Episode 44

What value are you bringing with Christopher Zuzick

Stop taking a Blanket Approach to training with Christopher Zuzick

There is a movement happening around what's required to keep future generations engaged and growing in the Blue Collar Space. Training your team is a not a one size fits all approach. One the biggest questions you need to ask yourself as a leader is " What value I am brining to my employees?"

Brad, Steve and Christopher also talk about how businesses need to embrace the fact that employees will not be with a company for 20 years. But it's still a good idea to have a robust training plan for all stages of your employees career. As Brad says" We need to make the pool bigger."

Christopher Zuzick has always thought of himself as a life long learner. He likes to seek out win-win situations for both internal and external customers. He has varied experience from sales to product launches. He enjoys building teams and has a servant leadership style.

Episode Highlight

05:20 - Stop looking at your training plan as a one size fits all approach.

10:50 - It's a different world than it was 30 years ago. Employees will not stay with companies for 20 years. Work with this idea instead of against it.

17:24 - Your definition of success might be different than what your employees want. Ask them, "What is success for you?"

23:00 - Discussion around what positives came out of COVID and having to navigate regulations with employees in different countries.

Contact your hosts:

Steve Doyle:

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Brad Herda:

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Email

Christoper Zuzick

LinkedIn



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Transcript
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guest christopher zuzek who has been in the metal industry for a very very long

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time he and i happened to have kids in the same area we've grown up

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we live in the same community we've connected through different events and ironically we met

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and re connected at a brewer game that i was you know working at and

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he was in one of the suites

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and we started chatting and having a conversation like hey christopher why don't you come

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on the show and share your experiences what's happening in the metal industry with the

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generational things and he said sure i'll

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was that so welcome christopher

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to blue color b s we appreciate your being here

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welcome

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to be here appreciate it

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yeah so first question before we get into our show is which generation do you

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most fit in with

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cause we got boomer brad we have boomer brad

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i'm not really a boomer gen x right

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i recall

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you are the first the first year you are the inaugural the inaugural

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year

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the i am the first year so not a tweener but i'm right there so

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i'm a gen x guy

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you aren't the starting line of making sure those member only se jackets were the

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best things ever

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that works that

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was that

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what's happening in the metals manufacturing space from industry recruiting you know retention employment you

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know as you sit

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there in your in your chair today kind of overseeing all that what are you

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seeing

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yeah well you know i think it's well documented that there has been challenges and

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there has to be a different paradym with regards to work force development um m

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at i look at companies today and and they talk about it the challenges of

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wages for example you know knowing that they have to be aggressive with their wages

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you know six seven eight percent and i always there's this is not a by

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any means a a secret sauce but i question those companies when they say you

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know we have to raise wages by six seven percent

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they're also looking at the training budgets and saying

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what are we goin do for training what are we going to do for increases

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in training i mean i think that's if there's one thing there's probably a lot

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of things i learned from coaching youths

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sports you sucker but

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you cannot

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you can't have a one size fit all approach where you work for us and

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i said sometimes that was missing its

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not a silver bullet but no if you are going to be an aggressive company

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in wages you better be an aggressive company with regards your training and how much

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money your goin to spend on training because if you don't do that then you're

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just throwing away

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as far as i'm concerned

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and i think that's part of the ting i've seen is you talk

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to people who are coming into the work for us and it doesn't make a

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difference to me if you are a boomer if you're a millennial gen x

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you need to understand as an employer what

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value yo're going to bring to that employee so they can be sustainable and the

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work for us

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that

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to hear you say that because that has always that's

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that's hard to find in leadership that mantram we hear in the you

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know some of

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the events that i go to well why would we train all these people would

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we invest in all this training when they're just going to leave anyhow what if

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you don't invest in all the training what's wrong with making the pool deeper and

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stronger as an entity and being the organization that gave somebody that shot and maybe

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they go off

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right

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and try something different because the organizatio wasn't ready for them to grow

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lot of times they end up finding their way back because they have that loyalty

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or that sense of purpose

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or that connection you lose out on that

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opportunity for them to you train

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them young they go out they find their opportunity then they come back later because

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they realize what you know the grass isn't always

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green or just different grass

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right well in manufacturing

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is as we all know there's a lot of capital put into your business right

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in our world as a medal contract man contract metal manufacture we have we have

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stamping presses we have assembling machines and

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we have regular maintenance

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on those on and that equipment

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because it's high cost

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don't want to equate a press to a person i'm not suggesting that

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from an asker perspective what i'm saying is that we invest prevent the maintenance capital

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and our equipment we need to be doing the same thing with our work force

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just those

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correct

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i learned very early that it's important to explain to the team the overall goal

