WSA-Only: What Exceptional Leaders Do Every Day

by Ranger Kidwell-Ross, Director of WSA This excellent seminar by Randy Goruk, founder of LeadersEdge360.com, provided a host of tips and insights on how to become an exceptional leader, of your business, community and personal life. World Sweeping Association Members will have a video of the entire seminar available to them on an exclusive basis, as arranged with the organizers of the National Pavement Expo, where the seminar was conducted in early February, 2020. We are providing WSA Members with a few of the concepts and ideas Goruk presented, below. Further down the page you will find a link to Goruk’s PDF seminar handout, as well as a link to the YouTube video of Randy’s 90-minute presentation in its entirety. Core Leadership Assumptions:

• have unwavering character
• care about others
• embrace accountability
• have technical skills

Avoid crisis by solving problems before they occur. This will allow you more time to focus on getting even better results for your business. 

1. In order to schedule time to think and to plan, it is important to make an appointment with yourself.
2.  To stimulate your thinking and planning, ask yourself great questions. For example:
   1.  What is one thing I’m not doing that I should be doing?
   2. What one habit do I need to break to become a more effective leader?
3.  Become obsessed about learning from your past. For example:
   1.  If we had the chance to do last month over, what three things could we have done differently to achieve better results?
   2. What Is one decision I didn’t make that I should have made? Why didn’t I?
4.  Develop the habit of looking forward. For example:
   1.  What are three opportunities that, if pursued, could grow our business over the next 18 months?
   2.  What actions should we take to capture them?

 Communicate, Communicate, Communicate!

1. Seek engagement and initiate action by asking the right questions. For example, don’t ask “How is the XYZ project going?”  Rather, exceptional leaders ask: “What three things could prevent us from finishing the XYZ project on time?”
2.  Don’t ask: “how are this month’s results?”  Exceptional leaders ask: “If we had the chance to do last month over, what is the one thing we could’ve done differently to achieve better results?”

When designing great questions ask yourself…

1. Will this question cause the person I’m asking to think?
2. Can this question lead to an engaging conversation?
3. Can this question lead to action (if necessary)?

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As a WSA Member, you are provided with the exclusive opportunity to view the seminar in its full 90-minute entirety on YouTube. The video of the seminar was authorized by NPE only for viewing by WSA Members. WSA Members are also authorized to access Randy’s PDF handout of the seminar, available at this link, which they can utilize as they watch the video of Randy’s seminar. The seminar is posted on YouTube in an unlisted fashion, so is available only to WSA Members for viewing. If you would rather watch the video directly on YouTube, use this link.   To find out more about Randy Goruk visit his website, which is located at www.LeadersEdge360.com.