February, 2015

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6 Core Skills of a Leader who Develops Talent

Leadership Freak

'Leaders face turbulent situations, diverse personalities, and multiple opportunities all while developing talent. Talent development is the best development. Coaching-leaders passionately develop talent and deliver results at the same time.

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Leadership Insanity

Kevin Eikenberry

'There are at least two definitions of the word insanity: the one in the dictionary, and the clichéd we’ve all heard, used, and knowingly nodded our head at when hearing it. First, from Merriam-Webster: Insanity 1. a deranged state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder (as schizophrenia) 2. such unsoundness of mind […]. The post Leadership Insanity appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The Secret to Your Future

Leadership Freak

'Your character is your future. Leadership is first about character then skill. Character is: Behavior you compel yourself to do. Attitudes and actions you resort to when stressed.

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10 Things I Learned From People Who Drive Me Nuts

Leadership Freak

'The most annoying thing about annoying people is they help us grow. Personal growth centers on two types of people, the ones we like and the ones that drive us crazy.

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How to Make The Best Benefits Decisions for 2025's Workforce: An HR and Total Rewards Guide

Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha

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How to Stop Telling People What to Do

Leadership Freak

'Traditional managers expect compliance. Coaching-managers expect engagement, creativity, responsibility, and ownership. People who’ve been controlled often prefer compliance over participation. “Just tell me what to do,” is a cop out.

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How to Transform Negative Environments

Leadership Freak

'The more you think about what’s wrong, the more wrong you see. Your job isn’t fixing, correcting, and improving. It’s creating environments where others fix, correct, and improve. Criticism deflates. Approval energizes.

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15 Ways to Deal with Strong People

Leadership Freak

'The depth of the team determines the height of success. A team of strong people goes further, faster, if they all pull together. 15 ways to deal with strong people: See strength in irritation.

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How to Bring Teams Together During Crisis

Leadership Freak

'Crisis is a journey of transformation. During crisis you and your organization change or die. Meetings during tough times: Successful meetings create focus and increase energy. Reconnect with purpose.

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Stop Talking About Transformation

Leadership Freak

'Talk doesn’t produce vitality, eventually it kills it. Talk is important. But, the line between talk and rigor mortis is nearly invisible. Death arrives when organizational transformation ends.

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12 Dos and Don’ts For Butting Heads Successfully

Leadership Freak

'Everything worth doing encounters friction. Important issues ignite strong emotion. 12 don’ts for butting heads successfully: Don’t: Talk over things with affirming friends who take your side rather than exploring issues. Rush to judgement.

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The Diversity Reckoning: Can HR Survive Without New Perspectives?

Speaker: Jeremy York

2024 has tested every organization, and 2025 promises no less - the warning signs are everywhere. If you’re relying on superficial approaches to diversity, you might find yourself scrambling to catch up. Thought diversity - the fuel for new ideas, fresh perspectives, and disruptive innovation - is more than a buzzword. It's a survival strategy. And if you’re not building it into your workplace culture right now , you’re heading for trouble.

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12 Problems with Strong Personalities

Leadership Freak

'The problem with strong personalities (SP’s) is their ability for good is matched by their ability to harm. All strong personalities, in some ways, are jerks. 12 problems with strong personalities: Don’t play well with others.

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16 Ways to Lead Through Sadness

Leadership Freak

'Some of the world’s great leaders held hands with sadness, Lincoln and Churchill for example. It wouldn’t surprise me if you do too. Sadness isn’t the end of leadership. It may be a beginning.

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12 Questions that Move Dreams to Reality

Leadership Freak

'Meaningful success requires strategy. Dreams are easy; strategy makes you sweat. Dreams without strategy are: Ships without rudders. Passions without direction. Excuses for stagnation. Comfort to irresponsible leaders. Hopes without substance.

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Getting the Most From 5 People in Your Past

Leadership Freak

'A dissatisfying past produces a dissatisfying future. But, dissatisfaction is just a way of thinking. 7 responses to your past: Justify yourself. You were right and they were wrong. Assign blame.

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Recognition Powers High-Performance — If You Do it Right

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Todd Wuestenberg

Employee recognition has often been deemed a "feel-good" initiative, tied closely to rewards. While we understand its importance, we tend to associate recognition with intangible outcomes like engagement and sentiment, rather than direct impacts on retention and high performance. In today’s workplace, the true ROI of recognition lies in its ability to regenerate tangible, business-driven results.

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How to Receive Criticism without Becoming Cynical

Leadership Freak

'Leaders are criticized when they take action and when they don’t. Nice critics try to help by pointing out failures and faults, but neglect positive suggestions.

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The Cure for Sad Organizations

Leadership Freak

'Vibrant organizations build on positives. Sad organizations are led by leaders who focus on what’s wrong. Not so bad after all: Those who focus on ugliness become ugly themselves.

