Yearly Archives: 2021

Grit is a muscle you can build. It’s not an individual quality exclusive to some people, but a strength that’s accessible to every one of us. Facing setbacks and overcoming challenges builds that muscle. If you’re facing something that seems insurmountable, just take one step. Face that one challenge.

The single biggest predictor of job satisfaction is authentic leadership. In his new Amazon bestselling book, Lead Like a Human, Emplify Chief People Officer Adam Weber defines an authentic leader as “someone who is willing and able to be themselves, and leads in a way that feels natural to who they are as a person.”

The firestorm in the media around the situation with Brian Williams and his misrepresentations of his experience in Iraq (and perhaps in other situations, as well), has been traumatic and disruptive in the extreme for everyone there.

In this episode, Kevin talks to his guest, Paul Marciano, about having difficult conversations with people in your life, whether at work or at home. Paul Marciano travels the world speaking on topics of leadership, culture, and retention and is the author of several books, including SuperTeams and the bestseller, Carrots and Sticks Don’t Work: Build a Culture of Employee Engagement with the Principles of Respect. His new book is Let's Talk About It: Turning Confrontation Into Collaboration.

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Jason Selk about his new book, RELENTLESS SOLUTION FOCUS. Dr. Selk is one of the nation’s premier performance coaches, has worked with business titans and superstar athletes. As Director of Mental Training for the St. Louis Cardinals, he played an important role in the team’s first World Series victory in more than twenty years in 2006, and their second in 2011.

The GROW Model for Coaching is the most popular coaching framework used by managers and executive coaches. GROW is an acronym for the coaching model.

Kevin reunites with his old friend, Meido Moore, who became a Zen monk and now lives in a monastery near Madison, Wisconsin. They discuss unconventional career choices, resiliency, life in a monastery, tips for better meditation, and more.

Jeff Lawson is co-founder and CEO of Silicon Valley-based Twilio, one of the world’s fastest growing technology companies. A lifelong software developer, Jeff founded Twilio in 2008 with the belief that empowering developers was key to unlocking innovation within nearly every kind of business. Millions of software developers and hundreds of thousands of companies use Twilio’s platform to add communications to the websites and apps you use daily.

We are a full year into the pandemic, and while the vaccine brings hope for a return to normalcy, many organizations will never return to traditional in-office hours. To get advice on this topic, I had the pleasure of interviewing Kevin Eikenberry, the co-author of the new book, The Long-Distance Teammate: Stay Engaged and Connected While Working Anywhere,