On-going and Sustainable Leadership Development That Actually Gets Results!
Base Level:
The Remarkable Way - Digital
A digital, on-demand version of The Remarkable Way twelve-month program.
An entirely digital program that allows leaders to learn when and where they want!
Deluxe Level:
The Remarkable Way - Live
A twelve-month, live and online program that explores one leadership skill, one month at a time.
A complete leadership development program delivered in just 75 minutes/month!
Premium Level:
The Remarkable Retreat
Our premiere two and a half-day, live workshop designed for leaders looking to jump-start their development.
A small-group, immersive and personalized leadership retreat for leaders looking to get to the next level!
Over the past 25 years, we’ve worked with and observed hundreds of organizations and their leadership development programs. And unfortunately, most of these programs don’t even come close to accomplishing what they were designed to do – build better leaders for the long term.
Our observation makes one fact clear: organizations are struggling when it comes to sustainable leadership development.
Each year more money is invested in leadership development, with disappointing results. The return on investment is often, unfortunately, dismal.
Because here’s the thing – when it comes to leadership development, most programs focus on developing a great training program. Somehow, the terms training and development have become synonymous when they are not at all. Here is the truth:
Training is an event, but learning (including leadership development) is a process.
It might sound funny to hear us saying that the problem is training, but that’s not entirely what we are saying here. The problem comes from thinking that training (alone) can meet your needs or solve your leadership development problems.
Your experience tells you it doesn’t, and it can’t.
When we see leadership development just as training, we are doing what everyone else is doing - focusing on “best practices” and not the actual practice itself. You know how some people define insanity, right? Doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
By that definition, when it comes to developing leaders, there are a lot of insane organizations, and insane leaders – all with great intentions, but a terrible strategy.
Beyond the “event” nature of training, often training isn’t even very good. Too much training is a monologue rather than a dialogue – an event where attendees are passively listening and not participating; and definitely not practicing and planning for success.
People don’t learn important, complex life skills in an instant. In an instant, we can get an insight, an aha, and an inspiration. At an event, we can get ideas, approaches, checklists, and knowledge and foundations for skill development. But skills are developed over time – not in a one shot, one-time training course (regardless of how well it is designed or how awesome the trainer is). Skills are honed through practice and application.
The only way to get real leadership development is to create a process that supports real-life learning and one where the events are only a small planning part of the overall process. Until you create that you will never have a reasonable rate of return on the investment of time, talent and energy.
And even if we get the skills part right, it’s not enough.
The parts that are missing are the reasons you are disappointed with the effectiveness of your leadership development up until now. There are two very important pieces missing–what comes before the skill and what it takes for the skill to take hold.
The Most Important Element of Effective Leadership That No One Is Talking About
While leadership is about the outcomes you want to achieve and supporting and growing team members to reach those outcomes, there is something more.
Leadership isn’t about the leader, but it starts with the leader.
Who you are says much about how you will lead.
Before we even get to the skills that support the success of our team members, there is us. The element missing from nearly all leadership development activities is any discussion of, understanding of and development of the mindsets of the leader.
Mindset.
Mindset is the collection of thoughts and beliefs that shape our thoughts. Our mindset determines our attitude and defines how we interpret the world. Our mindset creates our thoughts, and those thoughts drive our actions.
If we don’t align our mindset with the skills we want to employ (or teach others), there is virtually no chance of applying a skill consistently (if you can even really learn it at all).
And while there isn’t a perfect set of the “right” mindsets for leadership effectiveness, every mindset will impact the way a person leads. And if you understand their impacts, you can adjust and choose mindsets that support the success you want to create as a leader, and as a human being..
Most leadership development activities never consider or address mindset; but as you now see, mindset is the critical starting point for lasting leadership growth and success.
Leadership Skills Are Still Useless without THIS
Knowing the right skills to lead more effective is helpful.
Understanding how to use them is necessary.
But developing any skill (including leadership skills) isn’t an academic exercise.
You can’t build your leadership skills in a classroom. To ride a bike, you must put your butt on a seat and start pedaling. Let me make this clear: all the instruction in the world may help, but skill development comes in the real world with real situations, in real time during real life.
Yes, skills are the start, but to master a skill it we must try it, then dedicate ourselves to making that new skill permanent. How do skills become permanent? We need habits to support the needed practice. More than creating practice, habits allow us to do things without thinking.
Do you think about how you tie your shoes, comb your hair, or brush your teeth? Do you think about how you greet a co-worker or give feedback?
