The Remarkable Leadership Podcast

Today we're talking about complacency. Unfortunately, it's all too easy to become complacent in some area of our lives. And I've heard more than one leader say, "I've let myself slip and become complacent." So today, I'm giving us solutions. Check out this episode for five specific tips to help you combat complacency, to have more learning and be more productive and successful. From This Episode: Read the original blog post, Eight Ways to Be a Better Employee in 2018, here. Watch previous episodes here. Sign up to receive an email when we release a new Remarkable TV episode here. Learn more and listen to The Remarkable Leadership Podcast here.

Managing people is complex, amazing and messy. Carol Sanford challenges they way we think about leadership and best practices. She is the author of several books, including her latest, The Regenerative Business, which shifts our way of working so that we see innovation, financial gain, and customer loyalty while building human capacity. She tasks leaders to questions build educational infrastructure to focus on reflection. In this episode, Carol discusses 1. Promise beyond ableness. 2. Toxic best practices (and the instead).

While the title of this post is about taking ownership, in truth, it's about accountability. And accountability starts with ownership. If we want to model the right behavior for our teams, it starts with us. In this episode, I'm asking a series of question to help us think about how we are behaving and how we can help to set the right example for our team. From This Episode: Read the original blog post, Eight Ways to Be a Better Employee in 2018, here. Watch previous episodes here. Sign up to receive an email when we release a new Remarkable TV episode here.

How can we leverage differences to achieve our business goals? The idea of diversity has been around for years and we need to move beyond that to succeed. Jane Hyun, author of Flex: The New Playbook for Managing Across Differences, discusses cultural fluency to navigate across groups. This is vital today as we have seen shifts in not only the demographics of our workforce (i.e. Millennials) but with our investors, vendors, suppliers… In this episode, find out about 1. Cultural fluency. 2. Flexing. 3. Power distance.

We are all busy. Ask five people how they’ve been and I can almost guarantee that you will hear more than once, “I’ve been busy.” In fact, the idea of “busyness” has almost become a badge of honor. But the whole idea behind busy is it’s all about activity. We’re doing a bunch of stuff, a bunch of tasks. But what are we really accomplishing? We need to shift our focus from ACTIVITY to ACCOMPLISHMENTS. From This Episode: Read the original blog post, Eight Ways to Be a Better Employee in 2018, here. Watch previous episodes here. Sign up to receive an email when we release a new Remarkable TV episode here.

How do we use moments of stress to create something better? Ama Marston is co-author (with her mom) of Type R: Transformative Resilience for Thriving in a Turbulent World. She joins Kevin to discuss challenges; personal, professional, and global and skills you need to hone to bounce back. Type-R’s look to turn challenges into opportunities and find ways to grow from experiences. In this episode, learn about: Resilience vs. transformative resilience. Type-R skill sets. How leaders can nurture Type-R skills. Global implications. Additional Leadership Resources Book Recommendations: Still Life by Louise Penny Everybody Matters: My Life Giving Voice by Mary Robinson The Unnatural World: The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth's Newest Age by David Biello Learn more about Type-R Resilience. Follow Ama Marston on Twitter. Get our free report: The Secrets of Becoming a Remarkable Leader Sign up for our free video training series, 13 Days to Remarkable Leadership. Get your free copy of my inspiring e-book, 101 Ways to Unleash Your Potential.  

Respect in the workplace (and unfortunately, lack thereof) is a hot topic in the media today. And it’s an extremely important one for leaders. I’m focusing on the importance of not just being more respectful but also less judgmental – what this means to us as leaders and employees and how we can do it more successfully. From This Episode: Read the original blog post, Eight Ways to Be a Better Employee in 2018, here. Listen to and subscribe to the Remarkable Leadership Podcast here.

Paul Cummings, the author of It All Matters: 125 Strategies to Achieve Maximum Confidence, Clarity, Certainty, and Creativity, joins Kevin to talk about the power of a single decision and shares insights into some of the strategies to achieve the 4 C’s. To keep your team from getting stuck in the rut of average, you should move along the continuum from teaching to coaching to mentoring. In this episode, find out about 1. The importance of mindset for a leader. 2. How leaders can create a mindset for their teams. 3. Commitment to discipline.

No one will argue that they want to work for a selfish or ego-maniacal boss. That’s pretty basic. And…in order to ensure that we aren’t being selfish and that we are being selfless, we need to be more aware of our behavior and how it’s perceived. So today, I’m giving you simple tips for how to be more aware, more others-focused and therefore more successful overall. From This Episode: Read the original blog post, Eight Ways to Be a Better Employee in 2018, here. Watch the other two episodes in this series: Step Away From Your Computer and Be More Focused. Sign up for the 13 Days to Remarkable Leadership video series here. Learn more about our 360 Assessments here.

Leading from a distance can seem difficult, yet it is still about leadership, and the principles of leadership haven’t changed—they are principles. In this episode, Kevin is in the visitor’s seat to talk about the opportunities and challenges with leading a remote team. He gives us a preview into The Long-Distance Leader, scheduled for a June 2018 release and shares some takeaways we can implement today. In this episode, learn more about 1. Nuances of remote leadership. 2. The importance of trust and communication. 3. Challenges of remote working.