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The Remarkable Leadership Podcast with Kevin Eikenberry is dedicated to all things leadership. Each week Kevin shares his thoughts about leadership development and ideas to help you see the world differently, 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.
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May 4, 2022
Communication is important and persuasive writing is a skill anyone can possess. Colonel Carla Bass joins Kevin to discuss what good writing does. Good writing helps influence. This includes budget approvals, appropriation of funds, and promotions, to name a few. Carla suggests finding the fun in writing. Everyone is a storyteller; you know the journey for your audience.

Key Points

  • Carla Bass discusses influence as the goal of our writing.
  • She shares advice on the “right” length of the message and the importance of outlines.
  • She provides word sculpting tools, like verbs are your friends and don’t use the words that hog space.

Meet Carla

  • Name: Colonel Carla Bass, USAF (Ret)
  • Her Story: Colonel Carla D. Bass, USAF (Ret), is the author of the multiple award-winning book Write to Influence! now in its second edition. Throughout her 45-year career (30 in the Air Force and 15 with a federal agency), she composed items sent to Congress, the White House, generals, and ambassadors; hundreds of performance reviews; awards nominations; and budget justifications. Carla’s assignments included Germany, Bulgaria (as the defense and air attaché), Turkey, Korea, and Washington, D.C.
  • Worth Mentioning: As a squadron commander, Carla transformed her 480-person unit from the most losing in state-wide, professional awards into the one to beat. She developed her writing methodology and taught her troops to write. So successful was her program, she taught thousands of Air Force members for the next 15 years. Her battle cries are twofold: 1) “Powerful writing changes lives” and 2) “Powerful writing is the lifeblood of successful organizations”.

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Apr 29, 2022

Change is hard. It doesn’t usually come naturally. And at the end of the day, when we change we have made a choice.

And as leaders, when we are trying to lead change at work, we are asking our team to be “all in” – to make a choice to change.

Unfortunately, most change leadership communication is about the change itself. This is important of course, but we’re missing three key components when we’re communicating about change. Check out the video below to see what you might be missing in your change leadership.

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Apr 27, 2022
Are you successful? Do you know that success can lead to complacency? Complacency can decrease productivity, create mistakes, and impact the bottom line – it costs money. Len Herstein sits down with Kevin to discuss the dangers of complacency and why vigilance enables us to remain successful. Self-awareness is a start. When we become predictable, either personally or in our organizations, it becomes easier for a competitor to take over. We need to be strategically unpredictable and develop habits that minimize overconfidence.

Key Points

  • Len Herstein discusses complacency vs. vigilance and how we notice if we are becoming overconfident.
  • He shares the OODA loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act).
  • He talks about metrics and unintended consequences.

Meet Len

  • Name: Len Herstein
  • His Story: Len is the author of Be Vigilant! Strategies to Stop Complacency, Improve Performance, and Safeguard Success. He is on a mission to empower organizations and individuals to protect the success they’ve worked so hard to achieve. Len has a 30+ year history in business, marketing, and entrepreneurism–working in brand marketing for Coca-Cola, The Campbell Soup Company, and Nabisco before founding Manage Camp (a business conference producer).
  • Worth Mentioning: In 2015, Len answered a higher calling to public service when he became a Reserve Sheriff’s Deputy in Douglas County, Colorado, where he works up to 850 hours a year as a state-certified peace officer on the patrol team – for free. Len quickly realized he was learning valuable lessons through his law enforcement training that applied directly back to his business. The most important lesson, and one of the very first he learned, was the concept that complacency kills, and vigilance saves

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Apr 22, 2022

Routines are wonderful things. When we have a routine, we no longer have to think about it. We are able to operate automatically, freeing up our brains for other things. Morning routines are especially important as they allow us the opportunity to start the day off successfully and productively.

In this video, I am giving you four key idea to think about as you create, re-create or re-adjust your morning routines.

1. Prepare your body
2. Prepare your mind.
3. Prepare your attitude.
4. Prepare your focus.

Tweet it out: How you start the day has a huge impact on the success of the day. Are you consistently preparing your body, mind, attitude and focus for success? @KevinEikenberry

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Apr 20, 2022
We’ve heard of company culture. What about corporate soul? We know most employees quit their jobs not because of compensation, but because they don’t feel valued. Ralf Specht joins Kevin to discuss the Soul System™. This is a framework Ralf developed that aligns purpose with strategy and behavior. He shares an example of a company with a soul. Further, companies that operate in this framework are more successful and see higher ROI.

Key Points

  • Ralf Specht describes company soul and how this differs from culture.
  • He shares his thoughts on purpose vs. mission.
  • He advises how you can impact culture when you are not a senior leader.

