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There are lots of words that describe me. The "professional" ones include: author, speaker, trainer, consultant, facilitator, business owner, Chief Potential Officer The Kevin Eikenberry Group - Your Leadership Help Button (of The Kevin Eikenberry Group) and leader. The "life" ones include: husband, father, son, brother, friend, Purdue Graduate, reader, and learner. The "personal" ones include, Boilermaker fan, farmer's son, tractor collector (yes, the real ones), auction lover and optimist.

All of these things (and more) make me who I am and are relevant to this blog and why it will benefit you.

Below you will find ideas, thoughts and suggested action steps to help you become a more effective leader – whatever your professional and life roles are. The path towards Remarkable Leadership (and a Remarkable Life) is just that - a path. The goal of this blog is to help you on that path, and through learning and action, become your Leadership Help Button.

Doing the Impossible: The 25 Laws for Doing the Impossible

January 23, 2012 Achievement

Today’s Resource Recommendation is Doing the Impossible: The 25 Laws for Doing the Impossible by Patrick Bet-David. I’m not exactly sure how this book ended up in my Amazon shopping cart and then in a box on my desk. I don’t know nor had never heard of the author and don’t remember someone referring it [...]

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The Danger of Imitation

January 20, 2012 Leadership

Maybe you wouldn’t state it this way, but chances are, if you are reading this, you want to become great at something.  Maybe you’d use different words.  Maybe “being great” doesn’t resonate with you. It doesn’t matter what words you put to it; if you want to become more effective and move closer to your [...]

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Engaging Employees to Increase Engagement

January 18, 2012 Accountability

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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There’s No Such Thing as Organizational Change

January 16, 2012 Change

It is everywhere. . . . . . Political leaders promoting changing policies. . . . Organizational leadership touting new products or strategies. . . . Team leaders outlining a process improvement. Leaders everywhere think their job is to create change across their team, organization or industry. And they are all wrong. You can create [...]

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The Synergist: How to Lead Your Team to Predictable Success

January 16, 2012 Books

Today’s Resource Recommendation is The Synergist: How to Lead Your Team to Predictable Success by Les McKeown. This book proposes that there are four types of people on teams and in organizations; three of them are more naturally occurring and one, the synergist, brings greater success for all of them. From this high level perspective, the book [...]

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The Root Source of Discipline

January 13, 2012 Achievement

I believe you can have mentors that don’t even know you – people whom you watch, observe, and model for your own growth and development. The ultimate extension of that is that you can have mentors that aren’t even living! Today’s Powerquote comes from one of my mentors. “Self-respect is the root of discipline; the [...]

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Could You Lead Your Meetings Google-Style?

January 10, 2012 Collaboration

This isn’t post lauding Google’s business model, working environment (per se), or their tech sensibilities. It is a post talking about a decision Larry Page made, that all leaders could make; a decision about meetings – what they are for and how to run them. The insight comes from the Business Insider Website, specifically this post.  In [...]

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Ten Morning Habits that Promote Greater Success

January 9, 2012 Achievement

Do you want to get more done, reach more of your goals, and make a bigger difference? If so, the morning is when that can all begin! However you came to read these words, I’m confident you are interested in greater productivity, achievement and success. Perhaps you want that for yourself, or perhaps you want [...]

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Workshops to Accelerate Your Professional Progress

January 9, 2012 Communication

For the past couple of years, we have been offering public workshops on two important professional skill sets. I share them with you today, because they are changing significantly in the New Year. More about the changes in a minute, but first, about the workshops themselves! The Bud to Boss Workshop Guy Harris and I [...]

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Sprinkle Joy

January 6, 2012 Communication

I’ve read a lot of Ralph Waldo Emerson over time, but never, that I can recall, had I read this, until yesterday. “Sprinkle joy.”  - Ralph Waldo Emerson Questions to Ponder When do I sprinkle joy? Where do I sprinkle joy? How can I sprinkle more of it? Action Steps Find ways to bring more joy to [...]

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