Expert Author: Kevin Eikenberry | Category: Leadership You must take action to achieve anything in life. Simple concept, yes; but not always easy. This leadership and learning expert suggests five approaches to being more proactive.
Expert Author: Kevin Eikenberry | Category: Leadership Gratitude is a positive emotion and studies have shown it creates a more positive attitude, reduces stress and provides many other benefits. But, c`mon, we don`t really need studies to tell us this, do we? You know how it feels when you are grateful. This article won`t restate the obvious (more than I already have). Instead, it explores the fundamentals of how leaders can transform genuine gratitude into a positive force for change and success for those you lead and in your organization in general.
Expert Author: Kevin Eikenberry | Category: Leadership Every good superhero has a superpower. You know, the thing that always helps them get out of a jam and save the day. Leaders may not be superheroes, but we do sometimes find ourselves in a tough or challenging situation. However, unlike like our superhero friends, we don`t always remember to use our superpowers. This article is about one of those powers - one that is too often overlooked or underappreciated.
Expert Author: Kevin Eikenberry | Category: Leadership As a leader you (hopefully) want people to reach their goals. And in order for any of us to reach goals, we must be able to maintain our focus on those goals. This leadership and learning expert believes that you do have the ability to help people find and maintain that focus!
Expert Author: Kevin Eikenberry | Category: Leadership Leaders often unknowingly erect walls between themselves and their team. This leadership and learning expert says when you begin the process of systematically tearing them down your efforts will be richly rewarded.
Expert Author: Kevin Eikenberry | Category: Leadership When you help people become more engaged in their work they are more effective. Your job as a leader is to create the environment and provide the support and tools to nurture greater individual engagement. Leadership and learning expert Kevin Eikenberry offers four tips for doing that every day.
Expert Author: Kevin Eikenberry | Category: Leadership Everyone I know loves the feeling that comes with being inspired. They like the mental lift, the energy, the attitude, the productivity, the satisfaction and even the way it makes them feel physically. And as wonderful and valuable as inspiration is, for most of us, it`s hard to capture, expand and make last. We want the eternal flame, but far too often settle for a spark as fleeting as the flame provided by a match.
Expert Author: Kevin Eikenberry | Category: Leadership From a fairly early stage in my career I have been involved in process improvement activities. While at Chevron in the early 1990`s, I served as a Quality Training Consultant teaching organizations, among other things, process improvement tools. The goal of the training and the efforts overall were to improve quality, reduce waste and take existing work processes and make them better.
Expert Author: Kevin Eikenberry | Category: Leadership There's a correlation between reading and income. On average, people who read more have higher incomes. Leadership and learning expert Kevin Eikenberry shares five reasons why people don't read - and five reasons (beyond income) why you should.
Expert Author: Kevin Eikenberry | Category: Leadership When's the last time you celebrated at work? No time? No cause for celebration? No one interested? Nonsense! Leadership and learning expert Kevin Eikenberry offers bottom-line improving reasons on why you and your team should celebrate!
While different people will have different opinions about "education" and its value, I don`t know anyone who wouldn`t agree that "learning more" is better than "knowing less". Education, as I define it for this article, includes school, seminars, workshops and all manner of formal approaches; as well as coaching, mentoring, apprenticeships, focused reading, online learning, planned experiences and more. As you read this article I urge you to think broadly and expansively about your definition of education.
Expert Author: Kevin Eikenberry | Category: Leadership Much like a flash often helps photographers capture the perfect picture, leadership and learning expert Kevin Eikenberry offers four ways you can help yourself create and capture more of your own flashes of brillance.
Expert Author: Kevin Eikenberry | Category: Leadership Leadership and learning expert Kevin Eikenberry shares four relatively simple steps to more successful, better attended and more meaningful meetings. Yes, they can exist.
Expert Author: Kevin Eikenberry | Category: Leadership What values do you hold most dear? Leadership and learning expert Kevin Eikenberry shares why crafting your own, personal, pledge of allegiance tied to your values will help you increase your satisfaction, success and productivity.
Expert Author: Kevin Eikenberry | Category: Leadership So, just how serious are you about reaching that milestone, renovating the kitchen, launching your blog, dropping 25 pounds, or any number of other hopes, dreams or wishes? Leadership and learning expert Kevin Eikenberry shares six questions to test your seriousness and get you on track.
Expert Author: Kevin Eikenberry | Category: Management Sometimes "playing the fool" can help the people you lead more than you being the ultimate expert. Leadership and learning consultant Kevin Eikenberry says downplaying your knowledge can sometimes lead to better results.
Expert Author: Kevin Eikenberry | Category: Success Imagine walking into a 20 story office building, knowing that your upcoming meeting is on the top floor. You walk into the building and immediately search for the elevators. To your surprise, and disappointment, some of the elevators show "out of order" signs and the rest are currently being worked on by a team of repairmen.
Expert Author: Kevin Eikenberry | Category: Movies TV Whether you watch several a week or haven't been to the theater in years, movies are a part of your life. Leadership and learning expert Kevin Eikenberry shares three ways you can learn from movies.
Expert Author: Kevin Eikenberry | Category: Management Leadership and learning expert Kevin Eikenberry says you have to build solid leadership skills on a solid foundation. Your leadership foundation comes down to six words, and only you know what they are.
When the word networking is mentioned, most people I know think about salespeople or business owners exchanging business cards any chance they can. Of course networking can be the card exchange. It`s also "doing lunch" and attending events and many other equally valid and important things, but even so, most of what is written and thought about networking focuses on external networking.
