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4 Tips For Transitioning Your Teams To Remote Work

15Five

There are many reasons to shift to a remote team. For some employers it’s a way of life; they’ve found that providing a remote option gives them the flexibility to hire and retain the best people without limiting themselves to a geographical area. For others, the decision to offer a distributed work option is a response to a temporary situation—today that’s a health scare, but it could be something as common as a power outage. .

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Maura Nevel Thomas | Why Attention Management Is Critical To Productivity

Tanveer Nasser

It's become a reality of today's workplace that many of us feel swamped with demands on both our time and attention. But is the problem less a question of how we manage our time and more about how to better manage what we pay attention to? That's the idea I'll be exploring further with international speaker and trainer Maura Nevel Thomas in this episode of “Leadership Biz Cafe”.

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How to Talk with Anxious People

Leadership Freak

COVID-19 is a global pandemic according to Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the General-Director of the World Health Organization. (3/11/2020) How to talk with anxious people: #1.

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The Top 5 Articles for Those New to Remote Work

Liquid Planner Collaboration

In response to the ever-growing threat of COVID-19, many companies around the globe are asking employees to transition from full-time in-office to full-time remote. And while not every person’s job function is able to accommodate the switch, those in roles that can have largely (and rapidly) adopted this practice as their new normal. At first glance, being remote for an extended period of time sounds great — you can get your laundry done while you work, get more one-on-one time with your p

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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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5 Winning Tips to Retain Millennials

Vantage Circle

Let me ask you a question. If there was a generation war happening in the workplace, which generation do you see having the best chance for the win? If you ask me, I’d go with Millennials. They’re becoming the largest age group in the global workforce, gradually replacing previous generations on positions of all kinds. But the quantity isn’t the main reason why they should be winners.

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Growing great upcoming ScrumMasters

Agile42

At the end of January, I ran a Certified ScrumMaster class for students at the IT University of Copenhagen. My colleagues in Finland have been in touch for a couple of years with Maria Paasivara , working as an adjunct professor at Aalto University in Helsinki and researcher in multiple subjects including globally distributed software development, distributed agile development and software project management.

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5 Tech Tools That Are Changing The World of Remote Work

15Five

Some organizations think even a temporary shift to remote work can be scary. Many leaders fear that employees will have difficulty staying focused on their daily duties, and the relationship between managers and employees can suffer. The reality is a remote team can have a ton of benefits if managed well. The transition to managing remote employees can be made easier with advances in technology and a belief that your employees will be just as productive, and maybe even more so when you give them

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6 Major Factors Affecting The Quality Of Work Life

Vantage Circle

While the phrase Quality Of Work-Life is undoubtedly new for many, but it's impact on today's employee-centric world can't be overlooked. Quality of work-life or QWL can be defined as the total quality of an employee's work-life at an organization. Not only QWE is tied to happier employees but also better business results. When the quality of work-life is stable, productivity is bound to increase.

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Upcoming webinar: Leadership Behaviors

Agile42

In your organization, are you looking to attract the ‘natural born leaders’ to get the right results? Or are you ready to grow leadership capability from within your organization? The ORGANIC Leadership framework describes six distinct leadership behaviors and how they relate to personal attitudes, situational awareness, organizational culture, and emotional intelligence capabilities.

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6 Reasons Egotistical Leaders are Exhausted

Leadership Freak

Egotistical leadership is exhausting. But there’s a reservoir of energy for leaders who practice humility. Humility is expansive and vibrant. Ego is restrictive and grim. 6 reasons egotistical leaders are exhausted: #1.

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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 Servant Leadership Online Summit

Kevin Eikenberry

Whether you are a fan and believer of servant leadership or have heard the phrase and would like to learn more, I have a tremendous opportunity for you. Imagine having the chance to learn from some of the greatest luminaries of leadership thinking, CEOs of top companies, and more, all for free from the comfort […]. The post The Servant Leadership Online Summit appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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How to Select the Right Employee Rewards Program for your Organization?

