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Five Simple Steps for Organizational Success

Organizational Development Solutions

Does your business or organization have a clear organizational goal? Here are five simple steps to take your business to the next level. As CEO, Founder, or HR leader of a rapidly growing or transforming organization, do you wonder how to ensure your organization and team are thriving, meeting, or even exceeding goals? In this four-part series, we will be providing you a simple approach to assess what is working or standing in the way of truly moving the needle on high performance.

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How startups die from their addiction to paid marketing

Andrew Chen

[Originally tweetstormed at @andrewchen , Follow me for more!]. Many of the biggest implosions in recent history – especially ecommerce – have been due to startups getting addicted to paid marketing while fooling themselves on Customer Acqusition Costs. As spend scales, it always gets more expensive and harder to track – never less.

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Why Do Google and Apple Want You to Use Your Phone Less?

Nir Eyal

This week Apple follows Google by announcing features to help people cut back on their tech use. Why would the companies that make your phone want you to use it less? If tech is “hijacking your brain” with their “irresistible” products, as some tech critics claim, why are these companies now acting against their own […]. The post Why Do Google and Apple Want You to Use Your Phone Less?

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6 Reasons Employees Don’t Talk to Their Managers

Leadership Freak

Employees talk more and managers talk less in successful one-on-ones. 6 reasons employees don’t talk to their managers: Cold professional culture. Caring happens outside work. Talkative managers. Curiosity about people is rare.

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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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How Leaders Can Support Remote Trust Building

Kevin Eikenberry

Trust is a critical factor to the success of teams. The more trust exists, the easier and faster the right work gets done. Building this trust on a remote team can be especially tricky, which is why remote leaders must know how to support remote trust building, with and among their team members. Here are […]. The post How Leaders Can Support Remote Trust Building appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Your Top Tips for Making a Big Decision

Mind Tools Problem Solving

What shall I have for lunch? Tuna or chicken sandwich? Easy. I prefer chicken, so chicken it is. Do I drive to the conference next week, or take the train? I’d have to get up crazy early to catch the train. On the other hand, I could get stuck in traffic if I drive. But the trains are often delayed, and I like driving. Still fairly easy: drive. Should I buy house X or house Y?

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How to Respond to an Angry Employee

Leadership Freak

Don’t ad lib when emotion is high. Prepare yourself to respond to an angry employee. Develop a plan. How to respond to an angry employee: #1. Emotion comes first.

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Article in Creditreform Magazine: Agility and organizational transformation

Agile42

Creditreform , the business magazine of the Handelsblatt publishing group, just published an article by Tanja Könemann on agility as a way to meet the demands of customers and the fast-paced modern marketplace. The article includes discussions with business leaders, CEOs, consulting experts, and an interview with Marion Eickmann, who explains how an agile transformation begins and progresses, and the role of leadership in changing organizational culture to achieve greater resilience.

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What I’ve Learned About Leading Remotely – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

Today is a special day at The Kevin Eikenberry Group: my newest book, The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for Remarkable Remote Leadership, is being released! And to celebrate this occasion, in today’s video, I am sharing some of my best ideas from the book for leaders (or future leaders) of remote teams. Tweet it out: Effectively […]. The post What I’ve Learned About Leading Remotely – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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3 Steps to Close the Strategy Execution Gap

LSA Global

It Is Important to Close the Strategy Execution Gap. To close the strategy execution gap in a meaningful way, leaders must agree upon and commit to a set of specific priorities focused on achieving clear goals. According to a recent survey of almost 600 senior global executives by Economist Intelligence Unit : 88% of executives consider successful strategy execution to be “very important” or “essential”.

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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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The Unexpected Way to Spot a Confident Leader

Leadership Freak

Humble listening is an aspiration achieved occasionally. But it’s exhausting. The ability to listen requires remarkable confidence. It takes confidence to: Adopt the posture of learner. Turn conversations toward others.

