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26 Simple Yet Awesome Welcome Messages for New Employees

Vantage Circle

Crafting welcome messages for new employees is a tedious task. They say, “You never get a second chance to make a first impression”. The quote holds true when we are talking about onboarding new employees to the company. Making every employee feel comfortable and familiar with their new working environment is the best way to start a healthy work relationship.

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The Top Ten Toxic Behaviors of Lousy Leaders

Leadership Freak

“Most leaders don’t need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.” Peter Drucker Top Ten toxic Behaviors of Lousy Leaders: #1. Neglecting relationships.

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6 Steps to Effective Communication in the Manufacturing Industry

David Grossman

In manufacturing companies, plant employees are the heart of the company. They are on the front lines with the power to turn strategy into results. At the end of the day, it’s the plant employees that ensure operations run smoothly, quality products are made to exact specifications, and products reach customers in time.

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PMI Organizational Agility Presentation

Mike Griffiths

Please join me on Thursday, September 12 th for the PMI Organizational Agility Conference. This free, online event for PMI members awards viewers PDUs. I will be presenting on the topic of becoming a Change Resilient Professional.   As rates of change increase, building strategies and skills for adapting to change are becoming more important than ever.

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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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9 Time Management Techniques For Better Engagement

Vantage Circle

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. - William Penn. Time, as we all know is precious and valuable for everyone. In this ever-changing and fast-paced world, maintaining a steady schedule and keeping up with changes has become difficult. And people find it laborious to take out time to manage their tasks. With constant transformation going all around, the workload has increased.

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Resisting Micromanagement

Kevin Eikenberry

Ask any group about the skills of the best managers and leaders, and they will never include micromanagement on the list. I know, because I’ve asked hundreds of people that question. And yet, everyone knows what micromanagement is and has experienced it and its negative consequences. Given that, if we want to be a more […]. The post Resisting Micromanagement appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Solving Workplace Conflict in 8 Steps

Vanessa Van Edwards

Even the greatest teams can be prone to workplace conflict from time to time. Conflict is a common side effect during difficult times. Many kinds of work stress can cause tensions to rise, like: Meeting deadlines Managing big decisions Mergers Acquisitions Loss of a team member Hiring a new team member Learning the psychology behind Continue reading "Solving Workplace Conflict in 8 Steps".

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Time Management Quotes For Daily Motivation

Vantage Circle

We have 365 days in the year, but how well we have utilized those 365 days and those 24-hours of time per day depends on us. The plans and schedule that you are going to set will be a thread that will guide you towards better time management. Statistics have revealed that an average employee spends 2 hours per day recovering from distractions. ( Atlassian ).

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The Power of Expectations – What New (and All) Leaders Must Know and Do

Kevin Eikenberry

Expectations are the forgotten fundamental of leadership. Everyone will nod and agree that expectations are important, but I see far too often where they are assumed, misunderstood, or missing. Talking and thinking about setting clear expectations might not be sexy, but the power of expectations can’t be denied. Let me ask you this… Do you […].

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Results-Only Leaders Have Empty-Tank Teams

Leadership Freak

Managing energy is more important than managing time. It doesn’t matter how much time you have if your energy-tank is empty. Results-only leaders have empty-tank teams. 4 unbreakable rules of energy: #1.

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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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Go Fast to Create Better Organizational Change

LSA Global

The Fable Today. Aesop advocated that the slow and steady tortoise wins the race. While that may be true in some instances, we believe that Aesop missed something from a change management consulting perspective. It helps to know how to go fast to create better organizational change. When you really want to cross the finish line of effective organizational change, pay close attention to the hare’s behavior.

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Scrumtisch September 2019

Agile42

Dear friends, here's the schedule for the next Scrumtisch in Berlin: Date: 30th of September, 2019 Time: 18:30 Place: agile42, Gruenberger Str. 54, 10245 Berlin If you would like to attend, please send a message to scrumtisch@agile42.com, or register at the Scrum User Group on Xing. We are looking forward to meeting you and seeing you again!

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How Leadership and Napkins Are Related – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

In this episode, I am taking on the challenge brought to me by a viewer answering the question: How are leaders like napkins? Seem impossible? Think again! ?? Tweet it out: Hey leader – how can you protect your team from harm and stress today? @KevinEikenberry From This Episode: Listen and subscribe to The Remarkable […]. The post How Leadership and Napkins Are Related – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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What Lies Behind Points to What Lies Ahead

Leadership Freak

The road ahead looked narrow, but when I looked back I saw the future. Kierkegaard wrote in his journal, “Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backwards.

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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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Faster Organizational Learning – A New Way to Compete

LSA Global

Faster Organizational Learning – Your Competitive Edge. Many of today’s leaders understand that their people are their distinct competitive advantage. They rely on their people to succeed and they recognize that their business results depend on large part on faster organizational learning based upon the right talent management strategy. It’s a matter of getting the right people with the right capabilities in the right positions to consistently learn, perform, and adjust – faster than the

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The 9 Best Employee Morale Boosters That Really Work

Vantage Circle

Everybody has got their good and bad days- including your employees. Chances are, they just need a bit of motivation and a nudge to reorient themselves. That’s precisely where morale boosters come into place. For your employees to do their job well, it’s important to keep them happy and engaged. Gallup found in a survey that low morale costs companies almost between $483 – $605 billion each year in lost productivity.

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Podcast Season 2: A Deeper Dive Into Best-Self Management

15Five

In season one of the Best-Self Management Podcast , we covered quite a lot in the realm of leadership development. Let’s recap: we discussed our experience creating a healthy leadership team , planning life-changing company retreats , and how to access the intelligence of our hearts, guts, and brains. We also talked about how to be present and lead with intentionality using the IEP method , and creating innovative workplace experiences via design thinking.

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How to Rise Above Problem-Based Thinking

Leadership Freak

Good days turn bad quickly. Eight hours of good performance are ruined by five minutes of tension with a colleague.

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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.