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Remote Leadership Doesn’t Mean Remote Control

Kevin Eikenberry

In 1964 the first remote control for a TV was created. Sometime after that, the TV watching experience changed forever. The remote made it easier to watch and control the television. Quite possibly earlier this year you created a remote team. You may not have wanted one, but here you are. And while the remote […]. The post Remote Leadership Doesn’t Mean Remote Control appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Intrapreneurs: The Rise Of The Organizational Innovators

Vantage Circle

There was a time when working in a 9 to 5 schedule was the norm for most employees. No , this is not an ancient times scenario but something as recent as two to three decades back. The employees in those days followed the instructions of their bosses to the T. They were hardly expected or encouraged to think and perform beyond their given scope of work.

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Prioritising with Cost of Delay

Agile42

By Niels Verdonk. This week the “Meet the Coach” webinar series delved into the interesting topic of “ Prioritising with Cost of Delay”. The presentation went really well and we had many people listening, once again. It makes us happy to see so many people returning to our webinars, with new faces joining all the time. We hope to see you all again soon!

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What if You Suck at Empathy – 7 Ways to Create an Empathy Advantage

Leadership Freak

Only 18% of people who’ve completed the CliftonStrengths assessment have Empathy in their top five. Which means most of us don’t respond with Empathy immediately, spontaneously and consistently.

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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 Routines Can Improve Your Life – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

Our subconscious minds are extremely powerful and when we build routines and habits, it allows us to capitalize on this part of our brain. In the video below, I will show you six incredible benefits we get when we flex our subconscious with routines and habits. Tweet it out: Recognize the value and power of […]. The post How Routines Can Improve Your Life – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Fun At Work: 6 Tips For Managers

Vantage Circle

The word fun is rarely ( if ever ) associated with a working environment. The idea behind it is that a workplace is a serious place where things get done. Nobody has got the time to have a little fun at work. It’s unprofessional, unproductive, and disruptive. Right? Well, not quite. For employees, having a fun work environment is an important variable that contributes to a great place to work.

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7 Signs You Let Others Control You During Emotional Turmoil

Leadership Freak

You must know yourself to manage yourself. Self-aware leaders choose how they show up. Low self-awareness means you can’t manage yourself with authenticity. Emotional turmoil seduces you into self-forgetfulness.

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Organisational culture and Why it matters

Agile42

By Joanne Perold. I noticed an article in the news the other day about the toxic culture in one of South Africa’s large organisations. The article was speaking about how that toxic culture was impacting the bottom line of the company. People were too scared to share and speak about problems, and so problems only came to light at the last minute. When this happens it makes problems much more difficult and expensive to fix.

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Organizational Culture and its Shift Post-Covid Crisis

Vantage Circle

Imagine yourself visiting a football game with your party wear or going to a fancy restaurant for dinner wearing your favorite jersey. Within a few minutes, people would start rolling eyes at you, and some may think you are demented and show empathy. This is how culture work. People have been trained to believe the norms and expected to act and behave in specific ways (based on culture).

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A Virtual Book Club to Help You Lead Virtually!

Kevin Eikenberry

Maybe you’ve been in a book club, or maybe due to the pandemic your book club has been cancelled. But have you ever been to a book club with the author(s) of the book? Now you can read a book, discuss and learn about it from others, and then ask questions of the authors. Introducing […]. The post A Virtual Book Club to Help You Lead Virtually!

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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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People will Remember How You Treated Them During COVID-19

Leadership Freak

A friend of mine got laid off last Friday. Clients in education are developing three plans for the fall of 2020, but most of their work could be irrelevant.

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Introducing Shout-outs ??: The easiest way to give positive recognition in the workplace.

Know Your Team

Positive recognition in the workplace doesn’t have to be sterile nor contrived. We’ve made it easy to do well (especially while remote). According to a 2015 Interact/Harris Poll with 1,000 employees, 63% of employees do not think their managers give positive recognition in the workplace. Ouch. Might you accidentally be one of those managers?

