I want you to think of a time when something was unclear to you. Maybe you were unclear about your future. Maybe you were unclear about your role in your company or on a project. Or maybe you were unclear on your goals or your purpose.  I’m pretty confident that when you are unclear, there’s no

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Let’s start with a question: Would your organization or team be more effective, productive and successful if you were more focused? Now how about you?Would you be more effective, productive and successful if you were more focused?I think I know the answer, and I think you do too.So in this video, we are going to talk about

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Control.   It is something we all crave, and yet as enlightened leaders, we realize we can’t control many things, including our team members. We’ve realized (or are teaching ourselves) that letting go of control actually is beneficial in many ways. Unless want to be micromanagers or seen as old school command-and-control bosses, we tend to

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You’ve got questions and 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 be more productive, confident, and successful. If you’re watching on YouTube, make sure you hit the subscribe button so you don’t miss any episodes in the future. And

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You may never have thought of the idea of being process-based. Maybe you’ve never even heard of it. And so before I can tell you why I think being process-based is a good idea, let’s talk about what it actually means. Process-based is a way of thinking where we think about any task as a series

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What are the skills of the ideal team member? Organizations need to think about this for recruiting and interviewing. And any individual (perhaps that is you) who wants to grow themselves and their career needs to ask this question too. The answer often falls into two areas – the job skills (experience, subject knowledge, etc.

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Wintertime memories of my kidhood include doing jigsaw puzzles in our living room. And in the first two weeks of this year, while far from a kid, I have completed two jigsaw puzzles. When I was a kid, I was just doing puzzles. But now, as I find the next piece, I have been thinking

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I decided I wanted to write about leadership kindness, but before I began, I went to several social media channels and asked: Do you want a leader who is kind? How do you feel about kindness as a leadership trait?   The answers I received were interesting, and on the surface seemed to fall into two camps:

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In college, I started using a Daytimer, and used them religiously for years. Starting in the early 1990’s, I started searching for a way to move away from paper for my calendar, but also for all my thinking and planning work. While I am typing this article for you, I have become an unabashed believer in

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You’ve seen the blame game. Something goes wrong (or not the way people wanted it to go), so they point fingers at someone else and blame them for the mistakes or failure. Of course, that other person or group sends blame right back at the same time. Both sides hurtling accusations like rocks, while thinking

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