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Welcome to the April 2007 edition of Key Inspirations with Kevin Asbjornson, MIM, Leadership and Performance consultant, keynote inspirational speaker and performing artist. Thank you for subscribing!
Key Inspiration for the Day: Employees, customers, and profits thrive on Emotional Engagement. “Organizations can only reach their full potential by emotionally engaging their employees and customers.” “The response [to emotional engagement] has been so phenomenal that these organizations don't refer to their return patrons as loyal. They speak of them as being emotionally engaged customers.”
According to these researchers, emotional engagement is equally important for employees: “When [emotionally] engaged employees utilize their natural talents, they provide an instant, and constant, competitive edge. They build a new value: emotionally driven connections between employees and customers.” These findings support Kevin Asbjornson’s cutting-edge work in Emotionally Intelligent Leadership and his ground-breaking application of Emotional Intelligence in organizational environments. “Empathy is the root of Emotional Engagement and Emotional Intelligence,” Kevin says. “It is this ability to relate to the emotional experience of others that enhances one’s own emotional intelligence. This in turn fuels inspiration, imagination and innovation that are self-perpetuating.” These concepts can be found in Artistry of Leadership - Creating Meaningful Connections®, Kevin’s Performing Arts-based Leadership and Performance experience, which is helping organizations around the world leverage Emotional Intelligence to achieve new levels of success. Click here for an overview, excerpts and reviews of Follow This Path. Click here for more information about how Artistry of Leadership helps organizations Inspire, Imagine and Innovate.
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Leading Business Author’s Keynote Supports the Principles of Artistry of Leadership
“It used to be that it was better to be logical, sequential, linear—to zero-in on the left side of the brain, and people with those abilities are 100 percent necessary. Now artistry, empathy and creativity are the parts that matter most." In his book A Whole New Mind, Pink describes a seismic shift away from an Information Age dominated by "left brain" thinking to a Conceptual Age where people with "right brain" minds like artists, inventors and big picture thinkers will be the most successful. It's a change that Pink says business leaders should embrace if they are to remain on the cutting edge. These ideas support the learning in Kevin Asbjornson's interactive Performing Arts-based Leadership and Performance experience, Artistry of Leadership®, which shows business leaders how to access their internal creative and artistic competencies to inspire unparalleled productivity, synergy and collaboration. “The jewelry business is creative by nature,” Kevin says. “But being a leader in a creative industry doesn’t automatically imbue one with the perspective to practice creative leadership. With music as the medium, Artistry of Leadership uniquely relates creative competencies to the daily practice of leadership. It provides a readily accessible and practical framework for leveraging creativity to drive business performance.” Visit www.DanPink.com to learn more about A Whole New Mind and read an excerpt. Click here to learn more about Artistry of Leadership at Kevin’s website | ||||||
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Kevin Asbjornson’s Music Featured on New CD Honoring Teachers in Taiwan-Republic of China
The CD packaging contains postcards devoted to each track on the disc. The text accompanying Kevin’s music translates as: “The notes of piano become the raindrops after a spring shower, and found the forgotten self at the end of the rainbow. The light from the heart of fire never ends, because I felt infinite warmth here.” “It’s especially rewarding to be included on this CD because of my professional interest and involvement in education,” Kevin says. The setting for Kevin’s Performing Arts-based Leadership and Development experience Artistry of Leadership is based on the Inspired Learning Model, of which Kevin is both a master facilitator and practitioner. This model centers on the dynamic interaction between the facilitator, learner and the learning environment – an interaction that inspires self-discovery, insight and wisdom. Jingo Digital is a leading music publishing and licensing company based in Taipei, Taiwan and is the exclusive distributor of Kevin’s music in that country. Kevin has been named one of Jingo Digital’s Top 25 Recording Artists for 2004, 2005, and 2006. Click here to visit Jingo Digital on the Web. Click here to sample and purchase Kevin's CDs of original contemporary acoustic piano music. Click here to read a white paper on the Inspired Learning Model written by its creator Peter Reding, founder of the Foundation for Inspired Learning. |
