Disney Employee Engagement Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Mickey’s Cast Fitness Center?
Way back in the day (1982),
Whether your employer provides a facility or not, you have to be the one to decide to get and stay active (for a lifetime).
Best wishes.
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Who is jeff?
Jeff Noel, like most people, is a simple guy balancing many of life’s familiar titles: child, spouse, parent, relative, neighbor, owner, artist, volunteer, athlete, writer, secretary.
He also has some obscure titles – to everyone but the most fanatical Disney fans – such as the Partners in Excellence Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, The Walt Disney Legacy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Disney Institute’s most requested and highest rated speaker.
Jeff has also spent many years in Disney’s Flagship Resort as Concierge Manager as well as time as a Custodial Manager in Disney’s Magic Kingdom Theme Park. He was a Disney Trainer, a Disney Traditions Instructor, a member of many high-profile Theme Park and Resort Hotel opening teams as well as the inaugural and leadership paradigm-shifting Guest Satisfaction Measurement Team in the early 1990’s.
Fall had just begun in 1998 when the phone rang in the backstage Concierge Manager’s office on the third floor of Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort’s main building.
Would he answer it?
Unlikely.
Why?
Because phone calls to the manager’s phone have a 90% chance of adding additional work to your already overloaded day, usually in the form of solving something (creating Magic) no one else can solve (or create).
And if you don’t answer, the caller will likely try another solution – hopefully, one that doesn’t add more work to your insanely busy day. And being on a great Disney team meant whoever took the call had the skill and ability to solve just about anything.
How busy could it be?
If you arrived at the Resort just before 7am to begin your shift, a good day was when you got to go to lunch just after 2pm when the closing manager arrived. A glorious day is when you got 30 minutes of uninterrupted time to eat. This happened roughly five times each year.
Not joking.
Carol, the Disney secretary, asked, “May please speak with Jeff?”
“Speaking” i said.
She proceeded to get right to business, “I need to schedule your lunch meet and greet meeting with Steve Heise, The Director at Disney Institute.”
i quickly replied, “You got the wrong Jeff.”
“You’re Jeff Noel, right?”
“Yes.”, i said, bewildered.
This random, unexpected call changed the course of my life and led me to be telling you this now.
Six months after Carol Main’s call, i received notice that Disney Institute wanted me on their team of Professional Development Facilitators.
Since then i’ve spoken to over one-million people and roughly 2,000 different organizations from every industry sector.
When asked, “What do you do?”, the short answer is, “i preach the Gospel (good news) according to Walt and a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down.”
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What do you gain when you can inspire yourself?
You get 24/7 inspiration.
You are not dependent on others.
You are free from external sources.
You are in control of your thoughts.
Your thoughts are in control of your actions.
This is a bar set high.
So not exercising regularly is a glaring failure opportunity.
PS. If your life (and your health) was a business, think “If Disney Ran Your Life?”
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Recall a time when your commitment came easy in doing important work. What allowed that to happen?
Recall a time when you were on a team where it was easy for everyone to be committed. What allowed that to happen?
What are the similarities between your commitment and the team’s commitment?
Recall a time when you struggled to be committed. What held you back?
Recall a time when you were on a team that wasn’t committed. What held everyone back?
Now, think about your current commitment level. What’s to gain? What’s to lose?
What and how can you replicate what worked for you before? What and how can you replicate what worked as part of a committed team?
Back to your commitment and the power it holds…
Why is moving from fully compliant to fully committed a challenge? What if it wasn’t?
Do you believe there are scalable success factors that you can use to architect the desired commitment level?
Why or why not?
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Fourth trip to Disney in the past week. Last night to our Flagship Disney Resort.
Met up with a High School buddy and his wife for dinner at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort and Spa Citricos restaurant.
My wife met Rene and Cheryl two years ago at our 40th High School reunion in Pennsylvania, but our son was meeting them for the first time.
He did a great job indulging his attention on four people old enough to be his grandparents.
The meal was superb.
There was only one no sugar dessert.
i would have easily skipped dessert, but the ambiance and the company inspired me to partake.
The “i quit sugar” lifestyle change finishes week 11 tomorrow. Grateful for a no-sugar option.
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