John Hersey Leadership Blog

Customer service is a sometimes long-forgotten asset. To create unforgettable customer service, you need to begin with unforgettable employee experiences. In this video, John explains more.

True leaders know there is no such thing as job security anymore, that job opportunity should be their focus, and that to find job opportunities, they must take responsibility for improving their own leadership value in the market.

Robert Hargrove, author of ‘Masterful Coaching’ stated, “Most Olympic athletes get coaching and feedback for hours a day for years.”  They struggle, train, and make unimaginable efforts to gain milliseconds of competitive advantage.

In view of this, the question is:  As a leader, how much do you invest in yourself? 

Your leadership development is not the company’s responsibility, even though it will invest in leadership programs to help you grow in order to facilitate an outstanding return on investment, higher sales, or lower costs. 

The reality is that your leadership development is primarily YOUR responsibility. 

For example, a leadership speaker and coach reads a book such as ‘Masterful Coaching’ because his job is to help business leaders solve leadership challenges.  He helps leaders become better leaders, they discuss the different behavioral styles of the staff and how effective they are, they work to understand how to communicate and motivate to boost effectiveness, they talk about obstacles to success and how to overcome them, and they talk about what kinds of leadership training will help teams become more effective.

To be a good leader, he must be dedicated to his coaching role, and this takes time.  True, mot leaders don’t have the luxury of a lot of free time; nevertheless, each leader must take the time to improve himself.

If, as a leader, you don’t take care of yourself, who will? 

Who is going to ensure you get the leadership training, coaching, and personal growth opportunities that you need to become great?

Take the time to care for yourself, make time for the coaching you need, to read the leadership books you need, and to learn more about the world and about yourself.

Each week, we will be highlighting someone we think demonstrates the actions, thoughts and mindset of a Contagious Leader. This week’s spotlight is on Steve Chandler.

“Have a mentor. Be a mentor” is what we live by and Steve Chandler was one of our first and continues to be an important mentor to us.

Steve has written more than 20 books and pretty much they all speak to the power of changing one’s perspective. Contagious leaders know that by changing their perspective they change their life! That’s just how the brain works.

We are all run by our perceptions. When we change how we see things then we change our story.

In Steve’s book, the Story of You, we immerse ourselves in ways to strip away the made-up limitations we believe about ourselves. In one of his first books Reinventing Yourself he brings to life our choice to live our lives as an “owner” or a “victim” of circumstances. Powerful stuff.

Stuff that true leaders are made of. Stuff that Steve Chandler is made of.

If you would like to nominate someone, feel free to send us an email by clicking here, and we would love to consider them! Please tell us a bit about them and what makes them Contagious in their leadership.

Each week, we will be highlighting someone we think demonstrates the actions, thoughts and mindset of a Contagious Leader. This week’s spotlight is on Dori Wittrig.

Our Contagious Leader of the week is Dori Wittrig owner of Sonoran Lifestyle Real Estate and a person who knows how to seize opportunity!

Dori had the unexpected good fortune to go out on her own. She had been in real estate with a substantial developers and was quite remarkable in how she packaged properties. Well, when she opened her real estate company in 1991, she packaged it in a robe of excellence and crowned it with the intention of cultivating an attitude of possibility in everything they created.

In the same spirit, when Real estate hit a rocky road, especially in Arizona, she saw the possibility of showcasing foreclosed properties in a big way. Today, the Sonoran Lifestyle over-the-top executive limo bus escorts eager buyers to preview a lineup of foreclosed properties. She saw the possibility and took action and now dominates the market!

If you would like to nominate someone, feel free to send us an email by clicking here, and we would love to consider them! Please tell us a bit about them and what makes them Contagious in their leadership.