One of the best tools for building for accelerating your leadership development is a 360 Assessment. This is true whether you are a Supervisor, in Corporate Leadership or Executive Leadership.  Regardless of your past experience, confidence and skill, a leadership assessment is perhaps the single most important next step in your leadership development program. Here are

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I’m a sports fan. I read Sports Illustrated, watch ESPN, listen to sports radio and generally keep up with what’s going on across all sports. There are leadership lessons from all across the sports landscape, but the latest “big story” in sports made me think about leadership development – and possibly for a different reason

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I don’t know David Armano, but I follow him on Twitter. Does me following him make us friends? Hardly. But there are quite a few people (like David) I’ve ‘met’ on Twitter that I spend more time with than my ‘real’ friends. I seek their advice. I listen to what they say. I trust their opinion.

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A couple weeks ago – in honor of my birthday – I asked you to send me your most creative suggestion on how to make it my best birthday ever. Thanks to all who sent birthday greetings and suggestions on how to make my day fabulous! Here’s just a portion of what I received: From Sandra: I think that

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I wrote this article in 2009 before the Super Bowl (which will be obvious as you read it). The lessons apply as much today as ever. ……. Tomorrow is media day at the Super Bowl. You will be able to read about all sorts of things about all sorts of players and coaches. As a football fan,

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Spent some time this week (about 4 hours) building the first of two large process maps. This picture is just a small piece of the process we mapped for the administration of the Remarkable Leadership Learning System. It was a really good meeting (thanks to Andrea and Barb!). We got a lot done in a

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My article in my newsletter Unleashing Your Remarkable Potential (please subscribe!) this week was titled 5 Leadership Actions to Kick Start a New Year.  One of those actions was “find a focus.” As I was thinking about our focus or theme for The Kevin Eikenberry Group this year, I read a post from my very

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John Steinbeck, the great author, said it as well as it can be said. It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. The opposite is true too of course. And this is perhaps the most important, yet most often overlooked key to our success as leaders.  If

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Tomorrow, Joe Paterno will coach his Penn State Nittany Lions against Southern California in the Rose Bowl.  In case you don’t know, JoePa as he is known is 82 years old, has been coaching at Penn State for 59 seasons and has been the Head Coach since 1966. He hold in numerous records and his

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It is hard to deny the importance of building connections to us as leaders.   In a recent webinar hosted by Michael Stallard, author of Fired Up or Burned Out I talked about Remarkable Leaders Building Connections. In this 30 minute webinar,  I talk about how we as leaders can benefit, the barriers we face, and

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