What REALLY Makes the Difference?... The things Winners do that others won’t do.

Everyone wants to be on a winning team. But, in reality, not every team, nor every leader wins just because they want to.

In this keynote presentation, General Vincent Boles distills his 35 years of leadership and supply chain expertise, experience gained under the toughest of circumstances; combat, into 10 key “must do” traits that enable teams to truly rise to being the best they can be, and stay there…Winners, regardless of the circumstances.

They will learn:

20/60/20: The 3 groupings that comprise every team and the reason to focus leader energy on the 60% in the center (they are the key lever).

Calendars as a “Forcing Function” toward excellence: How where you spend your time as a leader can get the organization to the “next level”.

Table Manners (How are Yours?): Understanding how leaders at the conference table, or on the VTC screen or teleconference can empower or disable the organization with the attitude they bring to the “table”. Specifically, are you a heat generator or a light generator as a leader?

They Listen to What You Say... They Believe What They See You Do: How to recognize (and preclude) the disconnect between guidance from the top and your actions at the top.

Ensuring that the question “Are there any questions?” is never the last question you should ask to end a meeting: It should be the “next: to last question and how the last question builds teamwork and accountability and maximizes teams energy and focus toward excellence.

“Can’t Do” vs “Won’t Do”: Identifying the difference for your team between what they can do vs what they won’t do and the reasons for not wanting to.

“Deciding to Decide”: Understanding your decision cycle and the “60% of the information” you need before you make those critical decisions.

Being “Nice”; Nice Folks Wash My Car and Mow My Lawn... that doesn’t put you in charge: Identifying the core competencies that teams need to attain and leaders ensure they maintain in order to perform at the highest levels (relax, it won’t be rude or harsh).

“Framing the Issue”: Discussing how to ensure that leaders and teams focus on identifying and solving the root causes of issues vs dealing with the “stray voltage” that saps the team and leader energy when trying to solve difficult problems.

It’s Not Only About Doing Your “Best”: Setting the climate where leaders and teams are focused on continuous improvement aka; their “best getting better”

You'll find this keynote is devoid of the normal “feel good bromides” and leadership “fairy dust” that sounds great in the meeting hall but dissipates before the team returns home. This is “news they can use” right away to build that “team of teams” for challenges of today and build your leadership bench for the future.