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The Strange Way Being “Good” Hurts Your Willpower

Nir Eyal

Nir’s Note: This guest post is by Paulette Perhach. Paulette writes about finances, psychology, technology, travel, and better living for the likes of The New York Times, Elle, and Slate. I learned how to respect authority from my father. At the top of a huge water slide at a theme park, he put me, my […]. The post The Strange Way Being “Good” Hurts Your Willpower appeared first on Nir and Far.

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How to Confront Excuse Makers

Leadership Freak

Excuses are an attempt to lower expectations. Excuse makers are explaining why you should accept lackluster performance. It’s dangerous, degrading, and demoralizing. Excuse makers don’t want you to expect too much from them.

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A fearless change management game

Management30 Change Management

by Christof Braun Change is everywhere. Change is accelerating. Change is the new normal. If you don’t change, you get left behind. Nowadays, not changing is like moving backwards. Also see: Change Management module Are you scared yet? Or at least a little worried? Seriously, I believe all of the above statements are actually true, The post A fearless change management game appeared first on Management 3.0.

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What It Means to Lead Remotely

Kevin Eikenberry

For the last several years I have led team members who worked elsewhere. And as time as passed my team has become bigger and more scattered; so this subject isn’t academic or theoretical to me, but rather it is the reality I live. And I know I am not alone. If this isn’t your reality […]. The post What It Means to Lead Remotely 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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Can Rules Change Corporate Culture?

LSA Global

If only corporate culture change could be accomplished through simply establishing a “few rules.” Unfortunately, effecting real organizational culture change, just as succeeding at real behavior change, is not easy. It takes far more than dictates from on high. The recent attempt in France to cut down the time employees are spending (or wasting) on reviewing and answering emails provides an interesting example.

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The Most Dangerous Lies are the Ones We Whisper in our own Ears

Leadership Freak

The danger of self-deception is it feels helpful while it blocks growth. It’s surprisingly easy to feed ourselves a line bull while demonizing dissenters, rejecting disconfirming realities, and affirming ourselves.

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The Top Five Things to Look for in Potential Leaders

Leadership Freak

Character and skill are essential for remarkable success, but not enough. Successful leaders develop others. But who? The top 5 things to look for in potential leaders: #1. Stubbornness.

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Solving Three Reasons Talent Leaves Your Company

Leadership Freak

New Giveaway!! 20 free copies!! Leave a comment on this guest post by Becky Robinson to become eligible to win one of twenty complimentary copies of, Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work and What Does.

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Cracking the Doer-Dreamer-Feeler Code

Leadership Freak

Everyone is primarily a doer, dreamer, or feeler. Everyone is all three, but you’re great in one area, average in another, and weak in the third. Choose: Choose your primary lens.

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How Doers Derail Teams and Halt Progress

Leadership Freak

Whatever you do, don’t add a doer to a project that’s 25% done.* You might think they’d get the ball rolling. Instead they send teams into tailspins.

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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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Making Feedback Clear

Kevin Eikenberry

There is an interactive exercise that I often do with groups of leaders where we work together to compile a list of ideas for how to make feedback more successful. And there is one idea that makes the list just about every time: Feedback needs to be clear. I completely agree and today I am […]. The post Making Feedback Clear appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The New KevinEikenberry.com

Kevin Eikenberry

KevinEikenberry.com has existed since 2004. Today it is reborn (with the third major redesign since the beginning). The site is lovely, functional, and overall we think it is pretty great, but I don’t want to talk about it like a father talks about a new baby (“Did I show you this picture? What about this […]. The post The New KevinEikenberry.com appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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5 Steps to Hiring the Right Talent

LSA Global

As you purposefully build your company and your corporate culture, selecting the right talent—the talent that fits the job and your organization—is critical. Fortunately, done right, the selection process is far more rational and strategic than the blindfolded method in the cartoon above. Make these five steps part of your talent management process to hire talent that fits : Conduct a Job Analysis.

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Strategy for Success—Why Growth Is Not an Option

LSA Global

Can you think of any strategy for business success that does not depend upon growth? Whether you consider it a leading indicator of organizational performance, or a lever for change, or a lagging outcome, growth is what signals, supports and reflects success. And it is more than that…it is the living force behind what attracts high performing talent, brand name strategic partners and desirable target customers.

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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.