Each week, I interview a leadership expert or expert leader on The Remarkable Leadership Podcast. I learn so much in each of these conversations and I am confident that listeners and viewers gain lessons from each episode as well. But at the end of the year, I wanted to do something different, and I wanted

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Can we? Should we? Both questions are important and the difference between the two is just one small word. But that small word makes a significant difference in how you answer the question. In the video below, I’m helping you to think about this distinction with a few thoughts and maybe a couple of other

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Decisions! We all make them every day. But we often wonder if we made the right one, causing us to search for new ways to decide. Do we apply our intuition to our decision making, or is that a bad idea? What approach should we use? There’s a surprising, scientifically backed approach that might give

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I grew up on a farm, so we spread a lot of things. But today we are talking about what we are spreading as leaders. Because our words, our attitudes and our energy are all contagious. And it’s important that we’re spreading the right thing. https://youtu.be/vHOUEAH62es?rel=0&showinfo=0 Tweet it out: Your words, attitude and energy are

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Long before we could spell COVID-19, or knew a pandemic would ever affect us, we were helping remote leaders and remote teams succeed through the work of the Remote Leadership Institute. With the upcoming release of our newest book, The Long-Distance Teammate, we have created two new free webinars to share ideas and strategies to help

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You and your team have been working remotely for a long time now, and you still don’t know exactly what the future holds. And during this time, people have likely been working harder than ever and in new ways. Have you spent any time training for remote work? If you haven’t, how would you know

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Are you deliberating about a tough decision? Are you struggling with a relationship? Are you worried about the future? In today’s episode, I am suggesting we all take a chill pill. And I don’t mean this in an unsympathetic or glib way. I am seriously suggesting six steps that we can take to help us

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Remote work and virtual school. Lockdowns and take-out. Pandemics, the economy, and climate. Elections, protests, and more. I didn’t really need to make a list of things that you might fear, but there it is. This article isn’t about those things (or whatever else you might put on that list) themselves, but rather how you

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I won’t go into the brain science, but it is a fact of neurology that the brain cannot be in a state of appreciation and a state of fear at the same time. The two states may alternate, but are mutually exclusive. So when people say they are too blessed to be stressed, they are

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Long before a pandemic, when many of our meetings were in person, meetings were often riddled with inefficiency and frustration. The shift to virtual meetings hasn’t made it better. While there are many causes of the challenges, it is possible to have productive virtual meetings that are highly collaborative and stay on track. Making that

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