Anyone can sign up for this unfair advantage

scoreboard
Tampa Catholic had an unfair advantage – they played better as a team for the first three quarters. Above: score at start of 4th quarter.

 

scoreboard
In the fourth quarter, we outscored Tampa Catholic 14-8…too little, too late.

 

Here’s a sign you never seen hanging in a lawyer’s office,  a High School lobby, or a cable service provider’s headquarters:

We have an unfair advantage: WE CARE MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE.

Easy to promise.

Anyone can make this promise.

Literally impossible to live up to.

But if you did it, it would work.

More than any other skill or attitude, this is what keeps me (and most people in general) coming back.

Good luck today, with what you do for a living.

•  •  •  •  •

This website is about our WORK. To ponder today’s post about our HQ, click here.

If you want to stay on this site and read more posts from this Blog, click here.

 

Organizational Reputation Momentum

Blaze Pizza
Yesterday’s lunch at Disney Springs.

Did you know that:

  • Customer satisfaction does not lead to customer loyalty?
  • Emotions trump everything else you offer in your customer’s experience?
  • Your customer’s loyalty is the most important business success metric?

Imagine if you could:

  • Learn the single criteria for ensuring and growing customer loyalty?
  • Equip your entire workforce to easily do more than they are paid to do to surprise and delight your customers?
  • Replicate and scale customer loyalty day in and day out?

You don’t have to imagine it. You’ll discover how to do all the above in the next 60 minutes, and you’ll not only hear the insights, you’ll experience many of them first hand before you leave this room.

 

•  •  •  •  •

 

1. Open with 3 questions that introduce startling statistics or facts your listeners don’t know – but would like to know – about the:

* Scope of the problem you’re solving.

* Urgency of the issue you’re addressing.

* Dramatic shift in the trend or topic you’re discussing.

Are you thinking, “Where do I find these startling statistics or surprising facts?

You GTS – GOOGLE THAT STUFF. Just enter the following questions into your favorite search engine:

* What are shocking statistics about ____________ (your subject?)

* What are changing trends in ________ (your industry or profession?)

* What is recent research about _____ (the problem you’re solving?)

* What is startling news about _____ (the issue you’re addressing?)

2. Use the word IMAGINE linked with 3 aspects/benefits of your program that everyone in your audience would find appealing.

* By verbally painting the ideal scenario your program delivers; everyone is on the edge of their mental seat eager to hear more because they’re thinking, “Sounds good. Who wouldn’t want that?!”

3. Say, “You don’t have to imagine it…” and then offer real-world evidence showing how your program has already produced tangible results so audience members know this isn’t “too good to be true;” they can trust it (and you) because it has a successful track record and has helped people just like them get the results they want.

Best yet, all the above can be condensed into a succinct 60 second opening.

•  •  •  •  •

This website is about our WORK. To ponder posts about our HQ, click here.

 

Few things in life are as powerful as a great reputation

Business cultural divide
Much is theorized about the rift between the Executive Suite and the front line. Source in lower left corner: Deloitte. Image from Pinterest.

 

Few things in life are as powerful as a great reputation.

Few leaders (at any level) are held accountable with 360-degree anonymous surveys because few can wrap their arms around the notion that revenue and leadership reputation are inextricably linked – in good times and in bad.

 

__________

 

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.

 

Personal reputation can be finicky

bicycling in Florida
Yesterday while running the second half of a 5-mile run.

 

bicycling in Florida
Even Mom’s cycling on the sidewalk.

 

bicycling in Florida
When i got home, i Googled sidewalk bicycling.

 

Bicycling on Florida sidewalks
Relieved.

 

Personal reputation can be finicky.

Someone (keeping him anonymous) told me sidewalk bicycling is illegal in Florida.

His comment came after i described how much and how far i was bicycling when i stopped running.

At the time, i didn’t think to ask him about all the school kids doing it.

 

•  •  •  •  •

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