If you want to change any established practice (including how you do any leadership skill) you must create a habit to support the application of the new skill. The simple fact is learning a new skill or improving an existing one requires a change of habit.
In order to be a better leader, we must know what our habits are, and decide if they are supporting successful results. If we determine they aren’t we must know how to create and sustain the new habits. Then and only then can we consciously create the habitset the will support the leadership results we desire.
You know this: habits are at the heart of our results. If you aren’t getting the results you want in any area of life, a big key is to figure out which habits (considered or not) are getting in your way, then adjusting them to create new results. The problem is we don’t have a way to apply this in real life.
Mindset + Skillset + Habitset = Lasting Leadership Growth and Success
We build our learning experiences, The Remarkable Way and The Remarkable Retreat, using a revolutionary system, The Remarkable 3, that helps leaders of all levels learn and apply all three of these components:
Mindset
Skillset
Habitset
Only when each is considered, understood and developed can anyone come close to becoming the Remarkable Leader they were born to be.
Leadership development is complex and can’t be oversimplified. That is why the historical focus on skills alone isn’t enough. It can’t be about one, or even two of the components. Lasting success comes only when all three – mindset-skillset-habitset – are employed.
DELUXE LEVEL:
The Remarkable Way - Live
The Remarkable Way is monthly, on-going leadership development process that helps leaders get the results that they need. It goes beyond just teaching the leadership skills. It helps leaders utilize The Remarkable 3 - they will learn to develop the skillset they need and also identify and develop the mindsets and habitsets that are critical to their short and long-term success.
This monthly, on-going system will solve the problems and frustrations that traditional leadership development has struggled to answer for years.
Each month, we will focus on developing one leadership skill at a time. Together we will discuss ideas, approaches and tactics that can be applied immediately back at work to help gain and master that new skill.
Then each week, I’ll send participants a quick, video on leadership mindset. This video will help the leader develop the right mindset so that they can master the month’s focus skill. Our mindset creates our thoughts, and those thoughts drive our actions. By aligning the mindset each month, participants will consistently and successfully apply the corresponding skill.
And lastly, to help create the habitset necessary to support development, participants will receive a brief text message each workday morning. It will remind, inspire and inform and is designed to keep consciously moving them towards their development goals, creating the habits to make it all really happen.
If you are frustrated by the lack of growth of the leadership skills in your organization, and you are looking for a solution, you are in the right place.
If you are stressed because the leaders across your organization need ongoing support and the training you have isn’t enough, it’s time to try something new.
If your organization can’t spare their leaders to be away for days learning skills that they might never get fully implemented, The Remarkable Way can help.
The Remarkable Way is a Revolutionary System That Uses a Proven Process to Get the Leadership Results Your Organization Needs
Here’s what members in The Remarkable Way can expect each month:
A Monthly Planning Tool: Any project needs a plan, and The Remarkable Way is your plan for leadership success. At the start of each month, members will receive a document to set them up for success in learning and applying that month’s focus skill.
Skillset Spotlight: This once-a-month, live 45-minute webinar will provide members with ideas, approaches and tactics to help them gain a new skill. It will be practical and quick and available after the live date in the Remarkable Way Learning Portal.
Mindset TV: Every week, members will receive a short video from Kevin that addresses leadership mindset. Members will get ideas and will be challenged and inspired to consider the mindset that will best help them apply and develop that month’s focus skill.
The Morning Minute: Habits build daily. To help create the habitsets to support development, members will receive a brief text message each workday morning. It will remind, inspire and inform and is designed to keep consciously moving members towards their development goals, creating the habits they need to make it all really happen.
The Coaching Call-in: Membership includes live, personal access to Kevin each month. Once a month, Kevin will open up a limited number of 10-15 minute slots that members can sign up for and use to discuss questions or challenges related to that month’s focus skill – or anything they want to discuss.
The Remarkable Way Community: This members-only Facebook Group is a platform where members can ask questions, share ideas, and "talk" with Kevin and other members of The Kevin Eikenberry Group.
The Skillset Plan for 2019-20 Session of The Remarkable Way
Below are the skillsets by month that members will learn, practice and develop in the first year of The Remarkable Way.
