Kevin DeMoff
Appearances
Redefiners
Redefiners Rewind: Insights and Takeaways from 2024
As a leader, your most important quality is your consistency. When people come to you, they have to know how you make decisions, how you're going to handle it emotionally, and how you're going to approach the problem solving that comes to your desk with a consistent manner because that allows them...
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Redefiners Rewind: Insights and Takeaways from 2024
to know how they bring you problems, how you're going to try to solve them, how you frame them, and how they should go attack the problems. I think if you're a leader and you're wildly emotional, wildly inconsistent in how you approach problems, it leads to a building that is emotional and inconsistent. That's the worst thing you can have.
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Redefiners Rewind: Insights and Takeaways from 2024
Passion should drive you, but consistency is going to be what makes you better each day.
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Redefiners Rewind: Insights and Takeaways from 2024
One of the, I think the hardest parts now from a leadership perspective, when you run an organization is, you know, anytime there's a flashpoint in your community, in the world, how quickly you're expected to go make a statement, you know, you know, and I think one of the best things you can do as a leader, sit down with your group, understand the viewpoints of your people, who's involved, who are your customers involved, your fans involved, you know, and which of your employees really are passionate.
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Redefiners Rewind: Insights and Takeaways from 2024
Understand that. those viewpoints, like ultimately you don't have to weigh in on everything. And I think that's one of the hard parts now. And I think it's training your staff that we get involved in issues that matter to us, to our fans, to our people. But I also think one of the things is it's okay to take a little bit of time and make sure what you say is what you mean, right?
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Redefiners Rewind: Insights and Takeaways from 2024
You don't have to be first, but you do have to be authentic. And it does have to be poignant and meaningful. Not everybody in your building is going to agree, and not all of your customers are going to agree. You just have to be able to explain your why.
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Redefiners Rewind: Insights and Takeaways from 2024
But ultimately, I would say if you're doing things right every day, people should understand exactly where you're going to wind up on most issues. And I think that, to me, is the consistency we go back to of how you run your building, how engaged you are in your community.