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How You Can Accelerate Your Learning

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Accelerating Learning

By Kevin Eikenberry The world is changing, faster than ever. While this can be exciting news for an achievement minded person, like you, it also causes a challenge: it is much more difficult to be truly great at anything. If we want to be highly effective, successful, and productive, we must accelerate our learning. Here is five step process you can use to get good at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Goal Setting, Leadership, Personal & Professional Development Tagged With: goal setting, leadership, learning goals, personal development

Is Being a Positive Leader Important?

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Being a positive leader

By Kevin Eikenberry You've got questions and we've got answers. Hi, I'm Kevin Eikenberry, answering the questions that new leaders ask us. Actually, it's our goal to help all leaders become more confident, successful and, productive. And we do that here by answering the questions that leaders ask us. Today, I'm answering a question about being a positive leader. Are you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership, Video Tagged With: leadership, positivity

The 10 Questions You Need to Be a Better Listener

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By Kevin Eikenberry Listening is a life skill that is something we can always improve. There's not a time I can think of when I asked if someone would like to be a better listener, and they said, "no." Listening  has a big impact on our ability to communicate, create and build relationships, and get things done. Listening helps us to learn. By doing it well, listening can … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Communication, Leadership, Personal & Professional Development

Why Are You Procrastinating?

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What makes you procrastinate?

By Kevin Eikenberry Procrastination affects us all, but as a leader, through your actions, you could be telling your team that it is okay to procrastinate. Have you noticed that your team is behind schedule on projects or deadlines are being missed? You could be setting a poor example through your actions if you are procrastinating. Reason We Procrastinate Fear of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership, Personal & Professional Development, Productivity Tagged With: leader, leadership, procrastination

How Can Virtual LeaderCon Help You Grow as a Leader?

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Can Virtual LeaderCon help me be a better leader?

By Kevin Eikenberry Virtual LeaderCon will be held September 12-15, 2022. Over four days I will be joined by hundreds of learning leaders from around the world and 30 expert thought leaders to explore what it takes to be a more effective and confident leader. With that statement alone, it would seem obvious that attending this virtual conference from the comfort of your own … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership, Personal & Professional Development Tagged With: leadership development, virtual leadercon

How Leaders Must Respond to Mistakes

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How Leaders Must Respond to Mistakes

By Kevin Eikenberry You've got questions and we've got answers. Hi, I'm Kevin Eikenberry, answering the questions that new leaders ask us. Actually, it's our goal to help all leaders be more productive, successful, and confident. And today I'm answering a question about mistakes and our responses to them. Are you ready? Let's go. Here's the question I've been … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Difficult Situations, Leadership, Video Tagged With: leadership, mistakes

Are You Talking Too Much?

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By Kevin Eikenberry You've got questions and we've got answers. Hi, I'm Kevin Eikenberry, answering the questions that new leaders ask us. Actually, it's our goal to help all leaders be more productive, successful, and confident. Today, I am answering a question about how much leaders talk. Are you ready? Let's get started. Lots of leaders have asked me this question: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Communication, Leadership, Personal & Professional Development, Video Tagged With: communication, listening

How to Lead with Heart

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by Kevin Eikenberry There are as many different leadership styles as there are people. Yes, lots of smart people have created models to define and describe basic leadership styles, and yet, all of us bring our uniqueness to the equation, too. Perhaps the simplest of leadership style models divides leaders into “people leaders” and “task leaders.” The truth? Leaders … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership, Management, Teambuilding Tagged With: coaching, empathy, leadership

Three Things You Can Do to Delegate More Effectively

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By Kevin Eikenberry You've got questions. We've got answers. Hi, I'm Kevin Eikenberry answering the questions that new leaders ask us. Actually, it's our goal to help all leaders be more productive, successful, and confident. And so you want to get future episodes here. You want to hit the subscribe button down below. I hope you'll do that. What are we talking about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Coaching & Feedback, Leadership, Video Tagged With: coaching, delegate, leadership, management, video

Progress vs Perfection

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By Kevin Eikenberry So, as a new frontline supervisor, what should you when you are coaching success as a leader? It ultimately rests on answering one question: Did the person being coached reach the level of performance or behavior desired at the start of the coaching? While reaching the objective is one thing, the process of coaching is more nuanced than that. There is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Coaching & Feedback, Leadership Tagged With: coaching, leadership

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