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How You Can Find More Gratitude

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What are you grateful for?  Did you know that your level of gratitude impacts your ability to lead?  As a new or frontline supervisor, being grateful can impact you and those around you in a variety of positive ways, including: Making it easier to find and give positive, helpful feedbackCreating a lower stress working environmentBuilding a more supportive and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Personal & Professional Development Tagged With: Gratitude, Kevin Eikenberry

Taking a Cue from Nature

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autumn leaves

by Kevin Eikenberry I love the vibrant colors of the changing leaves. One of the great benefits of living in Indiana is seeing the beauty in nature all around. And as I take it all in, I’m reminded each year of the reason we get to see this tapestry: change. Fall is truly a period of change – a transition from summer to winter. And this innate ability to change fuels not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Change, Personal & Professional Development Tagged With: career advancement, Change, Kevin Eikenberry, new leaders, professional growth

Are You Aware of What Your Best Really Is?

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by Kevin Eikenberry Perhaps it is further proof that a principle is a principle when it becomes more clear and true to you the older you get.  If that is true, there can be no doubt that self-awareness is a principle that matters.  In order for us to lead at higher levels, indeed in order for us to live at higher levels, we must become more self-aware. What is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Goal Setting, Personal & Professional Development, Productivity Tagged With: career advancement, Kevin Eikenberry, leadership mindset, motivation, productivity, self awareness

Engaging Employees for the Right Reasons

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engaging employees

by Kevin Eikenberry Ok, you've all heard about the importance of engaging your employees. In fact, you've probably heard it directly from me or Guy if you've been hanging around here very long.  Here’s some data to “prove” it though.   Here's what a survey from Maclean and Company recently found: A disengaged employee costs an organization approximately $3,400 for every … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Communication, Leadership, Teambuilding Tagged With: communicating with employees, employee engagement, Guy Harris, Kevin Eikenberry, leadership, morale, team building, trust

What Leaders Can Learn from Spiders

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by Kevin Eikenberry It's that time of year when we celebrate ghosts and witches and all things Halloween-y. Most of those things we consider "scary" aren't real, so they don't really make us all that fearful. Spiders, on the other hand... Scary or a work of art? If you aren't too afraid of spiders, the next time you have a chance, stop and examine a spider web. What you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: communicating with employees, conflict management, expectations, Kevin Eikenberry, leadership

Being a Long-Distance Role Model

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role model

by Kevin Eikenberry As a new or front-line leader, you might think about what it means to be a role model leader. If so, you are thinking about something very important.  Many people will say they want to be a role model as a leader, but the fact is that once you are in the role, people are immediately watching what you are modeling. The question isn’t how to role model – … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership, Remote Work Tagged With: future of work, Kevin Eikenberry, leadership, role model leader

How to Determine Engagement When Your Team is Remote

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by Kevin Eikenberry Of all the things a new or frontline leader must think about and attend to, employee engagement might not be at the top of this list. We could talk about why it is important, but suffice it to say, it needs to be on our radar.  While getting a handle on that might have seemed hard in the past, now that you may not be able to even see your people at work, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership, Remote Work Tagged With: communicating with employees, employee engagement, future of work, Kevin Eikenberry, leadership, team building

Helping Your Hybrid Team Members Thrive

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by Kevin Eikenberry Many people are talking about the future of work and talking about hybrid teams.  Time spent helping build and lead hybrid teams is important (here is the Master Class I created on this topic), but success requires more than that.  Remember that your hybrid team is made up of hybrid team members.  The question today is how can you help each of your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership, Remote Work Tagged With: future of work, Hybrid team, Kevin Eikenberry, leadership

The Future of Work Is More Than a Policy Change

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by Kevin Eikenberry Now that you are a leader get used to your role in implementing new policies. As long as there are organizations, there have been policies and procedures, and I don’t really expect that to change.  Today your organization may be asking you to implement policies related to hybrid and/or flexible work. While there is a policy – the future of work is more … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Future of Work, Leadership, Remote Work Tagged With: change leadership, difficult situations, future of work, Kevin Eikenberry, leadership, leadership problems, policy change

How You Can Create Collaboration on Your Hybrid Team

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by Kevin Eikenberry We need our teams to collaborate to get great results. Often, we think of collaboration as a face-to-face activity.  Have you figured out how to do that at a distance from some or all of the team?  Do you know what you need to do to create hybrid collaboration? Here are three things you can do right now to start changing the level and success of your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Future of Work, Leadership, Remote Work Tagged With: collaboration, future of work, hybrid collaboration, hybrid teams, Kevin Eikenberry, leadership

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