Todd Davis
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423 appearances
6 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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And now, how about five, I'm going to take time to sit down with Joe or Susan and say, hey, tell me what's important to you. Tell me why you do things this way or that way. And then really listen. Don't listen with the intent to reply. We teach the and have it fly because we are all programmed and you might be doing that right now. Maybe you're not even looking at me.
You really think that's what you're going to say. I'm teasing you. That's how we all are. We listen but we're already in most cases formulating a response. And I don't think it comes from a bad place. I think we're fixers. We're helpers. And so we hear just enough of the conversation to think, oh, I know what to say. I know how to fix this. I know how to help.
And the deepest need of the human heart is to feel understood. Dr. Covey said that, and I couldn't agree more. The deepest need of the human heart is to feel understood. So when you're truly trying to understand someone, just suspend your opinion. Don't throw it away. Suspend your opinion long enough to just hear the other person, really understand where they're coming from.
And leaders who do that... They have so much more information now to help move their teams, their organizations forward. So habit one, be proactive and then habit five, seek first to understand then to be understood. There's no stopping a leader who models those habits really well.
I think about countless times when I would be meeting with a leader or an employee who was upset about something in my office and I'm not kidding they'd be there for an hour I probably spoke out of that hour I probably spoke 10 minutes at most they spoke the rest of the time and then they would get up and they would say Todd, this has been so helpful. Thank you so much.
And I'm thinking, well, I didn't do much. But to your point, if you really take the time to understand, people are pretty good at solving their own problems if they have a sounding board. If they have someone who will really listen.
It's so rare that when we find someone who will do that, we can kind of come to our own conclusions, including the person, the employee who has kind of been in it for themselves, you know, with that pendulum swung too far. If you really listen to them, they will start realizing on their own, oh, I've kind of been all about me and what's in it for me.
And I haven't really been thinking about how do I contribute to the organization I'm a part of. And so you couldn't be more right, in my opinion, in my experience.
Yeah, so just the practicality, it's always been in our courses, they've always been practical, but even more so, this development team that put this together, they have focused intently on, okay, you learn this fire hose of information in two days, and it can be spread out, or it can be taught concentrated, but regardless, you have all this information, it's so amazing, what do I do with it?
what do i do with it and so just the practicality this this seven habits 5.0 there are things that i can take away that afternoon or that day and start applying them this this may sound uh too simplistic but there's an activity we do in habit one you know be proactive i can choose my response and they take these statements around they think of a situation in their life that is challenging right now maybe it's a relationship maybe it's a project and they write a statement
I well I can't dot dot dot I can dot dot dot so well I can't change the project that I've been assigned I can look for some additional resources that have expertise in this area to help me so it just tries to start training our mind to think of yeah I can't I can't change but there's always something I can do I can influence so that's just one example of the practical nature
of the activities that they're doing and I've had I've been teaching this for a couple weeks now it just launched October 28th I've already had email upon email from participants coming back saying I cannot believe how helpful this was I was able to overcome this big obstacle I was able to get the team thinking about this differently so it's just it's just the practicality I would say is the most insightful thing of this newest version just the relevant application and how I can use it in the challenges I'm dealing with today
I don't want this to be a flippant answer, but we're not industry specific by any means. I said my flippant answer would be any organization that has people. Right. Yeah.
We have, I mean, and we do work, I was going to say we don't work with really small companies, but we actually do, but we tend to work with those organizations that have 500 or more employees, but I'm thinking of some examples right now of some organizations that have less than that, so I don't want to rule them out.
People, I guess I would sum it as this, organizations, and then I just did a keynote for an organization last week that has 20,000 employees, so organizations of all sizes, but organizations But I would sum it up as this. Organizations whose top leadership realizes that it starts with the people. And if you're a CEO listening or a senior executive listening and you...
totally buy into because it's true that it all starts with the people regardless of what your organization does you know interesting AI you know which is taking over our jobs we just looked at a survey 290 large businesses around the world not just the nation around the world that use AI on a regular basis they still had in their top three needed skills that they didn't have interpersonal skills emotional intelligence AI doesn't teach emotional intelligence now
Franklin Covey's Seven Habits, we call it the Seven Habits Effect. If I had to summarize, okay, what, Todd, what skill does it develop more than anything else if people apply it? It is emotional intelligence. It's interpersonal skills. And those are everything we've been talking about here. So organizations that recognize that are the organizations that we work with.
We used to have seven habits for home and family.
I'll tell you. Well, my fifth wife, she told me that I had begun. No, I'm kidding. But you're right. We have betterment family division. But even without that, and this is selfish on my part. I've been here 29 years and I've got a long ways to go. I'm a working project. But the way the seven habits has impacted me personally as a partner, a husband, as a parent, as a grandfather personally.
As a neighbor, as a friend, as a son, as a sibling, it's profound. And so I say that when I say selfishly, yeah, I've been paid and I have these great positions and I've had these great roles. But the personal development, just being around this content, and obviously I work for Franklin Kevvy, so I'm proud of this. But I would tell you this even if I didn't work for them.
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