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Wanda Wallace | How To Lead Employees Who Know More Than You

Tanveer Nasser

In today's increasingly complex workplaces, leaders need to be experts who can make the best decisions for their team. But how do you succeed at leadership over areas where your expertise is limited? That's what I'll be asking my guest, Wanda Wallace, in this episode of Leadership Biz Cafe. Wanda is the managing partner of Leadership Forum, where she coaches leaders and works with teams to improve leadership capability.

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Developing a High-Performance Culture

Vantage Circle

An organization is defined by the culture they have and the ideals they follow. Every organization has its version of culture and ideologies. But the question is, does your company culture reflect your core values? And can it be considered a high-performance culture? If your organizational culture does not influence your employees to perform better and deliver high-performance, then it might be time to improve and think about it.

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Your Team Needs 1-on-1s, Now More Than Ever

15Five

Friends, we are in unprecedented times. If I’d written this post in March, when the COVID-19 pandemic first hit the U.S. hard and many companies suddenly pivoted to having employees work from home, that statement would have been true. If I’d said this in April when we first started seeing the toll businesses and employees faced in bankruptcies and historic unemployment, it would have been true.

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How to Effectively Engage With Multiple Project Stakeholders

Liquid Planner Collaboration

“Dear Elizabeth: I work with a difficult stakeholder population – there are a lot of them. My project has over a thousand people affected by the change my project is delivering, in multiple geographic locations. I know I should be doing stakeholder engagement and creating plans to work with them, but how do you get the one on one contacts with such a large group?”.

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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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What Are You Attracting? – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

You’ve likely heard of the Law of Attraction. In short, the basic idea is that our thoughts turn into things eventually. The idea is that we are like human magnets – always attracting something. Not everyone agrees with this principle and the principle often leaves out an important part – the fact that thinking alone, […]. The post What Are You Attracting?

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10 Admirable Qualities Of A Good Employee

Vantage Circle

There is no dearth of talents in today’s scenario. Every person has a better skill set than the next. Hiring has become extremely complex and competitive, to say the least. So, what qualities of a good employee should you look out for when you hire employees? An ideal employee would be the one who fits in your company culture as well as the core values that your organization represents.

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Diagnosing and changing organizational culture

Agile42

By Konrad Pogorzala. One of the main aspects of any agile transformation program is cultural change. During times of working from home it’s even more important than ever. . Based on the 1st ORGANIC agility principle, “Increase Cultural Awareness and Coherence”, the main challenge is how to understand your organizational culture and how to create coherence based on shared principles without losing diversity.

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When A Sprint Becomes a Marathon – Leading as the Lockdown Rolls On

Kevin Eikenberry

In the middle of March, your working world and the view from your “desk” may have changed drastically. Government officials (and perhaps your boss) decreed that the work would continue, but not in the office, and not closer than six feet apart. Suddenly, and nearly without warning, you were thrust into long-distance leadership. While a […]. The post When A Sprint Becomes a Marathon – Leading as the Lockdown Rolls On appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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6 Employment Personality Test Every Employer Must Know

Vantage Circle

When it comes to operational success, understanding individual employee personality is vital. It is because this helps an employer understand its workforce better. Knowing employee personalities allows managers to play to their strengths and maximize productivity. Also, It helps understand all the relevant traits of an employee affecting their work.

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My Black Friend Surprised Me with the Truth

Leadership Freak

I was shocked when a black friend told me she wasn’t welcomed in some stores in our town. This was years ago. I still don’t understand the realities of racism.

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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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Flipsnack Amplifies Communication And Transparency to Scale Culture Using 15Five

15Five

About Flipsnack. Founded in 2011, Flipsnack is an online page-flip catalog maker used by over one million people and organizations around the world to create interactive publications. Users are able to convert PDF files into page-flip catalogs, or design publications directly in Flipsnack by leveraging the hundreds of professionally designed catalog templates and an easy-to-use design tool in the platform.

