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The Dumb Idea Paradox: Why great ideas often start out by sounding dumb.

Andrew Chen

Am I just getting old? When I encounter a new product idea for the first time, I find myself asking: Is this idea dumb? Or am I just getting old? Early on, there’s often not much to judge it on besides the idea. Sometimes the idea sounds either dumb or trivial. But over the years, I’ve started to not try to judge too much, especially when it’s early.

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7 Intriguing Employee Engagement Trends for 2019

15Five

“What do you want to be when you grow up?”. A fireman! A rooster! (I actually said this.). As children, we were asked this question over and over again. Even now as adults we ask the same question to the kids in our lives. It could just be a way to humor ourselves with the adorable answers we get, but truly, even from a young age we understand that the career path we pursue becomes a strong part of our identity.

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Four Keys to Leading, Not Just Managing, Change

Kevin Eikenberry

Change is the currency of leadership. Stated another way, if leading change isn’t part of your skillset, you will never be the leader you could be. Yet far more is written about managing change than leading change. I want to talk about the difference and give you four ways to begin truly leading change in […]. The post Four Keys to Leading, Not Just Managing, Change appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Understanding and Utilizing Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace

Vantage Circle

What is Emotional Intelligence? Emotional Intelligence is the capability to identify, manage, evaluate and understand our own emotions and also of the people around us. The concept of emotional intelligence was introduced by psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer in 1990. The idea was generalized in 1995 by psychologist and author Daniel Goleman after the release of his book, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ.

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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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Everest Group’s Procurement PEAK Matrix™ Results | Accenture

Accenture

In this year’s report, based on Everest’s analysis of 16 providers’ performance during 2018, Accenture ranks as a leader and Star Performer for Market Impact and Vision & Capability.

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The Leaders We Remember

Leadership Freak

Everyone has a lousy leader story. If you’re a lousy leader, you won’t be forgotten. You intentionally recall positive memories, but negative memories come to you uninvited when you wake in the night.

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32 Company Outing Ideas To Strengthen The Bond Within Your Team

Vantage Circle

When was the last time you organized a team outing for your company? Was it one which encouraged everyone’s participation and involvement? Did it do well to build your team and improve the company culture ? The answers to those questions may vary from company to company but one thing cannot be ignored: the importance of great team building activities and outings.

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The Dumb Idea Paradox: Why great ideas often start out by sounding dumb.

Andrew Chen

Am I just getting old? When I encounter a new product idea for the first time, I find myself asking: Is this idea dumb? Or am I just getting old? Early on, there’s often not much to judge it on besides the idea. Sometimes the idea sounds either dumb or trivial. But over the years, I’ve started to not try to judge too much, especially when it’s early.

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My One Word of Advice – V3.1

Leadership Freak

The wise seek advice, but fools stand aloof. 5 principles for successful advice-giving: Rush to ask questions, not give answers. Explain the problem you’re solving before solving it.

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A Leadership Masterclass for You

Kevin Eikenberry

Developing leaders is one of the continual and vexing problems that organizations face. They know that better leaders can drive results, but they haven’t found the key to making organizational leadership development work. Maybe they’ve tried a few things that didn’t meet the expectations, and thus were abandoned. Or worse – maybe they don’t know […].

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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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Do You Have the Right Decision Making Culture?

LSA Global

Decision Making Culture. With the advancements in data analytics and artificial intelligence, more leaders are asking about the pros and cons of a fact-based vs. an intuition-based decision making culture. Why? Because it is the responsibility of leaders to build effective decision making capabilities throughout their organization. Defining Workplace Culture.

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The Impact of Bad Software on Employee Experience

15Five

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How to Become a Wise Sage

Leadership Freak

A wise sage has failed enough to be humble and succeeded enough to inspire confidence. The birth of a wise sage: You become a wise sage in the dark.

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Solving The Leadership Development Dilemma

BetterUp

by Dr. Damian Vaughn, Chief Programs Officer at BetterUp. Organizations today face a common challenge: they are struggling to develop leaders of tomorrow. The pace of change in business is head-spinning. Advanced technologies continue to reshape business models, customer and employee expectations, and entire industries—creating a complex and uncertain workplace.

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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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7 Field-Tested Ways to Make Employee Engagement Easier for Managers

LSA Global

Employee Engagement and Managers. Organizationally, higher levels of employee engagement correlate to 18% greater productivity, 12% higher customer satisfaction, and 51% less voluntary turnover. From a manager’s perspective, our employee engagement survey results tell us that higher employee engagement scores correlate to more discretionary effort, advocacy, and loyalty from their team.

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9 Sure Shot Ways To Reduce Employee Attrition

Vantage Circle

Table of Contents. The Employee Attrition Formula. Types of Attrition. How does attrition happen? Difference between Employee Attrition and Turnover. The Stats. The Cost of Attrition. How to Reduce Employee Attrition? Finally. An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager. -Bob Nelson. According to cambridge dictionary, "Attrition is the process of gradually making something weaker and destroying it." Employee attrition follows the same de

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4 Ways to Overcome the Deadly Traps of Managing

Leadership Freak

76% of employees did not want their boss’s job. (HBR) Most American workers are not aiming for the corner office.

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Solving the Leadership Development Dilemma

BetterUp

by Dr. Damian Vaughn, Chief Programs Officer at BetterUp. Organizations today face a common challenge: they are struggling to develop leaders of tomorrow. The pace of change in business is head-spinning. Advanced technologies continue to reshape business models, customer and employee expectations, and entire industries—creating a complex and uncertain workplace.

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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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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

Dear readers, Podcasting has been a slow burn, and has turned into a movement. 90 million Americans now listen to podcasts, and if your behavior is anything like mine, it’s turned into a multi-hour per week habit. I reach for my podcasts whenever I’m commuting, whenever I’m doing a long walk between offices, or if I’m doing random stuff around the house.

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3 Things a Sage Always Avoids

Leadership Freak

Sometimes being a sage is about what you DON’T do. #1. Don’t cast pearls before pigs. Never treat unmotivated learners the same as motivated.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis

Andrew Chen

Dear readers, Podcasting has been a slow burn, and has turned into a movement. 90 million Americans now listen to podcasts, and if your behavior is anything like mine, it’s turned into a multi-hour per week habit. I reach for my podcasts whenever I’m commuting, whenever I’m doing a long walk between offices, or if I’m doing random stuff around the house.