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New eBook—Top 10 Barriers Communicators Face: How to Get Your Leader on Board with Internal Communication

leaderCommunicator

Those trained in communication know that all the benefits that come with effective employee engagement—shared understanding, productivity, innovation, achievement of business goals—can only become a reality when a leader prioritizes communication. Trapped in the tactical. Not engaged in communication planning. Don’t value communication.

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Power: Why Some People Have it and Others Don't

Kevin Eikenberry

Don’t like the term Power? The book doesn’t talk about a wringing-your-hands-in-delight power grab, but more about political skill and savvy. It’s a word that may attract or repel you. This book will help you define it, and in a great blend of academic analysis and practical observations help you gain more of it.

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The Power of Now!

Kevin Eikenberry

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe The Power of Now! by Kevin Eikenberry on September 1, 2010 in Leadership , Learning , Manage Projects Every leader I talk with, coach or train tell me the same thing.

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Nurture Your Leadership Intuition

Great Leadership By Dan

We’re asked to innovate and create new solutions instantaneously. Rather than turn to others for answers, you have within you something more powerful and honest and reliable and immediate than any outside expert or long-standing model of operation. However, life today moves at warp speed. She lives and writes in Santa Cruz.

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The Power of Focus Words

Kevin Eikenberry

The results are far better than what initially envisioned, and the team is far more invested in the words than they would have been anyway (that is an obvious, yet powerful point worth its own post sometime). When it was all said and done, only one of my two original words remained. Our three words you ask?

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The Latent Power of a Cliche

Kevin Eikenberry

That exercise will help you find the latent power in a cliche. The next time you hear a cliche, stop and think about it and ask yourself these questions: What is the underlying message or truth in the statement? What lesson does it hold for me?

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Five Reasons Stories are a Powerful Communication Tool

Kevin Eikenberry

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Five Reasons Stories are a Powerful Communication Tool by Kevin Eikenberry on October 11, 2010 in Leadership , Leadership Communication , Learning We all grow up with stories. Stories make it memorable.

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