Chad Silverstein marks 300 team practices and reflects on leadership lessons from the Dale Carnegie Organization and his advisory board work. He celebrates the milestone while sharing what he learned about building and leading teams through consistent practice and shared moments.
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I remember when I first started practicing with Chad. I couldn't wait to introduce him to my team. I knew that people on the team would love Bill to lead. We had done the Dale Carnegie Organization. I brought them in to train the entire company. And I was always into all the different personal and professional development programs and courses that I would take. We had an advisory board. I call it the ABC Committee, the advisory board committee. And if you read Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, you can come into the committee. And I let the advisory board committee make decisions for the company. So if there was a vote, if there was a policy, I'd bring it, say, bring it to the ABC Committee. We'd go in there and if you read the book, you can come in and you can have a vote and you can, you know, share your thoughts. And everybody put down their visions. I remember I put them all in these big envelopes and put five, 10 years out. And I remember opening them up, and it was a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun, you know, doing that kind of stuff. And being able to have 300 practices with my team, though, was just looking back at that, just incredible, because I remember Chet slowing me down saying, we're not going to work with your team until you're clear on what your opus is, until you work on your core. It took about six months before he finally let me start holding these leadership practices that we added to the Build to Lead calendar. And now I think back at how long it took 10 years to get us to 300. And it was a crazy journey. We saw a lot of lives change, and it was definitely a day to remember. I remember him and Taylor came in holding some beers, and we cracked a beer and just had fun reminiscing, talking about good old times. So I think any team that can have an opportunity to do that with each other, take advantage of it, celebrate the wins, honor the traditions and the past and tell those stories and just relish in the fact that times go fast and that time will pass and you won't have what you have at some point and don't take it for granted.
