Posts Tagged ‘Credibility’

Stephen M. R. Covey

Stephen M. R. Covey is co-founder and CEO of CoveyLink Worldwide. A sought-after and compelling keynote speaker and advisor on trust, leadership, ethics, and high performance, he speaks to audiences around the world. He is the author of The SPEED of Trust, a groundbreaking and paradigm-shifting book that challenges our age-old assumption that trust is merely a soft, social virtue and instead demonstrates that trust is a hardedged, economic driver—a learnable and measurable skill that makes organizations more profitable, people more promotable, and relationships more energizing. He advocates that nothing is as fast as the speed of trust and that the ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust with all stakeholders is the critical leadership competency of the new global economy. Covey passionately delivers that message and is dedicated to enabling individuals and organizations to reap the dividends of high trust.

Audiences and organizations alike resonate with his informed, practical approach to real-time issues that affect their immediate and long-term performance.

He is the former CEO of Covey Leadership Center, which, under his stewardship, became the largest leadership development company in the world. Covey personally led the strategy that propelled his father’s book, Dr. Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, to one of the two most influential business books of the 20th Century, according to CEO Magazine. A Harvard MBA, he joined Covey Leadership Center as a Client Developer and later became National Sales Manager and then

President & CEO. Under Covey’s direction, the company grew rapidly and profitably, achieving Inc. 500 status. As President & CEO, he nearly doubled revenues to over $110 million while increasing profits by 12 times.

During that period, both customer and employee trust reached new highs and the company expanded throughout the world into over 40 countries.  This greatly increased the value of the brand and company. The company was valued at only $2.4 million when Covey was named CEO, and, within three years, he grew shareholder value to $160 million in a merger he orchestrated with then Franklin Quest to form FranklinCovey.

Over the years, Covey has gained considerable respect and influence with executives and leaders of Fortune 500 companies as well as with mid- and small-sized private sector and public sector organizations he’s consulted. Clients recognize his unique perspective on real-world organizational issues based on his practical experience as a former CEO.

Covey currently serves on the board/advisory board of several entities, including the Human Performance Institute—the leader in energy management technology—where he serves as Advisory Board Chairman. Covey resides with his wife and children in the shadows of the Rocky Mountains.

UPDATE OCT 30th:

WOW…  and a big fat Apology.

We knew this program would really resonate with people but we never thought it would have the amount of activity it did.  Needless to say, it chocked our servers.

All of us here want to say sorry to all the disappointed people that could not get on the web cast because as you can see all the people that were able to attend absolutely loved it.

Again, we are sorry and we will have more horsepower for this Thursday’s call so don’t miss it.

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League Of Extraordinary Minds – Discovery Session 1 Webcast

Be sure to join us for our first discovery session webcast in our 6 week series this Thursday October 29th at 8:00pm.
If you haven’t already registered for the webcasts you can do so here

You won’t want to miss this historic event as Jay Abraham and Rich Schefren interview this first group of panelists which includes:

• Michael Bosworth
• Stephen MR Covey
• Bert Decker
• Russell Granger
• Kevin Hogan
• Joseph Jaffe
• Jack Trout

Be sure to come ready to listen intently and take notes as Rich and Jay dig deep to get answers to tough questions like:

1.    What’s the single biggest strategy for moving from distrust, dubious, and suspect to seismic credibility and what’s the single biggest action our members should do first and why?

2.    There are 2 aspects to credibility – quick fix and long term remediation – What actions would you recommend that can be taken quickly and what actions would you recommend that are more long term and self-sustaining?

3.    Most Entrepreneurs do not think of themselves as not being credible, trustworthy or believable – so what’s the best way to get an unbiased viewpoint of what we are really conveying to the marketplace and how do we develop thick enough skin to see ourselves as we really are ?

4.    Let’s talk about specific tactics – How would you suggest our members make each contact point with their market – more effective?  Whether it be customer service, marketing, advertising, or simply describing the attributes of their products or services?

5.    If you were to give each of our members an exercise that would constantly put them on the path to growing their trust, believability, and credibility, what would you recommend? What benefits will accrue by doing it and why?

6.    Of all the things you’ve researched, written, and presented on what’s the single biggest distinction, realization, insight that you need to get across to this group that hasn’t been covered so far, and why?

7.    Through the lens of your expertise; What one question do you wish we would have asked you, that we didn’t, that relates to helping members on this call make their business more profitable, more successful, more competitively advantageous right now and into the future? Why is it an important question? And had we asked, what would your answer be?

The answers and secrets these experts reveal during this 90 minute event will completely blow you away! Fortune 500 companies pay these guys tens of thousands of dollars for information like this that Jay and Rich are extracting for you for FREE!

Don’t miss this exclusive webcast.  It will not be re-played. To get all the details, register here

After you’ve listened to the webcast, please come back to this page and let us know the biggest insights and takeaways you gained from the panel. We have some special surprises for those of you with the best comment!