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About Kevin Eikenberry

Kevin is a bestselling author, speaker, trainer, consultant and the Chief Potential Officer of the Kevin Eikenberry Group. Inc.com named him one of the top 100 Leadership and Management Thinkers in the World, and Top Sales World calls him one of the Top 50 Influencers on Sales and Marketing. Want to work on your leadership skills? Enroll in our 13 Days to Remarkable Leadership Video series with Kevin’s compliments!

7 Fundamentals of Successful Problem Solving

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Everyone has problems. Big problems, little problems, work problems, relationship problems. Pick an area of your life, and you probably have at least one issue you are dealing with. When you step into management, you pretty much become a professional problem solver. And if you haven't received any kind of training on the subject (like many first-time supervisors), the role … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Personal & Professional Development Tagged With: difficult situations, leadership problems, problem solving

The Best Way to Share Bad News With Employees

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No doubt, bad news has been the norm lately, and you may have already had to be be the bearer of it more than once. As a leader, especially a new leader, the last thing you want to do is deliver bad news to your employees, who may assume that you are somehow responsible for it. Unfortunately, you will have to make unpopular decisions, enforce changes that are initially seen as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Communication, Difficult Situations Tagged With: communicating with employees, difficult situations, Kevin Eikenberry

4 Ways to Promote Remote Team Collaboration

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Maybe when you started your leadership gig you had no plans of managing a virtual team, but the pandemic forced you to adapt quickly. Maybe you were hired specifically to manage a virtual team or a hybrid team, with some employees on site and others working remotely. Or maybe as times have changed, your team has morphed in to all or partially virtual. Regardless how you got … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Management Tagged With: communicating with employees, Kevin Eikenberry, leadership problems

Schedule “Gratitude” on Your Calendar This Week

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"Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you." – Eileen Caddy In the United States, we celebrate Thanksgiving this week, and it is appropriate, perhaps even expected, to find reasons to be grateful. Of course, the reality is that we should find reasons to feel grateful every single day, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Communication Tagged With: delegation, Kevin Eikenberry, leadership, morale

Another Way to Think About Time Management

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In our Bud to Boss workshops, I often get asked about time management from a leadership perspective. How to be better at it and how to stop wasting it. While I have read much about this topic and continually try to get better at it, I am increasingly clear that we are all starting from the wrong place. When I look at a clock it just keeps ticking. It doesn’t matter what I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: efficiency, productivity, time-management

A Simple Leadership Message on Election Day

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If you live in the United States, you likely know it is Election Day. Direct mail, yard signs, neighborhood canvassers, radio and television ads and more – all add up to an important day in the life of a democracy. This post isn’t about politics, and while I have often written about what we can learn from politicians as leaders, the lesson today is different. The lesson … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Communication Tagged With: Kevin Eikenberry, leadership mindset, new leaders

Should You Ever Be Silly?

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As leaders, we're often convinced that we need to be serious and put together all the time, but is that realistic or even recommended? I believe a certain amount of silliness and playfulness belongs in leadership. In part because being a great leader requires you to be transparent and real. All real human beings laugh, are playful and have fun sometimes, don’t they? Have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Personal & Professional Development Tagged With: Kevin Eikenberry, leadership mindset, new leaders

Make Your Own Luck

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"The harder I work, the luckier I get." I agree with that thought. I just don’t think it tells the whole story. For example, these actions can help you generate some luck at work, at home or in any part of your life. Say “Go for it” more, and “What if it doesn’t work?” less to yourself and those around you. Learn from and even celebrate mistakes. Read … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Personal & Professional Development Tagged With: career advancement, leadership mindset

Putting Out Fires: Stop, Drop and Role

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I’ve worked with well-meaning, highly-principled leaders and managers for years. When the topic of coaching and developing their employees comes up, I often hear that they know coaching is important, they want to coach more, but they don’t have time because they are too busy “putting out fires.” Right now, that probably has never been more true. The pandemic put many leaders … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Coaching & Feedback, Communication, Management Tagged With: coaching skills, delegation, management

Motivate Yourself With a New Routine

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Things have been hectic, full of uncertainty and pretty scary for months. Now, the days of summer are here, beckoning us outside. Even the normally super productive and focused leaders among us are struggling right now to manage all the change and emotions. So, if you are like so many people right now who are feeling some unease and distress, it could be because your daily … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Personal & Professional Development Tagged With: Kevin Eikenberry, productivity, time-management

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