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How Leaders Can Prepare for Crisis

Kevin Eikenberry

Of all the things that might keep leaders up at night, dealing with a crisis is near the top of the list. Seldom do people feel comfortable with crisis leadership until they have been through at least one crisis successfully. While trial and error can be a fine way to learn many things, crisis leadership […]. The post How Leaders Can Prepare for Crisis appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The Best Predictor of Leadership Strength

Leadership Freak

In his book, Claudio Fernandex-Aaroz* writes, “… the four key leadership assets common to all high-potential executives: Curiosity. Insight. Engagement. Determination.

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Long Range Planning

GMC

, Kindergarten. Last week was a long range planning week. As a corporate board, we approved long term financing for an acquisition. We led our hospital client’s philanthropy and master planning to build a new facility by 2030. Another client hired a CEO who hopefully will be in the saddle for a decade or more. Then on the weekend there was a birthday party for a six-year old niece.

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Meet The Coach: Sunny Dhillon

Agile42

Q: How did you first start your agile path and end up coaching with agile42? In 2000, I began my career as a software developer working in investment banking. I wanted to create software that would make a positive impact on people’s lives. However, my frustration grew as I found myself building features that would either be cancelled or not be used because customers no longer saw the value.

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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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A Lesson in Vulnerability – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

In this episode, I am really practicing what I preach by being personally vulnerable and sharing some valuable lessons that leaders can learn when they open themselves up to others and are truly vulnerable. Tweet it out: The leaders willing to be vulnerable are those others choose to follow. @KevinEikenberry. The post A Lesson in Vulnerability – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Caught with Their Pants Down

Leadership Freak

Some of the world’s great leaders emerge from the world of religion. I’m fascinated by a story that took place in the lakeside community of Capernaum sometime around 30 AD.

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Exploring Job Titles: Would A Role By Any Other Name Smell As Sweet?

15Five

What’s in a name? What do the names we take on—whether for our own identification, our job titles, or the description of our roles at work —say about us? Do they accurately reflect what we do and who we are? If not, how do they influence our self-identity and how others see us? In a world gone mad socially and politically , identity plays more of a role now than ever before.

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Corporate Employee Benefits at ZERO cost

Vantage Circle

Employee Benefits are those benefits that an employee receives by virtue of being a part of an organization. These are benefits or perks which lie outside the monetary compensation of a company and have traditionally been limited to insurance, provident fund, etc. But all these are methods which have been done and dusted with. With the workforce employing a large number of diverse employees today, it has become extremely important that an all-inclusive employee benefits program, catering to the

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10 Signs Ego Hinders Your Success

Leadership Freak

A big ego thinks the problem is someone else. Ten signs ego hinders your success Ego: Over-values itself and under-values the team. Feels nagging frustration with others but satisfaction with itself.

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Are You Chasing the Wrong Customers?

LSA Global

The Wrong Customers Waste Time, Money and Energy. New salespeople are so eager to show a robust pipeline and close deals that they often find themselves chasing the wrong customers. They mistakenly make pitches to anyone who will listen. Conversely, high performing sales reps ruthlessly focus on target customers where they know they will win the majority of the time.

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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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How to Become a Big League Leader

Leadership Freak

Little League Leaders are pretty. Big League Leaders walk with a limp. Little League cp. Big League: Knocked down: You don’t know what you’re made of when you’re a Little League Leader.

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Aspirin for Asthma

Leadership Freak

The path to success is paved with systems. The alternative is band-aids and aspirins. Aspirin is great for minor headaches but doesn’t help asthma. In a few people, aspirin makes asthma worse.

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The Committee to Eliminate Committees (CTEC)

Leadership Freak

A camel is a horse designed by a committee. Camels are awesome but they’re a poor substitute for horses. A horse designed by a committee solves too many problems.

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Praise, Ability, and Sucking the Life out of People

Leadership Freak

Praise is informed by the maturity and ability of those being praised. Shoe tying: Imagine little Mary successfully tying her shoe for the first time.

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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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You Feel Things Your Team Shouldn’t Know About

Leadership Freak

Anyone with an ounce of responsibility knows “Express Yourself” is poppycock. Leadership requires emotional control.

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Are you Brave Enough to Be Dumb

Leadership Freak

The courage to ‘not know’ may be the greatest leadership courage of all.

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15 Ways to Know Your CEO is Worthy of Being Followed

Leadership Freak

Nothing useful ever happens when a disconnected high-and-mighty leader shows up for a visit.

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Do Not Underestimate the Importance of Non-Technical Skills

LSA Global

The Importance of Non-Technical Skills. Don’t make the mistake of underestimating the importance of non-technical skills — even in this high-tech world. The lone artisan working at his bench is more and more rare. Businesses these days increasingly achieve their objectives by relying on diverse and dispersed teams of workers. Technical Skills Form the Foundation.

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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.