The Remarkable Leadership Podcast

As a leader, you want to get the most out of your team. You want to have a positive impact on your team. You don’t want to be just an OK leader; you want to be a great leader. Dr. Adam Bandelli joins Kevin to discuss the leadership competencies he believes will enhance your influence and effectiveness as a leader. For example, compassion is your ability to communicate and build relationships. Regardless of where you are in your journey, these skills will change the way you lead, for the better. Key Points Dr. Bandelli shares with Kevin how he developed the 10 competencies as well as advice on how to use the model. He shares the competencies. He discusses how you can build endurance. He explains how you can create a vision, even if you are not the CEO. Meet Adam Name: Dr. Adam Bandelli His Story: Adam C. Bandelli, Ph.D. is the author of What Every Leader Needs: The Ten Universal and Indisputable Competencies of Leadership Effectiveness. He is the Managing Director of Bandelli & Associates, a boutique consulting firm focusing on leadership advisory services and organizational effectiveness. Worth Mentioning: Before founding Bandelli & Associates, Adam was a Partner at Korn Ferry, where he led the Private Equity assessment practice for North America. Earlier in his career, he was a Partner at RHR International, where he served as one of the firm’s leaders on Board and CEO Succession, High Potential Development, Senior Team Effectiveness, and Executive Assessments. This episode is brought to you by… The Daily Email, daily inspiration for leaders sent Monday-Friday every week. Kevin writes a short message to inform, inspire, engage, and focus you on becoming the best you and the best leader you can be. Book Recommendations What Every Leader Needs: The Ten Universal and Indisputable Competencies of Leadership Effectiveness by Dr. Adam C. Bandelli Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time by Keith Ferrazzi and Tahl Raz Related Podcast Episodes The Leader Habit with Martin Lanik. Scaling Leadership with Robert J. Anderson. Cracking the Leadership Code with Alain Hunkins.

If you’ve ever been driving in the United States on an interstate, every so often, you’ll see a sign that has a number on it, a mile marker. You’re probably familiar with those. They didn’t originate in the U.S. and in modern times, but rather during Roman times. Marking progress on the journey with milestones makes sense, right? Well, today we use milestones much more often in things like project management to help us plan out our projects and see how we’re doing against plan. That’s how we typically think about milestones, but I think that there are really five ways that we can look at milestones and five ways that milestones can help us. Milestones are a planning tool. Milestones are goals. Milestones drive momentum. Milestones create perspective. Milestones are a chance to celebrate. In this episode, we’ll dive deeper into these five ways that milestones can help you be a better leader and a better human. Tweet it out: Milestones are more than a planning tool. Use the crossing of milestones as a way to create perspective, drive momentum and provide a chance to celebrate. @KevinEikenberry In this episode: Learn more about Kevin’s Daily Email and subscribe here.

Have you thought about changing people? Maybe, the way they hand in reports. Maybe, it’s the way they show up for a meeting. Now the question becomes, can you change people? That isn’t so easy to answer and definitely isn’t easy to do. Howie Jacobson joins Kevin to discuss resistance to change. He says change is just a discontinuity of the past. The hard part is the change we can’t control. He talks about the powers we need to activate and to remember it’s not about us. Key Points Howie discusses why people resist change. He shares 4 powers to help change, which include: Ownership Independent capability Emotional courage Future proofing He talks about the 4 steps to help others get to change. Meet Howie Name: Howie Jacobson His Story: Howie Jacobson is the co-author, with Peter Bregman, of You Can Change Other People: The Four Steps to Help Your Colleagues, Employees—Even Family—Up Their Game. He is an executive coach to clients ranging from startup founders to established and rising Fortune 100 leaders. He is Director of Coaching at Bregman Partners, and Head Coach at the Healthy Minds Initiative. Worth Mentioning: Howie hosts the Plant Yourself Podcast, where he interviews remarkable people engaged in healing at the individual, institutional, and planetary level. Howie earned his M.P.H. and Ph.D. in Health Studies from Temple University and his B.A. from Princeton University. He lives in rural North Carolina with his wife, where he writes, gardens, plays Ultimate Frisbee, runs, fiddles, and loads the dishwasher correctly. This episode is brought to you by… The Daily Email, daily inspiration for leaders sent Monday-Friday every week. Kevin writes a short message to inform, inspire, engage, and focus you on becoming the best you and the best leader you can be. Book Recommendations You Can Change Other People: The Four Steps to Help Your Colleagues, Employees—Even Family—Up Their Game by Howie Jacobson and Peter Bregman Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta Related Podcast Episodes Flourishing as a Leader and Coach with Lisa Zigarmi. The Coaching Effect with Bill Eckstrom.

