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.
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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.
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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.
When we talk about organizational change, we think about long meetings, lots of slides, and confusion on the goals. Further, we often default to how long will it take and how much will it cost me? Not to mention the change leaders are left to find for themselves. Brendon Baker shares with Kevin that to be successful, we need to ask different questions and continue to monitor and nurture the change.
Future of Work Newsletter, a free weekly e-newsletter. It’s full of articles and resources to help you, your team and your organization be more successful in the ever-changing remote work environment.
When we talk about organizational change, we think about long meetings, lots of slides, and confusion on the goals. Further, we often default to how long will it take and how much will it cost me? Not to mention the change leaders are left to find for themselves. Brendon Baker shares with Kevin that to be successful, we need to ask different questions and continue to monitor and nurture the change.
Future of Work Newsletter, a free weekly e-newsletter. It’s full of articles and resources to help you, your team and your organization be more successful in the ever-changing remote work environment.
This is the last and fourth in a series of episodes about four-letter words. But don’t worry – this and all the other episodes carry a G rating. You can watch the other episodes here.
As the title of this post says, I am talking about the longest four-letter word. So technically, it’s not a four-letter word. But since this series is about “dirty” words, and we often think of dirty words as four-letter words, we are including it in this series.
The longest four-letter word is accountable. And I’m considering it a four-letter word here because most of the time when we hear it, it’s associated with things going wrong.
And as a leader, it’s up to us to change this bad association/assumption and help empower our team instead.
But this won’t happen overnight. We’ve heard this word used negatively for a long time and if we’re going to change its connotation, we must change the way we use it. You must not only use it when things are going badly, you must not only use it with the word “hold” in front of it.
Not I’m going to hold you accountable, but rather I’m going to help you be accountable. I’m going to help you take ownership. I’m going to help you be empowered. Changing it and using it carefully. Changing it and using it differently.
Most of the problems we face today are messy, complex, and have no correct answer. Further, we have no precedence of how to solve them. Kevin chats with Sarah Stein Greenberg, who suggests who shares practical and maybe unusual ways to help you tackle the challenges you face. It is critical to have a curious mind and be intentional with your actions.
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Most of the problems we face today are messy, complex, and have no correct answer. Further, we have no precedence of how to solve them. Kevin chats with Sarah Stein Greenberg, who shares practical and maybe unusual ways to help you tackle the challenges you face. It is critical to have a curious mind and be intentional with your actions.
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.
In this episode, we’re talking about a four letter word, a four letter word to be careful with.
And that word is lazy.
Lazy is a word of judgment. It’s something that we see inside of their behavior. It’s something that we infer about their intentions.
Like just because someone’s laying on their couch right now, does that necessarily mean they’re lazy? I don’t know. All I know is there’s a difference between judging and observing, and the word lazy is typically used as a word of judgment.
So we use it on others. And then once we’ve labeled them as lazy, it changes our perspective about them and we use it on ourselves. Now, I used to say to myself, if I didn’t get up, when I’d plan to that I’m lazy.
Now I try to remember to say not that I’m lazy but that I didn’t get up when I planned to. Those are two different things. They have two different inferences about myself. And so here’s my point. The word lazy is a label that rarely serves us, whether we’re thinking about ourselves or whether we’re thinking about someone else.
Because the fact is, we’ve all been lazy. But no one is always lazy. Lazy is a choice or maybe a habit, but it’s not a character trait.
We are social beings and our relationships with others are critical to our happiness. That is just one of the ways that Beverly Jones shares on how we can get unstuck and create fulfillment and happiness. She tells Kevin that what works for us as individuals is just as important for leaders. When you manage your happiness, you are more empathetic and better able to motivate your team.
Future of Work Newsletter, a free weekly e-newsletter. It’s full of articles and resources to help you, your team and your organization be more successful in the ever-changing remote work environment.
We are social beings and our relationships with others are critical to our happiness. That is just one of the ways that Beverly Jones shares on how we can get unstuck and create fulfillment and happiness. She tells Kevin that what works for us as individuals is just as important for leaders. When you manage your happiness, you are more empathetic and better able to motivate your team.
Future of Work Newsletter, a free weekly e-newsletter. It’s full of articles and resources to help you, your team and your organization be more successful in the ever-changing remote work environment.
