The Remarkable Leadership Podcast

Today we're exploring why people don't talk in meetings. **** Join us for our FREE leadership conference, Virtual LeaderCon: https://virtualleadercon.com/ 📺 How a Coffee Cup Can Improve Your Meetings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtyHNXrGVo4 📺 More Engaging Virtual Meetings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i8XfulQXYs   My name is Kevin Eikenberry and I’m here to help you reach your goal as a leader and a human being with Remarkable TV and the Remarkable Leadership Podcast. Learn more about our offerings: ➡️ FREE NEWSLETTER: Sign up for my weekly newsletter, Unleashing Your Remarkable Potential: https://kevineikenberry.com/UYRP ➡️ BOOK: Check out my latest book, The Long-Distance Teammate: https://longdistanceteammate.com/ ➡️ LEADERSHIP WORKSHOPS: Sign up for any of our online workshops to help you become a better leader: https://www.kevineikenberry.com/store/workshops/ ➡️ SPEAKING: Learn more about our Speaking opportunities for your next event: https://www.kevineikenberry.com/speaking/ Connect with Kevin Eikenberry on Social Media: https://blog.kevineikenberry.com https://kevineikenberry.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevineikenberry https://twitter.com/KevinEikenberry https://instagram.com/kevineikenberry https://www.facebook.com/KevinEikenberryFanPage/ About Kevin Eikenberry: Kevin Eikenberry is the Chief Potential Officer of the Kevin Eikenberry Group, a world expert on leadership development, best-selling author, sought-after speaker, popular blogger, husband and dad, a fan of Purdue athletics and antique tractors (especially John Deere’s). About The Remarkable Leadership Podcast: The Remarkable Leadership Podcast with Kevin Eikenberry is dedicated to all things leadership. Twice a week Kevin shares his thoughts about leadership development and ideas to help you lead more confidently and make a bigger difference for those you lead. He also has weekly conversations with leadership experts discussing a wide range of topics including teamwork, organizational culture, facilitating change, personal and organizational development, human potential and more. The Remarkable Leadership Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com

This is a special episode of the Remarkable Leadership podcast entitled My Remarkable Journey. Kevin sits down with Darrin Jahnel to learn about his journey toward becoming the leader he is today. Darrin is the founder and CEO of Jahnel Group. He recognized early on that it was important to put in the work; leadership didn’t just happen, it’s hard work. As he grew his company, he was intentional about scaling up and developing his team and the culture. Meet Darrin Name: Darrin Jahnel  His Story: Darrin is the founder and CEO of Jahnel Group, a 150-person software consulting company. He earned an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the University at Albany and a Master’s Degree in Information Systems from NYU’s Stern School of Business. Before starting the company in 2012, Darrin worked as a Senior Software Engineer on Wall Street. Darrin has led numerous engineering teams on multi-million-dollar projects and is a member of MENSA. This episode is brought to you by... Remarkable Masterclasses. Each masterclass is designed to help you become the remarkable leader and human you were born to be. Details on how to get on board for a specific skill or get discounts each month can be found on our website. Book Recommendations Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman 

Who knows what tomorrow will bring? Yes, it’s a cliché and we are dealing with a lot of unknowns, both personally and professionally. Rapid change was happening before the pandemic and now it seems we are constantly changing. For example, what does “return to office” mean? Andrea Small joins Kevin to suggest we can create opportunities in times of uncertainty. There is no single toolkit to help us navigate the ambiguity, as we are in individual situations. However, we can employ strategies that help us find the balance between acting and adapting. Key Points Andrea Small shares the 3 attitudes about ambiguity.  She talks about the 5 balances to navigate ambiguity (perspective, pace, attention, process, and scale).  She shares her thoughts about the connection between ambiguity and leadership. Meet Andrea Name: Andrea Small  Her Story:

Today I'm sharing a lesson for achievers using something I saw at the Reagan Library. **** Sign up for leadership insights every day with The Daily Email. https://kevineikenberry.com/daily We improve our chances for success when we remind ourselves we can succeed. Take a lesson for the sign on President Reagan's desk. It CAN be done. 📺 One Key to Goal Achievement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3K4fjK_dvs 📺 A Magic Secret to Goal Achievement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYHLGsCf9Pc 📺 Achieving Unachievable Goals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvDg3jGrMX0   My name is Kevin Eikenberry and I’m here to help you reach your goal as a leader and a human being with Remarkable TV and the Remarkable Leadership Podcast. Learn more about our offerings: ➡️ FREE NEWSLETTER: Sign up for my weekly newsletter, Unleashing Your Remarkable Potential: https://kevineikenberry.com/UYRP ➡️ BOOK: Check out my latest book, The Long-Distance Teammate: https://longdistanceteammate.com/ ➡️ LEADERSHIP WORKSHOPS: Sign up for any of our online workshops to help you become a better leader: https://www.kevineikenberry.com/store/workshops/ ➡️ SPEAKING: Learn more about our Speaking opportunities for your next event: https://www.kevineikenberry.com/speaking/ Connect with Kevin Eikenberry on Social Media: https://blog.kevineikenberry.com https://kevineikenberry.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevineikenberry https://twitter.com/KevinEikenberry https://instagram.com/kevineikenberry https://www.facebook.com/KevinEikenberryFanPage/ About Kevin Eikenberry: Kevin Eikenberry is the Chief Potential Officer of the Kevin Eikenberry Group, a world expert on leadership development, best-selling author, sought-after speaker, popular blogger, husband and dad, a fan of Purdue athletics and antique tractors (especially John Deere’s). About The Remarkable Leadership Podcast: The Remarkable Leadership Podcast with Kevin Eikenberry is dedicated to all things leadership. Twice a week Kevin shares his thoughts about leadership development and ideas to help you lead more confidently and make a bigger difference for those you lead. He also has weekly conversations with leadership experts discussing a wide range of topics including teamwork, organizational culture, facilitating change, personal and organizational development, human potential and more.

Do you ever feel stuck? Do you find you can’t keep up with all the changes? Do you know what direction your team is going? Richard Hawkes calls this The Swirl. He tells Kevin this is a common issue in many organizations and causes people to feel lost and keeps leaders up at night. Richard shares insights to move beyond the challenges and create high-performing teams. Organizations evolve at the speed of conversations.

Procrastination damages our self-image, saps our energy, diminishes our focus, and makes us feel guilty. When this happens, it can shake our confidence and become a discouraging downward cycle. The trick to fixing it? Start. Get the first task done and just get started. You'll gain momentum that will shift your mindset into a positive direction. Learn more about our on-demand leadership courses with Remarkable Masterclass: https://remarkablemasterclass.com/  My name is Kevin Eikenberry and I’m here to help you reach your goal as a leader and a human being with Remarkable TV and the Remarkable Leadership Podcast. Learn more about our offerings: ➡️ FREE NEWSLETTER: Sign up for my weekly newsletter, Unleashing Your Remarkable Potential: https://kevineikenberry.com/UYRP ➡️ BOOK: Check out my latest book, The Long-Distance Teammate: https://longdistanceteammate.com/ ➡️ LEADERSHIP WORKSHOPS: Sign up for any of our online workshops to help you become a better leader: https://www.kevineikenberry.com/store/workshops/ ➡️ SPEAKING: Learn more about our Speaking opportunities for your next event: https://www.kevineikenberry.com/speaking/ Connect with Kevin Eikenberry on Social Media: https://blog.kevineikenberry.com https://kevineikenberry.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevineikenberry  https://twitter.com/KevinEikenberry https://instagram.com/kevineikenberry https://www.facebook.com/KevinEikenberryFanPage/ About Kevin Eikenberry: Kevin Eikenberry is the Chief Potential Officer of the Kevin Eikenberry Group, a world expert on leadership development, best-selling author, sought-after speaker, popular blogger, husband and dad, a fan of Purdue athletics and antique tractors (especially John Deere’s). About The Remarkable Leadership Podcast: The Remarkable Leadership Podcast with Kevin Eikenberry is dedicated to all things leadership. Twice a week Kevin shares his thoughts about leadership development and ideas to help you lead more confidently and make a bigger difference for those you lead. He also has weekly conversations with leadership experts discussing a wide range of topics including teamwork, organizational culture, facilitating change, personal and organizational development, human potential and more.