October 2019: Giving Effective Feedback
November 2019: Setting Goals Collaboratively
December 2019: Creating Commitment Not Just Compliance
January 2020: Listening as a Leader
February 2020: Building Confidence in Yourself and Others
March 2020: Using Stories to Communicate More Effectively
April 2020: Creating Crystal Clear Expectations
May 2020: Leading your Culture
June 2020: Building Your Leadership Presence
July 2020: Having Difficult Conversations
August 2020: Leading Change Effectively
September 2020: Using Questions More Effectively
October 2020: Delegating Intentionally and Effectively
Two Pricing Options & Bulk Discounts to Fit Your Organizational Needs:
One Payment of
$2,400
You investment includes all of the monthly materials listed above as well as:
- A copy of Remarkable Leadership - a practical handbook written for anyone who wants to hone the skills they need to become a remarkable leader. (Value: $35)
- A Remarkable Journal - journal was designed specifically by Kevin to help leaders maximize their learning and skill development. (Value: $20)
- The Insider - Our print newsletter filled with the latest ideas and new applications of timeless leadership principle written specifically for leaders. (Value: $99)
Three Payments of
$850
First payment due now, remaining two will be charged once per month over the next two months.
You investment includes all of the monthly materials listed above as well as:
- A copy of Remarkable Leadership - a practical handbook written for anyone who wants to hone the skills they need to become a remarkable leader. (Value: $35)
- A Remarkable Journal - journal was designed specifically by Kevin to help leaders maximize their learning and skill development. (Value: $20)
- The Insider - Our print newsletter filled with the latest ideas and new applications of timeless leadership principle written specifically for leaders. (Value: $99)
Bulk Discounts:
Save $200/person when you register 3 - 9 leaders.
Call 317-387-1424, ext. 12 or email Laura to register multiple leaders and to learn about our discounts for 10+ leaders.
Invest in Your Leaders Before November 21 and Get These Bonuses:
Register 10+ members: Get an organizational consult + a customized webinar to help you integrate The Remarkable Way into your organizational culture.
Register 9 members or less: Get on-demand access to our webinar, How to Get the Most Out of The Remarkable Way
FAST-ACTION BONUS:
Be one of the first 5 orders and get access to the September Skillset Spotlight webinar, Getting More of the Right Things Done!
Frequently Asked Questions About The Remarkable Way
Is this really interactive learning?
In a word – absolutely! Our live webinars give you the chance to ask questions, offer suggestions and get feedback every month. You also have the opportunity to get personal access to Kevin with the Coaching Call-in, the Remarkable Way Community as well as our entire Remarkable Leadership team via phone and email when you need us.
Do I need to be in a "real" leadership role to participate?
How do you define "real"? Seriously, what makes you any different from a Fortune 100 CEO, department head, front line supervisor or a PTA President?
No matter what your business card says (or doesn’t say), we believe every person on the planet can be a leader. You may not have anyone to lead yet, but every person has the capacity to lead in some way. The Remarkable Way is built around meeting you where you are in your leadership journey.
What do Members do every month?
Our Members spend time participating in webinars, reflecting on leadership mindset each week with Mindset TV, creating and practicing leadership habits through Your Morning Minute and sharing their successes and challenges with the other Members through the Community and otherwise.
Before you say "I don’t have time" or "there’s no way I could fit this is into my routine", you need to know The Remarkable Way is built specifically with active, busy, on-the-go leaders in mind. All of the tools are designed to combine seamlessly with your professional – and personal – life – so that your leadership development becomes a part of your life.
Webinars are offered during the work day and can be scheduled like a meeting on your calendar. If for some reason you aren’t able to join us live, recordings are made available for every webinar. Every month we focus specifically on area can be strengthened and immediately applied in your office, at your next meeting, with your team, in your next presentation, etc.
This approach allows you to really hone and practice your new (or refreshed) skills, mindsets and habitsets quickly without ever having to leave the office or lose time on the job. You’ll immediately see results and have opportunities to get on-going feedback from your team and colleagues.
There is no such thing as overnight success and you won’t become remarkable overnight. If you want lasting success, you must make your learning and your development a sustainable process.
The Remarkable Way is a proven process that will help you get the results that you need. It is an on-going process that goes beyond just teaching the leadership skills – it helps you develop the skillset you need and it also helps you identify and develop the mindsets and habitsets that are critical to your short and long-term success.
This monthly, on-going system will solve the problems and frustrations that traditional leadership development has struggled to answer for years.
BASE LEVEL:
The Remarkable Way - Digital
While we personally believe there is no substitute for live and interactive learning, we also understand that there are many industries, leadership positions and situations that simply don't have the flexibility for development that requires live participation.
