Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Ray Attiyah: The Fearless Front Line - Blog Business Success Radio

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Training and leadership developer, speaker, CEO of Definity Partners, and author of the empowering and company culture changing book The Fearless Front Line: The Key to Liberating Leaders to Improve and Grow Their Business, Ray Attiyah describes how being unable to forget about bad situations has caused a loss of confidence in leaders, resulting in doing less less leading, and more over managing of their front line employees. Ray Attiyah points out that this failure of confidence becomes dependent upon elaborate systems and processes designed to prevent bad situations but which become the focus of the organization and not a means to achieve its goals. Ray Atiiyah shares an alternative approach in the form of the holistic Run-Improve-Grow model that makes excellence its focus and empowers front line employees to take ownership of their roles. The Run-Improve-Model frees up leaders as well to concentrate their time and efforts on the big picture and the overall growth the of the organization, The result is an attitude change to one of empowerment and ownership that transforms the entire company culture.

Ray Attiyah is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.

The show airs live on Thursday, May 9, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.

Training and leadership developer, speaker, CEO of Definity Partners, and author of the empowering and company culture changing book The Fearless Front Line: The Key to Liberating Leaders to Improve and Grow Their Business, Ray Attiyah describes how being unable to forget about bad situations has caused a loss of confidence in leaders, resulting in doing less less leading, and more over managing of their front line employees. You will leanr:

* Why leaders lose confidence and employees fell less empowered

* Why more systems and process simply become the focus rather than a means to goals

* How to adopt the Run-Improve-Grow model to empower leaders and front line staff

* How to change attitudes to one of ownership to transform company culture



Ray Attiyah (photo left) is founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Definity Partners, a training, process, and leadership improvement firm. Ray's business expertise comes from hands-on experience in engineering, operations and management leadership roles in manufacturing and service businesses, including Johnson & Johnson, Johnson & Hardin and UPS.

Inspired by his experiences, Ray founded Definity Partners in 1996, and has helped dozens of companies to perpetual and transformational growth and improvement. Ray is a passionate speaker and contributes columns to the Cincinnati Business Courier. An entrepreneur who enjoys teaching and improving organizations of all sizes, Ray is an investor in and advisor to many companies and start-ups, and serves on the board of numerous non-profits.

A graduate of Rutgers with an MBA from Xavier University, Ray lives with his wife and three daughters in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is an avid soccer and poker player.

My book review of The Fearless Front Line: The Key to Liberating Leaders to Improve and Grow Their Business by Ray Attiyah.

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Let's talk with training and leadership developer, speaker, CEO of Definity Partners, and author of the empowering and company culture changing book The Fearless Front Line: The Key to Liberating Leaders to Improve and Grow Their Business, Ray Attiyah describes how being unable to forget about bad situations has caused a loss of confidence in leaders, resulting in doing less less leading, and more over managing of their front line employees. Ray Attiyah points out that this failure of confidence becomes dependent upon elaborate systems and processes designed to prevent bad situations but which become the focus of the organization and not a means to achieve its goals. Ray Atiiyah shares an alternative approach in the form of the holistic Run-Improve-Grow model that makes excellence its focus and empowers front line employees to take ownership of their roles. The Run-Improve-Model frees up leaders as well to concentrate their time and efforts on the big picture and the overall growth the of the organization, The result is an attitude change to one of empowerment and ownership that transforms the entire company culture on Blog Business Success Radio.

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