Meet Ralf

  • Name: Ralf Specht
  • His Story: Ralf is the author of Building Corporate Soul: Powering Culture & Success with the Soul System™. He was a founding partner of the startup Spark44, a global marketing communications powerhouse. He was the architect of an innovative, industry-first joint-venture with Jaguar Land Rover, which he grew to a global revenue of $100+m and 1,200 employees.
  • Worth Mentioning: He consulted for more than 20 years with global companies and brands such as Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, General Motors, Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Puma, and PWC with McCann Erickson. The title of his forthcoming book is Beyond the Startup: Sparking Operational Innovations for Global Growth.

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Apr 15, 2022

Now, you might already know that I grew up on a farm, and so I have plenty of farm phrases in my vernacular. Some of these phrases wouldn’t make any sense to you. But some of those farm phrases are things you’ve either heard before or maybe even heard here on this blog last week. You can watch that episode right here.

So last week we talked about making hay, and today we’re talking about gathering eggs, and specifically about not putting all your eggs in one basket.

Now, I don’t have nearly as much personal experience with eggs as I do with making hay. But think about it for a second. If you’ve got a basket that you’re using to collect eggs and as you’re putting them in one cracks. Well then, you have a problem. Even worse, if you drop the bucket, you lose all the eggs.

So what’s the point for us as leaders? Well, there are several things for us to think about here. And I’m starting the video with one of my favorite thoughts in business: One is a dangerous number.

Tweet it out: One can be a dangerous number. Look for multiple options, multiple solutions, and multiple paths to your success. @KevinEikenberry

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Apr 13, 2022
Leadership isn’t rainbows and unicorns; it’s about results. Martin Moore believes there is a disconnect between the process and function of leadership today. He joins Kevin to share his No Bullsh!t framework and why leaders need to move past being liked and commit to developing the habits and disciplines that improve their leadership capability.

Key Points

  • Martin Moore shares his 7 imperatives from the No Bullsh!t Leadership framework (Value, Conflict, Resilience, Working at level, Ambiguity, Accountability, and Decision-making).
  • He discusses what it means to work at level and how to get accountability.
  • He gives advice for building resilience.

Meet Martin

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Apr 8, 2022

I grew up on a farm, and so I have plenty of agricultural phrases in my vernacular, but actually all of us have some of those phrases. For example: Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Yep, that’s a farm phrase. And hint, I’m going to talk about it next week. But for now we’re talking about this phrase:

Make hay when the sun is shining.

Now, you may have never made hay. You may not know what that means but you’ve probably heard the phrase. Here’s the backstory. Hay is made from growing crop (grass, alfalfa and clover most frequently), and it is cut when it’s very green and very moist, a growing plant. However it must be dry before it can be bailed up to be used and stored.

So you can cut hay when it’s raining, but you can’t make hay and bale it when it’s raining. The sun’s got to be shining. The crops need to be dry. There’s a limited time window. Make hay when the sun is shining. So here’s the point for us as leaders.

Tweet it out: To make hay when the sun shines means to do the work you need to do, when you need to do it. And you don’t have to be a farmer to understand that. @KevinEikenberry

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Apr 6, 2022

Culture seems to be the latest buzzword, yet the employee experience is important. Let’s face it, employees have a choice of where they want to work. Chris Edmonds and Mark Babbitt sit down with Kevin to talk about culture and that it doesn’t have to suck. You have a role to play and when you equally value respect and results, profits go up.

Key Points

  • Chris and Mark define good and why it is more important now than ever before.
  • They share their thoughts around “servant purpose”.
  • They discuss how you can create or adjust the culture if you aren’t senior leadership.
  • They talk about how remote work impacts culture.

Meet Chris and Mark

  • Names: S. Chris Edmonds and Mark Babbitt
  • Their Story: Chris and Mark are the authors of Good Comes First: How Today’s Leaders Create an Uncompromising Company Culture That Doesn’t Suck. Chris is also a speaker, executive consultant, and founder of The Purposeful Culture Group. Mark is also a speaker, executive coach, and President of WorqIQ.
  • Worth Mentioning: Chris is one of Inc. Magazine’s 100 Top Leadership Speakers and was a featured presenter at South by Southwest. Mark is also CEO and Founder of YouTern. This career-focused community enables college students, recent graduates, and young professionals to find their first or next internship or job with the right organizational culture for them.

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Apr 1, 2022

The great resignation has been all over the press and all in the media. Everyone’s talking about it and many people are participating in it. I recently recorded a video with personal lessons from the great resignation. You can watch that here.

But today we are talking specifically about what the great resignation means for leaders. There are major challenges for every leader and there are also some great lessons. We’ll explore those in the video below.

