Does what people think, believe, and value make a difference in how they lead others? More specifically, does someone’s mindset affect your willingness to believe in and follow them? The answer is obvious, yet we seldom think about it. Rather, we focus on providing skills to leaders and expect that those skills will be enough […]
Why it Takes More Than Skills to be a Remarkable Leader
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post with almost the same title. I outlined what I call The Remarkable 3 and described what is missing when most of us think about leadership development. This isn’t a trivial matter, so I’m taking this message further, explaining it deeper, and providing solutions to this vexing problem […]
Building Workplace Trust in An Untrusting World
Trust, by many measures, is near an all-time low. According to Pew Research, public trust in government is historically low. More important to us, Forbes.com states that 63% of employees don’t trust their leader. Ouch. I’d call that a crisis of workplace trust. And yet we know that high levels of trust directly impacts greater productivity, […]
What Long-Distance Leaders Need to Know Today
If you lead a team that is remote part or all the time, whether they are across town or around the world, you are a Long-Distance Leader. And if that isn’t you today, odds are high that it may be sooner than later. The trend towards people not being “at work” is growing and evolving; […]
Getting the Learning You Want, When You Want It
For over four years we have been producing live, virtual learning events we call Remarkable Learning. At first, they were teleseminars; more recently, they have become webinars. We have offered over 200 of these events featuring experts from our own team and hand-picked experts from around the world bringing relevant practical learning on the broad […]