Todd Davis
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423 appearances
6 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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We're choosing between a lot of good things, but how do we decide what are the most important things if we can never get everything done? What are the most important things? Who are the most important people? And where am I spending my time every day and every week?
And I think about, we teach the principle or the concept of weekly planning and spending a time at the beginning of your week, whether it's Sunday night for a lot of people, Sunday night, I take about 30 minutes and I connect back, first of all, with my mission. It's a written constitution that we put together. What do I say I'm all about? What do I think is most important to me?
And then I connect with the most important roles in my life. My role was chief people officer, as a coach or a consultant, as a parent with my kids, and I list those out. And then I look at my coming up week, the week coming up, and I say, okay, a lot of my time is booked up with business things, but am I spending time sometime during the week in those most important roles?
And the reason, for some reason, Vince, when that came to mind just now is because I think too many of us, we think about, I'm going to do this someday. I'm going to start being better at this someday. And all of a sudden, a week turns into a month, turns into a year. And all of a sudden, the time has passed. And so by planning your week each week before the week begins,
is such a satisfying thing. The weeks never go perfect, but you get to the end of the week and you really feel like you've made some progress on what you have decided is most important to you. So that's my answer right now.
Yes. Figuring out priorities, planning ahead, and making progress step by step. Of course, things don't always go as planned. Life isn't always organized. But what matters is knowing what to focus on, where to put your energy, and what truly deserves your attention. Being effective, whether as a person, a leader, or in any role, isn't just about doing more or doing things faster.
It's about doing the right things. And that brings us full circle to what effectiveness really means, putting your energy into what matters most. At the end of the day, it comes down to being human, practicing human skills, using our eyes to observe, our ears to listen, our voices to communicate, These are what make us unique as a species.
Yes, AI is powerful, is an amazing tool, but it's just that, a tool. I actually spoke with another guest about this recently. How moving forward, everyone will need their own AI strategy. That's right. Not just companies, but individuals. We need to be mindful about how we use AI, when to use it, and what we shouldn't outsource to it.
Because we still need to develop our own skills, our own intelligence, and our own wisdoms. AI can assist, but we are the ones who bring meaning, creativity, and judgment to the table.
I agree 100%.
That's where I'll leave you. We've covered trust, leadership, and why human intelligence is the real key to the future of work. The real question now is, what's one thing you can do today to build trust in your own team? Think about it. Big thanks to Todd for sharing his wisdom.
Thank you, Vince. Really appreciate your invitation.
Thank you. Thank you so much. So yes, I have been with FranklinCovey for almost three decades. Prior to that, I worked in the medical industry for about 10 years and I was a recruiter. I recruited physicians and other medical personnel to staff hospitals and to staff clinics for a couple of organizations here in the Western United States where I live. and did that for about 10 years.
And then some friends of mine, they decided to form their own outsourcing company for human resource functions, for people functions. And so they had an attorney to handle employment law and they had a benefits person. And they asked me because I had been in recruiting for so long to join them and recruit for these various companies. And so organizations would contract with our group
provide these human resource services instead of hiring those kind of people inside their firm so we would contract with companies to provide those services and what was then called the Covey Leadership Center it was before Covey had merged with Franklin they were one of our clients and so they contracted with us and I was involved in finding their consultants to ironically to do what I do now finding their sales people and different things like that
And I had read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People about a year before I started working, being a contractor for them. And I was blown away by the content and how it was helping me already change my life. And this is 30 years ago. And so I loved being a contractor for them. And then they said, that they wanted to bring recruitment in-house. They wanted to hire a recruiter.
So I threw my hat in the ring and interviewed and was selected. So I started my journey with FranklinCovey as their recruitment manager. And then, if I'm going too long, you tell me to speed it up. But I worked as a recruitment manager. And then I had, in a previous life, I had worked as a content developer, putting together training programs.
So after I recruited for Covey for a while, we merged with Franklin Quest. Franklin Quest in the U.S. here was the time management company. They had the Franklin Day Planner. And everybody over here in the U.S. had these day planners. They were very famous for that. And Covey Leadership Center, as you mentioned, was famous for the seven habits.
And so we merged those companies and I went to work for their innovations department where we developed our training, different training solutions. And I did that for several years. And then the CEO at that time came to me, this would be about 20 years ago now, came to me and said, we would like you to apply for the chief people officer role. The person that was in that role had left.
And I said, that's great, but I don't have any human resource experience. I had recruited, but I didn't know anything about labor laws or employee relations or any of that. And he said, I know that, but you're really good with people. That's what he said. You're really good with people. So I applied for it and along with some other candidates and I was selected.
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