“A Culture of Excellence: The Art, Discipline, and Practice of Breakthrough Leadership” is a book that focuses on the pivotal qualities of leadership needed to foster a positive culture and drive success within your organization. In part 7 of a 10 part radio interview series discussing the book Dr. Fardad Fateri, discusses how to sustain and develop top talent within an organization.
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welcome back again this is the inner
voice and I'm dr. Foojan and I'm
delighted to have dr. Fardad Fateri
who's the president and the CEO of
International Education Corporation
which owns and operates accredited
college across colleges across the
United States he is the author of a
culture of excellence the art discipline
and practice of breakthrough leadership
dr. Fateri is a part of a small group
of chief executives in American higher
education today with significant
experience in the imperative but rare
interwoven triad of academic operations
and business verticals with over 25
years of experience in higher education
and graduating from UC Irvine and
Harvard University's dr. Fateri has
served as a professor department chair
Dean regional director college president
division president chief academic
officer for director and president and
CEO of several medium to large-sized non
profit market funded and privately held
systems and we have them with us now
welcome dr. Fateri thank you so much
thank you for the invitation happy to be
here
wonderful you talked about bring up
talent into your team and when you say
that when we're you know where you bring
people within whatever the the resume
that they bring and you see it on the
table and then you look at them and
something within your gut tells you
whether they're relatable or not or are
they authentic or not are they
passionate about what they're doing or
not and somehow all of those which are
not necessarily measurable within what
the resume says it gives you in that
relatedness
a little bit of a hint of is this person
going to be a part of the culture of
excellence and passion and giving and
that you want to create for your
students in that empowerment how else
how else do you find your top talents
how would you tell our listeners and
viewers in to focus on find
in their top talent you know it is
arguably one of the most difficult
accountabilities of people within
organizations I think identifying
recruiting integrating training
developing coaching top talent is is one
of the most difficult ECAM abilities I
have and I can speak for most of our
executives and managers and leaders
within our organization it is one of the
most difficult accountabilities but it
is one of the top three accountabilities
everyone has regardless of function
because we are in a people business and
we are only as good as as the people we
bring on so we spend a lot of time
continuously we not only recruit top
talent when we have open positions we
recruit top talent even we don't have
open positions so one of my advices to
everybody is to also to always have a
pipeline and a bench of top talent
whether there are openings or not
because you will always have a need for
people who can influence your culture
and influence your organization to
continue to sustain greatness so so that
is definitely one of the the most
important things managers should do but
also the other very very important
variable is once you hire top talent is
is to keep them engaged develop them
acculturate them assimilate them within
the organization but also empower them
to make good to make decisions and learn
and contribute you know a lot of
organizations hire amazing amazing
people with with fantastic bandwidth but
that then they continuously tell them
what to do you know to me top talent is
you've got to hire them develop them
trained em coach them but then let them
to do their thing I mean they that's the
value
bring because if you don't they will
never be happy they'll never be
satisfied and they look for something
else and leave because top talent
doesn't want to be in a stale in rhyme
man and where where they are told what
to do on a daily basis and to continue
appreciating them because top talents
does not accept a relevancy so if you
tell them that you either do it my way
or you're irrelevant or if they didn't
create the top numbers then you're
irrelevant and then your positions are
laid off and all of that the concept of
appreciating when you find someone who's
a top talent or create and empower and
for them to strive toward being one
appreciation and gratitude also goes a
long long way
oh absolutely true yeah dr. Fateri for
Terry who has created and it's an e-book
a culture of excellence the art
discipline and the practice of
breakthrough leadership dr. for theory
where can people will get your book
actually the book is also sold in
paperback it is available in digital
format my co-author James York and I
very excited to have that Amazon is
probably the fastest and most accessible
way to the book
About the Author: Fardad Fateri
Dedicated to the advancement of student success, leadership development, and organizational excellence, Dr. Fardad Fateri has devoted his 30-year career to catalyzing innovation and transformation in American higher education.
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