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Helping Without Doing

On today’s video, I’m answering a common leadership question and providing five actionable tips to help you be more successful. How can I help others without doing it for them? As a leader, be helpful but don’t do it for them. @KevinEikenberry

5 Tips to Ensure You Don’t Botch Your First Hiring

Hiring is stressful, especially when you’ve never done it before. Hire the wrong person and you can cost yourself and your organization time and money. However, “when you adopt proven hiring strategies, you can retain a steady flow of talent to fill open job positions and replace underperforming employees quickly. And when your hiring is

Prioritization Means Choosing What Problems Not to Solve

This is a guest post by Nat Greene, author of Stop Guessing: The 9 Behaviors of Great Problem-Solvers Business leaders face a constant burden in their organizations: They have too many problems to solve and not enough resources to solve all of them. A good prioritization system is critical for any business leader, and our

7 Things You Should Have Done When You Were Promoted

You are several weeks or even months into your new leadership position, and you are struggling. You can’t figure out why, but you don’t feel like a leader (or your employees don’t treat you like one), and each day brings challenges that you weren’t quite expecting when you accepted the promotion. If that is the case,

Nitpickers Usually Cause More Harm Than Good

By Jaimy Ford, business writer and editor. Having high expectations is certainly not a bad thing. However, when high expectations translate into nitpicking, it is a problem. When you or your employees are detailed-obsessed perfectionists, it puts unrealistic demands on everyone else, it wastes time, slows progress and leaves people feeling overwhelmed, annoyed or even

The Most Critical Thing You Can Do During Your First Week as Leader

No doubt you have so much going on when you take over a team for the first time. Still, how you spend your time during those early days sets the stage for weeks, months or even years to come. Use it wisely by taking the time to build rapport and form relationships with your new

A Leader’s Role in Unexpected Change

In my podcast, I play a game with my guests. While I will prepare them in advance for the conversation, giving them typical questions or topics that we’ll discuss, I also play on their spontaneity, giving them one word and asking them to tell me what comes to mind immediately. I believe there is a

A Pivotal Step in Solving Your Toughest Problems

By: Mark Miller Most leaders pride themselves on being effective problem-solvers, but sometimes our best efforts fall short. Do you ever wonder what causes some problem-solving efforts to fail? There are several usual suspects… Unclear problem identification, failure to identify the real root cause(s) of the situation, lack of creativity once we move to the

Don’t Be a Leadership Avoider

You might know someone who could be classified as this: the leadership avoider… And today I’m addressing a few traits to identify these types of people as well as tips to ensure that you aren’t one but instead are ready, willing and able to accept leadership and be successful in doing so. Tweet it out:

National Blame Someone Else Day Shouldn’t Happen Everyday

Today, Friday the 13th, January 2017, is National Blame Someone Else Day. So, basically, if you don’t want to take the blame for a mistake or failure, simply point the finger at someone else. While the spirit of the day is supposed to be in good fun, unfortunately, way too many people make everyday “Blame Someone

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