Speech practice, body

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2007, Walt Disney World at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort Convention Center. You can see the SunTrust logo on left edge. SunTrust is now named Truist. Pictured here is me opening with my trademark “rubber band” joke.

Continuing with slides 10-18:

10. Consistency (for context, not expectation)

11. Oxygen Mask

12. Four ops priorities (alphabetical order)

13. Hunted Mansion

14. Four ops priorities (priority order)

15. 3 Blueprints (Goal in gold)

16. Custodial Host (pre-opening)

17. Custodial Host (red umbrellas)

18. WOW

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Abe Lincoln fan

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Grew up near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

First through fifth grade.

Lincoln Highway.

Not a history nor civil war fan. At all.

But Walt loved Abraham Lincoln.

Hall of Presidents had one audio-animatronic that was the iPhone of audio-animatronics.

And then there was Abe’s chief of staff, a church going man…

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Reason

Driving in %.

No one thinks about this uncomfortable reality.

Greet 20.

Task vs purpose.

No one thinks about this additional uncomfortable reality.

North.

As insane as it sounds, no one is thinking about this third uncomfortable reality.

The goal is simple, from Day One, top priority.

Make people happy.

Can’t be anything but 100%

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Astonishing Paradox

The sure-fire way to exceed customer expectations is to go the extra ______.

Everyone knows this.

But it’s a flawed concept. Seriously.

i did a TED Talk in Kuwait to educate the world about why it’s flawed and what to do instead.

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Day 60

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Two months after my first day at Disney we hit Spring Break and Easter.

Everyone works 14 days straight. Don’t even think about asking for vacation.

We could set a single day attendance record in the history of the Walt Disney Company.

Even with everyone working 14 days straight, we still had open shifts.

So when i did a double shift, i’d get off at midnight, get a few hours of sleep and be driving a boat by 8am — until midnight. What’s that, like 16 continuous hours?

Arriving just before 4pm, my Jungle Cruise supervisor was on the dock to greet me at my shift’s start.

He said something that was the first, and most powerful, lesson on setting leadership expectations.

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