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Why Managers Need To Be More Vulnerable And Authentic To Give Effective Employee Feedback

15Five

Employee feedback should be simple. Just speak with your employees, right? Not exactly. Most managers are afraid to communicate with employees and for good reason. Research shows that feedback interventions can often backfire and more than one-third of feedback conversations actually decrease performance. As a manager, giving feedback is something you will probably do as the most frequent part of any continuous performance management process.

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Three Ways to Identify Manipulative Listening Tactics

Leadership Freak

Manipulative listening undermines leadership. Three ways to spot manipulative listeners Manipulators listen… #1. To protect status. If they speak, they may reveal ignorance.

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Top 7 Traits of Successful Sales Managers

LSA Global

The Pressure to Succeed. Wouldn’t it be nice to know the traits of successful sales managers? Sales managers have an awesome responsibility. They must motivate their team to achieve very concrete sales targets and do so under the constant pressure of executives who are impatient with excuses and for whom failure is no option. The Job of a Sales Manager.

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How to Hire Remote Rockstars

Kevin Eikenberry

More and more people are working remotely at least some of the time. A study from the freelancing website Upwork reports that nearly two-thirds of companies have remote workers. Put those facts together and it is clear – if you don’t have any remote workers now, you likely will soon. Even more likely than that is […]. The post How to Hire Remote Rockstars 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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Josh Bersin on the Importance of Talent Management in the Modern Workplace

BetterUp

Josh Bersin, Founder and Principal of Bersin by Deloitte, recently spoke at BetterUp Shift 2018 , an event which brought together the most innovative leaders and thinkers in HR and people development to discuss how to infuse greater meaning into the employee experience. In this exclusive recap of his presentation, Bersin shares his insights on how the world of work is changing, as well as where HR will fit in.

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7 Responses that Defeat Manipulators

Leadership Freak

Manipulators create and exploit vulnerabilities for personal advantage. One manipulator bragged how she could cut people without them knowing it. 3 marks of manipulators: #1. Want you to feel obliged or inadequate.

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Before the Boiling Point – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

Today I’m using a metaphor with boiling water that provides concrete and easy tips to help leaders remain calm and collected so that they can better communicate with and lead their team. Tweet it out: You can’t influence when you are boiling hot. Keep the heat turned down just a bit if you want better […]. The post Before the Boiling Point – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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How to Throw Someone In the Deep End of the Pool

Leadership Freak

Coddling is degrading because it tells people they’re incompetent. Pampering devalues strength. Over-protection is rejection. Stretch yourself if you want to grow.

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Three Leadership Quotes from the Movie Black Panther

Leadership Freak

We just watched the movie Black Panther. Frankly, I thought it was ho hum. Maybe because I was comparing it to Wonder Woman which rocked.

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The Leader Who Heard

Leadership Freak

Wouldn’t you love for someone to listen to you? Why not be that person for others? 5 reasons leaders have closed ears: No aspiration to listen.

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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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Leadership Freak Reading List for March

Leadership Freak

“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” Harry S. Truman I’m currently two thirds the way through The Education of a Coach by David Halberstam.

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How to Survive an Ambush After the Meeting

Leadership Freak

Your team just made an important decision. You think everyone left the meeting ready to go. But Barney sticks his head in the door and asks, “Got a minute?

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Mary Poppins Was Wrong About a Spoonful of Sugar

Leadership Freak

Mary Poppins was wrong. It takes a truck-load of sugar to sweeten a spoonful of sour. Sour grows and intensifies apart from intervention.

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Creating Leadership Flex with Jane Hyun

Kevin Eikenberry

How can we leverage differences to achieve our business goals? The idea of diversity has been around for years and we need to move beyond that to succeed. Jane Hyun, author of Flex: The New Playbook for Managing Across Differences, discusses cultural fluency to navigate across groups. This is vital today as we have seen […]. The post Creating Leadership Flex with Jane Hyun appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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An Apology

Leadership Freak

Dear Leadership Freak Subscribers, I want you to have an opportunity to win a copy of Servant Leadership in Action: How You Can Achieve Great Relationships and Results.

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2 Popular Approaches to Cascade Corporate Strategies

LSA Global

Simple, Clear Strategies Work Best. Complex businesses like the one diagrammed on the board above require complex strategies, right? Wrong. To effectively cascade corporate strategies throughout an organization, they must be easily understood, clearly stated, and embraced by all employees. The Key for Leaders to Cascade Corporate Strategies. Our organizational alignment research found strategic clarity accounts for up to 31% of the difference between high and low performing organizations.

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Accelerate Culture Change by Leveraging Your Strengths

LSA Global

To Accelerate Culture Change, Focus on the Strengths of Your Culture. Unless you have a systemic culture problem that threatens the very existence of your business, we advise our clients to focus on what’s right with their culture rather than what’s wrong if they want to accelerate culture change. In our over twenty years of helping clients transform their corporate culture , we have found that when companies focus less on what’s toxic in their culture and more on what’s healthy, they are able t

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A Servant Leader’s Heart and Habits by Ken Blanchard

Leadership Freak

A book giveaway!! 20 complimentary copies available.

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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.