From the top down, everyone in your organization requires a periodic, if not daily, a reminder of vision, opportunity, and hope. Do you need to complete something more than once? Can you automate, delegate, get rid of, or hire someone to do it?

Make sure you're assuming your queen bee role so your organization will prosper and flourish due to your laser-like focus on the right things. Using the after-action report, you can get your team ready for success. By receiving a hot wash, emotional feedback, acting on what you've learned, and rational feedback.

 

Remarkable Quotes:

Otis:  Driving purpose is about finding clarity and resolve and your purpose.

Otis: Don't try to sell hope of solving the problem; sell the hope of the organization. That's how you keep people.  

Travis: It's a lot easier to get through the suck if it's a time limit.

Otis:   Push through with a vision and hope; and the reality, so you balance the hope with the reality.

Travis:  Are they creating a business, or are they creating a job for themselves?

 

Highlights:

{01:33 } Introduction to Otis

{05:35 } Ground Pounding

{12:45 } Is your mission missing in your Business or nonprofit 

{19:15 } Embrace the Suck

{26:40 } The difference between starting a business and creating a job

{33:15 } The Queen Bee Role

{41:00 } Learning from your experiences

 

Otis McGregor bio:

Leadership Expert, Author, Speaker, Podcast Host, Project Management Trainer, Rugby Coach, LTC, Special Forces, US Army, Retired

My passion lies in helping people succeed. I've used this passion through years in the Army Special Operations, coaching rugby and Business. It now drives me to create better leaders. I believe that better leaders create better organizations, better organizations create better communities, and better communities will create a better world.

I worked as a Business Development Manager, Director, and Chief Strategy Officer for several companies. In 2009, I founded LTO Enterprises, LLC to help businesses win government contracts. In 2021, I rebranded LTO to become Tribe + Purpose, aligning with how we operate and our business purpose. We focus on creating better leaders to lead high-performing teams. I am a certified business performance coach and certified project director and trainer through The Institute of Project Management.

I retired from the US Army in 2009 as a Green Beret Lieutenant Colonel following 25 years of service. While in the Army, I had a broad range of experience from being a private driving tank five years older than me; to an engineer in the Arctic, running heavy equipment in the most extreme arctic conditions, to leading Green Berets on complex and dangerous missions around the world. I also had the unique experience of being part of new organizations and creating these new units into cohesive, effective organizations. This experience ranged from Arctic conditions in Alaska to counter-terrorism units in Iraq and Afghanistan to NATO Special Operations Headquarters. Being part of these organizations from the ground up has given me immense experience in creating successful organizations

I've used those skills and experiences to build successful teams, business units, and companies in the business world. I've led capture efforts and proposal development for large and small firms. These efforts have ranged from small task orders to multiple large entity Joint Ventures. In addition to my business development efforts, I ran multi-million-dollar programs for the government spread across the US and overseas.

I possess a BS-Engineering Technology, from Texas A&M University; MA-International Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School; Certified Professional Coach, Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (IPEC); COR.E Leadership & Performance Dynamics Specialist, IPEC; Certified Project Director and Certified Project Trainer, Institute of Project Management (IPM); USA Rugby Level 300 Coach. I create better leaders, host a podcast, build high-performance teams and wrote the book Enable Your Teams Success.

I live in Colorado with my wife, Suzanne. We have three grown children living in the USA.

Connect with Otis:

https://www.tribe-purpose.com

 

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