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Book by Michael Jones Offers Leaders Insights into the Value of Imagination, Says Fellow Pianist and Leadership Visionary Kevin Asbjornson
This observation, from the book jacket of Artful Leadership: Awakening the Commons of the Imagination, crystallizes for leaders one of their most formidable challenges in today’s competitive economy. Kevin Asbjornson, MIM, says this book by creative facilitator, speaker, writer and pianist Michael Jones, is a must-read for executives seeking innovative new leadership paradigms to replace the failed ones of the past. “Jones’s thought-provoking writing resonates with me so powerfully because it parallels my own professional experience in awakening leaders’ capacity for inspiration, imagination and innovation,” Asbjornson says. “As Michael suggests, imagination is the antidote for the traditional ‘mechanistic view of the world.’ His exploration of Artful Leadership is itself a transformational experience.” Click here to read excerpts and reviews of Artful Leadership at Michael’s website, Pianoscapes.com. Click here to purchase Artful Leadership and other books and CDs by Michael Jones. |
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RIA Emerging as Metric of Emotional Engagement and Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
Reach and Influence of Audience (RIA), one of Kevin Asbjornson’s Eight Keys to Inspired Leadership™, is not achieved through PowerPoint presentations, memos or meetings, but rather through consistent and deliberate efforts to understand and effectively connect with audiences including employees, board of directors, stockholders and strategic partners. As such, RIA sets the stage for Emotional Engagement, a chief goal of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership. The relevance of RIA is underscored in an article in B2B magazine about Diane Brink, VP-worldwide integrated marketing communications for one of Kevin’s clients, IBM Corp. The article points to Brink’s interest in innovative ways to communicate the company’s messages beyond traditional channels. The article notes: “IBM is also shifting away from more traditional ‘talking head’ events and is hosting smaller, more intimate forums for its key clients and prospects to talk about their business problems and how IBM can help them find solutions.” Kevin applauds the trend at IBM. “They clearly grasp the concept of Reach and Influence of Audience, and though their new communications strategies, they will reap the dividends of Emotional Engagement that are sure to follow.” Click here to read the article from B2B magazine. Click here to read Kevin’s Eight Keys to Inspired Leadership. |
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Kevin's music enhances individual and classroom learning, attention and focus, and creates an ideal ambiance for relaxation, concentration and insight. Kevin’s CDs are an excellent choice by parents, teachers, physicians, coaches, trainers, and facilitators who understand the positive impact of music in their workplace, home, and automobile environments. Let Kevin’s music be a transporting counter-balance to the cacophony of daily life. Ideal for gift giving! Selected recordings of Kevin’s original contemporary piano solos from the Acoustitherapy CD collection are available for purchase and download online on iTunes. Click here to visit iTunes.
All of Kevin’s CDs, as well as the entire Acoustitherapy CD collection, can be purchased online at www.CDBaby.com, or by calling CDBaby toll-free 1.800.289.6923 (1.800.Buy.My.CD).
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The Gallup Organization, one of the world’s preeminent researchers of human nature and behavior, has developed a new model of business competitiveness, based on its own research and recent advances in economics, psychology, and the neurosciences. At the core of this model is the conclusion that:
In his keynote address at the VNU Fine Jewelry CEO Summit in February, renowned business author Daniel Pink emphasized the role of creativity in business success:
A new premium CD released in Taiwan-Republic of China features Kevin Asbjornson’s original contemporary acoustic piano music. The CD, a collaboration between Jingo Digital and E. Sun Bank, was produced in celebration of 2006 National Teacher’s Day and includes Surrender from Kevin’s Collage CD.
“We are entering a time when the primary leadership challenges will not be technical, but transformational. It is a time when leaders will fail, not because of a lack of strategy or resources, but from a failure of imagination.” 
The contemporary and new age piano solos of Kevin Asbjornson and PianoOne are now available online in sheet music form for piano teachers, piano students, and pianists of all performance levels. The Sibelius Music online service allows you to preview, listen to, print and purchase sheet music for selected compositions from Kevin’s library of original music.