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The Leader of OZ author, Kevin Gazarra, shares his thoughts on the dynamic exploration of the challenges that businesses go through today. This is an interview that anyone who wants to be a leader rather than a follower must hear. Kevin provides great information with inspiration. Experience - 25 years of management and leadership in industries Intel Corporation from 1989 to 2007 Managed, Intel's first-line Managing Through People (MTP) and the Mid-level manager Leading Through People (LTP) programs.Previous positions included managing - Intel University for the US, the HR graduate rotation program, the worldwide HR mentoring program, and marketing/ product development organizations for the i960 and i750 Intel chips.Transamerica Corporation - positions for 10 years in Engineering, Technical Marketing, Advertising, Business Development and General Management for a division of Transamerica Corporation.
The Leader of OZ, Kevin Gazzara visits with January Jones The Leader of OZ author, Kevin Gazarra, shares his thoughts on the dynamic exploration of the challenges that businesses go through today. This is an interview that anyone who wants to be a leader rather than a follower must hear. Kevin provides great information with inspiration. Experience - 25 years of management and leadership in industries Intel Corporation from 1989 to 2007 Managed, Intel’s first-line Managing Through People (MTP) and the Mid-level manager Leading Through People (LTP) programs.Previous positions included managing - Intel University for the US, the HR graduate rotation program, the worldwide HR mentoring program, and marketing/ product development organizations for the i960 and i750 Intel chips.Transamerica Corporation - positions for 10 years in Engineering, Technical Marketing, Advertising, Business Development and General Management for a division of Transamerica Corporation.
The Leader of OZ, Kevin Gazzara visits with January Jones The Leader of OZ author, Kevin Gazarra, shares his thoughts on the dynamic exploration of the challenges that businesses go through today. This is an interview that anyone who wants to be a leader rather than a follower must hear. Kevin provides great information with inspiration. Experience - 25 years of management and leadership in industries Intel Corporation from 1989 to 2007 Managed, Intel’s first-line Managing Through People (MTP) and the Mid-level manager Leading Through People (LTP) programs.Previous positions included managing - Intel University for the US, the HR graduate rotation program, the worldwide HR mentoring program, and marketing/ product development organizations for the i960 and i750 Intel chips.Transamerica Corporation - positions for 10 years in Engineering, Technical Marketing, Advertising, Business Development and General Management for a division of Transamerica Corporation.
The best advice from Dr. Kevin Gazzara, Dhariana Lozano, Roy Sutton and Deepak Shukla can help your business succeed more quickly and substantially. Entrepreneurship starts in different ways. However, there is something special about those who saw an opportunity and decided to focus on a new direction. Their journey to success is different from the journeys of those to whom entrepreneurship simply ‘happened’ and totally different from startups that raised money to develop an entrepreneurial enterprise from an idea. In today’s episode, I share with you the best advice from these entrepreneurs. I believe that no matter how you became an entrepreneur, the perspectives of Dr. Kevin Gazzara, Dhariana Lozano, Roy Sutton and Deepak Shukla can provide a new perspective on taking your business to higher levels. Before he left his 18-year career at Intel, Dr. Kevin Gazzara’s research discovered 5 things any entrepreneur needs to become successful. Dr. Kevin Gazzara Dr. Kevin Gazzara has spent the last 30+ years in program management, leadership, organizational development, courseware development, executive coaching, and teaching in both public and private sectors, spanning from heavy equipment to high tech. He is a currently a senior partner at Magna Leadership Solutions LLC, based in Phoenix, Arizona, which provides business workshops, facilitation, assessments, and executive coaching services worldwide. Kevin worked for Intel Corporation for 18 years, holding management positions for: Management and Leadership development, Intel University for the US, the Graduate Rotation Program, Mentoring programs for Intel’s worldwide Human Resources Organization, and more. Dr. Gazzara is also a faculty at Grand Canyon University, University of Phoenix, Drexel University, and Ohalo College. In 2007, he received the Future HR Leader award from Human Capital magazine for the Task Quotienttm (TQ) assessment. Workforce Magazine has recognized him for his international leadership development programs. Dr. Gazzara’s best advice about customer focus, marketing and sales There are 5 things that have consistently come up among the successful entrepreneurs I’ve talked with. They said you really need 5 things to be successful: You need a shtick or something unique that you offer that nobody else does. You need a network. You also need to be able to tap into your network in order to get work, get your name out there, and build and grow your business. You need a social presence. You need to be out there interacting and maintaining that presence. You need to write a book—specifically, a hardcover book. You need to have enough money saved that you can spend 18-24 months making no money doing consulting. Dhariana Lozano realized that small businesses and entrepreneurs can really benefit from social media. Therefore, she left the corporate world and started to help businesses directly. Dhariana Lozano Dhariana Lozano has been in the social media and digital marketing world for over 7 years. She is the co-founder of Supremacy Marketing, a boutique social media marketing firm based in New York City who manages the social media presence of clients like Chef Jordan Andino, Flip Sigi and more. Her experience ranges in creating social media strategies and consulting for both B2C and B2B brands to help them stand out and break through digital walls for ongoing success. She blogs at (http://dharilo.com/) where she provides social media tips, resources and courses. You can see her work published in Social Media Week, Social Media Today, and the AgoraPulse blog. How Dhariana’ entrepreneurial journey started I’ve been in social media marketing for about 8 years now. I started off in the corporate world and I went to agencies and I felt that social media was a bit of an afterthought; people would bring me in last minute into meetings. They...
