Tips to Help Your Business Build Effective Leaders w/ Brian Alvo

There are few things more important for your dealership than effective leadership. With a historical precedent of high turnover coupled with a greater ability to build networks across social media, it's important to understand how you affect your staff and the impact you can make by being an effective leader and building effective leaders across your operational departments.

To help with that, we have the opportunity to learn from Brian Alvo, founder of the NextGen Center that focuses on building effective leaders through myriad proven principles, strategies, and trainings. This episode of the KPI Cafe dives into these to help us take a more introspective look at our own leadership skills and offers actionable takeaways.

Here's what to expect:

Brian’s Origin Story (1:30)

Core Principles of Effective Leadership (4:08)

• Others
• Impact
• Potential
• Self-Awareness

Are Principles Sequential in Nature? (6:28)

• Theory vs. Real-World
• Context/Variables

Why “Effective” Leadership? (7:58)

• Re-Framing
• Binary of “Good”
• Neutrality

Missing Ingredient(s) to Become Effective (10:22)

• Manage Change
• Set Direction
• Align People
  • Growth Path?
• Inspire/Motivate
• Listen

High-Level Tips on Establishing Growth Paths (13:49)

• What Do “You” Want?
• Work Backwards from End Goal

High-Level Tips for How to Actively Listen (17:07)

• Self-Audit
• Intent

Benefits of Effective Leadership (20:30)

• Reaching Potential
• Growing Talent
• Uncertainty vs. Trust

Assess Now for Success Later (24:58)

• Where to Begin?
• Lay of the Land
• Actionable/Demonstrable

Frameworks for Leadership (28:49)

Contacting Brian Alvo (31:27)