Character and Competence

 

Tip #2 - Character & Competence

Here is a new Trust Tip from Stephen M.R. Covey.  If you missed our first post on Trust Counterfeits, you can read it here.

Trust is not only about the kind of person you are. Trust is a product of both Character and Competence. 

Within Character and Competence are the four cores of credibility: Integrity, Intent, Capabilities, and Results. Your character is what is below the surface, and your competence is what others can readily see.  Here’s a model that we use in our Speed of Trust Training Programs to describe The 4 Cores of Credibility:

 

 

Bring Leading at the Speed of Trust in Your Organization

Special savings when you bring The Speed of Trust to your teams by Friday, May 31st, 2013. To take advantage of Licensed Certification or a Leadership Strategy Session, please call 214-387-9960 to set up a call with your FranklinCovey Client Partner.

Certify to Teach Leading at the Speed of Trust

Free Virtual Certification, Facilitator Kit and DVD; Save up to 20% on participant materials.

 

Certify virtually to teach others in your organization and purchase at least 30 participant kits by May 31, 2013 to receive your virtual certification, complete facilitator kit, and program DVD at no charge.

 A minimum purchase of 30 participant kits is required to receive the FREE Certification and Facilitator Materials.  Virtual Certification is self-paced.  A $500 one-time licensing fee applies to organizations not previously licensed in FranklinCovey content.  Prices are shown are in US Dollars.

Leadership Strategy Session

This interactive half-day session helps decision makers understand the specific impact of trust on their current critical business objectives and develop an actionable plan.

Leadership Strategy Session must be scheduled and occur by May 31, 2013.  For more information or to schedule a Leadership Strategy session, please call 214-387-9960 for details.

 

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Trust Counterfeits

Tip #1 - Trust Counterfeits

Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be sharing a few Trust Tips from Stephen M.R. Covey, based on his our popular leadership process pulled from his best-selling book, TheSpeed of Trust.   

In our program titled, Leading at the Speed of Trust, leaders begin the process by taking a 360-degree assessment where they gather feedback from their boss, peers and direct reports around The 4 Cores of Trust and The 13 Behaviors of High Trust Leader, mentioned in the book.  This feedback is able to come from up to 30 respondents in a confidential format. 

In the 2-day program, leaders not only learn about these behaviors, they learn about their counterfeits.  When leaders exhibit these counterfeit behaviors regularly, they create Trust Taxes for their team which ultimately slow down performance and increase costs towards the bottom line. 

Today’s Trust Tip is acknowledging the Counterfeit Behaviors.  The most damaging risk to trust isn’t usually the opposite behavior (like lying, poor performance, disrespecting others, etc).  Those are easily identified and stopped.  The biggest problem is often trust counterfeits. 

Counterfeits are behaviors that appear on the surface to be high-trust but that actually damage relationships.  Be careful not to engage in counterfeits.

Here are some examples:

 

 

Bring Leading at the Speed of Trust in Your Organization

Special savings when you bring The Speed of Trust to your teams by Friday, May 31st, 2013. To take advantage of Licensed Certification or a Leadership Strategy Session, please call 214-387-9960 to set up a call with your FranklinCovey Client Partner.

 

Certify to Teach Leading at the Speed of Trust

Free Virtual Certification, Facilitator Kit and DVD; Save up to 20% on participant materials.

 

Certify virtually to teach others in your organization and purchase at least 30 participant kits by May 31, 2013 to receive your virtual certification, complete facilitator kit, and program DVD at no charge.

 

A minimum purchase of 30 participant kits is required to receive the FREE Certification and Facilitator Materials.  Virtual Certification is self-paced.  A $500 one-time licensing fee applies to organizations not previously licensed in FranklinCovey content.  Prices are shown are in US Dollars.

 

Leadership Strategy Session

This interactive half-day session helps decision makers understand the specific impact of trust on their current critical business objectives and develop an actionable plan.

 

Leadership Strategy Session must be scheduled and occur by May 31, 2013.  For more information or to schedule a Leadership Strategy session, please call 214-387-9960 for details.

 

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Speed of Trust Keynote Frisco 4.10.13

Click here to register to see Stephen M. R. Covey live in Frisco on April 10! Seats are selling out fast! Make sure to register for this event before the seats are gone! Can't attend the live date? Click here to register for a live webcast facilitated by Stephen. More details below...
Join New York Times bestselling author, Stephen M. R. Covey, as he discusses how raising trust from an often ignored asset to a strategic advantage will help you lower costs, speed results and increase profits. Learn how simple and scalable Speed of Trust processes can: Increase employee engagement Develop world-class teams with increased collaboration and innovation Drive culture change Lead successful mergers and acquisitions About the Keynote Stephen's presentation will extend beyond a dialogue of trust as a soft, social virtue, and give leaders a greater vision of trust as a measurable, strategic advantage. He will present the following three big ideas: Trust has an economic impact. Trust is the #1 competency of leaders. Trust is a learnable skill. Reserve your seat today. Join us at the Embassy Suites in Frisco Wednesday, April 10 from 8:30 a.m. - noon. Click here to register at a discounted rate of $49 per person.  $29 per person for teams of 5 or more. For questions or to be invoiced, contact: John Vakidis, 214.387.9960 john.vakidis@franklincovey.com Unable to attend your local event? Consider attending a live one-hour webinar instead. See our complete schedule and register for a webinar at a discounted rate of $49 per person or group pricing of $29 per person (five or more), by visiting www.franklincovey.com/trusttour. STEPHEN M. R. COVEY Stephen M. R. Covey is the New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Speed of Trust, and is a sought-after advisor on trust, leadership, ethics, and high performance. Stephen is the former CEO of Covey Leadership Center, which, under his stewardship, became the largest leadership- development company in the world. He led the strategy that propelled his father's book, Dr. Stephen R. Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, to be one of the two most influential business books of the 20th century, according to Chief Executive magazine. Stephen has been featured on CNN, and in Forbes, The New York Times, Business Week and many other publications.
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2013 Speed of Trust Tour - April 10 - Dallas

