The Remarkable Leadership Podcast

Susan McPherson is a “serial connector” and suggests we need to get back to humanity. She is the author of The Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Business Relationships and shares her three-step process to building relationships. Connection is different from networking. When you connect, you are intentional, you ask meaningful questions, and you listen carefully. Authentic connections not only can help us live longer; a strong social network can add 15 years to your life. Further, a connected workforce is a productive workforce. In this episode, Susan discusses: 1. Gather, Ask, Do. 2. JOMO. 3. Five minute ask 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 Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Business Relationships by Susan McPherson Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley Ford Connect with Susan Book Website McPherson Strategies Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Related Podcast Episodes The Connectors Advantage with Michelle Tillis Lederman. The Connector Manager with Jaime Roca. Connect First with Melanie Katzman. Follow the Podcast Don’t miss an episode! Follow this podcast through the options below. Apple Podcasts Stitcher TuneIn Soundcloud RSS Or your favorite podcast app. Leave a Review If you liked this conversation, we’d be thrilled if you’d let others know by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Here’s a quick guide for posting a review. Join Our Facebook Group Join our Facebook community to network with like-minded leaders, ask us questions, suggest guests and more. We welcome your wealth of experience and hope you will join us in sharing it with others on their leadership journey. You can join the group here: facebook.com/groups/RemarkableLeadershipPodcast/

Is more better? Maybe, if we are talking about ice cream. What about if we are talking about collaboration? Rob Cross would argue that we can become overwhelmed by all the connecting and collaborating. Pre-pandemic we spent 85% of our time in collaborative activities, like e-mail, phone calls, meetings… That is higher today. Rob is the author of Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being. The book is a culmination of research on mapping the patterns of connectivity and collaboration among high performers. It’s not that they didn’t collaborate; however, they chose how they used their time and strategically connected. Rob shares why we tend to overextend ourselves and what we can do with the time we get back. Our well-being is tied to our healthy relationships and reducing the micro-stressors. In this episode, Rob shares: The unintended consequences of collaboration. Strategies to work smarter. Indicators that we are in collaboration overload. This episode is brought to you by… 13 Days to Remarkable Leadership, a free leadership video series based on Kevin’s book, Remarkable Leadership. Book Recommendations Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being by Rob Cross Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World by Vivek H. Murthy Connect with Rob Connected Commons Website LinkedIn Twitter Related Podcast Episodes Leadership Resilience with Ama Marston. The Future of Collaborative Leadership with Dr. Edward Marshall. Understanding Collaboration with Carlos Valdes-Dapena. Follow the Podcast Don’t miss an episode! Follow this podcast through the options below. Apple Podcasts Stitcher TuneIn Soundcloud RSS Or your favorite podcast app. Leave a Review If you liked this conversation, we’d be thrilled if you’d let others know by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Here’s a quick guide for posting a review. Join Our Facebook Group Join our Facebook community to network with like-minded leaders, ask us questions, suggest guests and more. We welcome your wealth of experience and hope you will join us in sharing it with others on their leadership journey. You can join the group here: facebook.com/groups/RemarkableLeadershipPodcast/

