Sat.Jul 22, 2017 - Fri.Jul 28, 2017

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How to Confront Situations You Should Have Dealt with Sooner

Leadership Freak

If you think it’s difficult to have a tough conversation today, waiting makes it worse. Time makes elephants fat, complacent, and harder to confront. Patience: It’s not patient to tolerate poor performance.

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The Model Market Fit Threshold & What it Means for Your Growth Strategy

Brian Balfour

This is part five in a series about 4 Frameworks To Grow To $100M+. Subscribe to get the rest of the series. In the introduction to this series , I explained there are two types of companies: Tugboats, where growth feels like you have to put a ton of fuel in to get only a little speed out. Smooth sailors, where growth feels like wind is at your back.

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We Are Looking to Add to Our Team

Kevin Eikenberry

Currently we have one of those “good problems to have.” It is a problem because there is a gap. It is good, because it means we are growing. We are looking for two new members for our team. But we aren’t looking for just anyone. We have taken our time to determine and craft descriptions […]. The post We Are Looking to Add to Our Team appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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5 Tips for Better Talent Management

LSA Global

Better talent management matters. Recent research by Bersin found that organizations with highly effective talent management strategies achieve 26% more revenue per employee and have 41% low turnover. Our own organizational alignment research found that better talent management accounts for 29% of the difference between high and low performing companies in terms of revenue, profits and employee engagement.

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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 to Avoid Dangerous Questions and Become a Real Leader

Leadership Freak

Look for leaders with forward-facing curiosity. “The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong questions.

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Developing Your Team’s Natural Talents Through Strengths Based Leadership

15Five

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. ~African Proverb. Over 8,000 people take Gallup’s Strengths Finder Assessment every day. That’s 8,000 people who discover the top five strengths that they possess in four distinct categories; Executing , Influencing , Relationship Building , and Strategic Thinking. And each one of those 8,000 people is unique.

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How to Improve Your Project – Jump Start Your Project Team

LSA Global

Most leaders want to know how to improve your project. Wouldn’t you just love to give your project team a new burst of energy? Sometimes we just get tired of doing the same things the same way with the same results. Even if your latest project was a success, your project team may need a lift before tacking the next important project. Try some of the following project team leadership techniques created from project post mortem results to see if you can jump start your project and your project t

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CEOs On Average Have the Lowest EQ – Emotional Intelligence

Leadership Freak

“CEOs, on average, have the lowest EQ scores in the workplace.” However, CEO with the highest EQ scores outperform their low EQ colleagues. Emotional Intelligence 2.

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Company Culture Definition Through the Lens of Engagement

15Five

People love to talk about company culture. It’s a hot topic at networking events; a common question on “top company awards” applications; and a common inquiry from interviewees and new employees. But what is the true company culture definition? Does anyone actually know what they’re talking about? Have we been so mesmerized by the over-the-top cultures of Google and Facebook that we’re unsure how it applies to our own organizations?

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Remarkable TV: The Frequency of Feedback

Kevin Eikenberry

There is no doubt that we all need feedback to be successful. If we don’t know what we’re doing well, we can’t keep doing it. And conversely, if we don’t know what we’re doing wrong, we can’t correct it. In today’s video, I’m revealing the results of a recent survey we conducted on the frequency […].

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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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Succeeding with the Thin Line Between Stubborn and Persistent

Leadership Freak

There’s a thin line between stubborn and persistent. Successful leaders make decisions quickly* and change their mind reluctantly. But stubbornness refuses to consider alternatives. Stubbornness makes decisiveness a disaster. But success requires persistence.

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Pigs Don’t Lay Eggs but Leadership is Intervention

Leadership Freak

Apart from intervention, the past is the future. Past performance reflects future accomplishment. Past attitudes predict future interactions. Leadership is intervention. Intervention is: Disruption…Interruption…Interference.

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How to Make Peace with that Negative Voice in Your Head

Leadership Freak

Maybe you should stop fighting your inner critic. Hug her. Take him to coffee. Your inner critic speaks the truth he sees. Sometimes he’s right.

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Pessimists are Almost Right

Leadership Freak

Pessimistic leaders are almost right. They say, “I’m not a pessimist. I’m a realist.” Research shows that those who tip slightly toward pessimism have the clearest view of reality.

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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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CEOs On Average Have the Lowest EQ

Leadership Freak

“CEOs, on average, have the lowest EQ scores in the workplace.” However, CEOs with the highest EQ scores outperform their low EQ colleagues. Emotional Intelligence 2.

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Creating Happiness in the Workplace with Kris Boesch

Kevin Eikenberry

Company culture has become a bit of a buzzword and your culture does impact the bottom line. Today, Kevin is joined by Kris Boesch, CEO and founder of Choose People and author of Culture Works: How to Create Happiness in the Workplace. Kris shares her thoughts about culture and research surrounding why they chose to […]. The post Creating Happiness in the Workplace with Kris Boesch appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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