 

Stephen M. R. Covey, #1 best-selling author of The Speed of Trust, will be delivering a special keynote presentation in Dallas on Wednesday, April 10th from 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.  

Click here for details and individual registrations, only $49 per person

 

Group registrations of 5 or more are only $29 per person. 

Please call 214-387-9960 to assure the best rate!

 

 

On the morning of the April 10th, Covey will demonstrate how improving trust, can be a strong economic driver that affects positive change in employee engagement and collaboration, and ultimately affects your bottom line. Click here to view a video of Stephen M. R. Covey explaining how trust is the greatest leverage for executing your top priorities.

Learn how simple and scalable Speed of Trust processes can:

 

• Increase employee engagement
• Develop world-class teams with increased collaboration and innovation
• Drive culture change
• Lead successful mergers and acquisitions

 

Join us to see Stephen M. R. Covey live in Dallas (one of 29 cities for his Speed of Trust Tour).   SMRC will speak on the tangible benefits of developing trust in your organization and the actionable behaviors you can implement immediately to build trust.

 

Click here to register for this event at a rate of $49.

Groups of 5 or more will receive a discounted rate of $29/person.

 

Contact John Vakidis at 214-387-9960

with any questions or group registrations.

 

 

Read our guest blog with the Dallas Regional Chamberfrom August of 2012 titled,

"Trust - The Hidden Variable That Affects Everything!"

 

Visit our Speed of Trust Page for more information

about this proven leadership process.

28 Courses, 28 Days, 28 Dollars

Click here to register for these courses today.
www.franklincovey.com/28

FranklinCovey is excited to offer 28 InSights On Demand courses at a discounted rate of $28 throughout the month of February. Access to these courses begins at the time of registration and ends at midnight February 28, 2013.

 

InSights On Demand are bite-sized, single-point lessons based on FranklinCovey’s proven principles and training. These 10-15 minute video-rich, web-based modules are self–paced courses designed for individuals and teams looking to build or reinforce key skills. InSights On Demand is a perfect option for a blended–training approach, for self–study application, or to reinforce current learning initiatives.

Courses fall under 15 topics, please see the detailed list below.

 

BUSINESS ACUMEN

•Your Money-Making Model: Understand How You Affect the Bottom Line

 

COMMUNICATION

•Blind Spots: How to Give and Receive Effective Feedback

•Empathic Listening: Steps to True Understanding

CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

•Walls: Negotiating Breakthrough Solutions

•Win-Lose Conditioning: Turn Conflict Into Collaboration

CUSTOMER FOCUS

•The Job to Be Done: Know What Your Customers Really Want

EXECUTION

•Goal: Overcoming the Execution Gap

•Store 334: Steps to Effective Team Execution

•Whirlwind: Achieve Your Goals Amid the Day-to-Day Demands

•WIG Session: Creating an Accountability System

INNOVATION/CREATIVITY

•The Nature of Synergy: Achieving Creative Breakthroughs

 

MANAGING CHANGE

•Carry Your Own Weather: Taking Charge of Your Life

•Trim Tab: How to Initiate Change

 

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

•Green and Clean: Holding Each Other Accountable for Results

•Win-Win Agreements: Steps to Effective Performance Management

 

PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY

•Weekly Planning: Three Steps to Improving Your Personal Productivity

 

PROBLEM SOLVING

•Muhammad Yunus: How to Change the World

 

STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP

•Race to the Pole: How to (and How Not to) Lead a Team to Victory

•Wooden: What Great Leaders Are Made Of

 

TALENT DEVELOPMENT

•Emma Brandon: Empowering Ourselves to Succeed

•Whole-Person Paradigm: Unleashing the Full Capacity of People

 

TEAM BUILDING

•Everest: Reaching the Summit as a Team

•Speed Up Your Team: Continuously Improving Team Processes

TRUST/INTEGRITY

•Investment Advice: How to Destroy Your Credibility

•The 4 Cores: Building Personal Credibility

•The Case for Trust: The One Thing That Makes All the Difference

VISION/PURPOSE

•80th Birthday: Develop a Powerful Personal Mission

•Masterpiece: Paint a Picture of Your Best Life

After purchasing, you will receive an email containing the details you need to access the package. All courses are organized by competency. You can move through the courses as you please.