Dr. Kevin Gazzara Show Notes Dr. Kevin Gazzara has spent the last 30+ years in program management, leadership, organizational development, courseware development, executive coaching, and teaching in both public and private sectors, spanning from heavy equipment to high tech. He is a currently a senior partner at Magna Leadership Solutions LLC, based in Phoenix, Arizona, which provides business workshops, facilitation, assessments, and executive coaching services worldwide. Kevin worked for Intel Corporation for 18 years, holding management positions for: Management and Leadership development, Intel University for the US, the Graduate Rotation Program, Mentoring programs for Intel’s worldwide Human Resources Organization, and more. Dr. Gazzara is also a faculty at Grand Canyon University, University of Phoenix, Drexel University, and Ohalo College. In 2007, he received the Future HR Leader award from Human Capital magazine for the Task Quotienttm (TQ) assessment. Workforce Magazine has recognized him for his international leadership development programs. Download My Powerful Cheat Sheets to adopt today A Daily Routine of Successful Entrepreneurs (http://www.reachormiss.com/5-actionable-tips/) Most passionate about I found my passion in management and leadership development and I was fortunate enough to be able to spend my last ten years managing Intel’s university and then managing Intel’s management and leadership development for the last six of those ten years. We used to do about 2500 – 3000 managers a year in 10 different countries. Dr. Gazzara’s best advice about customer focus, marketing, and sales There are 5 things that came up as a consistent pattern with the successful entrepreneurs I’ve talked with. They said you really need 5 things in order to be successful: You need a shtick or something unique that you offer than nobody else does. You have to have a network. Not only do you have to have a network, you have to be able to tap into your network in order to get work, get your name out there, and build and grow your business. You need a social presence. You need to be out there interacting and maintaining your presence. You need to write a book, specifically a hard cover book. You need to have enough money saved that you can spend 18-24 months making no money doing consulting. Biggest failure with a customer We learned early on that you have to use the 80/20 rule, particularly when you’re starting out. You need 80% of your time doing sales, selling, and nurturing your clients. Then the other 20% is development of your content. As entrepreneurs, we fall in love with our content and we want to work more on that than on selling. So, one of the things we didn’t do early on with one of our clients who we didn’t capture was that we were doing more development and not paying enough attention to them. Biggest success due to the right customer approach After I left Intel, I was doing a keynote speech for a large company in Silicon Valley for a sales conference and I literally ran into another consultant who had taught at Intel, he was an external consultant. We literally ran into each other while I was coming on to do my talk and he was leaving. I had taken one of his programs and it was a fantastic program. So I called him and said, Lets talk about how I can help you and I’d really love to use your material. So, I got certified on his material and he got certified on my material. We started offering additional products that filled out his product line, and for 5-6 years he gave me a steady stream of clientele that he’d booked, and in the meantime I was delivering his material to my customers. Dr. Gazzara’s key success factor You have to identity your strengths and weaknesses. Try to do more of what you like to do and most importantly, partner with someone, an accountability or capability coach, partner with someone who will hold