In this learning series, Kevin Eikenberry shares a set of powerful principles, skills, and action steps that develops leaders at all levels of the organization and anyone aspiring to be a leader. With the starting framework that leaders become remarkable through learning, Eikenberry sets out to challenge the participant to be more intentional about what, when, and how they learn. The learning model which serves as a foundation for the series outlines that a leader 1: Has an experience 2: Reflects on the experience 3: Generalizes from the experience and 4: Takes action. The is an upward and continual spiral of learning. Eikenberry contends that intentionally completing the cycle of learning helps leaders learn more from every experience and will lead to stronger leadership. This is a practical and powerful set of skills that are covered in a series of 12 1 to 1.5 hour workshops. Each workshop covers one key skill. These skills include: Championing Changes, Communication, building relationships, Developing Others, Focusing on Customers, Influencing with Impact, Thinking and Acting Innovatively, Collaboration and Teamwork, Solving Problems and Making Decisions, Responsibility and Accountability, Managing Projects and Processes Successfully, Setting and Supporting Goals Achievement. The key to the learning series is the flexibility. There are 12 learning units and the facilitator can pick and choose which topics they want to cover. Additionally, there is video content for each of the 12 workshop series.
Book Details:
- Author: Kevin Eikenberry
- ISBN: 9780470501887
- Year Published: 2010
- Pages: 32
- BISAC: BUS071000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Leadership
About the Book and Topic:
In this learning series, Kevin Eikenberry shares a set of powerful principles, skills, and action steps that develops leaders at all levels of the organization and anyone aspiring to be a leader. With the starting framework that leaders become remarkable through learning, Eikenberry sets out to challenge the participant to be more intentional about what, when, and how they learn. The learning model which serves as a foundation for the series outlines that a leader 1: Has an experience 2: Reflects on the experience 3: Generalizes from the experience and 4: Takes action. The is an upward and continual spiral of learning. Eikenberry contends that intentionally completing the cycle of learning helps leaders learn more from every experience and will lead to stronger leadership. This is a practical and powerful set of skills that are covered in a series of 12 1 to 1.5 hour workshops. Each workshop covers one key skill. These skills include: Championing Changes, Communication, building relationships, Developing Others, Focusing on Customers, Influencing with Impact, Thinking and Acting Innovatively, Collaboration and Teamwork, Solving Problems and Making Decisions, Responsibility and Accountability, Managing Projects and Processes Successfully, Setting and Supporting Goals Achievement. The key to the learning series is the flexibility. There are 12 learning units and the facilitator can pick and choose which topics they want to cover. Additionally, there is video content for each of the 12 workshop series.
Remarkable Leadership is a flexible-format learning series combining leadership skill development with learning principles and recognizing real-life working realities. This series will provide a framework and a mechanism for both learning new things and applying what participants already know in a useful, thoughtful, and practical way. It will guide participants through twelve leadership competencies, inviting them to learn about the skills and offering strategies for applying skills in their hectic, multitasking, overloaded, working lives. This workshop is based on Eikenberrys Remarkable Leadership Learning System, a product designed as an ongoing process to help people at all levels become more proficient in their role as a leader. It is designed around the realities of working and learning including focus, limited time, incremental improvement, and how we learn.
EXPERIENCED AUTHOR WITH PROVEN TRACK RECORD: Kevin is the author of the Jossey-Bass book, Remarkable Leadership. Prior to that, he worked on a self-published book Vantage Points on Learning and Life (Dog Ear, 2006), and a contributor to such successful books as 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life (Self-Improvement Online, 2006) and Walking with the Wise (Mentors Press, 2003). He has been a contributor to thirteen Training and Development Sourcebooks since 1997. Contributor to Masters of Sales, Entrepreneur Press, 2007. Both Masters of Sales and Vantage points were Amazon best sellers. SOLID ONLINE PLATFORM: Kevin has a significant online presence that includes a family of six websites. The main site, www.KevinEikenberry.com, ranks in the top 1.5% of all websites by traffic (more than 53,000 visitors monthly; growing at an annual rate of 50%) He publishes three email-based publications: Unleash Your Remarkable Potential ( 15,000 subscribers), Powerquotes and Powerquotes Plus ( more than 30,000 readers on our lists), In addition, his blogs recorded more than 17,000 page visits over the last several months. GROWING SPEAKING SCHEDULE: This year, he spoke at the International SHRM Convention as a Preconference speaker ) and he often speaks at the Indiana SHRM conference. He routinely proposes for national and international conferences as well as speaking at local chapters of HR and Training & Development Assoc. Aside from HR groups, Kevin also speaks three times per month on average as a keynote speaker for a variety of organizations, and he and his team deliver several training sessions on leadership and related topics each month as well.
About the Author
Kevin Eikenberry (http://www.kevineikenberry.com) is the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group, a learning consulting company that provides a wide range of services including training delivery and design, facilitation, performance coaching, organizational consulting, and speaking services. Emphasizing the power of learning, Kevins specialties include: leadership, teams and teamwork, creativity, facilitation, training trainers, consulting and the consulting process, and more. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies, smaller firms, universities, government agencies and more. His extensive client list includes the American Red Cross, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, John Deere, Purdue University, Sears Canada, Shell, Southwest Airlines, the U.S. Marine Corps, the U.S. Mint, Verizon, and more.