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10/11/2024
015. Leading Relationships (morning)
Instructor: Steve McClatchy
Level of Complexity: Foundational
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
If you are in business today, you are in the business of relationships. The skills of communicating effectively, working with diverse multi-generational teams, setting clear expectations, giving feedback, navigating differing opinions, resolving conflict, and holding others accountable can be the most important skills you will ever develop as a leader. In this age of AI threatening the future of work these are skills that AI will never be able to do for you. In this presentation you will learn the keys to success in each of these areas and how to build relationships strong enough to handle the pressures and tensions inherent in building, leading and/or being a part of a dynamic, engaged, fast changing, high-performance, creative, collaborative team. This presentation is guaranteed to change the way you work, interact, solve problems, innovate, manage, and lead your business!
Learning Objectives:
- Use The 5 Levels of Maturity Framework to guide, coach and mentor others to greater levels of performance.
- Resolve conflict when it happens so it doesn’t slow down the pace of business.
- Give feedback more consistently and more effectively to increase engagement.
- Hold others accountable in a way that doesn’t damage trust and builds loyalty.
- Better communicate, collaborate, and set expectations to improve teamwork.
- Manage egos, immaturity, and games between team members.
- Build a culture of high trust and high performance that will retain your top talent.
Bookstore
The Little Black Book of Strategic Planning for Distributors
Brent Grover
Brent Grover’s latest book on the wholesale distribution industry, The Little Black Book of Strategic Planning for Distributors, is published by Modern Distribution Management. This is a concise book covering the critical pieces of creating a strategic plan for a wholesale distribution company including case studies, exhibits and end-of-chapter questions for your management team.