At a Ford production plant, motivational speaker Danny Cox talked to 200 employees and suppliers about leadership and teamwork.
Here are a few main ideas from his program -
- “Great leaders work on the #1 priority. When finished, they don’t go to #2 but to the NEW #1 and so on down the list.”
- His signature story – “If you’ve got a frog to swallow, don’t look at it too long and if there’s more than one, swallow the biggest one first.”
- “Habit’s goal is to freeze you at your current level of confidence, which makes for repeated yesterdays.”
- “Keep your people informed on new ideas. They love to feel ‘in’ on anything new.”
These themes resonated with the Ford plant manager, who made the following comments:
“Now each morning we have a quality meeting. We search for the plant’s biggest “frog” and assign a team to go to work on it to solve it permanently. Then we select a new #1.”
“Signs are going up all over the plant reminding us to break old habits and try new things.”
“A plant-wide communication meeting is scheduled to reveal new ideas and directions. On the stage with me will be a frog mascot (costumed) and an 18-foot blow up frog. The enthusiasm is building! [Danny was] right on the money.”
Danny has earned a place in the National speaker Association Hall of Fame and is one of only twenty speakers elected to the distinguished Speakers Roundtable, an elite group of the most popular keynote speakers in North America. He speaks on a variety of topics relating to leadership, motivation, sales and teamwork.
For more information on Danny Cox, or if you’d like to inquire about him speaking to your organization, contact FIVE STAR.
