Developing great Team Players for your Small Business.
Developing great Team Players for your Small Business with Walt Brown. He is the author of “The Patient Organization” and the textbook for the 7 Question 7 Promise Framework. Walt shares his entrepreneurial story, and how he helps his clients with attracting, engaging, empowering and retaining great team players to build a dream small business.
Walt Brown is an entrepreneur, business coach, certified Entrepreneur Operating System implementor, and an author.
He started his career as a CPA and corporate auditor, but during the last decade Walt has helped transform the culture of more than 160 organizations across the country through his work helping companies install effective Organizational Operating Systems, systems that attain and maintain yes to the seven questions. It’s his greatest pleasure to help owners and companies sharpen or even resurrect their original dream culture, to get back the company they always dreamed of having, to create that place they always wanted to work.
Walt is the author of “The Patient Organization – Attracting, Engaging, and Empowering Team Players”. The Patient Organization is the textbook for the 7 Question – 7 Promise Framework designed for determined business owners who won’t settle for anything less than building and maintaining their dream company.
Walt lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
- Please introduce the “The 7 Question – 7 Promise Framework”.
- How does this framework apply to very small businesses?
- Do I Belong?
We understand and embrace our organization’s core values and have, or, can develop the skills our accountability positions demand. - Do I Believe?
We know and believe in the organization’s why. We also believe in leadership, our teammates, our strategic direction, and the products or services we provide. - Do I understand and embrace what I am Accountable for?
We understand and embrace the purpose of our jobs and the roles that make up our jobs. We know why and what we should be thinking about, and doing. - Do I understand and embrace how I am Measured?
We understand and embrace how and why we are measured, and we know what constitutes “a good job.” Our measures give us direction and help us to form strategies to fulfill the accountabilities of our jobs and roles. - Do I understand and embrace how I am Heard?
We understand and embrace how and when our organization listens, and how our opinion is heard. - Do I understand and embrace how I am Developed?
We understand and embrace our organization’s development mechanisms and how we are developed; We take an active role in our own development. - Do I understand and embrace how I maintain Balance?
We understand and embrace our organization’s balance mechanisms and actively participate in our goal of balance. (Three components of balance, 1. Work-life, 2. Compensation, 3. Health and Wellness.)
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- The Patient Organization: Attracting, Engaging, And Empowering Team Players
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
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