The Remarkable Leadership Podcast

I'm asking if easy is the right goal. **** Follow me on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kevineikenberry 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. I am also the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group. We provide speaking, training, consulting, and coaching services to organizations who believe in investing in their most valuable assets – their people. Whether we are leading a training workshop, speaking to a group, facilitating a planning meeting, consulting with a leadership team, helping with team building, writing or developing products, our vision will be clear in everything we do – We want to be Your Leadership Help Button. 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.

Good leaders are clear about the direction they are going. Great leaders can communicate that direction to their team. They understand pivoting takes time. Lori Michele Leavitt shares with Kevin that clarity in direction, strategy, or change has two parts: to get clear and to be clear. It is important to stop and understand what is happening. Once we realize our fears, we can understand the fears of our team and create a message that will inspire them. Key Points Lori Michele Leavitt discusses the importance of the pause.  She defines clarity and shares tips to become clearer.  She talks about how clarity can relate to a pivot or momentum. Meet Lori Name: Lori Michele Leavitt  Her Story: Lori Michele Leavitt is the author of Pivot to Clarity: Get Clear, for You. Be Clear, for Others. This book is part of the "Orchestrating Extraordinary Momentum” (The Pivot) Series. Her first book was entitled The Pivot, which stressed that great leaders don’t expect all in their organization to turn on a dime with control or commands. She is the founder and president of Abrige Corp., which offers the Aligned Momentum (A.M.)® leadership operating system to help managers lead better. Worth Mentioning: Lori speaks globally on catalyzing momentum, leading, pivoting, and workplace culture change. When she's not writing in one of her favorite get‐away locations, she's supporting the orchestration of Pivots, decision‐making, and judgment calls for business leaders and their teams around the world. Her favorite role is as Emily’s Mom. https://linkedin.com/in/lorimicheleleavitt https://instagram.com/pivotcatalyst https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVScenEXByeda8okiHKXHQA 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. Related Episodes Leading Change Intelligently with Barbara Trautlein Pivot to Win with Jordan Babineaux Flux: How to Thrive in Times of Change with April Rinne

I'm urging you, don't be selfish with gratitude. **** Join us on November 7th for Remarkable Development: A Peer Learning Experience - https://www.kevineikenberry.com/remarkable-development-a-peer-learning-experience/ 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. I am also the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group. We provide speaking, training, consulting, and coaching services to organizations who believe in investing in their most valuable assets – their people. Whether we are leading a training workshop, speaking to a group, facilitating a planning meeting, consulting with a leadership team, helping with team building, writing or developing products, our vision will be clear in everything we do – We want to be Your Leadership Help Button. 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 lead from the head or from the heart? Bill George believes the workforce today is looking for a sense of belonging; they want you to help them fulfill their goals. He sits down with Kevin to discuss True North and shifting your mindset to serve the people who work for you. To lead from the heart, you need: to learn it all, not know it all, empathy, passion for business, and courage. Key Points Bill George shares the definition of True North.  He discusses how to discover yourself through the crucibles of leadership.  He talks about bringing other top management on the journey from “I to We”. Meet Bill Name: Bill George  His Story: Bill George is the author of Discover Your True North and The Discover Your True North Fieldbook, Authentic Leadership, True North, Finding Your True North, 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis, and True North Groups. His newest book is True North – Emerging Leader Edition. He is an executive fellow at Harvard Business School (HBS), where he has taught leadership since 2004. Worth Mentioning: Bill is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Medtronic. Under his leadership, Medtronic’s market capitalization grew from $1.1 billion to $60 billion, averaging 35 percent a year. He received the 2014 Bower Award for Business Leadership and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012. He has been named one of the Top 25 Business Leaders of the Past 25 Years by PBS, Executive of the Year by Academy of Management, and Director of the Year by National Association of Corporate Directors https://www.billgeorge.org/ 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 True North: Leading Authentically in Today's Workplace, Emerging Leader Edition by Bill George and Zach Clayton  Discover Your True North by Bill George  Related Episodes The Excellence Dividend with Tom Peters Get a Vision and Live It with Larry Olsen Creating Deep Purpose with Ranjay Gulati

Today I'm talking about getting along even when it's hard. **** Listen to my podcast episode with Amy Gallo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7GwDvJpVXQ   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 Matt Blumberg to learn about his journey toward becoming the leader he is today. Matt is the CEO of Bolster, an on-demand executive talent marketplace. He believes humans like to keep learning and thinks about a career as a jungle gym, not a ladder. Your next step could be any bar you can reach. Further, he understands the importance of culture. You will have a culture regardless, so be intentional in shaping that culture and give everyone ownership. Meet Matt Name: Matt Blumberg  His Story: Matt Blumberg is a technology entrepreneur, business builder, and CEO of Bolster. Before Bolster, Matt was founder & CEO of Return Path, the market leader in email optimization, until its sale in 2019. Under Matt’s leadership, Return Path won numerous employer of choice awards including #2 on Fortune Magazine’s “Best Companies to Work for” list. Matt is a co-author of the second edition of Startup Boards, released in June 2022. https://startupceo.com/ https://linkedin.com/in/BlumbergMatt https://twitter.com/MattBlumberg https://facebook.com/BolsterTalent 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 Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business by Matt Blumberg The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business by Patrick M. Lencioni  

