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jueves, 30 de abril de 2015

Time to Celebrate - Seeds of Trust begin to Blossom Again!

I am excited to announce that 19 years after my first meeting with Tom Morell and Walter Santaliz, who had the courage to trust me with the responsibility of taking on  the representation of Covey Leadership Center in Chile, the wheel has turned full circle!

When I first discovered the transformational power of "The Seven Habits", I was almost down on my knees begging for the opportunity to bring the programme to Chile at a time when the country desperately needed to restore trust. Our success in achieving significant cultural change in such diverse organizations as BCI Bank, Minera Disputada de Las Condes, the Hospital Católica de la PUC and Drillco gave me the enormous retribution of having made a significant contribution, not just to the companies but to the 6,000 or more people who did all the work!

Two decades later, with low trust once again back on the agenda as a big "Achilles' heel", Walter and his partner Carlos have just renegotiated the license and it was a great honor to be offered the role of "Ambassador" to Franklin Covey Chile.

Due to my on-going commitments with Coaching Plus, VitalSmarts and HemsleyFraser, I am unable to accept a full time position, but was delighted that my suggestion to take on the role of Chief Brand Officer, responsible for the company's "image, experience and promise" has been accepted.

I am looking forward to meeting up again with so many old and new clients, workshop participants, friends and colleagues with whom we have shared the principles of "Greatness", catching up and sharing "The Ultimate Competitive Advantage".

martes, 1 de diciembre de 2009

BUSY MONTH IN EDUCATION


I hope to have more time over the next few weeks to provide more details on our activities in November with the SOFOFA Industrial Liceos, Juventud Emprendedora in Iquique and the ABSCH in Santiago, along with our dear colleagues Marta Sánchez from Venezuela and Gladys González from Guatemala.

In the meantime here's an opportunity to share a moment of "paradigm shifting" with Pablo Vásquez's magnificent team in Iquique with whom Gladys and I enjoyed a whole week, sharing with local teens and their families, and in a very intense certification programme.

I also attach an extract from the Trim Tab video on Change Management in Education, which was a source of considerable discussion at the ABSCH Resource Centre - illustrating how even the most menial of personal contributions can lead to community-wide changes.

Between now and March I shall be available to visit all schools and institutions who would be interested in discussing how to begin implementing leadership programme not just for teachers and/or students but for the whole educational community, taking advantage of visits we have planned for Marta, Gladys and other educational experts who we hope to invite to Chile in 2010.

Mail me on pray@franklincoveyla.com for further information.


jueves, 29 de octubre de 2009

Leadership in Education

I am in the process of programming some opportunities in November for educators to meet two experts in leadership in the educational field. They work with one of the international consulting firms with which I have been closely associated for many years.

1) Week of 9th November

Martha Sanchez, the senior educational consultant for Franklin Covey in Latin America, will be coming to Chile to deliver the “Leading at the Speed of Trust” ‘programme with a major coporate clients. We are taking advantage of this opportunity to hold a series of meetings with other clients in the corporate and educational fields.

We have reserved 12th November for the educational sector to allow Marta to present the “Leader in Me” initiatives in Education throughout the world and in particular, the ambitious program with the Guatemalan Ministry of Education, where Stephen Covey’s “The Seven Habits” has been introduced into the curriculum of the final year of secondary schooling. The Educational Division of SOFOFA, has expressed an interest in hosting this activity in which they will showcase the results of the leadership initiatives in one of their “Liceos Técnicos”.

2) Week of 23rd November

Gladys Gonzalez, from Franklin Covey’s Guatemalan office, who has specialized in education, entrepreneurship and training of facilitators, will be conducting a workshop on “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens” to a group of youngsters from Juventud Emprendedora and subsequently carrying out a Train the Trainer programme for this ONG’s internal facilitators. We are currently approaching several of our clients about their interest in participating in a forum on “Leadership and Entrepreneurship in Education” we plan on organizing on 25th or 26th November.

