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5 Ways to Show Up Like a Leader and Build Culture Every Day

Leadership Freak

Isolation propagates arrogance in ourselves and confusion about others. The worst things leaders do is disconnect from the people around them.

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7 Ways to Be the Employee You Want to Have

Kevin Eikenberry

Anytime I am with leaders (which is most days), I will get asked some version of this question: “How do I get my team members (or a specific team member) to do x?” It is framed as a question about coaching, and is either asked from a genuinely curious perspective or from a semi-sarcastic, resigned-to-defeat […]. The post 7 Ways to Be the Employee You Want to Have appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Slideshare: How To Set Effective Quarterly Objectives In 2017

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What are your company’s top objectives for this year? How will each team contribute to those objectives every three months, and how will you measure the progress of employees over the course of every quarter? These are the questions that you must be answering to have effective, repeatable results at your organization. Otherwise you run the risk of employees glorifying busy or getting sh*t done , without making the desired impacts to your bottom line.

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4 Ways to Get Real with Weaknesses so You can Hire the Best People and Maximize Strengths

Leadership Freak

Everyone who’s remarkable at something is really lousy at many things. Don’t let this stop you from attempting great things, but keep it in mind the next time you’re frustrated with teammates. Highly technical people may be socially awkward. Leaders who deliver great results may be impatient and rude.

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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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Don’t Run with the Pack and Other Powerful Ways to Thrive in Organizational Life

Leadership Freak

Effective organizations enable us to harness each other’s strengths, but it ain’t easy working with others. #1. Don’t always run with the pack. You disappear if you always fall in line.

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How to Create Organizational Vitality and Be a Place Where People Love Coming to Work

Leadership Freak

People struggle and sink when environments feel like death. 7 signs your organization is sick: Low performers are protected. Anyone who isn’t growing, needs to go. Coach them up or out.

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3 Strategies that Minimize Hierarchy and Maximize Speed and Agility

Leadership Freak

Think of organizations as human bodies, not hierarchical pyramids. Bodies are agile. Pyramids house the dead. Organizational leaders try to increase speed and agility by removing layers from pyramids.

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A Leadership Kick in the Ass

Kevin Eikenberry

By Bill Treasurer Maybe you don’t love the title of the book. (For the record, the author got agreement from his mother to use the A-word. She said, “Let’s be honest, Bill, ass isn’t really much of a swear word.”) Whether you love his word choice, or not, it is hard to argue that most […]. The post A Leadership Kick in the Ass appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The Problem with Familiarity

Kevin Eikenberry

It might sound strange to say that there is a problem with familiarity – after all, establishing this helps us to work better together as a team, communicate better and have fewer conflicts. And yet…in the video below, I’m discussing how we have to be aware of familiarity and the pitfalls that we can fall […]. The post The Problem with Familiarity appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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