Roderic Yapp is the founder of Leadership Forces - a specialist leadership development organization that supports fast growing companies in London, UK.
He is a former Royal Marines Commando Officer who has served on operations across the world. Highlights include leading Marines in Afghanistan in 2007 and evacuating civilians from Libya during the Arab Spring in 2011. He spent two years coaching leaders in the nuclear industry giving him a wealth of experience in sectors where leaders simply cannot afford to underperform. He now works with private equity/venture capital backed companies that are growing rapidly - helping them to develop high performance cultures by developing their leaders.
We covered a ton of ground in our discussion, some highlights include:
- Why companies value people over profit
- Statistics beyond management failures in the workplace
- Why people leave people not companies
- How to keep customers by taking care of your people
- Why organizations don’t feel their millennials are ready to lead
- Why leaders aren’t born but made
- What the definition of leadership is
- Why having an organization vision is so important
- Why purpose adds value to organizations
- How to define your business or team purpose
- The one way to add value to the workplace
- Why tracking leading KPI’s is more important than Lagging KPI’s
- What are you working towards and why are you doing it
See the Youtube Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxWiKRlUpYU
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