We find purpose in life through our work. We spend half of our waking life at work. Wouldn’t it be great to find purpose and meaning while getting stuff done? Dr. Roger Hall is the author of Staying Happy, Being Productive: The Big 10 Things Successful People Do. As a psychologist, he has been able to study the lives of successful people over 25 years. He has found that there are ten common habits of his most successful clients. Roger trains leaders to monitor and manage their thinking. He shares with Kevin if you discipline your thinking, emotions will follow, and then behavior. This can improve not only your life but the lives of your family or team. In this episode, Dr. Hall discusses: Thought life. Sleep and rest life. Work life. 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 Staying Happy, Being Productive: The Big 10 Things Successful People Do by Roger Hall The Promise of Sleep: A Pioneer in Sleep Medicine Explores the Vital Connection Between Health, Happiness, and a Good Night’s Sleep by William Dement The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson How Propaganda Works by Jason Stanley Connect with Dr. Roger Hall Dr. Roger Hall’s Website LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Instagram Related Podcast Episodes Leadership Productivity Principles with Maura Thomas. Creating Happiness in the Workplace with Kris Boesch. Putting Happiness to Work with Eric Karpinski. Follow the Podcast Don’t miss an episode! Follow this podcast through the options below. Apple Podcasts Stitcher TuneIn Soundcloud RSS Or your favorite podcast app. Leave a Review If you liked this conversation, we’d be thrilled if you’d let others know by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Here’s a quick guide for posting a review. Join Our Facebook Group Join our Facebook community to network with like-minded leaders, ask us questions, suggest guests and more. We welcome your wealth of experience and hope you will join us in sharing it with others on their leadership journey. You can join the group here: facebook.com/groups/RemarkableLeadershipPodcast/

While enjoying a late-night snack, Raúl Sánchez and Dan Bullock came to the realization everyone sees the same pattern in the stars. Other places and cultures may label it differently, yet they see the same alignment. They wanted to look at patterns in communication. As organizations become more global, communication becomes that much more important. This holds for public speaking, writing e-mails, or negotiating contracts. Sánchez and Bullock are the authors of How to Communicate Effectively with Anyone, Anywhere. They discuss what is implied in conversation/writing and who is responsible for the messaging. In the end, it isn’t about us. As leaders, we are more effective if we use positive language and present the information for more than one sense (ethos, pathos, logos). In this episode, Bullock and Sánchez discuss: Overall principles of effective communication. Global English. 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 How to Communicate Effectively with Anyone, Anywhere by Raúl Sánchez and Dan Bullock The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Hero of a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell/li> Ultralearning: Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career by Scott Young Connect with Raúl Sánchez and Dan Bullock Connecting Globally’s Website Dan Bullock’s LinkedIn Raúl Sánchez’ LinkedIn Connecting Globally Twitter Connecting Globally Instagram Related Podcast Episodes Connecting in a Virtual World with Nick Morgan. Connect First with Melanie Katzman. Leadership, Communication and Credibility with Jack Modzelewski. The New Global Manager with Melissa Lamson. Follow the Podcast Don’t miss an episode! Follow this podcast through the options below. Apple Podcasts Stitcher TuneIn Soundcloud RSS Or your favorite podcast app. Leave a Review If you liked this conversation, we’d be thrilled if you’d let others know by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Here’s a quick guide for posting a review. Join Our Facebook Group Join our Facebook community to network with like-minded leaders, ask us questions, suggest guests and more. We welcome your wealth of experience and hope you will join us in sharing it with others on their leadership journey. You can join the group here: facebook.com/groups/RemarkableLeadershipPodcast/

Virtual LeaderCon 2020 gave The Kevin Eikenberry Group the opportunity to bring together 30 of the world’s top leadership experts to talk about the most pressing and emerging leadership and learning topics. We know 2020 was touch and this was our way to continue to support leadership development. As we prepare for Virtual LeaderCon 2021, because whether you are leading a remote, hybrid, or face-to-face team, our goal is to help individual leaders and organizations learn the skills to keep moving forward Kevin is sharing his daily inspiration from the 2020 event all about: It’s OK to disagree. You can sign up for Virtual LeaderCon 2021 at https://virtualleadercon.com/. Follow the Podcast Don’t miss an episode! Follow this podcast through the options below. Apple Podcasts Stitcher TuneIn Soundcloud RSS Or your favorite podcast app. Leave a Review If you liked this conversation, we’d be thrilled if you’d let others know by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Here’s a quick guide for posting a review. Join Our Facebook Group Join our Facebook community to network with like-minded leaders, ask us questions, suggest guests and more. We welcome your wealth of experience and hope you will join us in sharing it with others on their leadership journey. You can join the group here: facebook.com/groups/RemarkableLeadershipPodcast/

