development – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

Personal, professional development

Gaping Void leadership art — Gapingvoid leadership art. Hugh McLeod is a category of one.

Personal, professional development.

What is it?

Anything you want it to be. And sometimes everything you never think of.

There are a million ways to develop yourself. There are a million ways to develop others. Do you see the small leap from one to the other?

Read, watch, listen.

Write, record video, record audio.

Learn.

Teach.

Think.

Dream.

Inventories (mind, body, spirit, work, home).

Deadlines.

And on and on.

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Can we get a discount?

blurry windshield — What are we looking at?

view through windshield — Is that a discount code?

Can we get a discount?

The price for personal development is never discounted.

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Covid19 turning point

Grocery store empty shelves — Yesterday afternoon (5 hours ahead of President Trump’s Nationwide message about European air travel ban) at the grocery store. Had inside intel advice to head to store sooner rather than later. Toilet paper was almost gone.

Adversity doesn’t develop character, it reveals it.

Not talking about daily adversity.

Talking about Covid19 and other world catastrophes (remember 9/11?).

The adverse event is the test, not the studying (development).

Optional development can occur after you receive your test score.

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What’s the difference between training and development?

Training to meet customer expectations:

Trainers
Procedures
Manuals
Objective evaluations
Compliance

Development to exceed customer expectations:

Leaders
No procedures
No manuals
Subjective evaluation
Commitment

We lump these two entirely different tools together as “Training and Development”.

Why is that dangerous?

Lost opportunity?

Easy opportunity?

Lost opportunity.

Which team will win, a well-trained and compliant team or an amazingly developed and committed team?

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How fast should we drive during midlife? (a Disney flashback)

Disney Customer Experience Keynote Speaker jeff noel — Circa 2005. Illustrating the “extra inch” concept even back then.

A Disney flashback. How fast should we drive during midlife?

Had a Disney leader (Guy Smith) in 2000 request that at every one-on-one meeting he wanted his direct reports to share one example of how they ‘drove 65’ the previous week.

In this metaphor, we assume the speed limit is 55 mph, and his theory was we could exceed the posted speed limit if we weren’t reckless, and avoid getting pulled over.

In the spirit of continuous improvement (the DNA of Walt Disney) he wanted at least one example of how we pushed the envelope with a colleague, the audience (as a professional speaker), or our (Disney Institute) business practices.

That was 16 years ago and i still use it as a daily (weekly seems way too infrequent) personal challenge.

You are the CEO of You, Inc.

Your growth, development, and attitude is your responsibility.

Wow, the things that are so easy to take for granted.

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