Something we have been doing our entire lives should be easy and instinctual. Right? What if that thing is communicating? If it’s so natural, why are we always complaining that someone misunderstood what we said, or that meeting could have been an email, but nobody read the email!? This is particularly common in remote work
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) Whether you know it or not, you have a leadership identity. And that identity plays a very real part in how you do the work of leading every day. It is hard to overstate the role our identity
Uncertainty. It’s everywhere.Whether it’s a shifting marketplace, changes in your organization, or even the everyday unknowns of life, we all face uncertainty — often more than we’d like. And when we do, it’s easy to feel anxious, frustrated, unsettled… even scared.If you’re a leader (and even if you’re not), these feelings can get in the
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) VUCA (which stands for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity) was coined as an acronym first described by Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus in their 1985 book, Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge (link to the 2007 second edition). It
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) Tension. It’s something we like in the plot of a movie or novel. It’s something that has us bingeing a show we like. But tension in our work and decisions? For most of us, we’d prefer less of
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) Leaders have a lot on their plate – and a lot on other minds. They have responsibilities galore and likely a full inbox. They are expected to be on point, on-the-ball, and on top of everything. Many wear
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) Flexible Leadership. It’s the title of my new book). And it is an idea that might sound good – (we need to be flexible right?), yet we want leaders to be consistent too, right? So maybe being flexible isn’t
This blog post is the sixth and final part of our six-part Evolving Workplace series. To hear more thought leadership, check out series episodes on the Remarkable Leadership Podcast. At the Kevin Eikenberry Group, our focus is on developing leaders. Over the past few weeks, we’ve studied the Evolving Workplace and what all that change might
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) As I write these words, Covid-19 became a part of most of our lives about 5 years ago. While the exact “anniversary” depends on where you live in the world, anniversaries are often a time for us to
As leaders, our days are filled with emails, meetings, reports, and decisions. We communicate about tasks, processes, and problems—the work that must get done. But is simply transacting business enough to lead effectively?The answer is no. Leadership is more than just transactions—it requires interaction.What Is Transacting Business?When I talk about transacting business, I mean communicating
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