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Kevin Eikenberry's recommended books:
On Creativity
- Mindmapping by Joyce Wycoff
(management / leadership, business books, health, self-help, science, religion and spirituality)
"A good text on mind mapping and its various uses. This is written for anyone, and does not spend much time on theory - very practical and useable." - Jump Start Your Brain by Doug Hall
(business books, self-help, health)
"This book is full of techniques! Some are way out and wacky. Some are more traditional. Doug and his team have proved all of them with groups from many major companies. The jacket notes say that the average American home has 18 brand-name products and services that the author helped conceptualize. Add this to your library." - 99% Inspiration: Tips, Tales, And Techniques For Liberating Your Business Creativity by Bryan W. Mattimore
(motivational, business books, management / leadership)
"This book is full of techniques that you can use yourself or share with others. Bryan’s style is light and easy to read. The techniques while firmly based in creative "theory", and written to be easily used and played with. This slim volume deserves to be on your shelf. Not only does it deliver on its title, it is fun to read." - Thinkertoys by Michael Michalko
(management / leadership, business books, management)
"This book is full of techniques! Over 300 pages with approaches on most all of them. The author takes time to give us background to thinking processes and shares techniques for unblocking our thinking in general. There are also many visual treats throughout the book to help the visually creative. This book is highly recommended."
On Consulting
- Process Consultation: Its Role In Organization Development, Volume 1 (2nd Edition) by Edgar H. Schein
(business books, management, management / leadership)
"This book focuses on process consultation and its role in organizational development. Schein, renown in the field has updated this classic since the first edition. The book defines process consultation and provides helpful reading on a variety of specific topics, including, methods of work, contracting, leading and influencing, and the roles of feedback in process consultation." - Process Consultation: Lessons For Managers And Consultants, Volume Ii by Edgar H. Schein
(business books, management, management / leadership)
"This books helps us understand and describe a common consulting (and managerial) dilemma - do we give advice or help others figure out their own solution. Schein, one of the best OD minds of our time, writes this in a readable way. If I were to give new OD or performance consultants a short-list to read, this would be on the list." - High-impact Consulting: How Clients And Consultants Can Leverage Rapid Results Into Long-term Gains by Robert H. Schaffer
(business books, management, management / leadership)
"This book is relevant for internal and external consultants as well as the clients of those consultants. The book focuses on three major areas: Why management consulting fails and how to make it succeed, the architecture of high impact management consulting and maybe most useful, creating high impact partnerships." - Ten Tasks Of Change: Demystifying Changing Organizations by Chuck Schaefer
(business books, management)
"This book helps turn the management of change into a set of understandable and actionable tasks. The authors do a great job of making each task make sense and help you see how to apply each to your situation. This book works for change implementations large and small. Use this book as a guide and understand these tasks and organizational change will be better understood, and more importantly, achieved." - Flawless Consulting: A Guide To Getting Your Expertise by Peter Block
(business books, management / leadership)
"If I could own only one book to help me become a better consultant, or if I could recommend only one book to people thinking about making consulting a part of their professional life, this would definitely be it. It covers all the bases on consulting and the consulting process. If you are consulting, or want to consult, this book must be on your shelf."
On Facilitation
- Skilled Facilitator: Practical Wisdom For Developing Effective Groups by Roger M. Schwarz
(business books, management, management / leadership)
"Practical Wisdom for Developing Effective Groups by Roger M. Schwartz - A complete text on facilitation, it covers all the major subject areas, including intervening skills. Also talks about how to use facilitation throughout an organization. As a facilitator, a book to have." - Intervention Skills: Process Consultation For Small Groups And Teams by W. Brendan Reddy
(economics, business books, management / leadership, nonfiction)
"A complete text on facilitating small groups and teams. Full of examples and useful models, this book is very useful to the new as well as the seasoned facilitator." - Facilitator Excellence, Handbook: Helping People Work Creatively And Productively Together by Fran Rees
(careers, business books, management, management / leadership, motivational)
"A practical book filled of tools and techniques. Designed so you can pick it up, turn to a chapter if you have a specific need, and use it right away! Among all the great stuff, it includes an excellent section on recording techniques."
On Learning
- The Brain Book by Peter Russell
(health, science)
"This book provides a good background on how the brain functions. It takes this technical topic and makes it quite readable and useful." - The Owner's Manual For The Brain: Everyday Applications From Mind-brain Research by Pierce J. Howard
(health, science)
"A fabulous book that puts cognitive science in everyday practical language. If you want to know what is now known about the brain in a way you can understand and apply, this is the book to read." - Training To Imagine: Practical Improvisational Theatre Techniques To Enhance Creativity, Teamwork, Leadership, And Learning by Kat Koppett
(business books, management, management / leadership)
"The subtitle tells the story: Practical Improvisational theatre Techniques to Enhance Creativity, Teamwork, Leadership and Learning. Well it almost tells it all. This book teaches you in a very readable way about the concepts of improv, which is very interesting and a great read. THEN it provides you with 50 exercises that you can use immediately or tailor for your needs in training on almost any possible training topic. The best training book of the year."
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Kevin Eikenberry Who?
Kevin Eikenberry is the author of Vantagepoints on Life and Learning and an expert in developing organizational and individual potential who lives with his family in Indianapolis, Indiana. Kevin holds a B.S. with honors from Purdue University.
Upon graduation from Purdue, Kevin began his professional career with Chevron Chemical Company, where he held a number of sales, marketing, training, and consulting positions. In 1993, he formed his own training and consulting organization, now known as The Kevin Eikenberry Group.
