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Q+A With Jerry Colonna: Overcome Your Personal Demons And Become A Better Leader Through Radical Self-Inquiry

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We all know someone in power who chooses to hide behind the comfort of their authority. The real task is thinking up senior executives who embody what it means to lead with transparency, honesty, and sincerity. For a company to naturally thrive, those tasked with leadership must take the time to truly understand their inner self. While it’s vital for a person to know where their strengths lie, it’s also important to understand the vulnerable parts of ourselves we often try to ignore.

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Cynefin, Wardley Maps and ORGANIC agility in Stockholm

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We live in a whitewater world. Change is rapid, and uncertainty is unavoidable. Leaders need the ability to take their organizations safely through these waters, but the old cliches and tools are no longer useful. Instead, frameworks and approaches that have been developed specifically for the management of uncertainty and complexity are essential. How do we make sense of the world so we can act in it?

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Innovation: Running Experiments and Learning

Mike Griffiths

In my last article on  Incubating Innovation , we explored the culture and mindset of accountable experimentation. This article focuses on actionable tools and approaches. Within agile frameworks, the team retrospective is the primary workshop for planning and evaluating experiments. Yet most team retrospectives I see are broken. Teams spend too much time recording viewpoints and information—but not enough time reviewing or planning experiments.

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6 Types of Meetings Every Organization Should Focus On

Vantage Circle

For any organization, meetings are the fuel for productivity. They are an integral part of any organization and we are aware of that. Every organization holds meetings vigorously to stay updated, discuss ideas, solve problems, make collective decisions and ultimately reach its goals and objectives. It allows them to address the issues in an organization, to keep a track on operations, productivity, team building and more.

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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 People Weasel Out of Change and Justify Staying the Same

Leadership Freak

Aspiration or frustration drives you to seek advice. But you end up rejecting advice in favor of staying the same. How to weasel out of change: You’re frustrated when others do it.

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Make Accomplishment the Goal

Kevin Eikenberry

Busy, is a four-letter word, even if it isn’t the type my mother warned me about. Generally, we feel like things are getting done when we are busy, yet “busy” is a symptom of a rampant problem – one that most people don’t even realize. If we want to improve personal productivity and the productivity […]. The post Make Accomplishment the Goal appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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100 Performance Appraisal Comments For Your Next Performance Review

Vantage Circle

Conducting performance reviews can be tricky. Especially for managers. Sometimes there’s a huge difference between what they say and what they want to convey.To improve this, it's important that employers must practice the art of delivering constructive performance appraisal comments. In fact-. One in five employees aren't confident that their managers will provide regular, constructive feedback.

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An Exercise Guaranteed to Ignite Growth in Anyone

Leadership Freak

You need affirmation, but if you want to grow, seek discomfort. Comfort affirms. Discomfort transforms. Today’s challenge is as difficult as it is simple. Seek advice from an imperfect boss or colleague.

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What an Apple Can Teach Us About Leadership – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

Today’s episode is the third in a series where I connect weird or unusual items to leadership – all of these items are suggestions from our friends on our social media channels. You can catch up on previous episodes with the links below, but in the meantime, check out this week’s video and find out […]. The post What an Apple Can Teach Us About Leadership – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Incubating Innovation

Mike Griffiths

If success goes to those who can innovate the fastest, how do we nurture innovation? The basics are simple to understand—but difficult to implement and stick with in the face of adversity. We need to create an environment that encourages experimentation while also tolerating, investigating and learning from the inevitable failures. It may sound easy, but executives and shareholders demand results, not “learning opportunities.

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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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A Simplified Guide To Corporate Event Planning

Vantage Circle

Are you thinking about planning an event for your company? Do you know where to start? What are the essentials when planning a corporate event? I will answer these questions and guide you through the corporate event planning process in this article. What is a corporate event? A new product launch, an event celebrating the achievements of your marketing or sales team, or a team picnic out in the countryside, are all examples of corporate events.

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Ready to fix feedback?  Then let’s go “kick some ask!”

Leadership Freak

NEW BOOK GIVEAWAY! 20 copies available! Leave a comment on this guest post by Tamra Chandler.

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The Way to Develop Leaders

Kevin Eikenberry

I’ve thinking about, studying and consulting on leadership development for a long time. I’ve learned much – yet perhaps the most disappointing thing I’ve learned is that we keep coming up short. Yes, many organizations want to develop their leaders, and those organizations are making investments. Yet, for the most part they aren’t getting the […].

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3 Steps to Align Your Pricing Strategy with Your Growth Strategy

LSA Global

Is Your Pricing Strategy Aligned with Your Growth Strategy? If your pricing strategy does not fit your sales strategy, sales capabilities, or marketplace it will be difficult to grow profitably. High performing sales leaders know that you must align your pricing strategy with your growth strategy. Smart pricing pays off because it supports both sellers’ incentives and improved performance.

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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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5 Examples Of Company Culture Worth Getting Envious Over

Vantage Circle

Here’s why I think having a list of the best examples of company culture is important. When you have a bunch of companies offering outrageous salaries, incredible perks and benefits to the top talents, your company culture is the one aspect which will make you stand out. While perks and benefits are nice, shiny and wanted; culture is the foundation upon which the business stands on.

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The Frosted Flakes Fiasco

Leadership Freak

Last Friday, my wife went out with a friend and I had a man-dinner. Sometimes, I grill a steak. No vegetables. Just beef and a beverage.

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The Guide To Conflict Resolution In The Workplace

Vantage Circle

As humans, we come across situations where we enter into disagreements with other people. Most of the times we ease out things by reaching upon a mutual agreement but there are times when the confrontation really escalates. Well, conflicts can happen everywhere and that includes workplaces too. As such, it becomes very important for HR managers to implement procedures for conflict resolution in the workplace.

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What Remarkable Leaders Do that Average Leaders Don’t

Leadership Freak

Rosa Parks wasn’t the first black woman to stand up for herself in Montgomery, Alabama.

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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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4 Strategies to Move Past Annual Employee Engagement

LSA Global

Does Employee Engagement Matter? From our annual employee engagement surveys with nearly 5,000 organizations, we know that engaged workforces outperform their unengaged counterparts. Indeed, employee engagement should very much matter to both business and people leaders who want their business to succeed. Moving the Engagement Needle. Companies that get the most from employee engagement initiatives have made it an organizational discipline and a strategic priority day-in and day-out.

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How to Conduct Effective Leadership Team Meetings

LSA Global

Do You Know How to Conduct Effective Leadership Team Meetings? While most work meetings are considered a waste of valuable time and energy, your ability to conduct effective leadership team meetings is essential to moving a team forward and carving out time for strategic, complex, systemic, and cross-team issues. The Cost of Ineffective Leadership Team Meetings.

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