Vantage Circle

Workplaces are going through a dynamic transformation. And with the changing scenario, HR functions are evolving massively. It is pivotal to create a more employee-centric work environment. One where the needs of the employees take the center stage. We cannot talk about building employee engagement without having an effective Rewards and Recognition program in place. 26% of employees ranked recognition for their work in their top three factors for staying with their current employer. 17% of empl

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Our “Guide to Managing Remote Teams” is now free

Know Your Team

We’re giving away our “ Guide to Managing Remote Teams ” for free – it’s 60+ pages of best practices for managing remote teams, based on data from 297 remote managers and employees. Sheesh, it’s been quite the week, hasn’t it? I’ve gotten numerous questions about managing remote teams, as more folks are transitioning to work from home for the first time.

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How to End Meetings Like a Pro

Leadership Freak

Please cancel the meeting if you aren’t prepared. 4 meeting commitments: Respect time. Strengthen connection. Maximize talent. Do stuff. (Do things that are best done with others.

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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 Power of Trust – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

I could simply tell you that trust is powerful and as a leader, you would likely very quickly agree with that statement. But to make my point even stronger, I am going to give three very specific reasons WHY trust is so powerful. Tweet it out: Trust is an accelerant to success and a lubricant […]. The post The Power of Trust – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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10 Actions that can Destroy Your Team’s Motivation

Vantage Circle

Managing a team is not the easiest task when it comes to business management. After all, there are usually quite a few people that you have to look after and ensure that everything is working properly and everyone is doing their respective job. If you want everything to go well, you will want to avoid these ten ways to destroy your team’s motivation. 1.

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Top 8 Lessons in Giving Feedback from AMA with Anna Carroll, author, feedback coach, and speaker

Know Your Team

As author, feedback coach, and speaker, Anna shared her expertise and lessons in giving feedback in our leadership community, The Watercooler. Every month, we invite one of the 1,000+ managers who are a part of our leadership community in Know Your Team , The Watercooler , from all over the world to participate in an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session.

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Secrets of Emotional Contagion

Leadership Freak

Emotion is contagious. Stressed leaders have stressed teams. Angry leaders are surrounded by anxiety. You care about the way work feels because: Motivation is a feeling. Momentum is a feeling.

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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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Planning Overcomes Panic: How to Prepare for More People Working from Home Due to the Coronavirus

Kevin Eikenberry

Coronavirus. The word strikes fear when we are ill-informed or thinking about preparation. But once we begin thinking through the organizational implications of our coronavirus planning, we will begin to settle down, build and work that plan. Here are some suggestions for leaders on where to start. Where to Start Your coronavirus planning has three […].

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Leader in Supply Chain Managed Services | Accenture

Accenture

Accenture recognized as a leader in supply chain management BPO services by Everest Group in 2020.

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Top Learning and Development Mistakes to Avoid

LSA Global

Learning and Development Mistakes. Corporate Learning and Development has come a long way but still has far to go. We’ve learned that there is such a thing as the “forgetting curve” that tells us that if new information isn’t applied, 75% of it will be forgotten in only six days. And despite spending almost $360 billion (yes, with a “b”) globally on corporate training, most learning and development functions struggle to change on-the-job behavior and performance.

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15 Reasons Positive Leaders Seem Negative

Leadership Freak

Negative leaders look in the mirror and see someone who cares. There are “good” reasons for negativity. You’re negative because… Some babies come out smiling and some come like Eeyore.

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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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Your organization is becoming Agile. Don’t forget about the culture!

Management30 Agile and Lean Principles

by Management 3.0 Facilitator Limor Halfon This week I spoke about Management 3.0 to the Agile community in Israel. It is amazing how this great community was anxious to deepen their Agile experience. What was even more amazing was the evolution of the understanding of management’s role in an Agile implementation. And it was clearly. The post Your organization is becoming Agile.

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Research Reveals 3 Practices of Elite Execution

Leadership Freak

NEW BOOK GIVEAWAY!! 20 copies available!!