It is important to understand what drives you to get out of bed in the morning. It is just as important to understand the motivation of your team. Christopher Coultas, along with his team at Leadership Worth Following, is the author of Driven Not Drained: Discover Your Path to Career Happiness, Effectiveness, and Influence. Chris shares the six components of the DriV model, which was designed to understand the why behind the what. With each component, there are competing priorities. For example, if you score high in productivity, you get your energy by doing things. This can become an issue as you move up the corporate ladder and find that you are delegating more tasks. Chris suggests understanding your drivers and drainers can help you find greater satisfaction in your job. Knowing what drives and drains your team can lead to more productivity and a better bottom line. In this episode, Kevin and Chris discuss: Driven vs. drained. Drained vs. burnout. The DriV model. Team culture and drivers. 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 Driven Not Drained: Discover Your Path to Career Happiness, Effectiveness, and Influence by Christopher Coultas and Leadership Worth Following Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism by Scott Hahn Ph.D., and Kimberly Hahn Connect with Christopher Coultas Leadership Worth Following Website Driven Not Drained Book Website Christopher Coultas’ LinkedIn Related Podcast Episodes Understanding the Style of Others with Guy Harris. How Being Yourself Makes You a Better Leader with Minter Dial. Beating Burnout at Work with Paula Davis. Follow the Podcast Don’t miss an episode! Follow this podcast through the options below. Apple Podcasts Stitcher TuneIn Soundcloud RSS Or your favorite podcast app. Leave a Review If you liked this conversation, we’d be thrilled if you’d let others know by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Here’s a quick guide for posting a review. Join Our Facebook Group Join our Facebook community to network with like-minded leaders, ask us questions, suggest guests and more. We welcome your wealth of experience and hope you will join us in sharing it with others on their leadership journey. You can join the group here: facebook.com/groups/RemarkableLeadershipPodcast/

Virtual LeaderCon 2020 gave The Kevin Eikenberry Group the opportunity to bring together 30 of the world’s top leadership experts to talk about the most pressing and emerging leadership and learning topics. We know 2020 was touch and this was our way to continue to support leadership development. As we prepare for Virtual LeaderCon 2021, because whether you are leading a remote, hybrid, or face-to-face team, our goal is to help individual leaders and organizations learn the skills to keep moving forward Kevin is sharing his daily inspiration from the 2020 event all about: Clear is kind. Sign up for Virtual LeaderCon 2021 at https://virtualleadercon.com/. Follow the Podcast Don’t miss an episode! Follow this podcast through the options below. Apple Podcasts Stitcher TuneIn Soundcloud RSS Or your favorite podcast app. Leave a Review If you liked this conversation, we’d be thrilled if you’d let others know by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Here’s a quick guide for posting a review. Join Our Facebook Group Join our Facebook community to network with like-minded leaders, ask us questions, suggest guests and more. We welcome your wealth of experience and hope you will join us in sharing it with others on their leadership journey. You can join the group here: facebook.com/groups/RemarkableLeadershipPodcast/

