Kevin Eikenberry on Jim Canterucci's Personal Brilliance - Up Close and Practical Podcast

    /24-7PressRelease/ - WESTERVILLE, OH, November 21, 2007 - Jim Canterucci's November guest is Leadership and Learning Expert, Kevin Eikenberry.

Jim Canterucci's Personal Brilliance - Up Close and Practical weekly podcast features experts and their brilliance. Each weekly episode (approximately 15 minutes) features one of the four Personal Brilliance catalysts - Awareness, Curiosity, Focus, and Initiative.

Kevin Eikenberry (www.kevineikenberry.com) 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.

Some of the Kevin Eikenberry podcast's highlights:

Episode 1 - Awareness

• The connection between leadership and helping others reach their potential
• Recognizing the bundle of DNA that represents our 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


Episode 2 - Curiosity

• 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

Episode 3 - Focus

• 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

Episode 4 - Initiative

• 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

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Jim Canterucci is the author of Personal Brilliance. Find out how brilliant you really are with the Personal Brilliance Quotient (PBQ) at www.MyPersonalBrilliance.com.

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