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Hi, I'm Kevin!

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.

Your Hopes and Dreams are Real

April 13, 2012 Achievement

In this blog, I have shared quotations from William James, often called the father of American psychology, before (here is an example).  Today, I share another one – this one, full of positive possibility. “Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds and above the storms, if you only let [...]

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Lead By Letting Go

April 11, 2012 Achievement

As leaders, we must be willing to let go of lots of things. Just Monday, I wrote about this idea of surrender.  Consider this a companion to that post – perhaps a more practical addendum. Micromanagement In workshops I led yesterday, I said “no one includes micromanagement in the list of attributes of a great [...]

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What You Must Surrender to Lead Best

April 9, 2012 Leadership

Surrender? When you think about surrender, you don’t likely think of great leadership. People who surrender, lose, right? The dictionary tells us that surrender, as a verb, means things like: “to yield possession or power,” “to give (oneself) up,” “to give up, abandon or relinquish.” These are hardly the ideas we connect with leaders we [...]

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Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level

April 7, 2012 Books

Today’s Resource Recommendation is Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level by Joel A. Garfinkle. The title of this book tells you clearly this is a career management book. The title promises that it contains ideas that will help you “take your career to the next level.” This book focuses on [...]

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Are You Afraid of Greatness?

April 6, 2012 Achievement

If you believe, like I do, that we all have tremendous untapped potential, then today’s quotation begs an important question. A question that I will ask you below. “Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.” – Fernando Flores, engineer and politician Questions to Ponder How do you personally define greatness? [...]

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Excuses . . . They Are Worse Than You Think

April 4, 2012 Change

Excuses . . . wear me out. Here are some examples from the workplace (though I could easily give you a longer list outside of work too): I can’t learn it that way (it’s not my learning style). I need to know this first, so until I know that I can’t . . . I can’t make it work because. . . No one will agree with me. I [...]

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To Learn You Must . . .

April 3, 2012 Leadership

Last Friday I posted a “Final Four” of learning quotations, and asked readers to vote on their favorite.   Last night the Men’s national basketball champion was crowned, and this morning the winner of the Final Four of Learning will be announced. Right here, right now. In a very close race conducted via comments, emails [...]

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Eradicate Your Obstacles With This Thinking Game

April 2, 2012 Creativity

Would you like a way to get better ideas, faster? Would you like to nearly automatically tap into your subconscious brain to help you solve your vexing problems? Would you like a tool that would help your team think more clearly? What if I told you that tool was free, except for the five minutes [...]

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April 1, 2012 Leadership

You set goals with one real purpose – to reach them, don’t you? And if your experience is like mine, one reason we don’t reach goals is because we don’t turn the goal into a plan, with specific actions taken on a regular basis. And even if we identify the actions (which puts far ahead [...]

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The Final Four Thoughts on Learning

March 30, 2012 Learning

Normally on Friday, I share a quotation; then provide questions to ponder, action steps and my thoughts about that quotation. Not today. Today, we acknowledge what many Americans are thinking about and will be watching tomorrow – the men’s NCAA Final Four.  There  are four teams remaining before a champion is crowned.  Two games tomorrow [...]

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