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Do You Really Need a Meeting to Make a Decision? Five Keys to.

Kevin Eikenberry

Five Keys to Better Decision Making in Meetings by Kevin Eikenberry on January 24, 2011 in Decision Making , Leadership , Learning Lots of things happen in meetings – some of them even helpful! Let them know if you want their input or not, and if so, how engaged in the decision making process you need them to be.

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The Power of Focus Words

Kevin Eikenberry

Tagged as: Chris Brogan , experience , focus , Goal setting , implementation , Relationships { 1 comment… read it below or add one } Barry Dennis January 7, 2011 at 10:41 am Loved your idea. We are in the process of forming a new team and want a strong team ethic and identity towards our key stakeholders.

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Nine Steps for Creating and Maintaining Team Ownership of Ideas.

Kevin Eikenberry

Context and boundaries will be very helpful, as will clarification of the expectations of the overall process. However, using these steps will significantly increase the engagement, belief and, yes, ownership people feel in the ideas, goals and next steps created through this process. Unfortunately, no.

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The Leader as a Venture Capitalist

Kevin Eikenberry

This isn’t the approach that most leaders and most organizations take, but when you consider that innovation – whether for new product development, process improvements, a new marketing campaign or whatever – is always a bit of a gamble, this portfolio approach makes sense. Where does that leave us as leaders?

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The Differences Between Feedback and Advice, and Why It Matters

Kevin Eikenberry

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe The Differences Between Feedback and Advice, and Why It Matters by Kevin Eikenberry on January 10, 2011 in Devloping Others , Leadership , Learning Feedback and advice. In modern organizational life they are related terms.

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Before You Make Your New Year's Resolutions

Kevin Eikenberry

What is the benefit that you will derive from the process and result? It isn’t about the 10 (or 5 or 25) pounds. Why do you want to weigh less? It isn’t about the exercise regimen. It isn’t about reading that book on your nightstand. Why do you want to read it?

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How to Get Lazy People to Work

Kevin Eikenberry

So let’s see if we can explore what you can do, and in the process see if we can help answer this all-too-prevalent question. Sometimes, this can be as simple as referring to how other successful folks have handled a particular task, and in the process, casually mentioning the amount of work they did in the process.

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