DECODING AQ - Adaptability For The Future Of Work With Ross Thornley

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Kevin Eikenberry - The Chief Potential Officer

Ross Thornley + Special Guests Episode 147

Joining us today is Kevin Eikenberry, the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group. Kevin is a globally recognized expert on leadership, remote and hybrid work, and team development. A best-selling author, a few of his many notable books include, (around 10 so far) 'The long-distance leader', 'The long-distance team-mate' 'from BUD to BOSS', and Flexible leadership'. He is a renowned keynote speaker, and LinkedIn Learning instructor, with 3 decades of consulting with and coaching leaders around the world. 

Selfishly I want to learn how we can improve our results as a remote team. And what the future of adaptable and flexible leadership looks like.

Ross and Kevin talk about phases of writing books, helping leaders, navigate uncertainty and leading with confidence, being effective leaders, organisations creating effective leaders, making leaders better, leadership styles, context, tools to build confidence and capability. The  pair also discuss competence growing confidence, prioritising, principles, values, polarisation, tensions, flexors, hard decisions, informed decisions, decisions effecting people, remote & hybrid work, plausible reasons, humanoids doing work, mindset, skillset, habit-set, adaptive practices, piloting things over policy, policies having expiration dates and recognising change.  

Timecodes:

  • 00:17 Intro to Kevin
  • 01:39 Projects currently exciting Kevin
  • 03:08 Reasons to continue writing new books
  • 05:11 Ideal person to read and use Kevin's new book 'Flexible Leadership'
  • 11:49 The value of confidence in the realm of uncertainty
  • 14:48 Decision making and saying "no"
  • 16:53:23 Mark Zuckerberg's new Facebook shift video and leaders shifting
  • 26:43 Things that haven't been done before
  • 27:23 Flexible Leadership on where to work
  • 33:03 Organisations going through lots of shift and restructuring
  • 38:51 People struggling and tired with shift
  • 43:35 The perfect achievements for Kevin the next year
  • 46:38 The last time Kevin did something for the first time  
  • 47:50 Final thought

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