Anyone interested in attending either of these activities or arranging a special meeting on these dates on their premises please advise as soon as possible.
Please note my new cell phone: 6 229 7840
philiprayr@gmail.

martes, 11 de agosto de 2009

AT THE SPEED OF TRUST

I attended the Franklin Covey certification in this programme in Argentina last year and found it a very powerful tool for those managers who are really prepared to pay the price to improve their personal levels of trustworthiness in order to impact trust in their organizations. As always it is accompanied by some powerful videos, exercises and tools to reinforce the FC "SEE - DO - GET" personal change process.

However, I have to agree with some of the Amazon reviewers that the book, at 322 pages, is a long read. It ocurred to me that a useful and cheap alternative to get a good feel for the concepts could be the audio download with a total investment of US$7.35 and just 75 minutes... and no long wait for the order to arrive. However, in all my ignorance - I didn't realize I needed a KINDLE for this.... or sign up for a year with Audbible.com... guaranteed to increase the number of books you will read per year!!!!
Anyway.....rather than exposing you to my view of products in which I may be accused of having a vested interest I invite you to read the Amazon Reviews and draw your own conclusions.

Here is the editorial blurb followed by a link to download the condensed audio version of the book:

"A groundbreaking and paradigm-shifting book, The Speed of Trust challenges our age-old assumption that trust is merely a soft, social virtue. Instead, it demonstrates that trust is a hard-edged, economic driver -- a learnable and measurable skill that makes organizations more profitable, people more promotable, and relationships more energizing.

Written from his informed perspective as the former CEO of a $100 million enterprise, Covey draws on his pragmatic experience growing the Covey Leadership Center (founded by his father, Dr. Stephen R. Covey) from a shareholder value of less than $3 million to a value of more than $160 million.

Covey articulates why trust has become the key leadership competency of the new global economy. He eloquently informs readers of how to inspire lasting trust in their personal and professional relationships, and in so doing to create unparalleled success and sustainable prosperity in every dimension of life. He shows business, government, and education leaders how to quickly and permanently gain the trust of clients, coworkers, partners, and constituents. The author convincingly makes the case that trust is a measurable performance accelerator, and that when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down, producing what Covey calls a "trust dividend".

This powerful new audiobook reveals the 13 behaviors common to high-trust leaders throughout the world and demonstrates actionable insights that will enable you to increase and inspire trust in your important
relationships."©2006 CoveyLink. All rights reserved; (P)2006 Simon and Schuster Inc. All rights reserved.

lunes, 10 de agosto de 2009

PREDICTABLE RESULTS IN UNPREDICTABLE TIMES

Aqui va una primicia para todos los fans de Stephen Covey - detalles de su último libro escrito en colaboración con el CEO de FranklinCovey, Bob Whitman, y Brett England, Solutions Architect.





Stephen Covey and Bob Whitman collaborated to write Predictable Results in Unpredictable Times because of the current economic conditions, which are having a negative effect on so many people and organizations all over the world.

Stephen Covey says, “If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty. Most organizations can get predictable results in an environment that is predictable. But, there are great organizations that consistently perform with excellence, even in the most unpredictable times, which we are now experiencing. These organizations not only survive the tough times, but they thrive and set themselves ahead of their competitors.”


Covey and Whitman suggest in the book that four hazards raise havoc within organizations in unpredictable times:

Failure to execute: You’ve thought through the crisis. You have your strategy. Now the question is, can the team execute? Will they? Some people in your organization understand it, and they are getting it done. Some aren’t and probably never will. Then there’s the great middle population– how much more could they contribute if they only knew how?

Crisis of trust: Levels of trust are at an all-time low. Securities markets plunge due to a huge crisis of confidence. Too many people see betrayal wherever they look. On an uncertain road full of pitfalls, everyone decelerates: It’s not called a “slow-down” for nothing.


Loss of focus: You have fewer resources, fewer people and more confusion. People try to do two or three jobs at once. A person doing two jobs has half the focus of a person doing one job, and half the likelihood of doing either job well.

Pervasive fear: Economic recession causes psychological recession. People fear losing jobs, retirement savings, even their homes. It’s “piling on.” And it costs you; just when you need people to focus and engage, they lose focus and disengage.

Bob Whitman, FranklinCovey CEO, says, “Long experience with thousands of private and public entities around the globe has taught us some of what it takes to achieve extraordinary performance, not just in this current economy, but always. After studying the team disciplines of more than 300,000 people in 17,000 work units in 1,100 organizations, which provided the foundational research for this book, we gleaned some critical insights about the factors that truly differentiate top performers from lesser performers.”

