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Employee Performance Depends On These 3 Critical Factors

15Five

For decades, business leaders believed that simply focusing on performance management was the key to building a successful company. If they just had the right vision and strategy, clear objectives, people with the skill sets to achieve those objectives, and alignment toward their goals throughout the entire organization, they’d achieve high employee performance, financial success, and live happily ever after.

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The Real Focus of Successful Leaders

Leadership Freak

Control, for the most part, is illusion. What happens when you try to control something outside your control? Anxiety. Stress. Fear. Frustration. Pressuring. Manipulation. Resentment.

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The Science of Habit-Forming Products

Nir Eyal

When Nathan Bashaw, CEO of Hardbound, reached out about doing a presentation around my book Hooked, I jumped at the chance to try a fun visual for sharing knowledge about habit-forming products. Let me know what you think of the format below and please share with others. </iframe. The post The Science of Habit-Forming Products appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Overcoming the 9 Mammoth Mistakes of Public Speaking and Presentations

Kevin Eikenberry

Few skills in the workplace cause more angst and stress than giving a presentation. The stakes may be high and your experience might not be all that stellar. Not only that, but many people fear speaking in public as much (or more) than dying. So when you can provide a proven learning experience with a […]. The post Overcoming the 9 Mammoth Mistakes of Public Speaking and Presentations 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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Change Management 101 (Part 3): Why You Need a Practical Organization & Performance Redesign Plan

HR Transformations

What is it for? We’re all familiar with the phrase “form follows function” in architectural design, and it holds just as true for organizational design. It refers to the popular principal that form or structure should be determined by function or purpose. When organizations implement change, it often exposes the need to change functions, including … Change Management 101 (Part 3): Why You Need a Practical Organization & Performance Redesign Plan Read More ».

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How to Lead Meetings People Love to Attend and Get Work Done at the Same Time

Leadership Freak

Unproductive meetings drive productive people nuts. If organizational culture is the way we treat each other while we work, Meetings are culture building activities. 10 reasons the meeting sucked: Bloviators.

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4 Steps on the Path to the Highest Good

Leadership Freak

Change may begin with declaration, but change efforts sputter until leaders change their own behaviors. 4 steps on the path to the highest good: #1. Paint a picture of the medium-term highest good.

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Only 49% of All Employees Have a Great Deal of Trust in Their Boss

Leadership Freak

EY released Global Generations 3.0 research that found less than half of full-time workers surveyed globally between the ages of 19-68, place a “great deal of trust” in their employer, boss, or colleagues.

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Solution Saturday: Distracted by Urgencies

Leadership Freak

Dear Dan, The post I read today resonated with me and raised a question. Your comment: “Some are blind to their strengths; others to their weaknesses.” I have been so immersed in the day to day of school life I lose sight of what my strengths/weaknesses are. I want to develop myself as a leader.

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How to Kick Your Inner Critic in the Pants and Move Forward

Leadership Freak

Your inner critic believes you’re a failure and wants you to stay that way. An inner finger-pointer comes from two places.

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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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Taking Hiring to a Higher Level

Kevin Eikenberry

Getting the right people on the team is one of the leader’s most important roles. It doesn’t belong to HR, and it isn’t something to (completely) delegate. The biggest contributor to your competitive advantage, productivity and success is your people – when you have the right ones. Put together the wrong pieces and the puzzle […]. The post Taking Hiring to a Higher Level appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The Fascinating Leader with Sally Hogshead

Kevin Eikenberry

What does it mean to be fascinating? And how can it benefit your relationships and your role as a leader? In today’s episode, I explore what it means to be fascinating, with branding expert and researcher, and bestselling author, Sally Hogshead. Creator of the Fascination Personality assessment, the world’s first personality assessment that measures how […].

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Remarkable TV: The Difference Between All In and Mailing It In

Kevin Eikenberry

Today’s question is about dealing with employees who are disengaged, disenchanted or simply “mailing it in” And I’ve got four techniques to help move these team members from “mailing it in” to “all in”! Tweet it out: If you want your team to be “all in” let them know what that looks like to you. […].

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