Everyone seems to be asking the culture question – at least everyone seems to be talking about workplace culture. While understanding and improving culture is incredibly important, it has become almost cliché and a buzzword. Something becomes a buzzword the more people write about it. And workplace culture is one of the most written about

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Every day, more leaders are becoming remote leaders – whether it was intentional and planned or simply a fact of circumstance where they started working one day a work from home which lead to another which lead to another… The question isn’t whether this is happening or not, it’s what are we doing to prepare

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How can you start boosting your productivity today? In my opinion, accomplishing more each day doesn’t have to do with some life-changing process or technology. Instead, it’s about finding extra minutes and even hours throughout your work week. It’s about minimizing wasted time. Here’s how I do it, and how you can too. Listen closely

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Control is something we all want, and most leaders think a lot about control. Many of the big leadership questions revolve around control and who has it. Does control come from position? Are leaders exerting more control by micromanaging? And what about control and employee engagement? How you answer those questions, and a hundred others,

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Leadership is complex enough without adding team members you rarely see. Whether we like it or not, remote teams and remote leadership is here to stay. The fact is fine, the real challenge is how do we do it well? That is the question Wayne Turmel, my co-author of The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for Remarkable

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While I’m not an accountant and you likely aren’t either, I am using an accounting term today to help us understand the value in our workplace culture. Tweet it out: Your organizational culture is an asset. How can you maximize its value? @KevinEikenberry From This Episode: Click here to listen to and learn more about

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When people are promoted to leadership roles, one thing they struggle to develop is credibility. If promoted from within, they likely have credibility around their work, but not necessarily their leadership. If new to the organization, they might have some leadership credibility, but no credibility around their work or the organization. Regardless of the situation,

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One of the foundational skills for leaders is communication. Leadership communication involves different communication mediums, with a variety of people in a variety of roles, in all sorts of situations. So how do you improve your leadership communication skills? What if you had a free resource to help improve your communication skills in 10 minutes

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Delegation is something that every leader has feelings about. Some feel they do it well. Some don’t even know where to start. Some have seen a good example of it. Some feel like every time someone has “delegated” to them, it felt like they’d just been dumped on. Some think it is something they should

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Today I am talking about a lesson I learned in reading a quote from the Theologian John Henry Newman: “Nothing would be done at all if a person waited until he/she could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.” And here’s the reality – someone will ALWAYS find fault in

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