The authors also suggest four key principles for getting predictable results in unpredictable times:
  • Execute Priorities with Excellence: Winning companies have “simple goals” repeatedly revisited, together with clear targets and strong follow-through, including the measurement of results. As with any team, all team members know the goals and their roles in carrying them out. And, they execute precisely.
  • Move with the Speed of Trust: Low trust slows everything down and raises costs. That’s why the economy, your clients and your cash flow slow down in times of turmoil. But, when trust levels rise, everything speeds up and costs go down. The winning companies are capable of quick action “with the agility to respond ahead of, or at least stay even with, rapid changes in the new economic environment.”
  • Achieve More with Less: Of course, everyone is trying to do more with less, but the real question is, “More of what?” Shouldn’t it be more of what customers truly value and less of what they don’t want? The winning companies focus totally on value – they are not just cutting back, they are simplifying, reducing complexities that customers don’t value. Instead of having everyone do two or three jobs, they focus on doing the job the customer really wants done.
  • Transform Fear into Engagement: The root of psychological recession is the sense that people have no control over what happens to them. Winning organizations help people break through that hopelessness and focus on what they can do. Much of the fear is caused by unclear direction, by a less-than-compelling purpose. Entrusted with a mission they can believe in, they channel their anxious energy into results.

“No leader can compute all the uncertainties of the future into a set of certainties,” said Brett England another of the co-authors. “But there are certain changeless principles that leaders and managers can rely on to thrive in volatile times.”

Para más información: http://www.franklincovey.com/tc/solutions/books-and-audio

miércoles, 1 de abril de 2009

¿Cómo construir el éxito sostenido en la competitiva industria hotelera?

La revista Consumer Reports califica la cadena de hoteles Ritz-Carlton como la que ofrece el mejor valor sobre cada dólar, de todos los hoteles en Estados Unidos. La compañía Ritz-Carlton Hotel LLC es la única cadena hotelera en la historia que ha ganado el famoso Premio Nacional de la Calidad Malcom Baldridge, establecido por el Congreso Norteamericano en 1987 para promover y reconocer los logros de calidad en las compañías norteamericanas.

El Director Corporativo de Recursos Humanos, Theo Gilbert, insiste en que “la capacitación de FranklinCovey penetra profundamente al formar empleados leales y con un sentido de misión, lo que a su vez influye grandemente en la satisfacción de los clientes.”

Con el lema de nuestra compañía "Somos Damas y Caballeros Sirviendo a Damas y Caballeros” , los gerentes y empleados de Ritz-Carlton están comprometidos con la meta de lograr un grado de servicio superior a las expectativas del cliente.

El inicio

En 1983, Horst Schulze fue nombrado Presidente y CEO de Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. Desde un principio había decidido llevar a la compañía a un nivel de competitividad financiera sin comprometer la legendaria reputación de servicio al cliente de la que ya gozaba Ritz-Carlton. Schulze sabía que tanto los sólidos cimientos de excelencia de la organización como la lealtad incuestionable y el sentido de misión de los empleados debían ser encaminados a largo plazo. "Yo sabía que podía haber efectuado cambios radicales y asegurar grandes ganancias; pero también sabía que eso hubiera destruido a largo plazo la esencia de la compañía”.
Schulze escogió el camino más largo hacia la calidad total, y ofreció al Comité Directivo, a los jefes de los departamentos y a los gerentes el programa de "Los Siete Hábios de Las Personas Altamente Efectivas" "Si hubiesemos escogido cualquier otra ruta, no estaríamos hoy a la cabeza de las compañías hoteleras en el mercado de alto nivel al que pertenecemos".

"Hemos invertido miles de dólares en la capacitación de Franklin Covey”, afirma Mary Ann Ollman-Brigis, Directora Corporativa de Capacitación y Desarrollo. “Es una inversión inmensa que muestra el grado de compromiso que tenemos como organización”. La base que Los 7 Hábitos nos dan inspira interdependencia en grupos de trabajo autodirigidos, lo que es vital para lograr un nivel consistente de calidad yservicio al cliente. Cada empleado toma a pecho la esencia de la hospitalidad. “Nuestros huéspedes valoran lo que hacemos porque siempre estamos disponibles cuando se nos necesita y eso sólo se puede lograr cuando toda la fuerza laboral está alineada. Las cosas tienen que andar bien dentro para que esto suceda”, dice Schulze. Lo que “anda bien” es el aprendizaje intensivo y el sistema de “coaching” establecido por los oficiales corporativos de capacitación de Ritz-Carlton en cooperación con FranklinCovey.

