Ideas

Today I had some outstanding conversations with my employee who is in charge of financial investments. He has been feeling that his performance is tapped and in 2007 the results will be even harder since he has capped out the customer base. These are the times that I thrive as a leader, bringing new ideas to an old style is what I really enjoy. I asked him a couple of questions around training what can he do differently to train the staff? He was lost and could not come up with ideas but as we talked and brought in some other people ideas began to flow. All of a sudden he was excited teaching people how to sell and taking the passion and energy to explain a plan of action. It is amazing to see how positive thinking can change peoples mind and move them in the right direction.

I then went to work with my MBA team to finalize a project that we are working on. I think the project went well and there are some strong people in the group. The group is very diverse and the leader if the group did an outstanding job leading the group. Some of the people in the group seem to get defensive when it comes to feedback this will change over time but the learning experience is outstanding.