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Three Reasons Why Small Things Make a Big Difference

Kevin Eikenberry

You’ve heard, and probably said, “Don’t sweat the small stuff.” While there is some truth in that statement, the sentiment can be very harmful if we don’t consider small things in the right context. Let me start by telling you a story… According to James Kerr in his book Legacy, about the leadership lessons from […]. The post Three Reasons Why Small Things Make a Big Difference appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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How Visionary Leaders Lead: An Interview With Bonnie Hagemann

15Five

Today’s leaders face a more chaotic business environment than ever before. To survive, businesses must be agile while still moving toward a long-term vision. They must compete while adjusting to ever-changing technologies and increasing customer and employee expectations. How do visionary leaders succeed and help their employees move forward in this state of constant uncertainty?

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The One Behavior that Most Advances Your Leadership

Leadership Freak

Seeking feedback is at the top of the biggest leadership failures. (The Leadership Challenge) Everytime I’m asked about giving feedback, I ask, “What are you doing to seek feedback?

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6 Tips for New Managers to be More Open to Feedback

LSA Global

There’s a Need for New Managers to be More Open to Feedback? Few people seek out and enjoy receiving negative feedback from their coworkers. We all want to hear the positive – how great we are at what we do. But think of it differently. Wouldn’t you like to get better at your job? Wouldn’t you like your new managers to be more open to feedback even if the feedback points out what is not working well?

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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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Use Wisely Your Power of Choice – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

I am sharing a lesson today from one of my favorite books by Og Mandino, The Greatest Miracle in the World. In this great book, there is an incredibly powerful sentence that all leaders can learn from: Use wisely your power of choice. Watch the video below to learn how you can use this power […]. The post Use Wisely Your Power of Choice – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Article in Harvard Business manager: sipgate’s agile transformation

Agile42

Harvard Business manager, the German edition of the Harvard Business Review, published in its August edition an article by Tim Mois, the CEO of our client sipgate , on how his company confronted its “Black Hole”, learned about Scrum, and with the help of agile42 wholeheartedly embraced an agile way of working that they are now modelling for others.

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4 Field-tested Steps for Better Sales Planning

LSA Global

High Performance Sales Needs High Performance Sales Planning. If you want better sales performance, you need better sales planning. The goal for most sales teams is pretty straightforward – grow profitable sales. To grow profitably however, takes more than wishful thinking. It takes a clear go to market sales strategy combined with a sales plan to make it happen. 4 Steps for Better Sales Planning.

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Coaching With Confidence – a Complimentary Webinar

Kevin Eikenberry

Confidence can help you be more effective at anything you do. Some consider it a chicken and egg thing – does the confidence lead to the success, or does past success build confidence? The answer, of course, is yes. You don’t need research to prove that when your confidence is higher, you will generally be […]. The post Coaching With Confidence – a Complimentary Webinar appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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5 Blind-spots that Sink Your Boat Pt. 2

Leadership Freak

A leader with blind-spots will one day realize that he/she is the reason for the holes in the boat. Everyone spends too much time bailing water when leaders have blind-spots.

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How to Navigate Collisions Between Leaders and Managers

Leadership Freak

Leaders change things. Managers stabilize things. Stagnant organizations need leadership. Chaotic organizations need management. Tension: Tension between change agents and stabilizers is inevitable, dynamic, potentially dangerous, and often useful.

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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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7 Dangers of Weakness and Why You Undervalue Your Strength

Leadership Freak

The illusion of competence is deadly to successful leadership. Experience, success, position, and power give you the deadly illusion that you are good at nearly everything.

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Shut Off Your Email and Turn On Your Webcam

Leadership Freak

New Book giveaway!! 20 complimentary copies available. Leave a comment on this guest post by Kevin Eikenberry and Wayne Turmel to become eligible to win one of TWENTY complimentary copies of “The Long-Distance Leader.

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The Badass Award and Other Ways to Make Hard Work Enjoyable

Leadership Freak

Hard work is more rewarding than easy work, but no one can give 100% effort 100% of the time. How to make hard work enjoyable: #1. Notice the extra mile.

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Permission to Be Engaged

Leadership Freak

I had a conversation with an introverted manager who was offered a challenging leadership role. It made his knees buckle, but he took it.

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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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5 Blind-Spots That Sink Your Boat

Leadership Freak

Blind-spots are like rowing a boat that’s full of holes, but you can’t find the holes. If you don’t see the holes in the boat, you’ll sink and wonder why.

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Seek Openness – Not Transparency

Leadership Freak

New Book giveaway!! 20 complimentary copies available. Leave a comment on this guest post by Edgar and Peter A.

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The Costs and Cures for Employee Burnout

LSA Global

Employee Burnout. Sometimes you just can’t run fast enough to keep up with the pace of the work. We call it employee burnout when the stress of your job seems overwhelming, and you just want to give up. You’re not at all alone. Job pressure and work overload combine to become the number one cause of stress in the U.S. The Costs. According to Harvard research, it is estimated that the cost to American businesses of employee burnout is up to $190 billion per year – not to mention the toll it tak