The Remarkable Way - Digital edition is exactly for these leaders – those looking for leadership development and learning that they can actually fit in to their already over-booked schedules and done on their time.
Every component of the digital edition is available on-demand and entirely online – the monthly webinar and planning tool and Mindset TV will be loaded each month into the membership portal and available when your leaders are ready to learn. They’ll still get access to the daily text messages as well as The Remarkable Way Community and it’s all available at a gentler investment – just $999 for the entire year.
Here's what participants can expect to get each month:
- A Monthly Planning Tool: Any project needs a plan, and The Remarkable Way is the monthly plan for leadership success. At the start of each month, members will receive a document to set them up for success in learning and applying that month’s focus skill.
- Skillset Spotlight: This 45-minute recorded webinar is uploaded to the membership site each month and will provide members with ideas, approaches and tactics to help them gain a new skill.
- Mindset TV: Every week, members will receive a short video from Kevin that addresses leadership mindset. Members will get ideas and will be challenged and inspired to consider the mindset that will best help them apply and develop that month’s focus skill.
- The Morning Minute: Habits build daily. To help create the habitsets to support development, members will receive a brief text message each workday morning. It will remind, inspire and inform and is designed to keep consciously moving members towards their development goals, creating the habits they need to make it all really happen.
- The Remarkable Way Community: This members-only Facebook Group is a platform where members can ask questions, share ideas, and "talk" with Kevin and other members of The Kevin Eikenberry Group.
Your Investment: One payment of $999
PREMIUM LEVEL:
The Remarkable Retreat
The Remarkable Retreat is learning experience that has been designed for leaders like these:
- Leaders who are challenged in their current role to be their best (and feel like they are falling short some of the time)
- Leaders who see a future that will require more from them to be successful
- Leaders that believe they can become more effective leaders and are looking for a way to both jump-start their development and keep them on a path to greater success
The Remarkable Retreat is a critical turning point for leaders – when everything changes and nothing will never be the same. It will be an experience that changes the course of their future…for the better. Leaders will leave with new ideas and skills, but far more than that they will possess a new, broader perspective and leave energized and equipped to make a bigger difference for their team, their organization and themselves.
The Remarkable Retreat is a two-and-a-half day, small group experience that will be interactive and engaging and personalized to fit the group's needs.
Day 1: We’ll select learning partners, identify the leadership skills we want to explore, review our Leadership Model & The Remarkable 3, discuss the Leadership Values that are important to each of us individually, create our own Leadership Guidance Systems and clarify our unique leadership stories.
Day 2: We dig into mindset and skillset – the first two prongs of The Remarkable 3. We’ll talk about how we determine our mindsets and the barriers to having the mindsets that we want. Then we really dig into the skills that each participant identified the day before.
Day 3: After some morning reflection on the first two days, it’s round-table time. This is where each attendee gets 20 minutes of individual attention on their specific challenge or situation. It’s a group activity, because we find that some of the best lessons come from the wisdom of other attendees who have been in the trenches and had similar experiences. After that, we wrap up the day with the third prong of The Remarkable 3, habitset, and create a Habitset Plan and Personal Action Plan.
The Remarkable Retreat is truly one of the most personalized and immersive learning experiences that we have ever created.
Here is just some of what leaders will leave The Remarkable Retreat with:
- Clarity on who you are as a leader and how you can best lead
- The values that drive you as a leader and make you more influential
- Your values story
- How to use the Mindset/Skillset/Habitset (The Remarkable 3) approach for yourself and with others
- A deep understanding of how your mindsets guide you as a leader
- An understanding of your current mindsets and a list of those you want to create and develop
- Clarity on the leadership skills you most need to develop on your journey
- The ability to define and create the habits that support your development as a leader
- The ability to give and receive feedback more comfortably
- Solutions to your biggest current leadership challenges
- An action plan for your future – mapping your path towards Remarkable Leadership
- Commitment and accountability to achieving that action plan
What else does each participant get?
As amazing as the 2.5-day experience will be, it is an event, and therefore not enough to give each leader the results they want and need. To assure their growth and development, we have created a learning process. How will we make it a process?