 

For more information about our solutions for Online Learning, please call 214-387-9960.

 

All the best!

- John Vakidis

Don't Go Insane in 2013

Albert Einstein once said that the definition of insanity is "doing the same thing over again and expecting different results."

 

With 2013 here and many looking ahead, it might be good for leaders to look back at 2012 and ask themselves what was different from 2011.  They also need to look at what results they achieved.  Afterwards, they need to look at themselves in the mirror because they are the ones responsible for those results.

 

Sometimes the issue is execution.  They have a great strategy, but something isn’t working and execution is not a part of their culture. 

 

Sometimes the issue is leadership. People are not engaged because they don’t trust the leaders, the organization or the systems.  Regardless, trust is a major leadership issue that can’t be avoided without it costing the organization speed and money.

 

Sometimes the issue is the people.  They aren’t developed correctly or they are overwhelmed with their whirlwind, projects and just simply haven’t been trained properly on how to do their jobs that well.

 

Regardless of the issue, there are ways to improve in 2013 without having to repeat 2012.  Below is a list of upcoming events for leaders to evaluate FranklinCovey’s Principle-Based methods that help change human behavior.  Contact us today to discuss one of these events below.

 

1.16.13                  4 Disciplines of Execution Overview (Plano)

2.05.13                  Project Management Essentials U.S Tour (Dallas)

2.19.13                  Creating a Culture of Trust Showcase (Plano)

 

Don't go insane in 2013!  Let FranklinCovey become your Ultimate Competitive Advantage!

 

Enabling Greatness One Organization at a Time,

John Vakidis

214-387-9960

Creating a Culture of Trust 2.19.13 Dallas

 

Click here to download a PDF invitation.  RSVP Required.

Click here to watch videos on The Speed of Trust related to Performance, Change and Employee Engagement

THE WISDOM AND TEACHINGS OF STEPHEN R. COVEY

New Book Features The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Author, Stephen Covey: 

THE WISDOM AND TEACHINGS OF STEPHEN R. COVEY

 

Invaluable Gift Book – The Most Memorable and Important Teachings of Stephen Covey, Beloved Leadership Expert and Bestselling Author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

NEW YORK & SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Simon & Schuster and Franklin Covey Co. (NYSE: FC) today announced the launch of a new book featuring Stephen Covey, the bestselling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, entitled THE WISDOM AND TEACHINGS OF STEPHEN R. COVEY (November 13^th, 2012/$18.00 hardcover).

Stephen Covey passed away in July 2012, leaving behind an unmatched legacy with his teachings about leadership, time management, effectiveness, success, love, education and family. A multi-million-copy bestselling author of business and self-help, Stephen Covey strove to help readers recognize the key elements that would lead them to personal and professional effectiveness. His seminal work, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, transformed the way millions of people act on their problems with a compelling, logical and well-defined process. Indeed, many of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People have been assimilated into everyday thinking and everyday conversation. For example, the expressions “win/win” and “first things first,” to name a few, have been incorporated into almost every culture around the world.

THE WISDOM AND TEACHINGS OF STEPHEN R. COVEY is a compilation of Stephen Covey’s most insightful, inspiring teachings and sayings. His profound influence spread beyond individuals and businesses and continues to be integrated into governments, educational systems, and many other institutions with great success. This book covers Stephen Covey’s most impactful topics: time management, success, leadership – including principle-centered leadership – all of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, love and family. This powerful collection is a lasting tribute to the luminary that will be missed by so many.

“THE WISDOM AND TEACHINGS OF STEPHEN R. COVEY is a collection of my father’s most memorable and important teachings, all from his bestselling books, such as The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” said Sean Covey, Executive Vice President of Global Solutions and Chief Product Architect, Franklin Covey. “For anyone who has read Stephen Covey’s books, they have personally experienced his approach and commitment to teaching universal principles. His teachings are enormously empowering and transcend differences of every kind in every culture, in every age. These principles have withstood the test of time with millions of people throughout the world and will continue to do so in the future. My father’s legacy continues on.”

About the author

Stephen Covey, one of Time magazine's 25 most influential Americans, was an internationally respected leadership authority, family expert, teacher, organizational consultant, and author. He sold over 25 million books (in 38 languages), and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was named the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the 20th century. Stephen Covey was the co-founder of Franklin Covey Co., a global performance improvement company with more than 40 direct and licensee offices providing professional services in over 140 countries. Stephen Covey was also professor of management at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University, where he held the first Jon M. Huntsman Presidential Chair in Leadership. He passed away in July 2012.

About Franklin Covey

Franklin Covey Co. (NYSE: FC) is a global company specializing in performance improvement. We help organizations achieve results that require a change in human behavior. Our expertise is in seven areas: leadership, execution, productivity, trust, sales performance, customer loyalty and education. Franklin Covey clients have included 90 percent of the Fortune 100, more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, thousands of small- and mid-sized businesses, as well as numerous government entities and educational institutions. Franklin Covey has more than 40 direct and licensee offices providing professional services in over 140 countries. For more information, visit www.franklincovey.com.