Todd Davis
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423 appearances
6 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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What I have found, Ryan, is once everyone understands the mission of your company, it's easier to get them excited and highly engaged in doing whatever part they have to move that mission forward.
Hey, how are you, Ryan? Thank you for the invitation.
I'm not perfect at it, but I at least have the instruction manual.
It really has. It was Dr. Stephen R. Covey wrote the book about 35 years ago. It has sold over 40 million copies to date and continues to sell thousands of copies every month. And I had just real quick here, I had an interesting experience two weeks ago. I was in another state.
And working with a client and a gentleman came up to me after and said his – and this gentleman was probably mid-50s – said his son who had just graduated college in Portland called him the night before and said very seriously, hey, Dad, I just read the greatest book. I'm going to send it to you. It's called The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Yeah.
But we both started laughing because, to your point, the book's been around forever. But this young college grad was just finding it so empowering and so useful today. And so, yeah, it's a timeless classic, if you will, because it's based on principles of effectiveness.
It's so true. I like to explain it as if you visualize the compass over the clock is how we get effectiveness. In other words, yes, it's important to get a lot of things done, and it's important to get things done within a timely manner, but what are the things we're getting done?
And are we getting those things that are really going to move our lives or the lives of our team or our organization forward? And so it's the compass first, you know, the direction we're headed over the clock. Clock's important. Got to have deadlines, but let's make sure we're heading in the right direction first. And that's how I think of and how we define effectiveness at FranklinCovey.
Yeah, it's another quick story just because it's happened in the last couple of weeks. We are just launching, you know, we update the content or the course, not the book itself. We don't change how many habits there are, but the application of those we update in the courses we teach about every 10 years. And we just launched our new Reimagine 7 Habits course.
And I was in another city in a hotel delivering an overview event. And this woman, her name was Sylvia, a worker in the hotel, she came up when she learned we were from Franklin Covey. And she said, I'll be right back. And I thought, okay, did we not pay our bill last time we were here? What's going on? And then she came back with...
With the Spanish version of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, it had been weathered and used up, and she carried it around in her purse, and she went on for, I'll tell you, 10 minutes, telling us, my colleague and I, how this book had changed her life and how she lived. led her family with it. Now it helped her in her career. And it was just it was inspiring.
I almost thought I was being set up for a minute. It was so inspiring.
No, not quite. I'm starting my 29th year.
Yeah, you bet. Thanks for asking that. So I was in the medical industry for many years. I was in a recruiting role. I recruited physicians and medical personnel for about 10 years. And then some friends and I formed a small human resource outsourcing group. So we would contract with companies out here in Utah where I live to provide their human resource services.
Now, I didn't have human resource experience, but I have recruiting experience. And then we had another friend who had done employment law, who was an attorney. We had another friend who had done benefits. And so we would contract. And what was then called the Covey Leadership Center was one of our clients.
And so I would recruit for them and find them consultants and salespeople and things like that. And they said one day, hey, we want to bring recruiting in-house. And I thought, and I had recently read The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. This was like 30 years ago. And I thought, well, dang, I think I might want to look into that.
So I joined Covey Leadership Center as their recruiter or their recruitment manager. And then we, long story short, we merged with Franklin Quest, which was the beginnings of the Franklin Day Planner that some people might remember your parents having or whatever. And we merged those two companies about 28 years ago, 27 years ago, which became Franklin Covey.
And I was in various positions and then Covey, shorten this up, our CEO came to me about 20 years ago and the head of people services or human resources had left, said, we'd like you to apply for this position. And I said, well, that's great. I don't have any HR background. I've recruited, but that's it. He said, I know, we think you're really good with people. So
So they didn't give me the position, but they had me apply. And I applied with several candidates, and I was really honored to be selected. And so I surrounded myself with really talented HR people and for 18 years ran the human resource structure of the company.
And then the last couple of years now, I've been out teaching others how to implement all of these things that I had seen work so well for our clients and for our department and for other clients that I'd worked with.
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