Numbers Won’t Make You a Leader

Identifying the leaders comes through. I take everyone's performance and I divide it right in half. And on one side of it, it's their scorecard performance. It's the actual numbers, it's how they're producing and what the numbers say that tells half the story. But that's only half. The other half is our core values. We have six core values that we're passionate about. We test vigorously for these in the interview process. I've got plenty of team members that crush it on the scorecard. They're scoring a perfect hundred, but they've got one or two core values that they're lacking in. And they'll never be able to climb to that next level until they get that figured out. We've built a leadership development program about twice a year we take applicants from the whole company. And this is, you know, cross functionally, cross division. It's a 10 to 12 week program. And every participant gets an executive sponsor. So they get a mentor, whether it's me, our CEO, our CFO, etc. We'll do weekly one on ones with them. There's a book that we read together. There's the kind of a kickoff meeting, a meeting at the end of the program, a service project at the end of the program, and we drill into them our core values, and we drill into them the areas that they're lacking don't apply to this program. If you're afraid to get your feelings hurt because we're going to call out the things that need improvement.