Let me start with the obvious: 2020 and 2021 (so far) have been hard on your organization and also for you as a leader and likely a long-distance teammate.  Now for the equally true but less obvious: The future, starting now and for awhile, isn’t going to be easier – in fact, it might be

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by Kevin Eikenberry As a new or front-line leader you are in a unique position related to changes in work location and working hours.  You need to help your team adapt to new levels of flexibility, and you must succeed in this new environment personally as well.  A few months ago I created a video

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Welcome to the Future of Work! We’re all moving forward in what will be viewed in hindsight as a major change in how we all work. In the first of a series of videos, Kevin and Wayne take a look at what some of the biggest concerns are facing both leaders and team members as

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by Kevin Eikenberry I’m sometimes called an expert, and while that’s gratifying, it is also humbling.  Why? Because experts in any field, when asked to look into the future, are not usually very accurate. So when I am asked what the future of work will look like, or what will be required for success in

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How we see our world and our future is impacted greatly by what we have already experienced. Until March of 2020, even if you had worked remotely some (or a lot), you lived in a world that was place-centric and not work-centric. Now that we all have a new set of experiences, its time to

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Put yourself in a time machine and dial it back two years. As you looked at the future for your industry, your organization, your work, and your workplace, you saw lots of changes and uncertainty ahead. Plenty was being written and spoken about how fast change was happening and how to cope with it. Now

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Of all the changes to the workplace that the pandemic brought, one hasn’t been talked about or written about very much. But it doesn’t mean it hasn’t been on remote (and now hybrid) team member’s minds. How can I stand out when the boss never sees me? How will this working arrangement impact my career?

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People trust leaders (in general and their own) or not. People trust their co-workers, or not. And we all know that when the trust level is higher, good things happen for everyone. Given all that, when you learn of a book titled The Power of Trust, you wonder if there is anything new, or is

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As humans, we begin learning about the role physical body language plays in communication almost immediately. We learn the subtleties and nuances behind posture, facial expression, and vocal inflection – the things that enhance (or sometimes say more than) the words themselves. But as digital communications increased, more and more of these interpretation tools were

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