Have Any Great Supervisors, Managers or Leaders Been Born In Your Company?

I recently read a story by John Maxwell about a quaint European village. I want to put my own spin on the story but I give John the credit of this example and inspiration. I’m from Hope, Arkansas and as you know, there are a couple of politicians that were born in Hope. I still believe in a place called Hope. Whoops, I think someone has already used that one. If we had to use names for the story we could use… well…let’s just use the names Bill and Mike for this example. This is a hypothetical story and has nothing to do with politics or leadership ability. Forget your views on politics and whether you view my fictional characters Bill or Mike as leaders. In fact you will not hear their name in the story. I just want you to think of a couple of people from Hope. Here is the story:

A group of European tourists were touring Hope, Arkansas, a small town in the southwest corner of the state. They visited the Watermelon Festival, the downtown area, some of the local businesses and a few of the churches. A few of the European tourists were very excited about the history of this small town. While dining at one of the local restaurants, one of the tourist’s engaged an elderly man in conversation about the town. He discovered the elderly gentleman had lived there his entire life. Eager to hear more about the town’s history he asked the elderly gentleman “Have any great men, women or leaders been born here?” “Nope” said the elderly gentlemen, “only babies”.

I thought this was a great example of the value of what we are exposed to in our life. I do not believe people are born as a great leader, supervisor or manager anymore than a person is born a great brain surgeon. I truly believe it is what we read, listen to, watch and the people we are around that shape us into something different than what we are. This can be good or bad. All true leaders were born “a baby”.

Have any great leaders, managers or supervisors been “born” in your company? Did they bring their skill sets with them? Did you provide the training or was that brutal, expensive, time-consuming teacher called experience the one responsible for most of the changes in your organization?

We would love to bring the World’s Best Management And Life Course, ALARMT, to your organization. We would love to bring a day of personal and business development to your team. Whether you have new supervisors and managers or a very experienced management team, we will be able to bring items that can help them be more productive in managing results and their lives. Our price of  $177 per student will be returned many times over if the principles are applied.

Three classes are scheduled in the near future:

12-1-2010 at the Hampton Inn  in Arkadelphia, AR

12-8-2010 at the Old Schoolhouse in Washington, AR

12-9-2010 at the Clarion in Texarkana, AR

Class size is limited to the first 12 that sign up at http://www.alarmt.com/prods/localalarmttraining.html 

In the future we will be dealing directly through companies and working with MVP Seminars in CA. http://www.mvpseminars.com/Greg-Gilbert-u415.html

Contact us at alarmt@att.net or visit our website www.ALARMT.com for additional information.

What training have you provided to your management team?

If YOU don’t offer training to your managers, WHO WILL?

If not NOW, WHEN?

If not ALARMT™, then WHAT?

Remember, remain personally accountable and manage results, not people!

Greg Gilbert