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Developing others is the surest way to grow yourself - and your organization!

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Morning Minute – November 7, 2025

“Train Your Replacement & Watch Everyone Rise!”

​Rotary is a service organization designed to help others, build stronger communities, and train its members to develop their leadership skills. Built around massive action, each member is assigned to one of Rotary’s service groups each year. Besides keeping members involved, they get exposed to how all of these groups work together.

In Rotary, every leadership role is temporary — by design.

Each year, a new president, president-elect, secretary, treasurer, and the committee chairpersons step forward. But here’s the key: before you finish your term, you train the next person to take your place. You don’t cling to the position — you prepare the next leader.

This system does two very powerful things.
First, it keeps the organization fresh, dynamic, and forward-moving.​
Second, it builds leaders faster than almost any other model. Every member is both learning from someone, while teaching someone else.

That same principle works in business and in life.

When you train your replacement, you’re not making yourself obsolete — you’re proving you’re ready for more responsibility.

Here are five real-world benefits:

1. You Grow. Teaching forces you to master what you do.

2. Your Team Strengthens. Others gain confidence and skill.

3. Your Organization Thrives. No single person becomes a bottleneck.

4. Displays Career Paths. Team members can see their path to future success.

5. Opportunities Open. When someone can step into your role, you’re free to move up — or take on something greater.

The best leaders are not those who hold power tightly, but those who prepare others to succeed them.

Morning Minute Challenge:​
This week, look around your workplace or your team.
Find one person you can begin to coach, mentor, or prepare to take your place someday. The, invest your time and energy in helping that person succeed.

“Train Your Replacement & Watch Everyone Rise!”

That is today’s Morning Minute.

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As always, your comments, your questions, and your observations are greatly appreciated! Reach out to me at ​lab@larryonlearning.com​.

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As we head into mid-November, and your October operating statement is published, let me show you how to use that data to accomplish the following critical tasks with these steps.

1) Have your department leaders to produce their forecasts for 2026.

2) Get these leaders to develop effective action plans to accomplish their forecasts.

3) Create accountability for achieving these forecasts by managing the 4 Ps.

4) Have yourself and your team leaders present these forecasts & action plans to the group, taking ownership of their numbers.

Want to learn more? Contact me at 864-630-2625 or lab@larryonlearning.com. I look forward to helping you win in 2026!

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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.

​"Working Toward Success by Serving Others!" Success isn't measured by just how much you earn, but by how many you help along the way! Discover the interaction between a college student and her grandfather as they discuss both her progress and what he did for a living. Learn not only how to meet incorrect appearances with facts. Also, learn how to help others to be open to different motivations behind the actions that they may not completely understand.

​"Train Yourself to Blame Yourself!" How great leaders stay in control when everything goes wrong. View a football team who had 2 bad calls by referees costing them 14 points in the first half. Discover how that true leaders rise to the moment when events beyond their control get out of hand. Learn how they win by taking hold of what they do control to overcome obstacles instead of making excuses.

​"Planning: How Leaders Win The Future!" 5 steps to build buy-in, as you guide your team to achieve breakthrough results in 2026! Discover an example of how most organizations project their results month-to-month and for next year! Learn this five step process to empower your people to accurately forecast the next year and make themselves accountable to achieving their forecasts!

​"LEADERS: Be Someone Worth Following!" Your actions, and your character, speak much louder than your words. From my book WORK WITH ME NOT FOR ME learn the 6 leadership roles required of the most successful leaders. Discover 4 examples from my life that share how leaders, both good and not-so-good, have taught me how to be a leader worth following!

​"Don't Just Set Goals...Track Them!" How KPIs turn big objectives into daily progress! You can't Improve what you don't measure. Learn how that KPI's turn your goals into measurable activities. Discover a real live example of how that realistic goals are made easier to understand by using KPIs!

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May our Lord be with you during these times of crisis, uncertainty, and division.

May He aid you in developing a great team to serve both your clients and each other.

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

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

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