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IN AWE: Rediscover Your CHILDLIKE WONDER to Unleash INSPIRATION, MEANING, and JOY

Kevin Eikenberry

Have you ever seen a child completely filled with wonder? Do you notice how they almost glow? If you think for a minute, you can remember what those moments where like for you, too. Childlike wonder creates a moment of complete presence and joy. According to John O’Leary’s new book, IN AWE: Rediscover Your CHILDLIKE […]. The post IN AWE: Rediscover Your CHILDLIKE WONDER to Unleash INSPIRATION, MEANING, and JOY appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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8 Tips On How To Have Difficult Conversations With Employees

Vantage Circle

Are your employees failing to produce results every month? Are they consistently late to work? Are they inappropriate in the workplace? Do they take more of your time? Or, do they need a lot of supervision? And yet, do they make mistakes regularly? Or are your employees having some issues with you and their coworkers? If you answered ' YES ' to one or more of the above questions, then the chances are that you, as a leader or manager, are stepping back from having a very needed conversation.

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How to Use Stress for Advantage when Making Decisions

Leadership Freak

“Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.” Nelson DeMille 3 ways to use stress for advantage: #1. Schedule decisions. Stress tells you to wait.

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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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If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it – Fix it anyway

Torben Rick Change Management

Is there something profoundly wrong with some of the basic assumptions about how change works? Two decades ago “about 70% of all change initiatives fail.” Today, according to global consulting firm BCG, organizations actually gotten worse at it: “75% of transformation efforts don’t deliver the hoped-for results.” The trouble is that although organizations recognize and […].

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To Scrum Or Not To Scrum

Agile42

By Regina Martins. I get many questions in my trainings, and one of the most common is when to use Scrum – usually preceded by utterances of “Scrum will never work in my team…” The wording of the question below comes from the Scrum Alliance Certified Team Coach (CTC) application. So this topic is relevant, and there is no one answer.

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Diversity and Inclusion in the Remote Workplace

Vantage Circle

Companies that embrace diversity and inclusion in all aspects of their business statistically outperform their peers. – Josh Bersin. In the professional scene, the importance of diversity and inclusion, popularly known as D&I, is gaining traction. By implementing D&I policies at all levels of the workforce, more and more businesses are focused on becoming diverse.

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Over Worked and Stressed Out

Leadership Freak

It’s not the work that stresses you out. It’s doing it alone. 15 Sources of stress for leaders: Incompetence. You’re flaying in water that’s too deep for your current abilities. Procrastination.

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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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Is Your Culture Helping or Hindering Your Strategy?

LSA Global

Time to Assess and Rethink How Work Gets Done – Is Your Culture Helping or Hindering Your Strategy? There is no question that the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed the world and the way we operate as individuals, as businesses, as countries. To slow down the spread of the virus, a global shift was required in the way we think, behave, and live our lives.

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How you could accelerate your facilitator journey

Agile42

By Mariet Visser. Years back when I sought out to work with teams, it was because I was convinced there must be a better way. A better way for us to approach doing the work. A better way that enabled us to openly share our thinking and ideas with one another. And ultimately a better way for us to navigate our way through problems and opportunities together.

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Keeping Track of Your Appointments While Working Remotely

Vantage Circle

Remote work was a trend and became an urgent need. The whole world was not ready to solve such several pressing issues at the same time, but the first wave of panic and uncertainty is already over. All that remains for us is to adapt and hire and interview potential candidates remotely. In this article, we will tell you how to keep your appointments in order, feel productive, and work from home.

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Are You Calling Me Old and Fat

Leadership Freak

NEW BOOK GIVEAWAY!! 20 copies available!!

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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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How to Charter a Change Leadership Team

LSA Global

Why Change Efforts Fail. Most large-scale change efforts do not achieve their objectives. The changes were either aborted before implementation, went awry as they began, or never realized the expected business results. Organizational change efforts typically fail because people tend to see change through eyes that are accustomed to business as usual, rather than through those of people who know how to be leaders of change.

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How to Align Middle Management with Strategy

LSA Global

Middle Management Needs to Be Deeply Engaged in Strategy Design and Planning. Our organizational alignment research found that strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performance. It also found that middle management plays a powerful role in getting strategically aligned. When managers are deeply engaged with a company’s strategic priorities, they report higher levels of confidence in where the company is headed and increased motivation to help execute the pla

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The Future of Work after Covid-19

Vantage Circle

The beginning of 2020 brought new aspirations for all. The start of a new decade kept us imagining how the future of work will turn up. With new technologies and trends coming every other day, our work-life has been evolving with time. But the sudden Covid-19 outbreak has shifted our work culture in ways that we never imagined. The whole dynamics and notion of work have taken a shift.