Our age is not of the meditative man, it's a sprinting and shoving age with daily antidotes that spring into being and leap out from the newest counters.
- Norman Cousins
I've been told that attending one of my workshops, or just listening to me in general, can be a bit like drinking from a fire hydrant. Friend and colleague Bryan Anderson was out looking at commercial property (he's a Realtor) and took this picture. In the spirit of the drinking fountain's more directed flow, here's a re-cap of recent postings -
A Few Traits of a Great Leader
- Judgment
- Justice
- Decisiveness
- Dependability
- Tact
- Integrity
- Great Loan Officers know that Great Loan Officers have Great Teams
- Great Loan Officers strive to be Level 5 Team Builders
- Great Loan Officers work for companies that support Great Team Builders
- Great Loan Officers know the key sales and marketing person is the one delivering their product or service and any given moment
- Great Loan Officers know that good customer service is the sign of a good hire (and vice versa)
- Great Loan Officers work hard at all Top 10 Characteristics of a Great Team Builder
- Great Loan Officers are passionate about being a Great Team Builder
- Express a very clear vision and expectations
- One set of rules for everyone, including themselves
- Hire the right people, put them in the right place and train continuously
- Delegate and enable others to develop and deliver results
- Build trust through robust evaluation and correction
- Enhances relationships by seeking clarity through what and how questions
- Team members give open and honest feed-back with everyone
- Hold themselves accountable and blames no one including themselves for failures
- Uses various resources to uncover blind spots
- Pushes themselves and their team to constantly get better
- Catches team members in random acts of doing well
- Developing good followers
- Constantly looking for blind spots
- Failure to getting better; not learning or learning and not getting better
- Pay attention
- Ask questions, listen to answers
- Be purposeful; have a mission and a plan
- Don't be ignorant to what you're hearing and seeing
- Conflicts can be a learning event
- Conflicts are going to happen
- Understanding personalities with others can make a difference in how you handle conflict
- Conflict can be nothing more than misunderstandings due to personality differences
- Personalities are shaped in part to generational differences
- Taking a personality assessment can show you your temperament traits
- Getting trained in how those temperament traits interact in different situations is valuable
To that end....
Danny L. Smith
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