101 ways to become a remarkable leader

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101 Waysto Become aRemarkable

Leaderby Kevin Eikenberry

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101 Ways to Become a Remarkable Leader

[email protected] 2009 All Rights Reserved page 2Voice 317.387.1424 www.Remarkable-Leadership.com

Dear friend,

This short book is dedicated to you and your leadership potential.

This book is designed to give you ideas, techniques and ways to help you furtherunleash the magnificent leadership potential that is inside of you.

What follows is exactly what the title promises: 101 different ways to help you become amore remarkable leader. Many (or perhaps even most) of the ideas will be things youknow. Some will even be things that you already do. Some will be new or will bereminders of something you havent thought of in a long time. Some may seem silly ortrivial, and some may seem hard. Regardless of which category each of these ideas fallsinto for you, they were all selected with the purpose of helping you continue to grow andmature towards the leader you are capable of being.

Some may not feel comfortable to you or wont seem like your style. You can, of course,skip or ignore any of them. However, I would suggest the suggestions you seem to beresisting may hold the greatest lessons for you.

So, read all 101 right now; read and try one each day; skip around randomly. Howeveryou want to use this book is totally up to you this is now your book after all!

My only advice is to use these ideas. Do what is suggested, and then reflect on yourexperience and the lessons it holds for you.

I wish you great success!

Kevin Eikenberry

Chief Potential Officer, The Kevin Eikenberry Group

Creator, Remarkable Leadership Learning System


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1. Observe things around you.

2. Be curious.

3. Keep a journal.

4. Capture lessons learned from any project.

5. Ask for feedback.

6. Offer feedback.

7. Make quiet time to think.

8. Read for personal/professional development each day.

9. Turn off your email for a couple of hours at a time.

10. Play more.

11. Listen more intentionally and intently.

12. Embrace other opinions.

13. Expect your change effort to be successful.

14. Give people personal benefits when championing change.

15. Be passionate about change you are leading.

16. Create a clear vision.

17. Share that vision with others.

18. Make that vision real every day for everyone.

19. Be trusting.

20. Be trustworthy.

21. Be other focused.

22. Seek to understand others.

23. Be empathetic.

24. Be more supportive of the efforts of others.25. Withhold your opinion until others have shared theirs.

26. Communicate an important message.

27. Tell a story to illustrate a point.

28. Communicate more vividly use more adjectives.

29. Help a Customer today.

30. Ask a Customer a question.


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31. Help people see what is in it for them.

32. Smile.

33. Be friendly and personable.

34. Teach someone something valuable.

35. Be a learning role model.

36. Make time for others.

37. Sincerely make others feel important.

38. Value the contributions of others.

39. Listen with your eyes and facial expressions.

40. Respect your team members.

41. Be enthusiastic.

42. Offer to help first.

43. Set goals.

44. Help others set goals.

45. Celebrate progress or success.

46. Praise others!

47. Coach for future performance rather than just from past performance.

48. Expect the best.

49. Find a mentor.

50. Be a mentor.

51. Create a leadership support network.

52. Be humble.

53. Be more focused.

54. Find at least five more ways to solve your problem before deciding what to do.55. Look for teachable moments.

56. Ask more questions.

57. Make fewer statements.

58. Expect more.

59. Plan for success.

60. Coach proactively.


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61. Find another reason to love your work today.

62. Recognize the value of internal Customers.

63. Create a dialogue.

64. Send a hand written thank you note.

65. Call rather than email.

66. Go see them rather than calling.

67. Visit a Customers site.

68. Put the Customer at the center of your decision making process.

69. Solve a problem.

70. Turn off the PowerPoint slides and communicate.

71. Start a new project.

72. Stop a failing project.

73. Try something new!

74. Throw out a policy.

75. Give people more authority.

76. Support the training others have received.

77. Form a partnership with someone on something.

78. Plan more.

79. Put a timeline on a goal.

80. Ask people how you can help them reach their goals.

81. Determine your fondest wish.

82. Set team goals collaboratively.

83. Align team and individual goals with organizational objectives.

84. Practice your skills in volunteer or community organizations85. Build rapport with someone you dont know well.

86. Say more nice things to others.

87. Celebrate a mistake

88. Read a biography of a great leader.

89. Take a risk.

90. Communicate more.


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91. Strengthen strength.

92. Value and use the strengths of others.

93. Strengthen a weakness.

94. Facilitate instead of leading.

95. Observe without judgment.

96. Think strategically.

97. Find the root cause of the problem.

98. Create agendas for your meetings.

99. Be decisive.

100. Stop blame.

101. Share power.


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time bestselling author, Chief Success Coach of the Successpreneurs

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