Do you work with any difficult people? Research indicates when we deal with difficult people, our creativity, productivity, and engagement suffer. Conflict and stress compromise our ability to think clearly and make sound decisions. Amy Gallo joins Kevin to share practical advice about how to deal with challenging relationships. She tells us that although we have more positive and/or neutral interactions in a day, we tend to focus on the negative. We should be more empathetic and come up with different reasons why/what motivates another’s behavior. We should also take a step back to see if we are the difficult person. This episode was recorded during Virtual LeaderCon 2022. Key Points Amy Gallo shares how to have better interactions, even if it is just getting to neutral.  She discusses the “Clean up your side of the street” philosophy.  She shares types of difficult behavior with an emphasis on passive-aggressive behavior. Meet Amy Name: Amy Gallo  Her Story: Amy Gallo is the author of two books: Getting Along: How to Work With Anyone (Even Difficult People) and the HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict. She has written hundreds of articles for Harvard Business Review, where she is a contributing editor. Her writing has been collected in numerous books including ones on feedback, emotional intelligence, and managing others. She works with individuals and teams to help them better collaborate, communicate, and transform their culture to support dissent and debate. Worth Mentioning: For the past three years, Amy has co-hosted HBR’s popular Women at Work podcast, which examines the struggles and successes of women in the workplace. Amy has delivered keynotes and workshops at hundreds of companies and conferences. She has taught at Brown University and Penn and is a graduate of both Brown and Yale University. Connect with Amy Gallo https://www.amyegallo.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-gallo-31b9932/ https://twitter.com/amyegallo 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 Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People) by Amy Gallo  Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself by Nedra Glover Tawwab  Trust by Hernan Diaz  Related Episodes Connecting with Others Through Listening with Ximena Vengoechea Using Communication Tools to Transform Work Relationships with Katie McCleary

I'm talking about the boxes that we put people in. How we do it and how to avoid it. **** Take our FREE DISC assessment: https://kevineikenberry.com/DISC 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/

Do you give yourself permission to lead? Jacqueline Baker believes when we open that door, good things will happen. She thinks that there are four levels of leadership, and it starts with the leadership of self. We need to recognize our strengths as well as our challenges AND continue to get better. Further, we all have a default leadership style. For the greatest success, we need to be willing to take on new styles as the situation changes. Key Points Jacqueline Baker discusses the Unexpected Leader.  She talks about the 4 levels of leadership, with special attention to self. She shares her thoughts on leadership styles and how do you know if you are ready to lead. Meet Jacqueline Name: Jacqueline M. Baker  Her Story: Jacqueline M. Baker is the author of The Unexpected Leader: Discovering the Leader Within You and the Leader by Mistake: Becoming a Leader One Mistake at a Time. She founded Scarlet Communications, a global leadership consultancy, in 2012. With thousands of students, Fortune 500s, and community organizations across the globe, Jacqueline makes a meaningful impact with a modern, relatable, and digestible approach to leadership content creation and delivery. Jacqueline also hosts the podcast, Just Start™: From Ideas to Action. Worth Mentioning: Before launching Scarlet, Jacqueline spent nearly a decade serving in corporate leadership roles supporting companies like AT&T, Chrysler, Ford Motor Company, and AAA of Michigan. Her most recent corporate role as VP of Startup Programming at AARP Innovation Labs provided a unique opportunity to discover disruptive startups across the globe and identify ways to collaborate with one of the nation’s largest nonprofits. Additional Resources https://www.jacquelinembaker.com/ https://jacquelinembaker.com/unexpected https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacquelinembaker/ https://www.facebook.com/jacquelinemichellebaker/ https://www.twitter.com/magicaljax https://www.instagram.com/magicaljax 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 The Unexpected Leader: Discovering the Leader Within You by Jacqueline M. Baker  My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future by Indra Nooyi Say More About That: ...And Other Ways to Speak Up, Push Back, and Advocate for Yourself and Others by Amber Cabral  Related Episodes Becoming the Leader Your Team is Waiting For with Jonathan Raymond Leading with Authenticity with Sabrina Horn Talk Shifts - Ways to Transform Leadership with Krister Ungerböck

How often do you feel stifled by all the red tape? Do you ever think you could get more done if your organization wasn’t so bureaucratic? Nick Sinai tells Kevin that bureaucracy is just organizations with rules and procedures. It does not have a positive or negative connotation. However, when we take the time to understand them, we can continue to improve them. Further, you don’t need to be an executive to get things done. When people take change on themselves, they build the momentum for change. Nick shares some bureaucratic hacks to get unstuck. Key Points Nick Sinai defines bureaucracy.  He gives us some hacks, like watercooler rules, one pager, the power of the pilot, and understanding the real org chart. Meet Nick Name: Nick Sinai  His Story: Nick Sinai is the co-author of Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on Any Team with Marina Nitze. He is a venture capitalist, adjunct Harvard faculty, and a former senior White House official in the Obama Administration. As a Senior Advisor at Insight Partners, Nick serves on the board of Rebellion Defense, Hawkeye360, LeoLabs, and Shift5. Worth Mentioning: Nick writes and teaches about technology in government and serves as a commissioner on the Atlantic Council's Commission on Remaking the US Defense Innovation System. He is a regular contributor to the TV Show Government Matters and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and the Economist. Recently, Nick co-founded the U.S. Digital Corps, a new two-year federal fellowship for early-career technologists, launched in the summer of 2021. 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 Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on Any Team by Marina Nitze and Nick Sinai  Sludge: What Stops Us from Getting Things Done and What to Do about It by Cass R. Sunstein The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy by David Gelles Related Episodes Leadership Productivity Principles with Maura Thomas Inspiring Great Results with Fred Halstead Great Leaders Have No Rules with Kevin Kruse