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Agile in Everywhere: Memories of a beginner-level Scrum servant

Agile42

“…but I still haven't found what I'm looking for…” Having worked in NGOs and development agencies for years, in my professional and academic work, I had always searched for a model, or an approach, which would help me organize myself. The classical to do tasks, project schedules and Gantt charts which I used with the belief that “this time it will make me a very organized and a very efficient person”, soon proved to be of limited use.

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What You Need to Know About The Long-Distance Leader Book Launch

Kevin Eikenberry

It is finally here. Tuesday, June 5 is the official publication date of The Long-Distance Leader. After years of working with remote leaders and leading remotely myself, and months of writing, editing, and preparation, The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for Remarkable Remote Leadership will soon be in your hands. But only when you order a copy […].

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Top Employee Engagement Trends for 2018

LSA Global

Top Employee Engagement Trends for 2018. These Top Employee Engagement Trends for 2018 are based on the employee engagement surveys from nearly 50 Best Places to Work contests, this comprehensive report is the one and only of its kind, examining employee engagement and culture trends at America’s top workplaces. This year’s study aggregates responses from more than 600,000 employees from 8,000+ organizations across America.

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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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I Wasn’t Very Proud of My Feelings – Sir Edmund Hillary

Leadership Freak

“It is not the mountains we conquer but ourselves.” Sir Edmund Hillary On May 29, 1953 Sir Edmund Hillary conquered Mount Everest with his Sherpa friend and guide, Tenzin Norgay.

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6 Reasons that Make Corporate Employees the Ideal Target Audience for Brands

Vantage Circle

Defining the ideal Marketing persona for your brand is a job that is easier said than done. Hubspot defines Marketing Persona as fictional, generalized representations of your ideal customers. Personas help in marketing, sales, and relates to your ideal customers as real humans. There is only one winning strategy. It is to carefully define the target market and direct a superior offering to that target market. ~ Philip Kotler.

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Dear Dan: An Employee Yelled at Me

Leadership Freak

Dear Dan, I read your blog everyday and need some advice! I believe I am leading a narcissist.

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Slapped at the Hotel Front Desk

Leadership Freak

The elusiveness of humility slapped me in the face while I stood at the hotel’s front desk this morning. I left my key in the room.

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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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If Your Face Was on Money

Leadership Freak

Imagine having your face on money while you’re still alive.

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3 Ways to Make the Most of Difficult Feedback

Leadership Freak

New Book giveaway!! 20 complimentary copies available.

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How to Cultivate the Right Work Habits

LSA Global

Cultivate the Right Work Habits|. Organizations that align their talent with their strategy and culture outperform their peers. The ability to cultivate the right work habits, however, is much more complex than simple repetition over a period of time. The ability to cultivate the right work habits involves the desire to change, the opportunity to change, and being held accountable for change.

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How to Succeed at Corporate Change

LSA Global

Succeed at Corporate Change. Corporate change is not rocket science. In fact, to succeed at corporate change is mainly based on common sense…being clear about what employees have to gain, specifying the behaviors that will lead them to the desired end state, and providing frequent feedback on progress. But all too many organizations get bogged down by complicating things instead of creating clear and compelling reasons for change, a positive vision of the future, and how to realize it on a day

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha

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6 Reasons that make Corporate Employees the Ideal Target Audience for Brands

Vantage Circle

Defining the ideal Marketing persona for your brand is a job that is easier said than done. Hubspot defines Marketing Persona as fictional, generalized representations of your ideal customers. Personas help in marketing, sales, and relates to your ideal customers as real humans. There is only one winning strategy. It is to carefully define the target market and direct a superior offering to that target market. ~ Philip Kotler.

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The Four Children of Humility

Leadership Freak

Let’s be honest. You don’t need to be humble to earn money, position, power, even admiration. Arrogant leaders “succeed” Think of Donald Trump, Kanye West, and Kim Kardashian. (I Googled “arrogant celebrities.