What is the culture of your organization? It’s a fair question and can be puzzling. We attribute an unengaged workforce or misalignment of values to the culture. Yet, we seem to fall short of building the culture we want. Mario Moussa and Derek Newberry are the authors of The Culture Puzzle: Harnessing the Forces That Drive Your Organization’s Success. They share with Kevin that, too often, we think of culture as an afterthought. We share our vision, build the team, and then create the culture. However, culture happens when you put the people together. Culture is about the stories. Culture is dynamic and fluid and can change overnight (just think back to March 2020). They share the four forces that drive culture: vision, interest, habit, and innovation. They also recognize that anyone can influence culture. In this episode, Mario and Derek discuss Anthropology and organizational culture. Misconceptions about culture. 4 forces that drive culture. Thoughts about culture in a post pandemic world. This episode is brought to you by… From Manager to Remarkable Leader, Kevin’s Flagship workshop based on his proven leadership model. Additional Leadership Resources Book Recommendations: The Culture Puzzle: Harnessing the Forces That Drive Your Organization’s Success by Moussa, Newberry, and Urban Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life by Gillian Tett In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway Connect with Moussa and Newberry: Moussa Consulting | More About Derek Newberry | Mario Moussa’s LinkedIn | Derek Newberry’s LinkedIn Related Podcast Episodes: The Power of Corporate Culture with Chris Dyer. Answering the Culture Question with Eric Stutzman. Being More Intentionally Contagious with Anese Cavanaugh. Creating Courageous Cultures with Karin Hurt and David Dye. Follow the Podcast Don’t miss an episode! Follow this podcast through the options below. Apple Podcasts Stitcher TuneIn Soundcloud RSS Or your favorite podcast app. Leave a Review If you liked this conversation, we’d be thrilled if you’d let others know by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Here’s a quick guide for posting a review. Join Our Facebook Group Join our Facebook community to network with like-minded leaders, ask us questions, suggest guests and more. We welcome your wealth of experience and hope you will join us in sharing it with others on their leadership journey. You can join the group here: facebook.com/groups/RemarkableLeadershipPodcast/

Virtual LeaderCon 2020 gave The Kevin Eikenberry Group the opportunity to bring together 30 of the world’s top leadership experts to talk about the most pressing and emerging leadership and learning topics. We know 2020 was touch and this was our way to continue to support leadership development. As we prepare for Virtual LeaderCon 2021, because whether you are leading a remote, hybrid, or face-to-face team, our goal is to help individual leaders and organizations learn the skills to keep moving forward Kevin is sharing his daily inspiration from the 2020 event all about: As leaders, we are leading by example. You still have time to sign up for Virtual LeaderCon 2021 at https://virtualleadercon.com/. Follow the Podcast Don’t miss an episode! Follow this podcast through the options below. Apple Podcasts Stitcher TuneIn Soundcloud RSS Or your favorite podcast app. Leave a Review If you liked this conversation, we’d be thrilled if you’d let others know by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Here’s a quick guide for posting a review. Join Our Facebook Group Join our Facebook community to network with like-minded leaders, ask us questions, suggest guests and more. We welcome your wealth of experience and hope you will join us in sharing it with others on their leadership journey. You can join the group here: facebook.com/groups/RemarkableLeadershipPodcast/

Are you exhausted? Maybe you are feeling a bit cynical? These can be signs of burnout. Paula Davis defines burnout as the manifestation over time of chronic workplace stress. Paula is the author of BEATING BURNOUT AT WORK: Why Teams Hold the Secret to Well-Being and Resilience. She tells Kevin that pre-pandemic, we were suffering high levels of burnout and, it has only accelerated during the pandemic. Although we typically associate burnout at the individual level, Davis suggests that this is an organizational issue. Leaders first need to recognize their role in causing or preventing burnout. You can influence change at the team level, where leaders can do small things that create a culture of well-being. In this episode, Paula: Differentiates burnout vs. stress. Shares why team are the secret. Talks about how to diagnose burnout. 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. Additional Leadership Resources Book Recommendations: Beating Burnout at Work: Why Teams Hold the Secret to Well-Being and Resilience by Paula Davis A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload by Cal Newport Connect with Paula Davis: Book Website | Twitter | LinkedIn | Instagram Related Podcast Episodes: Leadership Resilience with Ama Marston. The Hot Sauce Principle with Brandon Smith. Wellbeing at Work with Jim Harter. Follow the Podcast Don’t miss an episode! Follow this podcast through the options below. Apple Podcasts Stitcher TuneIn Soundcloud RSS Or your favorite podcast app. Leave a Review If you liked this conversation, we’d be thrilled if you’d let others know by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Here’s a quick guide for posting a review. Join Our Facebook Group Join our Facebook community to network with like-minded leaders, ask us questions, suggest guests and more. We welcome your wealth of experience and hope you will join us in sharing it with others on their leadership journey. You can join the group here: facebook.com/groups/RemarkableLeadershipPodcast/