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How to Give Guidance Without Giving Answers

Leadership Freak

The great temptation of leadership is giving answers instead of guidance. Experience makes answer-giving easy. But there’s an ego factor as well. It feels great to KNOW when others don’t.

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What’s the Best Cadence For Surveying Employees?

15Five

Nearly 70 percent of U.S. employees are disengaged at work, and business leaders want to know why. But getting to the bottom of engagement issues requires an understanding of employee sentiment that can only happen through a deep-dive into engagement data. We know collecting feedback is the first step … but how often should we do it? Determining the ideal feedback cadence requires an understanding of how your company plans, acts on, and evaluates other mission-critical aspects of the organizatio

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Leading Change Intelligently with Barbara Trautlein

Kevin Eikenberry

Research has shown that the same receptors fire in our brain when people are introduced to changes in social systems (like organizational change) as when we are in pain. It’s no wonder that 65% of business fail at organizational change. Barbara Trautlein, Ph.D. joins Kevin to discuss change intelligence. She recognized we have tools to […]. The post Leading Change Intelligently with Barbara Trautlein appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Unclear Business Strategies Are Too Difficult to Execute

LSA Global

Unclear Business Strategies Are Too Difficult to Execute. While it seems like common sense that unclear business strategies are too difficult to execute, leadership team after leadership team continues to think that twenty clear strategic initiatives equate to strategic clarity. When you ask employees, that perception could not be further from the truth.

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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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You Never Bring out Someone’s Best by Making Them Feel Inadequate

Leadership Freak

You never bring out someone’s best by making them feel inadequate. You may not mean to intimidate others but you probably do. Intimidated people: Comply, but don’t bring their best.

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Webinar Recap: Cultivate A Healthy Company By Focusing On Employee Growth And Development

15Five

Whether you’re a farmer, have a fruit tree or two, or simply enjoy fresh produce, you likely know that cultivating crops requires more than just sticking seeds in the dirt. (Yes, this is going to be a metaphor about employee growth and development.). First, you have to prepare the ground and make sure it’s a fertile environment. Loosen the soil so that the seeds have room to sprout.

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Assigning Employee Engagement Accountability

LSA Global

Who Is Responsible for Employee Engagement Accountability? When employee engagement is on the rise, who takes credit? And when engagement is on the decline, who takes the blame? Is the finger pointing at you? Whether you are the organization’s CEO, the head of HR, a manager, or an employee, we believe you are responsible for employee engagement accountability.

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Delegation is the Decision to Replace Yourself

Leadership Freak

You’d delegate if you had the time, but it’s easier to do it yourself. Even though your brain says the previous sentence is self-limiting and ridiculous, managers still say it.

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Focus on your Target Audience and Help your Brand Grow

Vantage Circle

“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.” . ~ Mark Twain. You put your heart and soul into building a product or a service, once it is built it is only natural for you to want to show it to the world. But think it through, do you really want to just show it or do you want to grab the attention of your potential consumers?

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Be More Intentional – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

When we do something with intention, it’s something that is on purpose, planned and conscious. And intentional leaders are simply better leaders. So today, I’m giving you four things that you can do right away to be more intentional starting today. Tweet it out: The best leaders are intentional leaders. @KevinEikenberry From The Episode: Read […].

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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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How to Give Effective Feedback as a New Manager

LSA Global

How to Give Effective Feedback as a New Manager. Giving effective feedback is a manager’s most useful tool in shaping performance and developing the team. But don’t use the graphic above as an example. The illustration, rather than showing how to give effective feedback as a new manager, is more an example of what NOT to do. Five Components of Effective Feedback.

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Stop Hating the People You Serve

Leadership Freak

Leaders get frustrated with the people they serve. You hear them grumble, “What’s wrong with people?” It happens in the business world, education, church world, and governments as well.

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Focus on your Target Audience and Help your Brand Grow

Vantage Circle

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. -Mark Twain. You put your heart and soul into building a product or a service, once it is built it is only natural for you to want to show it to the world. But think it through, do you really want to just show it or do you want to grab the attention of your potential consumers?

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The Right and Wrong Stuff: How Brilliant Careers are Made and Unmade

Kevin Eikenberry

by Carter Cast Everyone reading this could benefit from this book. I know that is a bold statement, but you have a career. Whether you are just getting started, are mid-career, or are later in your professional life, could you be more effective and successful? This book will help you see, as the title suggests, […]. The post The Right and Wrong Stuff: How Brilliant Careers are Made and Unmade appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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The 10 Vulnerabilities of Discouragement

Leadership Freak

Turning an ember into a flame takes skills. But any fool can throw water on enthusiasm. Show up to fuel energy and build morale. Everyone gets discouraged.

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How Experts Become Idiots and Leaders Become Blockheads

Leadership Freak

The trouble with ignorance is it’s easy to spot in others. I can predict your future with one question, “What are you learning?

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In Reality Mr. Spock Couldn’t Make the Simplest Decision

Leadership Freak

Only 30% of individual behavior is rational — the other 70% is emotional. (The Gallop 2017 Global Emotions report – registration required for free download.) Mr. Spock: Logic is only part of decision-making.

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7 Ways to Rise Above Feelings of Intimidation

Leadership Freak

Intimidation is different from being afraid of heights. It’s about the self. Intimidation is an evaluation of the self in comparison to others.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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Dear Dan: I Manage a Large Facility that’s very Negative

Leadership Freak

Dear Dan, What’s some advice to give a manager who leads a large facility that’s been very negative for many years? There are many complaints and no teamwork.

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Answering Some Common Questions About 360 Assessments

Kevin Eikenberry

360 Assessments can be one of the most powerful tools for an individual leader’s development. Yet for a variety of reasons, these assessments are often maligned and misunderstood. As the developer of a 360 Assessment and as someone who has coached leaders on the results from several different tools, people often ask me about these […]. The post Answering Some Common Questions About 360 Assessments appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.