Kevin Eikenberry, Author at The Kevin Eikenberry Group

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You’ve got questions. We’ve got answers. Hi, I’m Kevin Eikenberry, answering the questions that new leaders ask us. Actually, it’s our goal to help all leaders become more productive, successful, and confident. And this set of videos is just one way we do that. Today I’m answering this question. What should I be reading? Are

The Most Important Part of Your Presentation

You have to give presentations and giving a presentation or communicating one to many is an incredibly valuable and important skill, both for you and for the people you’re presenting to. It’s also something that lots of people don’t like doing, and so consequently they don’t do it very well. So when we get better

The Power of Year-End: How to Finish Strong

The best teams play hard to the finish. The most exciting races come down to people competing through the finish line. There is tremendous power in the final few weeks of the year – it is the final leg of the race. The power of year-end is finishing the race to the end, powering through

The Best Thing Your Trainers Can Do Next Year

Does your organization want (and need) more effective front-line leadership? Do you have talented internal trainers and want to leverage their skills for organizational impact? If so, let me suggest the best thing they could do now. It is hard to argue the importance of more effective front-line leadership to the success of any organization.

Keys to Boosting Emotional Intelligence

So, what does it mean to have emotional intelligence? Much has been written about this idea. However, no one ever asked what it means to have emotional intelligence until 1995, when psychologist, Daniel Goleman, wrote his landmark book, Emotional Intelligence. In this article, I won’t try to summarize or overly simplify ideas. Instead, I will share

When Things Are New

The word “new” is a word that conjures up many feelings because “new” implies change. And there’s always an emotional component to change. Sometimes that emotion is positive and sometimes it’s negative. But whichever it is, there’s certain to be emotion surrounding it. So here at The Kevin Eikenberry Group, “new” is the word of

Why We Must Focus on Workplace Wellbeing

Workplace wellbeing isn’t something many people talked about 30 years ago. While that may not be surprising, it wasn’t on the radar of many people three years ago either. Now, mental and emotional health is a safer topic for cocktail parties, is mentioned on the news, and cited as a problem by top performers around

Why I Do What I Do

When people ask me “What do you do for a living?” in a casual conversation, the simplest answer is, “I lead a training and consulting company.” And technically, it is true. But it is a sorely incomplete and surface-level response that doesn’t begin to reflect why I do what I do. It would be

6 Ways to Help Your Team Stay Focused

We can create more focus for ourselves and others. Following these pieces of advice is a serious step in that direction.

A Key to Greater Influence – Remarkable TV

If you’re a leader, you’re in the change business. And if you’re in the change business, you have to think about how you help people make the choice to change. If you want people to change, you need to be more influential. And so since leadership is an influence activity, we should work on getting better

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