Coaching calls. Participants will get three follow-up coaching calls with the entire group and Kevin. Scheduled at 60, 120 and 180 days after the event, they will be part of the developmental and accountability process. (a $500 value)
An online community. We have created a closed Linked In group so that participants can share ideas, insights, successes and ask questions. Kevin will participate as well to help translate the event into real learning and growth. (priceless)
One personal coaching call with Kevin. As an alumnus of this unique experience, attendees can email Kevin, or engage with him on the online community when needed, but participants also get access to 30 minutes of private coaching time with Kevin. ($350 value)
A 12 Month Membership in The Remarkable Way: A Revolutionary System for Reaching Your Leadership Potential. This ongoing learning process built around the Mindset/Skillset/Habitset approach will help build leadership competencies and confidence with a focus on a different skillset each month. ($2,400 value)
Your Investment
Your investment for this unique and powerful learning experience and the full year of engaging learning that is included (The Remarkable Way) is just $5,000, or two payments of $2,550. A fully refundable $400 deposit is required at the time of your application and will be deducted from your full or first payment.
The Process
Applications are processed on a first come, first served basis. As soon as your application and deposit are received, it will be marked in sequential order. The group will be capped at 15 participants. If your application is approved, but there isn’t space in the existing session, you will be first in line for the next session. While you can’t guarantee your participation, the best thing you can do to influence your inclusion is to fill out the application completely and with thought and submit it with your deposit as soon as possible.
You do not have to complete your application all at one time. You may save the application and go back as you have time and as many times as you like. But remember, until your application is fully completed, submitted and your deposit is paid, we cannot hold your spot at the event.
Frequently Asked Questions About The Remarkable Retreat
Why is there an application to participate?
It might seem funny to have to “apply” to pay and attend a workshop, but we do this for very specific reasons. We built a different kind of learning experience with The Retreat, and to ensure that the group is dynamic and ready to grow together, Kevin hand-selects individuals who are actually at the right place in their development for this sort of an event. The questions you will answer in the application help him to better understand your leadership journey and help to determine whether this is the next best step for you. And if upon review The Retreat isn’t your next step, Kevin will personally call you to help figure out what that step is – no generic form letters here!
How is this different than any other workshop that I’ve attended before?
Perhaps the biggest difference is that while we have an “agenda” with a basic outline of what we will cover, YOU and your fellow attendees actually determine the leadership skills. When you first arrive, you will be asked to jot down the top skills that you need to work on in our time together. Then as a group, we narrow down the ones most important to all of us. Now this means that Kevin has quite a bit of homework on the evening of the first day (preparing to cover what you want on day 2), but it also means that you we cover exactly what you came for.
We also start our time together by selecting Learning Partners. Your Learning Partner will be just that - a partner in learning. This person will help you (and you will help them) think about how to apply what you learn during this experience. Hopefully (and more importantly), you will coach and help each other after your time together in Indianapolis as you apply the ideas and techniques we learn together back in "the real world".
Immersive, engaging and personalized – probably the best words to describe what The Retreat will be.
Kevin Eikenberry
Creator and Facilitator of The Remarkable Way and The Remarkable Retreat
Kevin Eikenberry is a recognized world expert on leadership development and learning and is the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group (http://KevinEikenberry.com). He has spent more than 25 years helping organizations across North America, and leaders from around the world, on leadership, learning, teams and teamwork, communication and more. Twice he has been named by Inc.com as one of the top 100 Leadership and Management Experts in the World and has been included in many other similar lists. He is the author, co-author or a contributing author to nearly 20 books, including Remarkable Leadership and bestseller From Bud to Boss – Secrets of the Successful Transition to Remarkable Leadership (with Guy Harris), The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for Remarkable Remote Leadership (with Wayne Turmel). His blog is consistently ranked among the world’s best, most read and most shared on leadership.
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"Kevin has the ability to teach leadership to anyone willing to focus on developing her leadership skills. His examples fit every organization and makes the participant enthusiastic about becoming a better leader."
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Connecticut Department of Transportation
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AgReliant Genetics
Three Learning Options to Fit Your Organizational Needs:
Base Level:
The Remarkable Way - Digital
A digital, on-demand version of The Remarkable Way twelve-month program.
An entirely digital program that allows leaders to learn when and where they want!
Deluxe Level:
The Remarkable Way - Live
A twelve-month, live and online program that explores one leadership skill, one month at a time.
A complete leadership development program delivered in just 75 minutes/month!
Premium Level:
The Remarkable Retreat
Our premiere two and a half-day, live workshop designed for leaders looking to jump-start their development.
A small-group, immersive and personalized leadership retreat for leaders looking to get to the next level!
Questions or Need Help?
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