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Succession Planning: What Managers need to know and its Benefits

Vantage Circle

Replacing key employees has always been a major headache for organizations in the long run. New hires tend to lack the necessary skills, experience, or leadership qualities. This poses a significant setback and wastes precious time trying to find the ideal replacement. However, that would not have been the scenario if an organization had a proper and working succession planning programs.

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Change Management might be dead – Let’s go and have a nice funeral

Torben Rick Change Management

Change management is obsolete - Change management is broken - Change management isn't applicable anymore. Change Management might be dead, but dealing with change not, actually it has increased. The post Change Management might be dead – Let’s go and have a nice funeral appeared first on Torben Rick.

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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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How to Show Up When Emotion is Hot and Decisions Matter

Leadership Freak

Emotional heat tears things down. You resent a company policy, emotional heat complains about the entire company. You don’t like a team member, you undermine. A leader disappoints, you attack.

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How to recognize remote employees in a way that doesn’t feel artificial

Know Your Team

Yes, we know employee recognition is important. But how to recognize remote employees in a way that feels authentic? Here are 6 recommendations. While we’re all chatting through screens, typing on our keyboard, and shooting off emojis, you may be wondering how to recognize remote employees in a way that doesn’t feel as sterile or contrived as the mediums we use to communicate remotely.

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Talent management - How to recruit and retain your best employees

Vantage Circle

Perhaps there is no greater opportunity for companies to get clear answers to questions of talent management- What talent do we have? What talent do we need? How do we hire and retain the best talent during the Covid-19 crisis and going forward? Answering these questions would be fundamental to the existence of many companies across different industries.

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Returning to the (Electronic) Cottage

Mike Griffiths

This is not a post about rich people now able to visit their second homes after the lockdown—instead, a revisit of the concepts of decentralized work being the new way of undertaking projects. In 1980, Alvin Toffler’s book  The Third Wave  introduced the idea of “ The Electronic Cottage ” as the modern workplace when information technology allows more people to work from home or wherever they want.

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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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Dear Dan: Contacting Laid off Employees will Be Patronizing

Leadership Freak

My recommendation to keep in contact with laid off employees elicited the following response.

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A Great Hack to Increase Strategic Buy-in

LSA Global

Strategy Creation Stage. As you work to build a clear corporate strategy for success , make sure you do not get carried away with your potentially biased and untested ideas and avoid the need to increase strategic buy-in. While it is important to form a strategic hypothesis that outlines an early view of your most important strategic assumptions and bets, it is equally important to critically evaluate and test your strategic suppositions.

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The Key Aspects of HR Analytics

Vantage Circle

Data is everywhere. And where there is data there is analytics. Every field has its related analytics attached to it. But what isn’t obvious is that HR is one of the most data-rich and analytics intensive areas in the corporate world. So what is HR Analytics? HR analytics, also known as people analytics, talent analytics, or workforce analytics, deals with analyzing the day to day functioning and the problems of an organization.

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35 Best Quotes About Creativity To Inspire Employees

Vantage Circle

Creativity is a beautiful thing, but the actual process of producing something fresh and exciting is a difficult task. As employers and employees, we spend a lot of time thinking about creativity and about the problems and challenges that the future of work will bring to our profession. How exactly are we going to be creative? Which activities, factors, and behaviors will drive creativity?

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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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8 Guiding Principles to Develop Individual Change Capability

LSA Global

When to Develop Individual Change Capability. Organizations frequently wait too long before they tell their employees about proposed changes; so most people find out through the grapevine. Leaders often feel that if they tell people too soon they will lose productivity and divert attention from the task at hand. That is a mistake. First, people are already diverted by the uncertainty about what will happen.

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Exploring the differences between Leadership and Management

Vantage Circle

What is the difference between leadership and management? It's a topic that has been confusing us for years now. Some of us think both to be the same too. But they are not. Do you know how and do you care? Actually, we all should. In this episode, Sirish Kotipalli talks about the similarities and differences between leadership and management. Sirish Kotipalli is a diversified specialist with 20 years of experience and expertise in building and leading the Learning and Leadership Development Func

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