Reader:

Your actions and your character speak much louder than what you say!

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Morning Minute 10.24.25​
​“Leaders – Be Someone Worth Following!”

In my book, WORK WITH ME NOT FOR ME, you will find the 6 roles of a leader:

Mentor: you help those whom you lead to improve and to achieve their full potential.

Organizer: you are to arrange the 4 Ps: people, processes, products, and promotion to achieve the team’s success.

Instigator: you get people and projects started, keeping them on track until completed.

Disciplinarian: you set standards, ensuring they are understood and maintained.

Cheerleader: you encourage team members by celebrating individual & team wins.

Teacher: your regular instruction is necessary for continuous staff improvement.

These roles are tempered by your character. Character is defined as a person’s moral and ethical qualities. Your character controls who you are, how you communicate with others, and the actions you display as a leader.

For instance; if you, the leader, expect people to be punctual, to dress in the proper attire or uniform, and to conduct themselves professionally, you must display those qualities in yourself. If you expect excellence, you must display excellence. If you require continuous improvement, you must continue your own professional education.

Simply stated, you must be a leader who is worth following!

Most of us have labored under a bad leader. My first manager in the restaurant business was more interested in his social life than his team’s performance. Another manager was constantly tardy, expecting the staff to cover for him. And another was semi-competent in the dining room but refused to learn kitchen functions.

Then, there was my first auto dealer. He was someone that the team wanted to follow. He was competent and expected competence. He was professional and demanded professionalism. And, he was helpful and honest with customers and staff alike. His actions and his character set the standard for the team. B. G. Fuller was the perfect leader to mentor me as I strove to be more, do more, and earn more.

Morning Minute Challenge: Are you someone that others want to follow? If not, what must you change to become the leader that others will want to follow?

“Leaders – Be Someone Worth Following!”​
That is today’s Morning Minute.

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I am very concerned about the lack of proactive and responsible leadership in business today. Please share your concern, or your success, in providing the level of leadership that your team members actually want to follow. Simply drop me a line with your comments, stories, and or suggestions to lab@larryonlearning.com. I will answer each and every message personally and will only publicly repost or share your message if I receive your specific authorization to do so. Thank you in advance for your participation, your stories, and your concerns!

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Here are some recent Morning Minutes you may have missed with actionable ideas, useful instruction, and step-by-step methods to help you, your family, and/or your team to be more, do more, and achieve more.

"FAMILY: Building Your Most Important Team!" This is your guide to creating strong families through love, devotion, and consistent action! Discover 7 key characteristics of strong families. Learn how that shared responsibility, open dialog, setting an example of acceptable behaviors, accepting & demonstrating life skills like honesty & forgiveness, plus personal & financial responsibility develops children into strong adults. Discover the importance of keeping God in your family life!

"When You Plan Isn't Working - Change It!" How adaptability can turn setbacks into breakthroughs! Discover how the American Army in WW2 changed their tactics to defeat hundreds of powerful German tanks counterattacking just days after the D-Day invasion of France. Learn how that by changing tactics American engineers succeeded in building the Panama canal connecting the Pacific & Atlantic oceans. Discover my 6 step program to change directions turning defeat into victory.

"Life is a Journey - Not a Guilt Trip!" Don't allow past mistakes, bad choices, or events to destroy the rest of your life! Life sometimes is negatively affected by bad choices or unexpected events. Learn how to overcome those set-backs. Discover 4 actionable steps to lesson the pain or loss you experience when these setbacks occur.

"Closer to the Problem - Faster to the Solution!" Leaders win by listening to and working with those closest to the problem. Discover 3 real life instances where getting close to the problem helped Ray Kroc, Eli Whitney, and Gen, George Patton to overcome obstacles by getting close to the people involved in the problem and working through them to achieve success. Learn how you can use this process for your success!

"QUESTIONS - Your Most Underrated Leadership Tool?" Learn how to guide behavior and build trust...without sounding bossy! Learn how to use questions instead of directions to guide discussions as you transform a problem into a solution. Discover 2 examples of how to use questions to guide, direct, and influence others.

"The T.A.S.T.E. Leadership Module; Lesson 2 - ACCOUNTABILITY!" Accountability is more than trait; it is a culture. And, culture always starts at the top! Learn 5 team and personal benefits of accountability starting with the leader and flowing through the culture to the team members. Discover a short incident that describes how that being accountable benefits you in your leadership journey.

"The T.A.S.T.E. Leadership Model; TRUST 2 - TRUST!" Trust: the essential bridge linking truth and teamwork to create results. Learn how that truth, accountability, and support create the foundation for trust. Discover how trust affects the relationship between leaders and team members. Understand how communication affects trust.

May God bless you, your family, and your team!

Larry A. Bonorato 864-630-2625 lab@larryonlearning.com

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