Most of us have plenty of goals that we set in our lives – health, financial, personal. And today we’re talking about team goals or organizational goals. But before we get to that, I want you to think about it as a team member, as an individual contributor. Have you ever had someone hand you a goal? And if that’s ever happened to you, how did that feel? Did you feel much ownership of it? Did you feel like you really wanted to achieve it? How successful were you in achieving it? When I worked in corporate America, I can remember goals being handed to me and I had more questions than answers. You see, for us as leaders, it’s often easier to simply hand a goal to our team. But when we set goals collaboratively, we can get a lot of other great benefits. In this episode, I’m sharing why you should set goals collaboratively with your team. Tweet it out: Accountability isn’t a dirty word – though some act like it is. Being accountable is simply taking ownership and responsibility. When we talk about it all the time – and not just when things go badly – people won’t think accountable is a dirty word after all. @KevinEikenberry In this episode: Subscribe to the Remarkable Leadership Podcast.  

You know who they are. The teammates we turn to in critical minutes. They are clutch and they make an impact. You also know that being impactful doesn’t come with a title. Kevin is joined Liz Wiseman to discuss her research and findings of impact players. She shares the characteristics of top contributors and what they are doing differently than the rest. Key Points Liz distinguishes impact players and why it is more than just talent and drive. She shares the 5 practices of impact players, which include: Do the job that’s needed. Step up and lead. Move things across the finish line. Learn and adapt to change. Make heavy loads lighter. She shares the practice with the most leverage. Meet Liz Name: Liz Wiseman Her Story: Liz Wiseman is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. Her latest book is Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact. She is the CEO of the Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm. Worth Mentioning: Liz has been listed on the Thinkers50 ranking and named one of the top 10 leadership thinkers in the world. She has conducted significant research in the field of leadership and collective intelligence and writes for Harvard Business Review, Fortune, and a variety of other business and leadership journals. This episode is brought to you by… The Daily Email, daily inspiration for leaders sent Monday-Friday every week. Kevin writes a short message to inform, inspire, engage, and focus you on becoming the best you and the best leader you can be. Book Recommendations Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact by Liz Wiseman See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur Related Podcast Episodes Skills Leaders Need with Dave Kerpen. The Power of Deliberate Practice with Robert Pool. Understanding Power with Deborah Gruenfeld.

“The great resignation.” It’s a hot topic right now and it’s mostly been discussed as as a macroeconomic concept. What is it doing to organizations? What’s causing it? What can organizations do about it? In this episode of Remarkable TV, I want to talk about “the great resignation” as a microeconomic concept, really more as a personal concept. And I’m starting with the question: why did people resign? I’m going to give you a simple and nonpolitical answer. People resigned and the great resignation started simply because people weren’t finding what they wanted from their work or career. And while I don’t know your situation, it’s highly likely that if you haven’t joined “the great resignation”, there’s a chance you’re either thinking of it or will be in the future – either for yourself personally or as to how it will affect your organization and your team. And I’m starting with three important questions for you to think about: 1. What do I love about my work? 2. Where can I find more of that? 3. what are my priorities related to life and work? As I said above, these questions are important whether you’re thinking of “the great resignation” personally or organizationally. Check out this episode. Tweet it out: The Great Resignation matters to everyone — even if you love your job and don’t plan to resign. Time spent thinking about what you want from your work will always be valuable and never go out of style. @KevinEikenberry In this episode: Subscribe to the Future of Work Newsletter.

