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Jim Knight

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
270 total appearances

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Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How to Lead With Heart and Build a Culture That Rocks with Jim Knight

And so for me, culture, service, engagement, leadership, a little bit around performance management, those are the key ones. But I'll tell you, I was at an event where it just had speaker authors there. And there's a couple of communities, believe it or not, we do the same thing as everybody else. We get together and talk about our world.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How to Lead With Heart and Build a Culture That Rocks with Jim Knight

And so for me, culture, service, engagement, leadership, a little bit around performance management, those are the key ones. But I'll tell you, I was at an event where it just had speaker authors there. And there's a couple of communities, believe it or not, we do the same thing as everybody else. We get together and talk about our world.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How to Lead With Heart and Build a Culture That Rocks with Jim Knight

And there was somebody that was there from a speaker bureau that had been asked to come in as a keynote speaker for this group. And one of the brand new speakers, they were just now getting started on their own. They asked that exact same question. What is it that you think audiences are looking for more than anything else? And sure enough, he said,

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How to Lead With Heart and Build a Culture That Rocks with Jim Knight

And there was somebody that was there from a speaker bureau that had been asked to come in as a keynote speaker for this group. And one of the brand new speakers, they were just now getting started on their own. They asked that exact same question. What is it that you think audiences are looking for more than anything else? And sure enough, he said,

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How to Lead With Heart and Build a Culture That Rocks with Jim Knight

And there was somebody that was there from a speaker bureau that had been asked to come in as a keynote speaker for this group. And one of the brand new speakers, they were just now getting started on their own. They asked that exact same question. What is it that you think audiences are looking for more than anything else? And sure enough, he said,

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How to Lead With Heart and Build a Culture That Rocks with Jim Knight

I don't care how fancy or cool or whatever your title or your topic or what you look like. If you have the word leadership in your session, you're going to win. People are starting to make some selections over that more than anything else.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How to Lead With Heart and Build a Culture That Rocks with Jim Knight

I don't care how fancy or cool or whatever your title or your topic or what you look like. If you have the word leadership in your session, you're going to win. People are starting to make some selections over that more than anything else.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How to Lead With Heart and Build a Culture That Rocks with Jim Knight

I don't care how fancy or cool or whatever your title or your topic or what you look like. If you have the word leadership in your session, you're going to win. People are starting to make some selections over that more than anything else.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How to Lead With Heart and Build a Culture That Rocks with Jim Knight

Now that was before, I think the things that are going on now, I think to your podcast, your fan base, people are looking, you know, how do I deal with adversity? How can I face my fears? How can I overcome whatever major obstacles are going on? How

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How to Lead With Heart and Build a Culture That Rocks with Jim Knight

Now that was before, I think the things that are going on now, I think to your podcast, your fan base, people are looking, you know, how do I deal with adversity? How can I face my fears? How can I overcome whatever major obstacles are going on? How

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How to Lead With Heart and Build a Culture That Rocks with Jim Knight

Now that was before, I think the things that are going on now, I think to your podcast, your fan base, people are looking, you know, how do I deal with adversity? How can I face my fears? How can I overcome whatever major obstacles are going on? How

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How to Lead With Heart and Build a Culture That Rocks with Jim Knight

can i get to my goals like some of that will transcend regardless of what's going on today but i think that uh leadership is always going to be a winner and so i i definitely know that that's a part of something that i could do if you came to me and said how can i increase check averages at a restaurant no that is not my wheelhouse and i don't want that to be somebody else probably does that much better than me but those four or five that tends to be my my focal points

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How to Lead With Heart and Build a Culture That Rocks with Jim Knight

can i get to my goals like some of that will transcend regardless of what's going on today but i think that uh leadership is always going to be a winner and so i i definitely know that that's a part of something that i could do if you came to me and said how can i increase check averages at a restaurant no that is not my wheelhouse and i don't want that to be somebody else probably does that much better than me but those four or five that tends to be my my focal points

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How to Lead With Heart and Build a Culture That Rocks with Jim Knight

can i get to my goals like some of that will transcend regardless of what's going on today but i think that uh leadership is always going to be a winner and so i i definitely know that that's a part of something that i could do if you came to me and said how can i increase check averages at a restaurant no that is not my wheelhouse and i don't want that to be somebody else probably does that much better than me but those four or five that tends to be my my focal points

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How to Lead With Heart and Build a Culture That Rocks with Jim Knight

Yeah, you know, so I really focus a lot on the people that are working for you. So when it comes to leadership, there's so many books and websites and, you know, speakers actually on this topic. So you got to pick your battles as to what you can do. But I do focus a lot on communicating. I think leaders in general think they're really good communicators when in fact they're not.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How to Lead With Heart and Build a Culture That Rocks with Jim Knight

Yeah, you know, so I really focus a lot on the people that are working for you. So when it comes to leadership, there's so many books and websites and, you know, speakers actually on this topic. So you got to pick your battles as to what you can do. But I do focus a lot on communicating. I think leaders in general think they're really good communicators when in fact they're not.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How to Lead With Heart and Build a Culture That Rocks with Jim Knight

Yeah, you know, so I really focus a lot on the people that are working for you. So when it comes to leadership, there's so many books and websites and, you know, speakers actually on this topic. So you got to pick your battles as to what you can do. But I do focus a lot on communicating. I think leaders in general think they're really good communicators when in fact they're not.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How to Lead With Heart and Build a Culture That Rocks with Jim Knight

Maybe unless they've surrounded themselves with a bunch of awesome people who are. They tend to hold stuff close to the vest. They don't share as liberally as we would probably like. The more that you can get down to the front line level, whatever that employee, associate, team member, you name it, if they're in the know, all of a sudden you've created some brand ambassadors.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How to Lead With Heart and Build a Culture That Rocks with Jim Knight

Maybe unless they've surrounded themselves with a bunch of awesome people who are. They tend to hold stuff close to the vest. They don't share as liberally as we would probably like. The more that you can get down to the front line level, whatever that employee, associate, team member, you name it, if they're in the know, all of a sudden you've created some brand ambassadors.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How to Lead With Heart and Build a Culture That Rocks with Jim Knight

Maybe unless they've surrounded themselves with a bunch of awesome people who are. They tend to hold stuff close to the vest. They don't share as liberally as we would probably like. The more that you can get down to the front line level, whatever that employee, associate, team member, you name it, if they're in the know, all of a sudden you've created some brand ambassadors.