This is the second in a series of videos on four-letter words. This might shock my Grandmother – that is until she watched them to see what these words are and are not. 🙂
The last video was on the most dangerous four-letter word (You can watch that here). And this video is on the hardest four-letter word. Today we’re talking about WORK.
Tweet it out: Your perspective on the word work is an indicator of what you will achieve in life. @KevinEikenberry
What do you do when you don’t know what to do? If the past has taught us anything, it is the future is unstable. Further, we like the change we opt into, but struggle with the change we can’t control. April Rinne joins Kevin to discuss why we should focus on preparing for the future, not predicting the future.
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Bet you weren’t expecting a video title like that on this podcast?!
Well, don’t worry. The episode and the entire topic is totally SFW (safe for work – and anywhere for that matter!) In fact, the four-letter word I’m talking about in the video below is one we hear ALL THE TIME. And in the episode, I’ll explain why it’s so dangerous and how you can ban it from your vocabulary for good!
Do you want compliance, or do you want engagement? Jeremie Kubicek joins Kevin to discuss how we need more leaders worth following. There is a balance of support (not coddling) and challenge (not demeaning) to get the most from your team. Quite frankly, if you are leading and no one is following, you are just going on a walk.
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Today I am challenging your thinking on how you give and receive feedback. And I’m starting by asking you:
How do you see feedback? Do you see feedback as a gift?
Your answer to these questions will help determine how successful you are in both giving and receiving feedback.
We are firmly planted in the digital age. As such, the rules of competition are vastly different from just 20 years ago. Ram Charan joins Kevin to talk about the “new” rules of competition. He also encourages us to ask ourselves each morning how we can use our day and how we can make the people around us more successful. This episode was recorded during Virtual LeaderCon 2021.
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There are a lot of easy reasons that everyone should practice more gratitude, but that is a different episode. In the episode below, I am talking about the value of gratitude as it relates to leaders, and more specifically:
Why are the best leaders the ones who are grateful and regularly show gratitude?
Tweet it out: So many of the things we want as a leader can improve when we show gratitude and appreciation to our team. @KevinEikenberry
Maybe Dr. Seuss said it best, “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Jeff Brown joins Kevin to discuss why leaders are the best readers. He shares a plan to help you get into the habit of reading and gives you permission to move away from a book if it does not serve you.
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Are you a victim or a victor? Perhaps we need to start out by defining these terms first.
A victim (for the purposes of this episode) is when someone feels hopeless or incapable of changing the outcome of their situation.
A victor (again for the purposes of this episode) is when you feel as though you have influence and can change the outcome.
Sometimes it’s easier to distinguish between the two when it’s someone else you’re asking the question about…
Tweet it out: We can choose to be a victor in the moment or a victim of our circumstances. Which will you choose? @KevinEikenberry
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Kevin shares the top downloaded episodes of 2021. As he recounts each episode, he shares his lessons learned from the conversation.
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You’ve heard of helicopter parents, right?
These well-intentioned parents tend to hover over their children (like a helicopter) and typically take too much responsibility for their children’s experiences and lives. They of course do this out of love, to protect their children.
Have you ever had a helicopter boss? Again, likely out of good intentions, but their behavior probably felt more like they were overly involved in your job and responsibilities. And I can probably guess that you did not enjoy working for a helicopter boss…
So in today’s episode, I have three questions to ask yourself to help determine if YOU’RE a helicopter boss and to help you watch your behavior so that you are leading your team as effectively and as successfully as you can.
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Unfortunately, many organizations have the mindset that their people are just numbers, data points for financial game. And in the short term, that may work. Ryan Stelzer and David Brendel join Kevin to discuss not only why we need to build workspaces fit for humans (think long term success), but some suggestions on how we get there.
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Culture is a much-used word, at work and in our personal lives. And it’s usually over-complicated.
In this episode, I’m sharing a story from my family’s past to help you better (and more simply) understand exactly what culture is and isn’t.
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Do you think about how much you could get done if you were unburdened from busy work? Juliet Funt joins Kevin to talk about the difference between activity and productivity and what we could accomplish if we just had a minute to think. This episode was recorded during Virtual LeaderCon 2021.
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