Mark Sanborn-Chick-fil-A Leadercast

• How to be the one?

• Speakers are using stories

• If you understand someone’s personal story you can better understand their professional success or lack there of.

• What is your story? Drama, thriller, etc

• Are they a better person because of their relationship with you?

• People are tired of hype, it is not enough to tell a good story, there has to be substance behind the hype.

• We want leaders who help us make our stories better.

• Do we treat people as if they are a WIP or WAC.

• WAC=Work Already Complete.

• WIP=Work in Progress.

• Need to recognize the potential of people, don’t act if they can’t grow and improve. You are there to help improve their story.

• It is always a challenge not to become cynic.

• How can we be story shapers?

• They may need a nudge.

• This comes in form of hope.

• They have resigned themselves to think that they can’t progress beyond where they are.

• Hope=having something new for them to try and also for them to be willing to try it.

• Got to get people to struggle.

• Heroism is not possible without a struggle.

• Failure is something that happens to you, not something that defines who you are.

• With no resistance no hope of success.

• Look for lesson.

• Look for destination.

• Look at the affect your story has on others, it always impacts others, it always intersects with others.

• Positively shape the stories of others.

• Catch the other person’s story.

• It takes slowing down so you can catch other people’s stories.

• When you hear the story you must respond to it.

• It takes unconditional acceptance of their story.

• When we reject a person’s story we reject them.

• Feel—listen with your heart.

• Tell your story.

• Here is where you find the connectivity, focus on how their story can be better as a result of hearing your story, how can you add value to them.

• Need to be a fellow conqueror together with them.

• Need to connect how your stories can blend together to make their story better.

Tony Dungy stated earlier, ” that my story is about the many people who have poured themselves into my life”.

• Whose life are you investing in?

• Who are you pouring yourself into?

• It is people, ideas and experiences that shape our lives.

• People are primary.

• People are where our ideas and experiences come from.

• Might that our stories might be generous stories.

• Be a generous story, a giver.

• Be ye openers of doors.