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How to Trigger Product Usage that Sticks

Nir Eyal

Nir’s Note: This guest post is by Janet Choi, Senior Manager of Product Marketing and Content at Customer.io Meditation, like any healthy habit, takes repetition to stick. But while the folks behind Calm, a meditation and mindfulness app, knew their product’s core value was helping people to learn and build a meditation practice—initially they didn’t put […].

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How to Listen Like a Leader

Leadership Freak

Listening like a leader enables you to make the world about others. An outward mindset precedes leadership. Get started: Take out a pen and paper. Write your responses to the questions that follow.

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How to Lead a Change You Don’t Agree With

Kevin Eikenberry

As a leader, change is part of your job description; it comes with the territory. And while leading change with others involved is always complex, in some situations, it seems almost impossible. Most people reading this are what I call a “manager in the middle” – you have a team that reports to […]. The post How to Lead a Change You Don’t Agree With appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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How To Foster A Thriving Team Via Better Meetings: An Interview With Mamie Kanfer Stewart

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Meetings are tricky things. Many people hate them, because they are considered boring or a waste of time. When done poorly, they can dissolve productivity and cost your company significantly. When they are done right, they can align the entire team around key objectives. Better meetings can facilitate innovation and improve your organizational culture.

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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 Trigger Product Usage that Sticks

Nir Eyal

Nir’s Note: This guest post is by Janet Choi, Senior Manager of Product Marketing and Content at Customer.io Meditation, like any healthy habit, takes repetition to stick. But while the folks behind Calm, a meditation and mindfulness app, knew their product’s core value was helping people to learn and build a meditation practice—initially they didn’t put […] The post How to Trigger Product Usage that Sticks appeared first on Nir and Far.

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The Power of the Leader’s Calling

Leadership Freak

Goals and strategies are useful, but nothing trumps calling. Leadership is the calling to bring your best self in service to others. Define success in terms of personal excellence, not results.

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2 Must-Have Keys to Engaging Employees

LSA Global

Keys to Engaging Employees. Lots of leaders and managers talk a good game when the subject of improving employee engagement comes up, but how many are really serious about putting in the time and effort to make sure it happens? The Definition of Employee Engagement. Simply put, engaged employees advocate for their company, give more discretionary effort and intend to stay at the company.

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An Amazingly Practical Approach to Practicing a Growth Mindset

Leadership Freak

Without exception, growth is a lifelong process for all successful leaders. You may be mature in a few areas of leadership, but we’re all infants in many. Community: Growth requires community.

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How to Create the Perfect Organizational Culture

Leadership Freak

The future of organizations is determined by the ways we choose to relate to each other. Imagine: It helps to know where you want to go before you start down the path.

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7 Ways to Say, “No,” When It’s Easier to Say, “Yes”

Leadership Freak

Tough and mean are two different things. Mean is uncaring. You don’t have to choose between a caring heart and tough decision. 7 Ways to say, “No.” #1. Declare good intentions.

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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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Feeling Like Myself Again

Leadership Freak

A leader told me he was learning a lot. I ask, “What are you learning?” He couldn’t name one thing. If don’t know what you’re learning, you aren’t learning.

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Having a Great Handshake

Kevin Eikenberry

A handshake has way more significance that you might think. It’s often the first impression that people have of you and it is communicating a lot. In today’s video, I’m giving you a few pointers (pun intended?) to make sure that your handshake is saying what you want it to say. Tweet it out: Your […]. The post Having a Great Handshake appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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A New Resource for New Supervisors

Kevin Eikenberry

In 2010, we created a workshop and started working with new supervisors and leaders, helping them to be more successful in the transition into a leadership role. In 2011, our book From Bud to Boss was released. Since then, both the workshops and the book have helped thousands of leaders realize what skills to build […]. The post A New Resource for New Supervisors appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Behavior Change Theory – Choosing Between “Must” and “Want”

LSA Global

Thinking About Behavior Change Theory. Which are you more likely to choose…spending your time on something you are told to do or on something you want to do? Easy, right? Of course, we would go for what we want to do rather than for what feels like an obligation. Basic Human Nature. It’s basic human nature to avoid something painful and to want something pleasurable.

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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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The 5 Top Sales Techniques that Matter Most

LSA Global

What Are the Top Sales Techniques? As a sales leader, this is the question you should be asking…what are the traits and behaviors that distinguish top solution sellers from average producers? Once you have the answer and act upon it as you recruit, hire and develop your sales force, you can boost sales significantly. Five of the Top Sales Techniques.

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