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How to Be Productive When You’re Overwhelmed

Liquid Planner Productivity

Has this ever happened to you? You’re having a perfectly good morning. A warm cup of coffee is in your hand, and you think you’ve got your workload under control when suddenly it hits you—. You actually have a small avalanche of prioritized work to get through within the next two weeks, and it doesn’t help that your to-do list is lengthening by the minute.

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How to Hold People Accountable with Compassion

Leadership Freak

Pushovers prolong helplessness, failure, and mediocrity. But compassionate-accountability fuels boldness, growth, and productivity. You demonstrate respect for people when you hold them accountable. Accountability says behaviors matter.

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People Managers:The Antidote to Employee Burnout

BetterUp

As employee burnout continues to rise in the workplace, many HR leaders are asking themselves: how do we stop it? According to a recent Gallup study , two-thirds of full-time workers are experiencing burnout on the job. The impact is considerable and costly, for both employees and businesses. . Employee burnout is hurting companies, from high turnover and absenteeism to a loss in productivity and quality of work.

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What Can You Control?

Kevin Eikenberry

Control is something we all want, and most leaders think a lot about control. Many of the big leadership questions revolve around control and who has it. Does control come from position? Are leaders exerting more control by micromanaging? And what about control and employee engagement? How you answer those questions, and a hundred others, […].

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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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Workplace Safety: Importance, Benefits, And Ways To Incorporate It

Vantage Circle

A work environment free from injuries and accidents attracts employees. Employees are more satisfied and productive in such an environment. A safe work environment is important for both employees and employers alike. It is the right of all employees to have safety in the workplace. Workplace safety is important regardless of the size of a company. All companies, big or small, need to incorporate safety in their workplaces.

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How to Thrive When You Feel The Sting of Unfairness

Leadership Freak

Unfairness abounds in organizational life. Your company merged with a competitor and your position was eliminated. You didn’t get the promotion. It’s not fair.

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Preparing Remote Leaders for Success

Kevin Eikenberry

Every day, more leaders are becoming remote leaders – whether it was intentional and planned or simply a fact of circumstance where they started working one day a work from home which lead to another which lead to another… The question isn’t whether this is happening or not, it’s what are we doing to prepare […]. The post Preparing Remote Leaders for Success appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Conducting Effective Employee Surveys

Vantage Circle

Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it. ? H. James Harrington. No matter what you do or how far you’ve come, there is always room for improvement. It’s 2019 and unless you’re living under a rock you understand that employee engagement is imperative for the growth of any business.

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I’m Successful Because I’ve Been Wrong

Leadership Freak

A leader explained, “One reason I’ve been successful this year is I’ve been wrong a lot.” One of the best ways to expand your leadership is by be wrong publicly.

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People Managers: The Antidote to Employee Burnout

BetterUp

As employee burnout continues to rise in the workplace, many HR leaders are asking themselves: how do we stop it? According to a recent Gallup study , two-thirds of full-time workers are experiencing burnout on the job. The impact is considerable and costly, for both employees and businesses. Employee burnout is hurting companies, from high turnover and absenteeism to a loss in productivity and quality of work.

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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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Demystifying Remote Leadership

Kevin Eikenberry

Leadership is complex enough without adding team members you rarely see. Whether we like it or not, remote teams and remote leadership is here to stay. The fact is fine, the real challenge is how do we do it well? That is the question Wayne Turmel, my co-author of The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for Remarkable […]. The post Demystifying Remote Leadership appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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7 Reasons Why Internal Communication is Important in the Workplace

Vantage Circle

What is Internal Communication? Internal communication is the process of exchanging information among the people of different level or internal members within the same organization. Today organizations pay a hefty amount on public relations and marketing to improve its external communication but fail to improve its internal communication. Like a human being , a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions. - Bill Gates.

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The Mirrors That Help You See Yourself

Leadership Freak

Ego sees others but not itself. Egoless is a silly myth. Ego serves leaders well when self-interest drives service. But ego has a dark side.

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2 Tips to Create a More Externally Focused Culture

LSA Global

Externally Focused Culture vs. Internally Focused. An important cultural dimension for many companies to define is the balance between having an internally or externally focused culture. We define workplace culture as how and why things truly get done in an organization. Depending upon your corporate strategy, sometimes it makes more sense to primarily focus on internal systems and processes (e.g.

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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 Major Objectives Of Performance Management

Vantage Circle

You are probably here to gain insights into the objectives of performance management. Then you might be aware of what performance management actually means. To the uninitiated, performance management is simply described as: “An ongoing process that seeks to continuously identify , measure and develop the performance of the workforce." Chances are that your organizational performance is not as good as it should have been.

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How to be a Great Pretender

Leadership Freak

The gap between your aspirational-self and your actual-self means pretending is part of the journey. But pretending in the wrong way damages your future. Beneficial pretending begins with your values.

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Most Common Interview Questions that You Need to Ask

Vantage Circle

What really does a company need to thrive amd become succesful? The answer is quite simple, great employees with caliber and potential. But it often becomes difficult for the HR managers to recruit top talents. There has been a significant rise of millennials joining the workforce. And there is a vast pool of candidates that possess exceptional skills and experience.

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How to Decrease Organizational Complexity

LSA Global

Decrease Organizational Complexity. Overly complex processes, procedures, and systems hamper organizational effectiveness and decrease employee engagement. To improve business performance and retain top talent, it is critical to make it easier to get the right work done in the right way. Unfortunately, a large number of companies waste time on simplifying complexities that are not the real culprits of making it difficult to get work dome in a way that makes sense.

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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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Workplace Orientation: What Does it Mean and its Purpose

Vantage Circle

It is always overwhelming to move to a new place and adjust to an unfamiliar environment. You have to adjust and adapt to your new surroundings and new people around you. You have to get accustomed to a new culture and make yourself familiar with the system. This often becomes time-consuming and very hard without any proper guide. So, what if a new employee is facing the same situation in an organization?

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50 Best Words of Appreciation for Employees You Can't Ignore

Vantage Circle

Many a time, you must have thought of appreciating your employees or co-workers for their excellent work. However, you decided to step back at the last minute because you didn’t know what to say or how to convey it. And also, finding the proper words of appreciation for employees isn’t a child's play, mainly because it's related to their emotions or the extra efforts which they put in their work every day.