Executive – Page 3 – Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker

A simple and compelling analogy

Yesterday for lunch, homemade guacamole.

Literally everyone i meet struggles to offer clear, concise, and compelling answers to the most important questions facing their business.

My analogy is simple: business health and personal health are the same.

Business health and personal health are the same things.

How many Americans, including you, make your health a daily focus?

Why?

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Are the best leaders also the best parents?

Personal values list — Our instructor, a seasoned attorney, carries a $100 bill and tells people when riding elevators he’ll give it to them if they can share their personal values before the door opens. He’s never given away the $100. He would have yesterday if he had tested the audience.

Empathy is often regarded as one of the top leadership qualities differentiating great leaders from good leaders.

And there’s talk about some adults being too busy to be effective parents, that is, too busy to generously demonstrate empathy.

This is why i insist great leaders differentiate themselves with:

clear, concise, compelling vision
enhancing employee involvement by moving past training, to development, to foster commitment (versus compliance)
putting structure and process in place to have absolute clarity on accountability for priorities and balance
demonstrating the most commitment on your team, and if there was a private vote, you’d be unanimously selected

Makes perfect sense.

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PS. The 5 personal values i’ve been teaching our son since he could talk:

Honesty
Behave admirably
Personal Responsibility
Self-control
Initiative

We worked on honesty (trust) from day one. Behaving admirably was introduced with the advent of sleepovers. Personal responsibility added during elementary school. Self-control added during adolescence. And initiative was added last year as a High Schooler. Next up is fun – probably add that tonight.

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11 mistakes personal (and corporate) trainers wish you’d stop making

Everyday Health photos — This photo title should say: You’re too Monotonous. Doing the same things and expecting your results to happen better and faster.

The hardest thing in the world is to change who we are once we are well into our career. However, it SHOULD be the easiest thing because what we are really asked to do is to simply keep getting better.

Original article is here.

Summary of 11 points, jeff noel style.

You’re too Monotonous. Doing the same things and expecting your results to happen better and faster.
You’re doing workplace initiatives you hate.
You are starting with the wrong mindset.
You’re always focused on the same things, in the same way.
You refuse to do what it takes to have focus and discipline.
You are neglecting a holistic approach to organizational vibrancy.
You use a ready, fire, aim approach to making progress.
You rush from one thing to another and don’t fully understand the inter-connectedness of the easy beginnings and easy endings.
You only want to focus on what you’re good at, and not a 360 analysis.
Rush, rush, rush. You do too many things that others can, and should, be doing.
The long way is the short cut. Each important piece of cultural architecture has a positive ripple effect when you have it in place and a negative ripple effect when it isn’t.

Personal trainers, executive coaches, High School Counselors, Physicians, and so on, they are at their finest when they are 100% honest, transparent, and forthcoming.

The truth hurts.

The truth can set you free.

Pick wisely.

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This website is about our career health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my home health website, click here.

On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

A perfect place to hold an Executive Leadership engagement

Four Seasons Resort at Walt Disney World — First thing catching my eye – attention to detail.

Do you have a plan for your career that excites you?

Do you have a plan for your career that doesn’t excite you?

Does the thought of having a plan that excites you exhaust you, and keep you from committing?

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In my line of work, i seem to see a lot more than most

Not only 30 years at Disney, but 15 years inside roughly 2,000 other organizations, while teaching at Disney Institute.

A snippet from The House That Ogilvy Built:

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Creating a First-class Business:
More than anything else, the glue that held together the organization as it grew around the world was training. Ogilvy used the metaphor of a teaching hospital. “Great hospitals do two things,” he said. “They look after patients, and they teach young doctors. Ogilvy & Mather does two things: We look after clients, and we teach young advertising people. Ogilvy & Mather is the teaching hospital of the advertising world. And as such, it is to be respected above all other agencies.”

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That said, my gift to the CEO is this:

Teach like you mean it.

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