This is a special episode of The Remarkable Leadership Podcast entitled My Remarkable Journey. Kevin sits down with Marc Reifenrath to learn about his journey toward becoming the leader he is today. Marc is the co-founder and CEO of Spinutech. Spinutech has grown from a University Dorm start-up over 20 years ago to a multinational digital agency with 150+ team members across the U.S. Early in his career, Marc observed his leaders and began forming thoughts of what he appreciated and what not to do. He believes his success is due to keeping his core values the same; get better each day and do the right thing. The company would not be what it is today without a team of people who are as invested in each other’s growth and success as they are in delivering the best for their clients. Meet Marc Name: Marc Reifenrath  About: Marc Reifenrath is the CEO & Co-founder of Spinutech, a web design and digital marketing agency with 5 offices and remote team members in 25+ states. Spinutech is celebrating its 22nd year in business and achieved 0 turnovers in the first 10 years. Further, they have been named as a Google Premier Partner, Google Marketing Platform Partner, and Meta Business Partner. Spinutech has clients in all 50 states and 20+ countries. Connect https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcreifenrath/ https://twitter.com/spinuser https://spinutech.com/  This episode is brought to you by... Remarkable Masterclasses. Each masterclass is designed to help you become the remarkable leader and human you were born to be. Details on how to get on board for a specific skill or get discounts each month can be found on our website.  

Meetings may be a necessary evil. Before 2020 we didn’t love them. During the pandemic, the meeting took on a new meaning. We connected over webcams using a variety of platforms. Meetings are changing once again as work is shifting to a hybrid model. Karin Reed joins Kevin to talk about hybrid meeting best practices. It’s important to fight proximity bias and create meeting policies for equity. Key Points In this episode, Karin shares the definition of a hybrid meeting and why they are worth the effort.  She discusses fault lines.  She talks about technology needs and the role of platforms. She also shares keys to facilitating a hybrid meeting and how to be a good participant. Meet Karin Name: Karin Reed  Her Story: Karin Reed is the author of three books: On-Camera Coach: Tools and Techniques for Business Professionals in a Video-Driven World, and two co-written with Dr. Joseph Allen, one of the foremost thought leaders on meeting science, Suddenly Virtual: Making Remote Meetings Work, and their latest Suddenly Hybrid: Managing the Modern Meeting. She is the CEO and Chief Confidence Creator of Speaker Dynamics, a corporate communications training firm, featured in Forbes. While speaking through a webcam might be new to much of the world, Karin has been teaching business professionals how to be effective on-camera communicators for nearly a decade, translating her experience as an Emmy-award-winning broadcast journalist, on-camera spokesperson, and actress into a methodology based upon the MVPs of On-Camera Success™. Worth Mentioning: Karin and her team have been the chosen training partner for some of the world’s most recognized companies and most respected academic institutions in the world–from Nike to Lenovo, from Duke University to the Graduate School of Business at Stanford. Connect  https://www.speakerdynamics.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Karin-M.-Reed/e/B01MR1L7KY%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share This episode is brought to you by... Remarkable Masterclasses. Each masterclass is designed to help you become the remarkable leader and human you were born to be. Details on how to get on board for a specific skill or get discounts each month can be found on our website. Book Recommendations Suddenly Hybrid: Managing the Modern Meeting by Karin Reed and Joseph A. Allen Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad  Related Episodes Building Exceptional Relationships with David Bradford and Carole Robin Using Communication Tools to Transform Work Relationships with Katie McCleary 