Schulze ofrece extraordinarias estadísticas cuyo crédito atribuye, en gran parte, a la asociación con FranklinCovey. “En 1994, nuestros 25 hoteles dentro de los Estados Unidos lograron $75 millones más en ventas que en 1993, con 300,000 hora/hombre menos de trabajo. Al mismo tiempo aumentaron tanto los índices de satisfacción al cliente como la de los empleados. En 1995, nuestros ingresos totales aumentaron en otros $36 millones. Al mismo tiempo, la planilla se redujo en 700,000 hombres/hora. Eso es una reducción de 1,000,000 de horas/hombre en sólo dos años. Las proyecciones para 1996, fueron de cerca de $100 millones más en ventas y como 1,000,000 menos de hombre/horas trabajadas.”Mientras que en la industria hotelera la rotación anual de personal es del 100% o más, la de Ritz-Carlton es de 30% en base a los 14,000 empleados en todo el mundo. Una medida asombrosa de éxito.

Schulze también atribuye esto , mayormente a la inversión que la compañía hace en su equipo humano. Todos entendemos lo que es una inversión, pero no siempre vemos como inversión lo que gastamos en e l alineamiento de la cultura. Alineamos poco a poco a la gente, enseñándoles poco a poco. Con el tiempo, ésto crea dramáticos resultados financieros positivos. Mi trabajo consiste en obtener para los accionistas el máximo retorno sobre su inversión. Es también de vital importancia que el cliente reciba lo que él desea. Tan pronto como se disminuye la calidad o se defraude al cliente, la compañía pierde. El costo de perder a un cliente es incalculable, miles de dólares, en nuestro caso pueden ascender a $100,000 a través de la vida del cliente.
Schulze añade, “La capacitación FC es una inversión intangible pero de alto retorno. Si éste programa forma gente y equipos que están satisfechos y felices por lo que han logrado al final del día, que están en contacto con su integridad, quienes también se rejuvenecen a sí mismos activamente, lo que a su vez aumenta el trabajo personal, entonces definitivamente es una prueba palpable de que contribuye a la prosperidad general de la organización.”
Leonardo Inghilleri, Vicepresidente de Recursos Humano, comenta: “ La moral y la motivación se establecen realmente a través de la creación de un ambiente de trabajo adecuado en dónde la gente desea hacer el trabajo que está haciendo y en dónde se sienten apreciados y reconocidos por sus contribuciones. Los 7 Hábitos de FranklinCovey son ideales. Los principios constituyen la piedra angular del desarrollo de nuestro liderazgo hoy. La idea es desarrollar nuestra gente, nutrirlos y crear un ambiente en donde ellos puedan ser exitosos para que también nosotros podamos tener éxito. Usted sólo puede medir el éxito a través del éxito de su gente.

®FranklinCovey Co. Todos los derechos Reservados

miércoles, 25 de marzo de 2009

HOTELES Y SERVICIO AL CLIENTE



He tenido la oportunidad de conversar con los dueños y gerentes de varios hoteles recientemente que compartan preocupaciones similares sobre como incrementar la proactividad de los empleados en la resolución de los problemas del cliente, mejorar el trabajo en equipo y lograr una culura unificada de Servicio al Cliente. Típicamente hemos usado los Siete Hábitos para estos propósitos. Es interesante leer este caso sobre Gaylord Opryland Resort lograron soprendentes resultados a través de Los 4 Disciplinas de Ejecución y xQ (Encuesta de Ejecución).

Hay un video sobre el mismo caso en inglés en el Centro de Investigación de Franklin Covey que es muy interesante: Gaylord Video .


Otro casos de estudio que recomendamos para Hoteleros :
Ritz Carlton ; Colonial Williamsburg Company

Datos Profesionales