Remarkable Leadership with Kevin

Kevin Eikenberry is a world renowned leadership expert, a two-time bestselling author, speaker, consultant, trainer, coach, leader, learner, husband and father (not necessarily in that order).

Kevin is the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group, a leadership and learning consulting company that has been helping organizations, teams and individuals reach their potential since 1993. Kevin’s specialties include leadership, teams and teamwork, organizational culture, facilitating change, organizational learning and more.

Kevin’s philosophy in business and in life is that every person and every organization have extraordinary potential. Investments of time, energy, focus and money are required for that potential to be realized. He believes learning is an active, ongoing process, not a passive, one-time event. Learning, work and life should be fun; and, if we are doing it right, work (and learning) is play.

He has worked with Fortune 500 companies, small firms, universities, government agencies, hospitals, and more. His client list includes the American Red Cross, A & W Canada, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, John Deere, Purdue University, Sears Canada, Shell, Southwest Airlines, the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Mint, Verizon and many more.

Kevin is the creator and content developer of The Remarkable Leadership Learning System, a continual leadership development process focused on developing the 13 competencies of remarkable leaders with virtually delivered content to leaders worldwide. He is also the developer of the Leadership Training Camp, the Coaching Training Camp and the co-developer of the Bud to Boss and Ultimate Communicator Workshops – all offered in both public and in-house versions across North America.

He is the bestselling author of Remarkable Leadership: Unleashing Your Leadership Potential One Skill at a Time; Vantagepoints on Learning and Life; LeadershipTweet: 140 Bite Sized Ideas to Help You Become the Leader You Were Born to Be; and the co-author of From Bud to Boss: Secrets to a Successful Transition to Remarkable Leadership. Kevin also has been a contributor to thirteen Training and Development Sourcebooks since 1997.

Kevin also writes two email-based publications: Unleashing Your Remarkable Potential, a weekly publication read by more than 22,000 worldwide, to assist organizations and individuals in turning their potential into desired results; and Leadership Updates, sent several times each week. In addition, his Leadership and Learning Blog has been recognized on several occasions as one of the best leadership blogs in the world.

Kevin and his family live in Indianapolis, Indiana. Growing up on a Michigan farm, Kevin says he learned some of his most important leadership lessons working with his father. Kevin earned a B.S. with honors from Purdue University, collects antique John Deere tractors, is an avid reader, and loves his family and his Boilermakers!

Innovation According to Jack Nicholson

Ask my team and they will tell you I am full of (too many?) new ideas, and ask me and I will tell you that we don’t always innovate as much as I would like. Thinking about this paradox on a flight yesterday led me to look squarely at me. After all, if we aren’t innovating as much or as effectively as I’d like, the burden of changing that starts with me.

Finding What Feeds You

The starting point for creating a great organizational attitude starts with what we are thinking about most of the time, because that literally starts the chain reaction. More directly, let’s talk about how we can manage what we think about—and that all starts with what we feed our minds.

An Organizational Attitude Checkup

It happened again this week. I was leading a workshop with leaders across an organization and the question came up about attitude. Specifically, I was asked several questions that, paraphrased, were basically this: I have some attitude issues on my team — how can I improve the attitude of my team?

Five Ways to "Romance" Your Long Term Customers

Last week, I gave you a metaphor to consider—the idea that we romance clients or customers to get them (like a first few dates), but after they are clients we tend to focus less attention on them (like 10 years after the wedding). If you want to avoid this tendency—both personally and organizationally—here are five ideas to get you started.

Remember the Romance After the Courtship

I’ve been married nearly 27 years, but I have a (vague) memory of the courtship process. You identify someone you would like to attract (we’ll call them a prospect) and begin selling. You work hard to be noticed, you let them know you are interested, you build a strategy for making a sale — and then if all goes well, you have a date.

A Three Course Coaching Buffet

Today I have three morsels for you as a coach. These come from different places, and all of them are valuable. While you could consider this a coaching buffet, allowing you to pick what you like from the list, I’d rather you consider it a three course meal — where you sample and benefit from each of the items.

Convincing People to Give Better Customer Service

When this subject comes up in training and coaching leaders, here is the most common question I get: “How can I convince my people to give better customer service?” The answer may not be as hard as you think.

When is a Webinar a Good Learning Option?

We learn in lots of ways and there are lots of tools that can be a part of our overall learning strategy—whether we are thinking about that personally or for our organization. All of these tools have pros and cons—and our job is to figure out the situation we have in front of us, and which tool is the best one for that situation. Let’s explore where the webinar fits into that schema.

Two Coaching Approaches You Can Learn Watching Basketball

I’m a big (especially college) basketball fan, and so right now is a good time to be alive. I recently wrote on my blog about five coaching lessons we can learn from watching basketball, but today, with 16 teams left, I want to share two major lessons about coaching approaches that you can learn when you turn on the game.

Pride is a Two-Sided Coin

National pride, pride in your company, pride in your products, pride in your children, pride in your team, pride in self. These are things we think about in a positive light. Yet we also know that same pride can get in our way too. Let’s put this dichotomy, this paradox, into perspective with a couple of real life situations.


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