The frontline is where the work happens. When you get the work done correctly and on time (if not faster), your organization is successful. If there are too many layers of leadership and you are waiting for directions from the top, you may miss opportunities. Eric Strafel joins Kevin to discuss the importance of empowering your frontline team to make decisions. If they understand the why, and if they know where the organization is going, they will make the best decisions for your organization. Key Points Eric defines his meaning of a frontline CEO. He shares his thoughts around empowerment and why it seems like few organizations or leaders do it. He discusses the role of radical transparency. He also discusses the importance of creating a learning organization. Meet Eric Name: Eric Strafel His Story: Eric Strafel is the author of The Frontline CEO: Turn Employees into Decision Makers Who Innovate Solutions, Win Customers, and Boost Profits. He is also the founder of the consulting firm SUMMi7, which helps businesses grow profits and scale innovation with mission-driven purposes. Worth Mentioning: Eric holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S in Mechanical Engineering from Binghamton University. In addition to his writings on leadership and experience leading diverse teams, Eric is an advisor to The Study USA, where he works to empower women-led businesses and next-generation entrepreneurs through collaboration with academic partners, companies, and the local community. This episode is brought to you by… Unleashing Your Remarkable Potential, Kevin’s free weekly e-newsletter. It’s full of articles and resources to help you become a more confident and successful leader.   Book Recommendations The Frontline CEO: Turn Employees into Decision Makers Who Innovate Solutions, Win Customers, and Boost Profits by Eric Strafel Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs by John Doerr Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear Related Podcast Episodes Leading Through Core Values with Dina Dwyer-Owens . Unleashing Empowerment Leadership with Frances Frei.

How we think about mental health and mental illness has changed a lot in my lifetime societally. More and more awareness of mental illness is emerging, and while this is really good, unfortunately, there’s actually more mental illness than ever. People are willing to talk about it, but there’s all sorts of factors like anxiety and loneliness and other factors that are causing the amount of mental illness to grow or the level of mental illness across society to grow. In this episode of Remarkable TV, I’m talking about a related topic: mental fitness. Just like we think about physical fitness as a way to help us be more physically healthy and avoid physical illness, we can do the same with mental fitness. In the episode I’m sharing four ways to help you do this. Tweet it out: What will you do today to become more mentally fit? @KevinEikenberry In this episode: Subscribe to the Future of Work Newsletter.

We are living in uncertain times. This is true and we could probably say this of any time we have lived in. The difference is we are more connected now and we see more information. So, the risk and uncertainty that seemed to be episodic were always there and we need to accept this reality. Larry Robertson joins Kevin to talk about risk, uncertainty, leadership, and mindsets. We need to recognize the status quo is harder to come by and we should use uncertainty as the secret ingredient to shake things up. Key Points Larry shares his thoughts as to why things seem more uncertain than before. He describes the new normal. He discusses a rebel leadership mindset and how it helps us thrive. He talks about the stability of organizational culture. Meet Larry Name: Larry Robertson His Story: Larry Robertson is the author of Rebel Leadership: How to Thrive in Uncertain Times in addition to The Language of Man and A Deliberate Pause. He is a Fulbright Scholar, and a popular columnist with Inc. Magazine, The Creativity Post, CEOWorld Magazine, and SmartBrief Worth Mentioning: From a leadership standpoint, Larry offers a distinct 360-degree perspective on the topic. He has been a leader or part of leader teams; invested in and/or advised leaders; done deep research into not just leadership, but the closely related areas of creativity and entrepreneurship. This episode is brought to you by… The Daily Email, daily inspiration for leaders sent Monday-Friday every week. Kevin writes a short message to inform, inspire, engage, and focus you on becoming the best you and the best leader you can be. Book Recommendations Rebel Leadership: How to Thrive in Uncertain Times by Larry Robertson Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada’s Arctic by Adam Shoalts Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map by Rick Ridgeway Related Podcast Episodes Leading Change Intelligently with Barbara Trautlein. Helping People Change with Melvin Smith. Growing People and Companies Through Change with Stacy Henry.

Atticus Finch, Atticus Finch, you might immediately know who I mean and you might be thinking, I should know that name, shouldn’t I? Well, Atticus Finch is the protagonist in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. If you haven’t read it, you’ve probably seen the movie. If you haven’t done either, you should go watch it or go read it now. But there’s a line in the book, and I believe in the movie as well, where Atticus Finch says you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view. How often do you do that? I mean, how often do you step back from your own perspective and look at it from someone else’s perspective? This is a very powerful lesson for us to consider. And in this episode here, I’m sharing two different ways to help broaden your perspective. Tweet it out: Remember and apply the lesson of Atticus Finch – ‘You never really understand a person until you consider their point of view.’ @KevinEikenberry In this episode: Subscribe to the Remarkable Leadership Podcast.