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7 Downward Steps of Control Freaks

Leadership Freak

'The thing that irritates you about others is the thing you’re trying to change about them. “I’ve tried everything,” means you can’t figure out how to change someone.

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How to Lower Frustration and Improve Performance

Leadership Freak

'Reflection is essential to improvement. Curiosity is essential to reflection. Focus curiosity on patterns when improving systems. What difficulty can you predict you’ll encounter when we do this next time?

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Meetings and the 5 Sources of Organizational Energy

Leadership Freak

'The purpose of meetings is to energize small wins. 5 sources of organizational energy that connect to meetings: Progress. Nothing fuels energy more than moving the ball down the field.

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10 Negative Results of Believing People are Incapable

Leadership Freak

'Wanting change – while thinking and acting the same – is frustrating futility. Trying to change people is the greatest futility of all.

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What Great Leaders Must Love

Kevin Eikenberry

'It’s the season of love – the week of Valentine’s Day when everyone who sells anything is trying to tie their product to the romance of the moment. I’m not trying to sell you a bear, a bouquet or a bottle of wine. I’m trying to sell you an idea. And admittedly, the love I […]. The post What Great Leaders Must Love appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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5 Ways to Know When to Let the Tiger Out

Leadership Freak

'Extraordinary strength in a person with a strong personality (SP) is a potent opportunity for advantage or destruction. Don’t dial back your strong personality. Choose when to let the tiger out.

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The Upskilling Advantage: Transforming Your Workforce For Future Growth

Speaker: Brian Richardson

With a staggering 92% of CEOs prioritizing skill development, and 84% struggling with transformation, mastering upskilling is now more critical than ever. Drawing on extensive research and collaboration with hundreds of leading organizations, discover key hurdles and innovative best practices in workforce upskilling. You'll walk away with a deep understanding of how to build a culture of continuous learning, expert insights into assessing the current skills of your employees, and a strategic too

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10 Ways to Get Where You Want to Go

Leadership Freak

'Organizational strategy answers three questions. How can we create customers? How can we keep customers? What do we do better than competitors that is difficult to copy?

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Five Ways Confident Communication Builds Trust

Kevin Eikenberry

'The leader purposefully strides to the front of the conference room table and is prepared to begin. Smiling warmly, she turns to the group, and asks the group a question. Since she wants their response she allows the pause to encourage people to participate. After creating a conversation, she clearly tailors her message to the […]. The post Five Ways Confident Communication Builds Trust appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The Insurance Every Leader Needs

Kevin Eikenberry

'Insurance. We have it for many things: for our lives, for our cars, for our home, for our health, for our identities, for our cell phones (!) and much more. We are purchasing this insurance as a safety net against something bad happening. While different people have different risk tolerances, and differing abilities to pay, […]. The post The Insurance Every Leader Needs appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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How to Overcome the Negative Attitudes of Your Team and Those Around You

Kevin Eikenberry

'Attitude, it is said, is contagious. That statement is oft-repeated because it is true. Actually there are two truths inside the short statement. Whatever the attitude is, either positive or negative, it will spread. And, if you aren’t purposefully and intentionally spreading positive, the negative will win. You already know this. You have dealt with […].

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Mastering Remote Onboarding: Proven Strategies for Seamless New Hire Integration

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.

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3 Ways to Help Fakers Come Clean

Leadership Freak

'She ended up saying, “I don’t really think I need anything.” She didn’t need to develop, others did. She was already functioning at maximum potential.

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He Touched Me!

Leadership Freak

'We vacationed with three kids and a dog. We didn’t have a mini-van. The kids had coloring books and each other. Back then, cars weren’t equipped with video monitors or individual headphones.

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Why We Can’t Say “NO” and How to Find “YES”

Leadership Freak

'Focus is finding a big “YES” and saying “no” a thousand times. Have you ever heard someone say, “I’m learning to say, ‘No’.” They haven’t found their big “YES.

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An Old-School Way to Help New Leaders Succeed

Kevin Eikenberry

'There are lots of ways to support people in learning how to do a job. The long list includes hands-on training, job shadowing, traditional training, coaching, e-learning, and reading a book. All of these approaches have a place, and there is no one answer that is complete – because learning is a process that occurs […]. The post An Old-School Way to Help New Leaders Succeed appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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How To Empower Your Workforce With Modern Fertility Benefits

Speaker: Andrea Wuchiski

In an era where a workforce spans multiple generations, HR managers and Total Rewards leaders face the unique challenge of designing benefits packages that cater to diverse employee needs. This session will delve into how comprehensive fertility benefits can bridge generational gaps, support employees’ health, and enhance workplace satisfaction. Join us for an insightful session that highlights the strategic importance of fertility benefits in today’s competitive job market.