Category: If Disney Ran Your Life

Should we lower our standards?

Who in their right mind spends this much time, thought, energy, and money on something as unimportant as themed trash cans?

Should we lower our standards?

Each of us is a VIP.

A Very Individual Person.

Each of us has a set of standards for our life, compartmentalized by big life choices (mind, body, spirit, work, home).

While life’s five big choices are independent, they are also co-dependent and symbiotic.

Take work/career.

You have your professional standards.

They serve you and are the foundation for all your professional accomplishments, your skills, and productivity.

Would you, or should you, lower them?

Yeah, i don’t want to lower mine either.

So where do we go from here?

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.work .differently

Our work life is our contribution to society.
Our contribution to society is what we spend most of our waking hours doing.

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Client call questions

Client call questions:

  1. Who’s the audience
  2. Why Disney and this topic
  3. What do you want the buzz to be
  4. Conference theme & why
  5. How does topic support theme
  6. Greatest success past year
  7. Biggest unsolved challenge last year
  8. Budget
  9. Add ons

Logistics:

  1. Date, time, venue
  2. How many
  3. Seating
  4. Agenda
  5. Who introduces me
  6. If i start late, when should i end
  7. AV check
  8. Contract
  9. Recording
  10. Media
  11. Payment
  12. Feedback
  13. Testimonials
  14. Future opportunities
  15. Anything else

How’s that for a little behind the scenes look? It’s not the Magic that makes it work, it’s the work that makes it Magic.

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Mickey filling in for Vanna

Last night, the TV was on and i heard that Vanna is filling in for Pat as he recovers from surgery.

Can’t help but wonder what happened on the backstage side of our business to come up with this (Wheel of Fortune last night).

Big, fun, creative marketing ideas are a different kind of creativity than the day to day grind on the customer service front lines.

You understand the difference, right?

Marketing creativity is seen publicly by millions. Front-line operational creativity is invisible to customers (Guests).

Marketing creativity can become an annual event like the recent, “I’m going to Disney World” super bowl commercial, but no customers are personally impacted while visiting a Disney Destination because of that creative idea.

Frontline operational creativity can become a new customer process (or a removal or improvement of an existing process) and impact tens of millions of customers (Guests) annually, year after year. Additionally, one process enhancement can impact not only each customer, but every interaction with every employee – literally billions of interactions annually, year after year.

You want an example right?

Sure, take the FastPass clocks at FastPass eligible Disney Attractions. The clocks were a frontline Cast Member idea. Originally, it was an argument awkward debate between the Cast Member and the Guest as to who’s watch had the “correct” FastPass entrance time. The clocks became the official tie-breaker when two watches didn’t match and life returned to normal for every customer henceforth.

Backstage, Castzooming (Costuming), the process whereby Employees (Cast Members) obtain their daily Disney Costumes moved from a daily one-for-one exchange to a once a week, all five costumes exchange. Not only that, Cast Member asked to be able to take them home. Billions of cumulative employee interactions enhanced by two radical front line employee ideas.

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How well does your architecture serve you?

Just happened to notice a rocket launch a few minutes after it actually launched. Yesterday. Sitting at my desk.

Context: customer equals anyone that you serve, everyone in an organization serves others.

  1. Does your architecture help you deliver on what your customers want most?
  2. Does your architecture support your business strategy?
  3. Are workloads balanced among your leaders?
  4. Are employees getting the right amount of direction, not too much, not too little?
  5. Is there partnering and synergy across geographical and organizational boundaries?

i could go on, but these five define the point that there is much room for improvement.

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