The Kevin Eikenberry Group is a learning consulting company that provides a wide range of services, including training delivery and design, facilitation, performance coaching, organizational consulting, and speaking services. They have worked with Fortune 500 companies, smaller firms, universities, government agencies and more. His client list includes various Chevron companies, John Deere, National Institute of Health, Purdue University, Southwest Airlines, the U.S. Marine Corp, and the U.S. Mint.
Kevin has spent the last 12 years helping organizations all across North America reach their potential. His specialties include: teams and teamwork, creativity, developing organizational and individual potential, facilitation, training trainers, presentation skills, consulting and the consulting process and more. Kevin's students and clients consistently rave about his effectiveness, many calling him "the best trainer I've ever experienced."
As a speaker, Kevin gives keynotes for organizations and non-profit groups on life-long learning, developing human potential, teams and teamwork, creativity and more. He has presented to the National Speaker's Association (NSA), to international conventions of the North American Simulation and Gaming Association (NASAGA), the International Society for Performance Improvement, the Association of Internal Management Consultants, and the National Association for Experiential Learning. He has also presented at regional meetings of the American Society for Training and Development, and the International Society for Performance Improvement. Clients for his speaking services include American Farm Bureau Federation, Lions, Purdue University, The American Red Cross and MECA.
Kevin is a contributing author of the best-selling book, Walking with the Wise (Mentors Press 2003) and has been a contributing author to more than a dozen other books. He publishes four email-based publications: Unleash Your Potential, a weekly publication, to assist organizations and individuals in turning their potential into desired results; Powerquotes, a weekly publication, read by more than 90,000 people worldwide, featuring a quote along with questions to reflect on; Powerquotes Plus, a fee-based daily publication that adds personal coaching to the Powerquotes offering; and Vantagepoints, an email essay of learning from everyday events and activities, distributed to over 5,900 subscribers worldwide. Kevin is the developer of the Million Dollar Skills Learning System, a top flight learning system on valuable life skills delivered in bite-sized pieces that create powerful and productive habits. He hosted an internet radio program for two and a half years, Magical Movies. A former weekly contributing editor to the TechRepublic web site, his articles have been published in over 100 internet newsletters and web sites.
In 2004 Kevin received Distinguished Agricultural Alumni award from Purdue University . He was named an Outstanding Alumnus of Purdue University in 2002, and serves on the Dean's Advisory Council at Purdue. He has been recognized in the Who's Who in the Midwest and Who's Who Worldwide.
Kevin's goal is to reach organizations and individuals who believe in the power of action organizations and individuals who are passionate about succeeding at their highest level.
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Upon graduation from Purdue, Kevin began his professional career with Chevron Chemical Company, where he held a number of sales, marketing, training, and consulting positions. In 1993, he formed his own training and consulting organization, now known as The Kevin Eikenberry Group.
The Kevin Eikenberry Group is a learning consulting company that provides a wide range of services, including training delivery and design, facilitation, performance coaching, organizational consulting, and speaking services. They have worked with Fortune 500 companies, smaller firms, universities, government agencies and more. His client list includes various Chevron companies, John Deere, National Institute of Health, Purdue University, Southwest Airlines, the U.S. Marine Corp, and the U.S. Mint.
Kevin has spent the last 12 years helping organizations all across North America reach their potential. His specialties include: teams and teamwork, creativity, developing organizational and individual potential, facilitation, training trainers, presentation skills, consulting and the consulting process and more. Kevin's students and clients consistently rave about his effectiveness, many calling him "the best trainer I've ever experienced."
As a speaker, Kevin gives keynotes for organizations and non-profit groups on life-long learning, developing human potential, teams and teamwork, creativity and more. He has presented to the National Speaker's Association (NSA), to international conventions of the North American Simulation and Gaming Association (NASAGA), the International Society for Performance Improvement, the Association of Internal Management Consultants, and the National Association for Experiential Learning. He has also presented at regional meetings of the American Society for Training and Development, and the International Society for Performance Improvement. Clients for his speaking services include American Farm Bureau Federation, Lions, Purdue University, The American Red Cross and MECA.
Kevin is a contributing author of the best-selling book, Walking with the Wise (Mentors Press 2003) and has been a contributing author to more than a dozen other books. He publishes four email-based publications: Unleash Your Potential, a weekly publication, to assist organizations and individuals in turning their potential into desired results; Powerquotes, a weekly publication, read by more than 90,000 people worldwide, featuring a quote along with questions to reflect on; Powerquotes Plus, a fee-based daily publication that adds personal coaching to the Powerquotes offering; and Vantagepoints, an email essay of learning from everyday events and activities, distributed to over 5,900 subscribers worldwide. Kevin is the developer of the Million Dollar Skills Learning System, a top flight learning system on valuable life skills delivered in bite-sized pieces that create powerful and productive habits. He hosted an internet radio program for two and a half years, Magical Movies. A former weekly contributing editor to the TechRepublic web site, his articles have been published in over 100 internet newsletters and web sites.
In 2004 Kevin received Distinguished Agricultural Alumni award from Purdue University . He was named an Outstanding Alumnus of Purdue University in 2002, and serves on the Dean's Advisory Council at Purdue. He has been recognized in the Who's Who in the Midwest and Who's Who Worldwide.
Kevin's goal is to reach organizations and individuals who believe in the power of action organizations and individuals who are passionate about succeeding at their highest level.
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