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Whether you lead a family business, public company, or a small local business, you understand that we are now in a "Volunteer Nation" where young folks and, well, all folks are searching for their reason to stay with you, and are often never authentically connected to your vision.
Part of this worker disconnect is rooted in the reality that Kelly pointed out when he detailed the (5) followership styles. The "mutual infuence" of the leader-followership relationship puts the leader in the spot of being the passionate, connecting driver of the organizational mission in a way that has to engage all organization members.
The guidance that Dennis provides is done in a way that introduces leaders and small business owners to humanistic pyschology, appreciative techniques, emotional intelligence ratings and practices, as well as a recipe building process leading to "how to fuel their talents."
The main goal is always to convert academic and research content to better leadership and more profitable organizations, whether the company is a one person show or consists of hundreds. Your personal leadership practice may start at work, but clearly extends to your home life, and will be a consistent thread of your life's fabric.
"Talent is any recurring pattern of thought, feeling or behavior that can be productively applied," accordingly to Buckingham and Clifton, of NOW DISCOVER YOUR STRENGTHS fame. Dennis clearly has an appreciation for "human nature" and an ability to discover strengths in his clients, and turbo charges the latest University born leadership practices in real world settings.
As a recent small business owner in Southern New England stated, "Dennis found a way to leverage what I know, and what I loved about my business, in a way that helped me create a new approach to positioning my sales and service teams in the amidst those hypercompetitive forces in my market....thanks for building my new business model Dennis."
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