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the values but you can't take blanket approach to every player on the team

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and your job as a coucher your job as a leader

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to take a look at that roster of twenty two twenty three players in your

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team and really understand what drives each of that each person and how do i

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get the best out of that person and

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what do i see in this player ere they are today where they could be

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and help them get there

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is rare go and get and thinks they should be at this level right because

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there they're on they're on verse but they don't know where they don't know yet

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you want to go i'm going to help you get there and then find that

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doesn't include you sports or sports maybe they look back and say this is my

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last hurrah

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as a team mate

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and their mentality is a little bit different well that's not any different than what

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we're doing today with the work for us

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now someone out of school that rat millennial that wants to go at it versus

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a baby boomer that's saying i have a lot of value my background i just

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want to be appreciated

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and so my job as a leader or i think in any leader as

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far as i'm concerned is to

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understand those facets and say

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breath of what you're actually experiencing with the millennials versus maybe or even your genzes

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and what they're looking for is a path towards success

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or any employed to spend twenty years i just i just don't expect that to

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happen i mean my first

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my first job i was there for twelve years and i was consider you know

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so i think the first thing you have to recognize is that they're not going

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be here forever that you know there's no such thing as a pension anymore so

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my job is

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as that leader to say okay

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them how we're going to invest

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in them

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elevate their game show them that we're going to take the time

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to make them

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better employed for organization and in the lawn term a better employed for another

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here's stage one stage two stage three stage four and here's your path can give

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them twenty twenty percent higher in salary it doesn't make a difference they're going to

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go on some place else

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steve preaches is what's the path forward if you don't know you're not going to

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get a eighteen nineteen old kid to come in and apprentice program and tell them

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in twenty five years you can be a master tool and die maker right

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twenty was it eighty per cent of the genzes in the work force have at

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least one year plan and twenty five per cent have a five year plan

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twenty five years and younger know where they want to go and what they want

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to do as an employer particularly in a blue collar world being able

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to show them that path to achieve their goals

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and make that connection

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what they're looking for and the ones that give them that

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go right and here's why i want to

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want to be i want to be an organization that gives me those tools to

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be there the twenty four twenty four year it's saying you know i'm in a

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right kind of in the right industry but maybe i can divert here or i

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can divert there and so having those conversations with them

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with regards to their path

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is two different paths i mean and you so as as an employer as a

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team leader

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an go back to my previous point

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you got to find the time to figure out how do i get let's be

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empathetic right you got to have you got to be able to build

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and say here's where we're gong go and and i view myself as more about

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i'm not a command and control type leader a more of that you know the

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the leader that is more let's let's figure out what's best for the business

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title that leadership

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an e s process

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which is get it wanted and have the the g c is right i mean

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that's the other thing i think we look at i look at with my team

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mates guys that people that report to me obviously we measure them on our core

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values but i also

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you'd be like only three or four core values

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basically well being safety

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rodoriented

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um you know that was ill tel you what that core value process is

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critical especially when you start measuring people but safety corvet safety umwellness um respect integrity

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um m cent of urgency those are the main ones

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like putting people

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on the spot because you should as a leader you should know them

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absolutely and then and then so we measure we measure our teammates on that and

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then i measure them on do they get it do they want it do they

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have the capacity do we want to invest in them

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and are they

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in the right seat on the boss right

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again it goes back to what i said before you can't take a blanket approach

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to building your team you have to you

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them down and says you're not going to work so i provided a lot more

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our situation

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of covid where i think some other companies did and we said here you know

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generations

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to better myself i want to get a scholarship i want to know i'm excited

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get there and

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to you ninety five percent l ninety five would say listen i just want to

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know how i can improve what i'm doing today and help and elevate their game

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and that's what we need to do as leaders

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correct so if there are individuals that are listening this show locally

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or even anywhere across the country or mexico or wherever they might be because we

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are a world wide show

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opportunity or to create a connection or just to potentially look for an

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opportunity to connect and maybe get some of that awesome leadership you're offering

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find myself having that moment sometimes i read something or see something and i'm like

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i never thought of that before so the best way to reach me is linked

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in and

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you connect an if you connect in um i will reach back out to you

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it's kind of rewarding i still have

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students who i taught who are now in the work for us who have now

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over the years have reached out to me and connected via linked in

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fortune earl fifteen ear old player that was you know

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energy and now they're

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thank you so much for being on the show today christopher i really appreciate your

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taking the time out of your busne schedule as i know you got a lot

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going on to to share that your wisdom and thoughts on the work force and

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what's happening and thank

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you very much

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you guys

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doing

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a great

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you

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yeah

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doing a great service to the industry and keep on keep on keep on on

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against as they say

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we appreciate it thank you

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you

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