For those of you that follow or have found me here on this blog, you may not realize that I write more than is just here.  I’ve been writing another blog, Remarkable Learning With Kevin Eikenberry, for over 5 years.  what I haven’t done a very good job of is sharing that content between these

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I was on a phone call yesterday with a potential Client talking about some training for some of their staff.  The phrase that they used to talk about what they were looking for was proactive engagement. While this training isn’t “leadership training” nor is it considered as a part of their corporate leadership training program,

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In a leadership skill training workshop this week (you can learn more and sign up for future sessions here), the group and I began talking about the value of presence and charisma as keys to leadership influence.  While the conversation was wide ranging; examples shared there, and others that I can add now based on

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I try to write things in this blog that get us thinking outside of the traditional thinking and skills covered or discussed in most organizational leadership development training.  Hopefully this post will succeed – because that is exactly the point I am trying to make. Let’s start at the beginning.  Leaders exist to move people

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This is a post prompted by the anniversary of the attacks on the United States on 9/11/01. While that was a tragedy of epic proportions, many good things happened in the days and weeks that followed, not the least of which was that people across the United States became more aware of their values.  The

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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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This post is about persuasion, influence, the power and importance of positive feedback and recognition, with a sprinkling of marketing and social media thrown in for good measure. For all of those reasons everyone in corporate leadership, executive leadership or ANYONE interested in developing effective leadership skills should read on. First a back story. For

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One of the comments to my post last Friday, An Important Leadership Question – What’s Your Dream, came from “Leader in a Box”  who asked: My dream is to get outside of the box I’m in. I work for a company where forward thinking is “encouraged” but when people actually do it, they are punished

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46 years ago today, one of the most famous speeches in American history was delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  In it, he told 200,000 gathered on the Mall in Washington D.C. and the world that “I have a dream.” Today I ask you, as a leader, What’s Your Dream? Before you start backtracking or

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