Tweet it out: The Great Resignation holds lessons for leaders if we look for them. The biggest one is that people are thinking about work differently than ever before. @KevinEikenberry

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Mar 30, 2022

No two leadership journeys are the same. And, regardless of where we are, there is always an opportunity to learn. Scott Jeffrey Miller joins Kevin to discuss insights and lessons learned from hosting On Leadership with Scott Miller. The common thread he found from each of the 30 mentors he highlights in his book, Master Mentors, is they are clear in what they want to accomplish. They approach life with an abundance mindset and listen more than they talk.

Key Points

  • Scott Jeffrey Miller highlights lessons and stories he learned from hosting his podcast.
  • He discusses the power of gratitude and living your life through the lens of “I get to.”
  • He shares advice on how to find a mentor.

Meet Scott

  • Name: Scott Jeffrey Miller
  • His Story: Scott Jeffrey Miller is the author of numerous books, including his latest book, Master Mentors: 30 Transformative Insights from Our Greatest Minds. Miller hosts the FranklinCovey-sponsored On Leadership with Scott Miller, the world’s largest and fastest-growing weekly leadership podcast.
  • Worth Mentioning: In addition to supporting FranklinCovey’s global thought leadership efforts, Miller has developed the ignite your genius™ coaching series to help leaders take their careers from accidental to deliberate. He also hosts FranklinCovey’s Bookclub.com series with world-renowned authors.

    Miller began his professional career in 1992 with the Disney Development Company (the real estate development division of Walt Disney Company) as a founding member of the development team that designed the town of Celebration, Florida. Miller and his wife live in Salt Lake City, Utah, with their three sons.

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Mar 25, 2022

Organizational culture has been an important topic for a number of years, but right now, as I’m recording this video at the beginning of 2022, culture has never been a bigger focus.

Organizations around the globe are trying to figure out what the future of their workplace will look like. And rightfully so, they’re concerned about their culture. And many leaders are trying to figure out how they can get the culture they used to have back.

Now let me just say, trying to get back to the culture you used to have pre-pandemic will not be possible. The world has changed significantly as have we and our people.

Whether we like it or not, culture is always changing. It’s never static.

So as you think about your organizational culture and what that will look like for you, I’d like to share three cultures that you should consider in this process.

Tweet it out: To create the culture you want, you must consider the culture of your past and present as the starting point. @KevinEikenberry

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Mar 23, 2022
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.

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Mar 18, 2022

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.

  1. Milestones are a planning tool.
  2. Milestones are goals.
  3. Milestones drive momentum.
  4. Milestones create perspective.
  5. 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

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Mar 16, 2022

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:
    1. Ownership
    2. Independent capability
    3. Emotional courage
    4. 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.

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Mar 16, 2022

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:
    1. Ownership
    2. Independent capability
    3. Emotional courage
    4. 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.

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Mar 11, 2022

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

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Mar 9, 2022

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:
    1. Do the job that’s needed.
    2. Step up and lead.
    3. Move things across the finish line.
    4. Learn and adapt to change.
    5. 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.

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Mar 4, 2022
“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

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Mar 2, 2022

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.

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Feb 25, 2022

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

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Feb 23, 2022

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.

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Feb 18, 2022

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:

Feb 16, 2022

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.

Key Points

  • Brendon discusses why many change efforts fail.
  • He shares the 3 valuable questions we should be asking.
    • Why are we doing this?
    • What does success look like?
    • What are we exactly doing?
  • Discusses scope creep and why.
  • He share the 5 stages of momentum.

Meet Brendon

  • Name: Brendon Baker
  • His Story: Brendon is the author of the best-seller Valuable Change: What You Need to Know to Ensure Your Change Pays Off, and has consulted on over $10 Billion in key transformation projects and programs across a range of industries and organizational sizes
  • Worth Mentioning: Brendon established the Valuable Change Co. with one central mission in mind: to Help Change Leaders Drive Real Value, but on his way found his secondary mission: Fight Unnecessary Complexity. Brendon is based on the rural outskirts of Canberra, Australia and has a degree in Business Management.

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Feb 16, 2022

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.

Key Points

  • Brendon discusses why many change efforts fail.
  • He shares the 3 valuable questions we should be asking.
    • Why are we doing this?
    • What does success look like?
    • What are we exactly doing?
  • Discusses scope creep and why.
  • He share the 5 stages of momentum.

Meet Brendon

  • Name: Brendon Baker
  • His Story: Brendon is the author of the best-seller Valuable Change: What You Need to Know to Ensure Your Change Pays Off, and has consulted on over $10 Billion in key transformation projects and programs across a range of industries and organizational sizes
  • Worth Mentioning: Brendon established the Valuable Change Co. with one central mission in mind: to Help Change Leaders Drive Real Value, but on his way found his secondary mission: Fight Unnecessary Complexity. Brendon is based on the rural outskirts of Canberra, Australia and has a degree in Business Management.

This episode is brought to you by…

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.

Book Recommendations

Related Podcast Episodes

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