulting firms in […]. The post Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The Surprising Secret to Getting Things Done

Leadership Freak

The secret to getting things done is only starting things you can finish. But that leaves little room for trying new things.

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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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Leading While Living Your Life with Sue Ritchie

Kevin Eikenberry

If you want to raise your leadership profile, you need to be concise and intentional about your career. In other words, what is your strategy to make sure you are at the table and voicing your opinion. In this episode, Sue Ritchie, a leadership coach from the UK, joins Kevin to look at how stretching […]. The post Leading While Living Your Life with Sue Ritchie appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Overcoming Self-Doubt

Kevin Eikenberry

We got this question recently from a viewer: How do I overcome self-doubt as a leader? And when we’re talking about self-doubt as it relates to leadership, it falls into one of two categories. In the video below, we’ll talk about what these categories are and share some simple solutions for helping you to manage […]. The post Overcoming Self-Doubt appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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How to Find Energy to Move Closer to the Edge

Leadership Freak

Spiders, snakes, and bears are scary. I had a dream about a bear on railroad tracks when I was a kid.

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3 Customer-Centric Ways to Stretch Your Solution Selling Success

LSA Global

To make sure your solution selling training really pays off, you need to capitalize on doing right by your customers. It is not enough for sales reps to satisfy customers once with a targeted solution. Sellers need to keep working with clients to solidify their relationship, add value and deepen their loyalty. Here are three ways you can use your solution selling training to keep customers for the long-term and insulate them from competitors’ advances.

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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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3 Tips to Link Learning and Business Performance

LSA Global

One of the major components of an effective talent management strategy is promoting the kind of learning that makes good business sense. It’s all about making the link with business priorities. Today’s learning leaders who want to make an impact understand that learning is no longer simply about one-time training events or well-crafted content. Corporate learning needs to have a practical and meaningful business purpose.

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3 Strategic Thinking Behaviors to Better See the Big Picture

LSA Global

Over and over we hear leaders asking their teams to better “see the big picture” as they strive to create more strategic clarity to grow faster. But what really does the big picture mean and what do you need to do to “see” it? Strategically, the big picture involves lateral thinking. It is simply the entire perspective of an issue or situation. It is broad like the wide screen picture above, not narrow.

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The Power of Workplace Culture to Drive Behavior

LSA Global

While leaders can certainly have an over-weighted impact on behavioral norms, workplace culture rarely works according to the picture above where an individual holds more sway than the group as a whole. Only in extraordinary circumstances and with a very strong, determined leader can a single individual have more influence on changing a corporate culture than the majority of the workers.

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