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Hey Leader – You’re Talking Too Much!

I’ve been working with, observing, and coaching leaders for many years. I‘ve thought about it, and if I could only dispense one piece of advice to every leader I encountered from now on, based on my experience and observation, it might be this: You’re talking too much. While this affliction doesn’t include every leader, it includes most,

Are You Asking the Right Questions? – Remarkable TV

I want to talk to you about something that’s near and dear to my heart: the importance of asking the right questions. As a leader, you know that your decisions and actions can have a significant impact on your team and your organization. And those decisions and actions start with questions. That’s why it’s crucial to

Two Simultaneous and Different Problems Leaders Must Solve

As you move into or consider moving into a leadership role, you have likely noticed that it can be both rewarding and difficult. Rewarding in that you get to make a difference for people and get things done. Difficult in that it is a never-ending problem-solving effort. As soon as you resolve one problem, another

A Leader’s Most Important Question

That title carries a pretty big promise. After all, the best leaders are excellent at asking questions in all sorts of situations. I also hope the title is stoking your curiosity. Urging you to read on, wondering what is the leadership question that Kevin thinks is the most important of all. I will share the

Leaders all Need Encouragement

We often talk about the transitions that happen when people get promoted to a leadership role. We most commonly talk about the transitions of needed skills, and the transitions of the relationships with those around us. These transitions are real, important and challenging. There are other transitions new leaders face, and some realities they aren’t

Do You Care What Other People Think? – Remarkable TV

Today, I want to talk about a topic that affects all of us at some point: FOPO, or Fear of Other People’s Opinions. Do you care what other people think? Of course you do. We all care about the opinions of those closest to us and whose opinions we value the most. But the question is,

Hire Attitude, Train Skills

In any job market, interviewing to fill a job can be hard. We want the right person, but the urgency to get the job filled sometimes gets in the way. Our sense of urgency tends to push us to find a person who seems to have the right skills and hope the fit works out.

Work the Problem, Don’t Let the Problem Work You

While I have both heard and said the basic idea behind the title of this post in the past, I cannot take credit for the exact phrasing. It came to me in an email from a customer. The phrase is so good that it basically conveys the full idea of this post in a single

Creating Excellence Through Improved Performance

Excellence is one of those words that describes a goal to which many would strive. Yet the idea of excellence is both aspirational and vague or nebulous. If creating excellence is your goal for yourself, your team, or your organization (and I am sure on some level it is), how do you do it? Here

How to Foster Workplace Friendships that Boost your Bottom Line

Guest article by Shaara Roman As humans, we live for connection. In a world where it can be easy to feel alone, having friends gives us an uplifting sense of belonging… which is quite literally necessary for our survival and our ability to contribute meaningfully to society. Loneliness is widely considered as one of the

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