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Kevin Eikenberry
Leadership and Learning Expert
Kevin is the Chief Potential Officer of the Kevin Eikenberry Group, a learning consulting company. Kevin's latest book is Remarkable Leadership - Unleashing Your Leadership Potential One Skill at a Time.
Kevin's brilliance lies in helping organizations and individuals worldwide reach their potential, emphasizing the power of learning.
Click the tabs above to listen to the separate episodes corresponding to the four catalysts of Personal Brilliance - Awareness, Curiosity, Focus, and Initiative or listen to the complete interview if you prefer.
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In this episode of Personal Brilliance - Up Close and Practical, Jim Canterucci interviews leadership and learning expert Kevin Eikenberry, exploring how he uses the Personal Brilliance catalyst Awareness in his successful life. Jim Canterucci has some tips on Awareness for you as well.
Some of this episodes highlights:
- The connection between leadership and helping others reach their potential
- Recognizing the bundle of DNA that represents unique talents
- The two most common mistakes relating to potential
- How leaders can create a frame for the organization to deal with strengths and weaknesses
- The most difficult component of awareness - self awareness
- The balance of evaluating ourselves and getting feedback for improvement
- The source of understanding
- How to increase our understanding of complexity
- Taking learning outside the classroom
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In this episode of Personal Brilliance - Up Close and Practical, Jim Canterucci interviews leadership and learning expert Kevin Eikenberry, exploring how he uses the Personal Brilliance catalyst Curiosity in his successful life. Jim Canterucci has some tips on Curiosity for you as well.
Some of this episode's highlights:
- The fundamental component of the learning process
- Curiosity gives us the chance to learn
- Attention and Filters
- The Reticular Activating System of our brain
- Curiosity is a choice
- The impact of our assumptions
- How to use curiosity to focus attention on what's possible
- The connection of the mosaic of the four catalysts of Personal Brilliance
- Active Listening - we already know how
- Listening as a choice
- Listening is selflessness
- The most important question and it's impact on leadership
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In this episode of Personal Brilliance - Up Close and Practical, Jim Canterucci interviews leadership and learning expert Kevin Eikenberry, exploring how he uses the Personal Brilliance catalyst Focus in his successful life. Jim Canterucci has some tips on Focus for you as well.
Some of this episode's highlights:
- The paradox of Personal Brilliance focus
- How being contrarian can lead to innovative leadership
- How timing comes into play
- The ability to shift from professional, to personal, to family
- How reconnection can help maintain focus
- Seamless balance
- Elastic focus
- How infatuation can block innovation
- Perspective as a component of focus
- Content vs. process focus
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In this episode of Personal Brilliance - Up Close and Practical, Jim Canterucci interviews leadership and learning expert Kevin Eikenberry, exploring how he uses the Personal Brilliance catalyst Initiative in his successful life. Jim Canterucci has some tips on Initiative for you as well.
Some of this episode's highlights:
- Now Steps
- Being an initiator doesn't mean we have to do the work
- A bias for action
- Customer service and infusing initiative
- Empowerment is required for action orientation
- Creating a clear line of sight to the organizational goal
- Culture of initiative for everyone is an expectation
This is the complete Kevin Eikenberry Personal Brilliance - Up Close and Practical interview with Jim Canterucci.
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