183: The Road to Excellence: Featured Interview with guest expert David Mattson

David Mattson, President and CEO of the Sandler Organization and author of The Road to Excellence: 6 Leadership Strategies to Build a Bulletproof Business

Bill Ringle and Dave Mattson discuss some of the crucial blind spots to building a successful business, as well as the 6 phases of the Excellence Process: Planning, Positions, People, Processes, Performetrics, and Passion.

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Interview Insights

Top 3 Takeaways from this Interview

• Growth is continuous, so training to succeed should also be continuous
• You have to become comfortable talking about money to reach higher levels of success as a small business owner
• Surprising how many companies fail to take advantage of creating an onboarding playbook for success and the many forms it can take
• How a sales manager can successfully link an employee’s personal and corporate goals
• The 6 P’s in the Excellence Process

Read the Show Notes from this Episode

• 2:14 How his grandfather inspired Dave to have a strong work ethic.
• 3:55 “I came from a family of non-sales people.”
• 5:26 The importance of putting your own personality into sales.
• 5:39 How Dave started working with David Sandler.
• 7:09 Characteristics of entrepreneurs who need outside help
• 8:04 Why it’s essential for a team of sales people to use the same sales language.
• 9:54 How to recognize when you have a blind spot and what to do about it.
• 10:30 “Being an entrepreneur, it’s a lonely business.”
• 11:10 “People will work harder for themselves than they will for you.”
• 12:06 “In order to link the corporate goal to the personal goal, you should sit down and have a conversation that would look something like this.”
• 14:09 “Do you know the top 2 or 3 goals for the people who work for you? If not, you have a blind spot.”
• 15:21 “If you’re working on the business it’s really tough to work on the business.”
• 15:45 How having best practices allows your employees to mimic success.
• 17:06 “If someone’s stepping into that role, i want them to produce at the same level as the person who’s leaving that role.”
• 17:17 The 6 “P’s” in the excellence process.
• 18:19 “Where I want to then affect where the company will be.”
• 22:12 How to set up your company’s practices so that if the leader or a pivotal employee leaves, the company isn’t paralyzed.
• 24:31 The Lightning Round

Expert Bio

David Mattson is the CEO and President of Sandler Training, an international training and consulting organization headquartered in North America. Since 1986, he has been a trainer and business consultant for management, sales, interpersonal communication, corporate team building, and strategic planning throughout the United States and Europe. A Wall Street Journal bestselling author, his new book is The Road To Excellence: 6 Leadership Strategies To Build a Bulletproof Business.

Contact Info and Social Media for David Mattson

• Primary Website
• Travels from: Owning Mills, MD (Baltimore area)
• Phone: 410-653-1993
• Connect on LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram

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