Kevin Eikenberry

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Making Decisions to Make You Most Productive

Kevin Eikenberry

Before you make productivity decisions you must have: Clear goals. The starting point for making decisions that lead to higher productivity is a clear goal. If you are clear on your short and long term goals, and consider them in your thinking, you make more effective and productive decisions. A clear why.

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Become a Question Collector

Kevin Eikenberry

Identify, find or create one question each day (starting now) – this is the best long term collection strategy. Since I’ve been in collection mode for so long, it was hard to answer at first, but let me share at least a few ideas here: Listen to other people’s questions. Create a place to collect them.

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How Big is Your Big Picture?

Kevin Eikenberry

It is easy to get caught up in the daily to-do list, the quarterly objectives and the rhythm of the calendar, and lose sight of the bigger picture, the larger goals, the [.]. One of the roles of a leader is to provide the perspective that the rest of the team or organization might not see.

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Five Reasons Why Every Leader is a Salesperson

Kevin Eikenberry

But, are those the salespeople that create long term success for themselves and their Customers? Five Keys to Better Decision Making in Meetings Nine Steps for Creating and Maintaining Team Ownership of Ideas and Goals Blogs I Like Get Uncomfortable! Are there manipulative, short-sighted salespeople? Not at all.

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How to Get Lazy People to Work

Kevin Eikenberry

At least three things: You can’t “get&# or “make&# people do anything (at least not for very long or without unintended consequences). “Lazy&# is a relative term – one person’s lazy might be another person’s normal (or even motivated). What is wrong with the question you ask?

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Six Strategies for Boosting Morale

Kevin Eikenberry

Typically people can’t define or describe better morale in terms of behaviors very well. Once the desired morale is defined in behavioral terms, then you can begin expecting it, inspecting for it and coaching to those skills and behaviors. Make it a long term goal. Make it an expectation.

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