Kevin Eikenberry

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Promoted During the Pandemic? Here’s Your Next Step

Kevin Eikenberry

One of the most challenging transitions of a career is to move into a leadership role for the first time. We have helped leaders and organizations overcome those challenges for years. If you are doing it after being promoted to lead your former peers, it is even harder. Now a new challenge has added to […].

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The Leadership Transitions That Matter Most

Kevin Eikenberry

The transition to leadership – moving from individual contributor to a leadership role – is one of the most challenging moves in anyone’s career. While many make this jump, few succeed as quickly or completely as they, their team, or their organization would like. Would you like a clearly defined path of what to do […].

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The First Seven Things to Do When You Get Promoted

Kevin Eikenberry

What do you expect of yourself, what does the organization expect of you, and what does your new boss expect of you? Set both personal and career goals and set them in the organization context and with expectations in mind. Here then are the first seven things to do when getting promoted. Get clear expectations. Set your goals.

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Purposeful Abandonment - an Exclusive Guest Post from Dan Rockwell

Kevin Eikenberry

A few days later he embarked on a related career path and he’s never been happier. About two years ago, the organization I loved and clung to died to me. Saying no initiated a process that radically changed my life and the organization I love. He just quit. Purposeful abandonment opened the door to a richer, fuller life.

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When People Don't Know. a Guest Post from Steve Roesler

Kevin Eikenberry

a Guest Post from Steve Roesler by Kevin Eikenberry on November 23, 2010 in Guest Posts , Leadership , Leadership Blogs , Learning Steve Roesler is an award-winning writer and speaker on leadership, management, and career management topics and can be followed online at the popular All Things Workplace website.

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Been Promoted? Five Key Conversations to Have With Your New Boss

Kevin Eikenberry

If you know what his goals are for your department, region or organization as a whole, you are in a much better position to help him achieve them, right? If you know a bit about his career goals, you can support that too. But she can’t if she doesn’t know what they are. The reverse is also true. Setting the Stage for Help.

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