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How to Maximize the Seven Levels of Leadership

Leadership Freak

Leaders rise or fall at points of execution and completion. 7 levels of leadership: #1. Believe you can make a difference.

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Kevin Kruse | Understanding The Real Drivers Of Employee Engagement

Tanveer Nasser

It's a common fact of leadership today that if you want to improve productivity and fuel organizational growth, you need to make sure your employees are engaged at work. And yet, despite both the evidence supporting the critical role employee engagement plays to driving your organization's success and most leaders wanting to improve employee engagement levels in their workplace, organizations everywhere are still struggling with this issue.

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Five Keys to Planning Better Virtual Meetings

Kevin Eikenberry

Whenever I ask groups about the effectiveness of the meetings they attend, the responses are dismal; and when those meetings are virtual, rather than in the conference room down the hall, they certainly aren’t better. While there is much known and written about making any sort of meeting better, and much of it applies to […]. The post Five Keys to Planning Better Virtual Meetings appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Strategy vs. Culture – Which Comes First?

LSA Global

Strategy vs. Culture – Which Comes First? Most of our clients have a high growth strategy. They want to grow revenues and profits quickly before their market shifts. But unless you are careful, you risk sacrificing the corporate culture that helped you succeed up until now. Do you have to make a choice between your corporate strategy and your corporate culture?

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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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7 Ways to Practice Accountability With Heart

Leadership Freak

You elevate your leadership when you express your heart. Weak leaders hide from heart. All they care about is the bottom line. Heart is the strongest thing about you.

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Driving Employee Engagement Through Effective Performance Management

15Five

How much are disengaged employees costing your company? If we zoom out, Gallup estimates the cost of disengagement to be between $960 billion and $1.2 trillion per year. So what drives engagement and what strategies can leaders use to create an environment where both engagement and productivity thrive? Using leading social science research as our guide, we will uncover why the key to employee engagement is highly intentional performance management.

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Are Leadership Gaps Threatening Your Strategy?

LSA Global

Are Leadership Gaps Threatening Your Strategy? There are times when you just do not have the horsepower to execute your strategic plan effectively. Are you willing to let leadership gaps threaten the success of your strategy? Business strategies are driven by leaders. If you have inadequate leaders, both in numbers and in capabilities, even the best strategies are apt to fail or underperform.

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How I Drained the Power from a Great Question

Leadership Freak

Bill said, “I remember you asked a really powerful question. I felt the energy go up.” He was reflecting on a coaching conversation I had with him and Kevin months ago.

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An Assessment Tool That Creates Conversation – Not Defensiveness

Leadership Freak

Performance assessments – done well – inspire conversation. Done poorly, performance assessments invite defensiveness, excuses, posturing, and blame. The ultimate goal of assessing performance is growth.

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Cold Leaders Have a 1-in-2000 Chance to Make it to the Top 25%

Leadership Freak

I’m still grappling with the realization that kindness/warmth is inconvenient. I’d be kind if I had the time. Thankfully, when I work with people or organizations, they are my agenda.

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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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Secret Sauce: Jenny Dearborn Chief Learning Officer of SAP

Leadership Freak

I asked Jenny Dearborn, SVP and Chief Learning Officer of SAP, to talk about her secret sauce* – the principles and practices that guide her leadership.

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How to Lead Conversations that end with Vitality

Leadership Freak

You beat yourself up. So do the people around you. Don’t climb in a hole and pull dirt in on yourself. Maybe it’s time to throw dirt out of the hole!

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Wish You Could Tell Better Stories? Start Here.

Kevin Eikenberry

Story telling isn’t just for campfires and cocktail parties. Telling stories effectively is one of the most effective ways to communicate a message that has impact and is remembered. What communicator doesn’t want that? Today, I offer three resources in three different mediums, all designed to help. While I recommend them all highly, I provide […].

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Top Activities to Improve Employee Engagement

LSA Global

Activities to Improve Employee Engagement If You Are Not a Big Company. Top employee engagement scores across the board…wouldn’t every company like to be rated highly by their employees? Sure, you might say, that’s easy for big organizations that have big bucks to spend on snazzy perks. Sure, you’d like to take your top salespeople on a trip to Hawaii, or furnish a state-of-the-art gym on site, or serve gourmet meals in the cafeteria.

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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.