Practicing Empathy – The Five L’s

Empathy – understanding the feeling and emotions someone is feeling as a way to provide solace and support while building understanding and trust – is a critical leadership skill. I’ve written and recorded several messages about empathy in the past few months, because this practice is more important than ever. In the past, I’ve tried

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The Remarkable Leadership Podcast is Now Live

We’ve been recording The Remarkable Leadership Podcast since July of 2016. To date, I’ve had conversations with over 230 leadership experts and expert leaders. From the beginning, it has been my goal to make this the most engaging, entertaining, and useful leadership podcast available. Each conversation focuses on informing, inspiring, and encouraging leaders to learn,

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How a Coffee Cup Can Improve Your Meetings – Remarkable TV

No engagement. No participation. Can’t get people to speak up. These are just a few of the many issues that we have with virtual meetings. And in this video, I am demonstrating 4 ways that a simple cup can help improve your virtual meetings.Follow The Remarkable Leadership Podcast Apple Podcast Spotify Google Podcasts Amazon Music RSS Your Favorite Podcast

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The Next Hurdle – Coming Back to the Office or Not?

Several months ago, without much warning, but much fanfare, your team was asked to work from home. Everyone worked hard to figure out how to make it work. And while it isn’t perfect (nor was it before March of 2020), most people have figured out how to at least get by – and maybe do

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Save Some Money Today – Get Results for a Lifetime

It’s that time of the year. Time to look at the budget, see what’s left, and use it to the greatest possible impact. And while this activity comes around every year, this has hardly been a normal year. That’s why we have offered some “COVID-19 discounts” for the past several months. Like all sales, they

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Do You Feel Like an Imposter? – Remarkable TV

If you are watching or listening to me now, you have achieved some level of success. And if you are leading others, it is logical and obvious that you are doing some things right. Yet many leaders feel they have arrived not because of experience, skill and wisdom, but by luck or the ability to

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Nurturing Collaboration on Remote Teams

Just because people are working from home, doesn’t mean they are an effective remote team. In fact, even if your team was successful and cohesive when you were all in the same workspace, doesn’t mean that you have great remote collaboration now. What can you do as a leader to promote, encourage, and nurture remote

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Progress or Perfection? – Remarkable TV

Today I am asking you a question: Are you seeking progress or perfection? I am asking you this both personally and as a coach. And in the video below, I am making a case for each and then also a case for both. Tweet it out: Ask yourself what you want today – progress or

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Leadership is a Responsibility

Leadership is a lot of things. It is a role. It likely represents career progress. It can be lonely. And last week, I explained why it is an opportunity. It is also hard to escape the fact that leadership is a responsibility too. But far from scolding or reminding you about some grave facts, I

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10 Tips for Better Meetings

Entire books have been written about doing better virtual meetings. Heck, I’ve written two of them myself, but if there was a simple list of things you can do better, it might look like this: Clearly identify your objective and desired outcome. Form follows function, and knowing what you want to achieve will determine which

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