Today I'm talking about how to lead when things get difficult. **** Sign up for our weekly newsletter, Unleashing Your Remarkable Potential: https://kevineikenberry.com/UYRP Learn more about our offerings: ➡️ FREE NEWSLETTER: Sign up for my weekly newsletter, Unleashing Your Remarkable Potential: https://kevineikenberry.com/UYRP ➡️ BOOK: Check out my latest book, The Long-Distance Teammate: https://longdistanceteammate.com/ ➡️ LEADERSHIP WORKSHOPS: Sign up for any of our online workshops to help you become a better leader: https://www.kevineikenberry.com/store/workshops/ ➡️ SPEAKING: Learn more about our Speaking opportunities for your next event: https://www.kevineikenberry.com/speaking/ Connect with Kevin Eikenberry on Social Media: https://blog.kevineikenberry.com https://kevineikenberry.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevineikenberry https://twitter.com/KevinEikenberry https://instagram.com/kevineikenberry https://www.facebook.com/KevinEikenberryFanPage/ About Kevin Eikenberry: Kevin Eikenberry is the Chief Potential Officer of the Kevin Eikenberry Group, a world expert on leadership development, best-selling author, sought-after speaker, popular blogger, husband and dad, a fan of Purdue athletics and antique tractors (especially John Deere’s). About The Remarkable Leadership Podcast: The Remarkable Leadership Podcast with Kevin Eikenberry is dedicated to all things leadership. Twice a week Kevin shares his thoughts about leadership development and ideas to help you lead more confidently and make a bigger difference for those you lead. He also has weekly conversations with leadership experts discussing a wide range of topics including teamwork, organizational culture, facilitating change, personal and organizational development, human potential and more. 

We may be more connected than ever before; yet studies show we are also lonelier. Further, research indicates that for the first time, the emerging generation (Gen Z) is feeling more isolated and lonelier than the elderly population, and this was pre-Covid. Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen share with Kevin that we underestimate how much we need connection. When people show up lonely for work, they are 7x more likely to be disengaged, 5x more likely to miss work, and twice as likely to think about quitting their job. We need to be intentional about our connections and less transactional. This episode was recorded during our Mental Fitness Day, a Virtual LeaderCon event in April 2022. Key Points In this episode, Ryan and Steven discuss loneliness in the workplace.  They share the difference between loneliness and solitude.  They talk about belonging as an antidote to loneliness. Meet Ryan and Steven Name: Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen   Their Story: Ryan Jenkins, CSP and Steven Van Cohen, MSOD are founders of LessLonely.com, the world’s #1 resource for addressing workplace loneliness and creating more belonging at work. They are also the authors of Connectable: How Leaders Can Move Teams from Isolated to All In. Collectively they have over 20 years of experience helping organizations like Coca-Cola, The Home Depot, State Farm, John Deere, Delta Air Lines and Salesforce improve their teams. Their work has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, SUCCESS, Inc., and Entrepreneur Magazine. When they are not writing and speaking, you can find them sampling craft beers, attempting to play golf together, and spending quality time with their respective families. Worth Mentioning: Dubbed "The Leadership Whisperer" Steven has inspired thousands through his workshops, keynotes, and virtual events. He is CEO of SyncLX (a consultancy that works with many Fortune 500 companies.) Ryan Jenkins CSP® (Certified Speaking Professional™), is an internationally recognized keynote speaker and three-time published author. He speaks all over the world to companies such as State Farm, Salesforce, Wells Fargo, FedEx, Liberty Mutual, and John Deere. This episode is brought to you by... Remarkable Masterclasses. Each masterclass is designed to help you become the remarkable leader and human you were born to be. Details on how to get on board for a specific skill or get discounts each month can be found on our website. Book Recommendations Connectable: How Leaders Can Move Teams From Isolated to All In by Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen Related Episodes Connecting in a Virtual World with Nick Morgan The Connector Manager with Jaime Roca Talk Shifts - Ways to Transform Leadership with Krister Ungerböck