Engagement is one of those words that gets used a lot. We need to have more employee engagement. We need more engaged employees. Well, what is engagement, anyway? What does it mean to be engaged at work? Well, first of all, it’s more than satisfaction. I mean, people can be satisfied in their job, but

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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

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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

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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

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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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A life of ease. Leaning back on your couch, enjoying a favorite activity, working to learn something so it becomes easy for you to live in your comfort zone. This all sounds so very good. And yet, is that goal the goal that serves us best: to just get to where it all becomes easy? To

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Think of a time when you were truly grateful, almost overwhelmed with gratitude. And think about how it feels when you’re in that moment. It certainly feels powerful, but it also feels personal. But today, I don’t want you to be selfish with that fabulous feeling, because I believe that gratitude is more powerful when

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People are amazing and people are messy. And right now, I’m not just talking about other people. I’m talking about you and me. We’re amazing. And we’re messy and we’re strange and we’re unpredictable. And while you might think that this video is going to be about other people and the challenges in getting along with

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