Organizational Development Solutions
JULY 12, 2018
"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” —Peter Drucker. In the previous posts in this series, we have discussed how to assess organizations in terms of where they came from, where they are going, and where they are now. If you are interested in a tool for conducting this type of assessment, please click here.
15Five
JULY 10, 2018
Type “leadership” into the search bar on Amazon and prepare to sift through more than 70,000 titles. And that’s just books! Countless more articles, theses, and treatises on the topic have been written by savants from Cicero to Machiavelli to Lincoln. Needless to say, there’s a lot to say. Okay, now search for “leadership development.” Way to go, you’ve winnowed it down to only 20,000 books (or so).
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Agile42
JULY 11, 2018
Second half of the year is going to be very exciting, as we are starting to offer advanced classes for ScrumMasters and other practitioners who want to take the next step in learning, scaling, and dealing with resistance, in order to become true experts. Our book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Agile Coaching is a good starting point to explore our approach to coaching and facilitating teams.
Leadership Freak
JULY 10, 2018
Few leaders do anything about gossip vampires. Gossip is a tool for personal advantage, self-justification, and helpless complaint. If relationships produce results, gossip is expensive. Gossip vampires: Suck the life out of relationships.
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!
Kevin Eikenberry
JULY 9, 2018
Behavior assessments are everywhere. They are called different things, and measure everything from communication and learning style to creativity style to strengths and weaknesses. They help us see ourselves in new ways, and this is interesting and helpful. But if you are using assessments and stopping with self-awareness, you are missing the biggest – and […].
LSA Global
JULY 12, 2018
Employee Behaviors and Your Workplace Environment Are Linked. Does your work environment promote the right behaviors? To answer this question, some argue that workplace cultures are created by the specific actions people take. Others argue that people change when their environmental circumstances change. We believe that both are true and that people’s behavior and the environment in which they live and work are inextricably linked.
OrgDev Digest brings together the best content for management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Leadership Freak
JULY 11, 2018
Every word you say to yourself and others matters. Gossiping manager: I had a boss who poisoned relationships. She bad-mouthed support staff. My mirror neurons made it natural to agree. Gossip ignites tension.
Kevin Eikenberry
JULY 10, 2018
In these Remarkable TV episodes, I answer questions; you ask questions; we consider questions; there are a lot of questions. In this episode, I am proposing a question that all leaders need to ask themselves. Tweet it out: Remind yourself to W.A.I.T. – ask yourself Why am I talking? @KevinEikenberry From This Episode: Listen to […]. The post A Question Leaders Need to Ask Themselves – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
LSA Global
JULY 9, 2018
What, Really, Does Customer Focus Mean? While most savvy sales leaders advocate for customer focused selling skills, customer centricity is an oft-used term. In general customer focused selling skills are about putting the customer at the center of your business where the customer’s needs come first. Sounds pretty smart right? True Customer Focus.
Andrew Chen
JULY 10, 2018
The current generation of marketplace startups has been incredibly successful. Airbnb, Lime, Uber, Lyft, Instacart, etc. I’ve been doing a broad survey of the best writing on this topic and wanted to share my list of 20 best links I’ve seen. Marketplaces at Andreessen Horowitz. We look at a lot of marketplace startups at Andreessen Horowitz @a16z – and we fund a lot of them!
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.
Leadership Freak
JULY 13, 2018
You’re a bosshole if the bar is high and you kick people when they fall short. High expectation apart from kindness is cruel. Bossholes kick people when they’re down.
Kevin Eikenberry
JULY 8, 2018
by Martin Lanik You know that if you take a tough skill and make part of it habit, your success will improve. Such is the case with leadership. Build strong leader habits, and you will become a stronger and more successful leader. The question is – what are the habits and how do you build […]. The post The Leader Habit: Master the Skills You Need to Lead in Just Minutes a Day appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
LSA Global
JULY 10, 2018
A Misaligned Workplace Culture Creates Problems. Once you accept the fact that workplace culture matters (and matters a lot) when you are trying to build a high performing organization, then you can focus your attention on what culture gaps might exist. And you should care about a misaligned workplace culture because it increases the chances that your top employees may become disengaged and quit.
Leadership Freak
JULY 8, 2018
Controlling to one is liberating to another. All leaders disappoint. Some are too controlling. Others are too hands-off. Your response to disappointing leadership impacts the trajectory of your career.
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.
Leadership Freak
JULY 9, 2018
“Knock, knock.” “Who’s there?” “Control freak. Now you say, “Control freak who?” Raise the hand of the person beside you, if you’re a control freak.
Leadership Freak
JULY 9, 2018
You’re not a control freak if you send back a rare steak when you ordered medium. #1. You’re not a control freak if you have high standards for yourself and others.
Leadership Freak
JULY 12, 2018
Every teacher learns before they teach. Every teacher learns while they teach.
Leadership Freak
JULY 10, 2018
“The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups.
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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