#stephenmrcovey

[yantougas]

The featured speaker for the final day of our conference was Gallup's Vipula Ghandi.
Gallup has been studying human behavior for decades and Ms. Ghandi's message was simple: if you want to be fulfilled and successful, bank on your strengths. You will learn faster, excel quicker, and enjoy every minute of it.
An important reality highlighted by Ghandi is that a person's strengths can make them blind to another person's strengths. For example, an "achiever" who must absolutely get something tangible done every single day (even while on vacation) may find a "learner" who prefers the process to the results absolutely maddening.
Reflecting on this reality, I can see how such differences in people's strengths can lead to distrust and pressures in the workplace.  Which makes for an interesting link between Ghandi's message and what Stephen Covey had to say about trust on Day 1 and what @neelvf shared about performance drivers on Day 2.
From this, I am reminded of the importance of valuing differences, of seeking first to understand, of designing job roles carefully. And, more than ever, I am reminded of the strong relationship between ethical performance and business excellence.
@ecinitiative: well done.
#businessethics #corporateculture #stephenmrcovey #gallup #strengths #cliftonstrengths #cliftonstrengthsfinder (at Cheshire, Connecticut)

[richienorton]

FORBES wrote about my mentor/mentee relationship with Covey. Here’s a small part from Forbes and my own account live on stage. I created a free guide to help you get mentored and results called Unstuck45 - how to self-disrupt in 45 days. Grab it you idiot. Link in profile. // From FORBES by Kathy Caprino 🙏 Kathy Caprino: Richie, please tell us about the most transformative mentorship relationship you’ve experienced in your life? Richie Norton: In 2007, I received an unexpected call from Stephen M. R. Covey, former CEO of FranklinCovey and author of the bestselling book, The Speed of Trust. He asked to meet with me. We sat down in his conference room, and Covey told me that after hearing me speak at a recent event, he hoped I might consider coming to work for him presenting Speed of Trust trainings. As soon as I scooped my jaw off the floor, I told him that, although I was incredibly flattered, I felt I was too young and inexperienced even to entertain the idea. “What would the gray hairs think?” Then, Covey taught me a priceless principle that would forever change my outlook on the nature of education and experience. He said, “Richie, experience is overrated. Some people say they have twenty years’ experience, when, in reality, they only have one year’s experience, repeated twenty times.” That statement blew my mind and opened windows of opportunity all around me. In an instant, I felt free from the self-inflicted mental bondage I had created for myself about my age and my feelings of experience-based inadequacy. // #unstuck45 #entrepreneur #richienorton #stephenmrcovey #stephencovey #7habits (at OUTER SPACE)