There are five powerful lessons in business from Disney

Disney Customer Service Speakers
Driving through town yesterday on an errand – stopped in traffic.

 

Disney Customer Service Speakers
My town’s Chamber of Commerce logo.

 

Disney Keynote Speakers
Love the flag.

 

Disney Keynote Speakers
Hometowns essentials are our Kingdoms, no?

 

Disney Customer Service Speakers
As CEO of You, Inc, Creating Magic is your responsibility.

 

Word for word from a Canadian University website…

There are five powerful lessons in business, lessons carefully developed by the Disney organization in its never-ending pursuit of excellence. These universal pillars of a successful business—leadership, culture, service, brand and innovation—are the keys to sustained business excellence. Together, these lessons forge an enduring bond between inspired leaders, motivated employees, satisfied customers, and an ability to drive stakeholder value.

Throughout this course, you will discover insights that drive Disney parks and resorts organization and gain awareness of how these insights could be adapted to strengthen your own organizational efforts.

 

 

Did you know: i spent the last 15 years of a 30-year Disney career teaching and advising at Disney Institute? Traveled the globe preaching the “Good News” of Walt Disney.

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Disney Keynote Speaker Takeaways and Executive Summary

Paradise Falls
Screen shot from Twitter yesterday. Mr Freidrickson had a clear, concise, and compelling vision to get to Paradise Falls.

 

Disney Customer Service Speakers
Hidden Disney Keynote Speaker here.

 

1)      Three key takeaways each for Leadership session and Customer focus session.  These will allow me to start working on a participant resource.  If those takeaways have a graphic associated (like the compass you mentioned), it will be really helpful to have those as well.

2)      An executive summary of the material for the three sessions you are leading (leadership, customer focus, and commitment).  I know you don’t provide your slides, and that is fine.  All of this will help me provide a design review to my Leaders, and I need the executive summary in order to provide that.

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Leadership takeaways:

  1. The single, most critical leadership tool is a clear, concise, compelling vision.
  2. Training and development are vastly different strategies for involvement.
  3. Why clear accountability is critical to organizational vibrancy.
  4. Commitment isn’t needed until the honeymoon-phase wears off.

 

Leadership Executive Summary:

Thesis: We judge ourselves on our intentions, others judge us on our behaviors.

Through the interactive session filled with questions, common sense, and paradox, participants will discover (or be reminded) that world-class organizational success rises or falls from your collective leadership culture. Each leader is CEO of You, Inc. Ultimately, world-class achievement and sustainability stems from your leaders.

 

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Customer Service takeaways:

  1. The bullseye for your organization’s customer service efforts needs to be so easy to hit that any employee at any time can do it blind-folded.
  2. Viewing your customers with a holistic, 360 Analysis, you have 300% more (than your competitors) ammunition for all employees to hit the bullseye every day, all day.
  3. The secret ingredient to create and sustain world-class customer service architecture is a unifying goal.
  4. Consistently delivering exceptional service is the key to being world-class and having a decision tree comprised of three or four prioritized service tenets ensures consistency day in and day out.

 

Customer Service Executive Summary:

Thesis: Exceed expectations, pay attention to detail.

Through the interactive session filled with questions, common sense, and paradox, participants will discover how you provide world-class surprise and delight for your customers. Great organizations outdistance their competition when every employee understands and becomes committed to your Customer Service architecture.

 

 

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Commitment Activity Takeaways:

  1. A small spark, a simple yet catalytic event, is the DNA of transformational change.
  2. Individually create and capture on paper an easy and simple goal with a 72-hour deadline to act as your catalyst.
  3. Writing a goal down and sharing it with an accountability partner doesn’t guarantee success, but makes success exponentially more likely to occur compared to when no commitment promise is made.

 

Commitment Activity Executive Summary:

Through simple and individual reflection of content, each participant commits to achieving a goal within 72 hours – the caveat being the goal cannot require Leadership, HR, or Finance approval. After participants write a letter addressed to themselves, they verbally exchange ideas (and contact information) with a colleague and pinky-swear to check on each other. The collective sense of accomplishment – and contribution – is a timely catalyst for the larger enterprise. Letters are mailed out so every participant can self-evaluate their results and formulate their next 72-hour challenge.

 

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RIP Walt Disney

Cast Activities logo
Have had my eye on a castle turret design for several years. This reminded me to dust off the idea.

 

main logo
Main logo is ripe for a new Family member. A Family of logos.

 

Walt Disney died on this day (December 15) in 1966.

He had turned 65 ten days prior to his death.

So grateful for the legacy he left our Company.

Incredibly blessed to have it be my life’s work.

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The recipe for unlimited customer devotion

Disney Pixar Coco Ad
Devoted customers lined up for you, right?

 

The recipe for unlimited customer devotion?

It’s the same recipe you use for remarkably vibrant physical health.

Confused?

You should be.

But you shouldn’t be, really.

Hard work, focus, and an impossible goal.

Clear, concise, compelling.

You can create unlimited customer devotion.

Just ask Disney and Apple.

And ask them where they’d be without their founders.

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Quietly and “backstage” making progress

Disney Business books author
Quietly and “backstage” making progress.

 

Quietly and “backstage” making progress.

Every week it’s the same.

Slow and steady.

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