In the early 1990’s, David Guest identified a model called the T-shaped individual. This was developed to identify the type of person that leaders and managers want to have working for them. Today we’ll go over this model and more importantly, what it means to us and how it can make us better leaders. Tweet
Tough conversations. You know, the ones we need to have, but are concerned about. The ones that remind us of the similar conversations that didn’t go so well in the past. Popular books have been written about these types of conversations, and have changed what we call them. Now many call them crucial conversations or
As founders of the Remote Leadership Institute, we’ve been working with remote teams, those who are leading remote teams, and organizations struggling with remote work for a long time. Recently, Wayne Turmel, the Institute’s co-founder and Program Leader, recorded a video outlining three questions organizations must think about if they want their remote teams to
By Kevin Eikenberry, co-founder of the Remote Leadership Institute. While we’ve all sat through one too many presentations in our lives, most of them are very important when it comes to disseminating information and training employees. Especially when all or part of your team is remote, your presentations need to be crystal clear so as
Goals and vision are important to organizational growth and if we cannot connect with our employees do they work? Cortney McDermott, author of Change Starts Within You and former CEO, helps us understand that people come to change in a variety of ways. Leaders need to come from a place of a strong shared vision
We have recently started asking a One Question Survey in our weekly newsletter, Unleashing Your Remarkable Potential. And a few months ago, we asked about some of our readers what their biggest barriers to change were in their organization. And the #1 answer was: the lack of understanding of the change. So in today’s episode,
Perhaps that is a silly question. Most offices or workplaces seem to have at least a little drama…and some a whole lot more! Drama, in whatever form it takes in your workplace, causes confusion, reduces trust, hampers clear communication and saps productivity. If you work where there is any drama at all, wouldn’t you like
When most of us think of courage we think about the person who rescues someone from a burning building, leads helpless people to safety or helps others in any number of crisis situations. Seldom do people consider themselves courageous, and in most cases, we don’t even think about that word in everyday situations. Yet as
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