From Leadership & Learning with Kevin Eikenberry Why is it that some leaders can easily gain compliance from the people they are trying to lead, while others struggle? What leadership skills are necessary to successfully build and lead a unified team? The answers to those questions vary, depending on whom you ask, but one skill that is
Today’s question is this: How do I build trust with new employees? Trust is absolutely critical to our success as leaders, so this is a great question and here’s our answer… http://kevineikenberry.wistia.com/medias/iy8xczsdt0?embedType=iframe&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640 Listen to the audio for this episode here: audio Trust is a noun and a verb. The more of the verb you do,
More and more often I find that a centerpiece of leadership training we design for clients focuses on trust – understanding it and understanding how to build it. When thinking about trust, the following quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson comes to mind: “Our distrust is very expensive.” I love that thought, but with all due respect to
This is a guest post by Maxine Attong. There’s no shortage of fanfare for the hottest corporate buzzword of the past several years – innovation. As Forbes noted in a 2012 article, the word has become the “awesome” of corporate speak. Innovation is the quality desired by business leaders, who tend to believe that if
Is there a way to get your team motivated towards their goals, when each member has such different goals? You bet! Watch the video below to find out how. http://kevineikenberry.wistia.com/medias/zzglf17i6p?embedType=iframe&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640 Listen to the audio for this episode here: audio In order for individuals to support team goals they must be committed to the team and
As a first-time leader, it is critical that you understand that you can’t “make” a change happen. While you can initiate a change, and make it easier for employees to stomach and execute, you need them to do the work, change their behaviors, and, ultimately, make the change happen. If you want them to do all that, you need to
One question we get in our Bud to Boss workshops is this: How do you understand your direct reports capabilities without directly asking them? It’s a great question, and its answer is often found in observing two things about the people on your team: How they spend their time when they are not at work,
By Jaimy Ford Much of the literature written for first time supervisors focuses on the negative aspects of taking over a team. And trust me, it can be difficult. You have tougher, more frequent decisions to make. You are responsible for hitting goals. You have to deal regularly with difficult situations and people. And usually,
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