Leading To Win

Inspiring others to go beyond acceptable and achieve the exceptional

As a tennis player, I learned that to be successful on the court you had to have a consistent follow-through. This is true in business as well. Leaders who win realize their team’s most important capability is the ability to execute. Would you agree that ordinary ability with extraordinary follow-through produces remarkable results? Effective leaders set ambitious but attainable goals and provide the encouragement, resources, and tools needed to achieve the exceptional.

The most successful leaders are, first and foremost, heart specialists. In other words, they connect emotionally by showing respect, empathy, and care for others. Leaders who win don’t spend their energy pursuing prominence, focusing on themselves. They strive for significance which is focused on the team.

When teams embrace a compelling vision for the future and trust their leader, they achieve the exceptional. Leading to win is helping others see that desire can be more powerful than disappointments.

Here are some actions and attitudes your organization can use to increase their leadership effectiveness:

• Create a winning vision for the future that is compelling and vivid.
• Identify the must-wins for the team.
• See perseverance as a combination of patience and persistence.
• Establish a culture of optimism.
• Inspire your team to break through self-imposed obstacles.
• Elevate execution elevate excellence
• Help others work in their sweet spot.
• Build leadership success on significance instead of prominence.

The Power of a Winning Mindset

Change your mindset. Change your results

What do all remarkable people and organizations have in common? They’ve discovered the power of a winning mindset. Mindset is defined as a mental attitude that predetermines a person’s response and interpretation of a situation. The foundation for constructing winning results is a winning mindset!

The beliefs we have about our talent, potential, and opportunities have a tremendous influence on how we perform. As a result, we rarely achieve more or become more than we believe we can. Why? Mindset directs behavior, which dictates motivation, which determines outcomes. A winning mindset produces results. A mediocre mindset produces excuses, and you see yourself as a victim. Mindset determines how you will perform when it matters most.

The most important capability you have is the capacity to choose your mindset. A winning mindset is something that can be learned, changed, and leveraged. It creates a self-belief that unlocks your potential, passion, and purpose.

Here are six valuable ways to make a Winning Mindset your competitive advantage:

• Let go of self-limited thinking
• Understand why consistency matters more than ability
• Always see yourself as a victor, never a victim, of your circumstances
• Develop the courage to embrace the unknown and discover possibilities
• Choose to think better and win from the inside out
• Believe you can, execute a plan, and achieve success

Winning Through Change

How to see change as opportunity

Have you ever heard someone say, “I’ll be a lot more optimistic when things get back to normal?” In today’s rapidly changing world, normal is not behind us, it’s ahead of us!

Constant change is here to stay, and depending on how we view it, it can either be overwhelming or an opportunity. For organizations to win through change, they must continually adapt, transform, and reinvent. As a result, “We have always done it that way” is no longer a viable philosophy for long-term success.

In this presentation, audience members will learn that because change is inevitable, winning is possible. This mindset allows them to benefit from the enormous opportunity for success that change presents. They won’t feel defeated by the change in their work; instead, they will find ways to leverage change.

You can count on Roger Crawford to inspire your team and help them build a winning perspective! When faced with changes, they will see possibilities appear, embrace them, and achieve positive results.

This program will motivate your team to:

• Expect, Accept, and Leverage change with a new perspective
• Develop a forward to normal success mindset
• To build fortitude, the first step is to embrace the facts
• Focus on what you can control
• In a world of constant change, you can’t excel with yesterday’s thinking
• Instead of waiting for change to happen, make it happen

Wow, the way you incorporated our meeting theme, National Sales Managers remarks, and background information about our audience was masterful! You made me look like a hero! In fact, I had to visit my chiropractor because I received so many pats on the back! –  General Electric

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While you probably could sense that your speech went well (the standing ovation may have been a tip), I just wanted you to know that the benefits of having you come to our meeting went well beyond the initial applause. Your message is powerful, appropriate and useful for an organization such as ours. I can see why you have so many positive references. – Johnson & Johnson

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our comments were the perfect balance for our group, and you truly inspired our folks to motivate change! American Express won’t soon forget Roger Crawford!. – American Express Open

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This is the third time we have had you as our keynote speaker and you just keep getting better! Thank you for the difference you make in the lives of others! – ational Association of School Business Officials

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What can I say? You were a huge hit. Our goal was to end our meeting on an emotional high and your talk provided that. You were the only standing ovation of the week. – Storage USA

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Fantastic program! All week people were talking about your comments. You are the best speaker we have had at our conference. – National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys