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Leaders everywhere these days are talking about how to create more engaged employees.  Consultants, authors, and speakers are consulting, writing, and speaking  about the importance of increased employee engagement. It is a trend that makes good sense. In Gallup’s most recent survey, they found only 28% of employees actively engaged, which they define as: Engaged [...]

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Our Deepest Craving

by Kevin Eikenberry on September 29, 2011

in Empowerment,Gratitude,Influence,Leadership,Quotations

William James has been called “the father of American Psychology.”  He was a trained physician and wrote voluminously. (Interestingly enough Ralph Waldo Emerson was his Godfather).   He is most known for his self-trained work in psychology and philosophy.  He is widely quoted 100 years after his death, and nothing he wrote is any more quoted that the powerful quotation that [...]

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I know, you may be thinking, “there is just one leadership problem with email?”  While there may be more than one,  I started thinking about one in particular this morning when I read a blog post titled I Don’t Know If I Want Email in my Company.  While I hope you read that post, here is the [...]

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Warning:  This post opens with a words from a proud parent. Promise:  The post ends with an important urging and reminder for all of us. Last night my son Parker directed the first performance of his one act play, Mr. Feather. He wrote, cast, produced and directed this play. It was fabulous! His was one of 7 “Final [...]

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I read something recently that me thinking about a challenge you may have as a leader that you haven’t even thought about, at least not recently. I talk about it on this video – created with my Livescribe pen.  I hope you will watch, listen, and learn. Then I hope you will give me some [...]

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Questions – they are a critical to the ultimate success of a Remarkable Leader. They support our leadership influence and our leadership communication (and a lot more). Yet the power of questions and the skills in asking them effectively is rarely included in leadership skill training. This month members of the Remarkable Leadership Learning System are working [...]

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The Power of Expectations

by Kevin Eikenberry on January 5, 2009

in Empowerment,Leadership,Learning

John Steinbeck, the great author, said it as well as it can be said. It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. The opposite is true too of course. And this is perhaps the most important, yet most often overlooked key to our success as leaders.  If [...]

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