Colt, tell me about your vision.
Yeah, so I have a vision for the world
where leaders have all the tools in their toolbox
that they know how, right back here,
how to build a vibrant culture.
And so I have been working at helping people for 20 years
to understand that no business can survive
without a great team and with people who are not lit,
the LIT, lit from within.
And so what I know about running a company
is that if you have people who are excited,
love what they do,
have a beautiful relationship with their leader,
they're gonna work really hard,
they're gonna light it up,
you're gonna have great production and productivity,
make a lot of money.
And so I wanna help leaders figure that out,
how to be good leaders.
Can you tell me more about that?
Yeah, of course.
So the idea of leaders getting people lit from within
is the first thing they need to do
is they need to lead with intention.
And what I mean by that is they need to know
where they're going.
Like, where are we taking this company?
What is the vision?
So back to tell me about your vision.
All leaders need a vision.
So they need to have a story put together in their mind
that is about the future.
So don't miss this, everybody.
It has to be made up in their imagination.
And I think this is a lot of reasons
why sometimes leaders don't have a vision
of where they're going
because you have to make it up.
And so it seems unsafe or it seems reckless or something
to dream of something bigger and better
and throw it out there for the world.
But that's exactly what leaders need to do.
So I don't know about you,
but I wanna work for a company.
I wanna work for a leader who says,
this is where we're going.
This is how we're gonna get here.
Here are our amazing products and services.
Here's how they work in the world.
And here's why people should buy them.
And it edifies the whole thing.
So we need to lead with intention
and have a written down vision for the future
that people can understand.
And then number two, integrate with integrity.
So if I cast a vision for a company out in the future,
I've got to have the dots connected
to every single human that works inside my company.
So if I say, this is where we're going,
we're gonna have 10 million or 100 million
or one bazillion dollars in revenue,
here's what your role in it is.
A, you're in customer service.
You're to give incredible customer service.
Here's our formula for giving customer service.
Here's our rules, our process, our procedure.
This is how you do it.
And then I have everything I need.
I'm in alignment.
I'm in full integrity and I can execute on my job.
And then I can bring that vision to manifest.
So I think that's really important.
So first thing is the leader has to have a vision.
All right.
The second thing is we have to integrate integrity.
I got to bring myself fully to my work,
but I need to know exactly what my work is
and how it matches the vision.
And then finally the T is we're gonna transform
the ordinary into the extraordinary.
So I often think that it's just very small things
that make a big difference.
In fact, there was a book that came out.
I don't even know how old that book is,
but it was called the One Degree Difference.
And the whole point of the book was,
it's just like one little thing can make water boil,
like one degree.
And I totally agree with that.
And I think that if we look at what we're doing
inside of our organization,
oftentimes we just need to up the ante
or tweak one little thing
so that we can transform what is ordinary
into the extraordinary.
And so I'll give you an example.
There's a plumbing company in New York City
and they have red carpet service.
So literally when they come to your home,
they roll out a red carpet.
The plumber has on a T-shirt that looks like a tuxedo.
When they get done fixing your bathroom
and fixing your toilet,
they wrap it with a red bow and they clean the bathroom,
and they make sure that it is picture perfect.
So they go from fixing the toilet
to having an extraordinary experience.
And so I think that's what we can do
to help people build a vibrant culture
is we can do those three things, get everybody lit.
That is also your why of what you do, your mission statement.
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah, like why do you get out of bed in the morning?
Yeah, because I'm on a mission to energize,
impact and influence people to lead a more vibrant life
through engaging with what's possible and make it probable.
I mean, that's what I'm gonna do today.
And so like, if you just looked at my day,
because right now we're recording,
it's five o'clock my time, Eastern Standard Time.
But I started out this morning working with a young lady
who is in human resources
and I am helping her learn how to do human resources.
And like, don't miss, and see,
here's the thing people miss.
So I'm helping her, we're doing an HR audit,
which doesn't sound like the greatest fun in the world,
but we are auditing the processes of human resources.
But there are 176 people that work where she works
and she is responsible for them.
And we are going through and doing an audit and saying,
do we have the best benefits that we can have?
Do we have the right policies in place?
Is our bonus program the right thing to do?
So just right in her little world
that I'm getting to play in right now,
we can impact 176 people.
And so I'm trying to help us look at what's possible
and then how do we make it probable?
How do we make the 401k better?
How do we make these different things better?
How do we make the uniform policy more user-friendly
or whatever this stuff is?
And then you know what happens?
Those people leave work, they go home,
and they're with their family.
They're either happy, vibrant, as I like to say,
or they're unhappy because they don't like the policy,
the 401k or the whatever.
But see, everything in this life is a ripple effect.
Everything in this thing.
And so again, like I said a minute ago,
the reason why I think the world might be in a hot mess
is because not everybody understands their why.
But as soon as we do that,
and then we bring ourselves fully to that work,
and we begin to understand the impact of my work today
is gonna have a ripple effect across everybody I touch.
And so I would absolutely say that my mission statement,
my purpose statement is my why.
And you end up falling in love with your work
if you understand your why.
Because you're like, oh my God,
I have to do this as a responsibility.
Where did this come from?
Yeah, so well, I'll tell you,
I read a book in 2007 and it was called The Path.
And it's a book by a woman named Lori Beth Jones.
And that book changed my life.
And number one, all of you listening,
leaders read everybody.
You need to read, you have to read, I insist.
It will make you smarter.
And it will turn on your brain if you read.
So I read this book by Lori Beth Jones,
it was called The Path.
And I have heard for many, many years
about people having mission, people having vision.
But I didn't really think to myself, Nicole Greer,
you need one for your own life.
And so in her book, she has a little exercise
and I can send that out to people
if they wanna contact me at nicole at vibrantculture.com.
It's Lori Beth's little manifesto
to create a mission statement for your work.
And for your life.
And one of the things that I learned was that,
while it's obvious, when somebody spells out
the obvious for you, it can make your brain click
and go, oh my gosh, that's for real, real.
So I was about 42 years old when I read that book.
And it basically said, you've got one life to live
and you're traveling a lifeline.
And you need to get on with your life.
You need to figure out why you're here on planet earth.
And so you need to figure out your personal mission
statement for work and life.
And so I created the mission statement
based on Lori Beth's model.
And my mission statement is Nicole Greer is on a mission
to energize, impact and influence people
to lead a more vibrant life through engaging
what is possible and doing the work to make it probable.
So that might sound like a bumbo jumbo
of a bunch of words to somebody else,
but to me, that means everything.
And here's the truth about our world.
It's a mess.
I mean, just this past weekend, former President Trump
was at a rally and somebody tried to kill him.
And it's like, whoa, did he see that bullet coming?
Some might say, yes, I don't know,
because he turned his head just right at the right moment.
But life is short and there's crazy things
going on in this world.
And I think the reason why the world is in the shape
that it's in is because most people don't know
that they have a mission.
And if they understood that you popped on the planet
for a reason, you're not a mistake
and you have some work you need to get done,
once you kind of grasp that,
oh, my life has meaning and purpose,
and then you get on with it,
you start to clean up little messes in the world.
And so when I work with individuals doing training
or executive coaching, or I speak in front of a group
or an audience, I'm giving them information
to lead what I call a more vibrant life.
And then when each individual person is again,
lit from within, you get a vibrant culture,
you get a happy place to work.
And here's what I know, when we have good places to work,
we have good economy, and when people are doing well,
people are happy and we can take that prosperity
and we can pay it forward.
So it essentially started with a book I read
a very long time ago, and I've been practicing
what it preaches ever since, because it's truth for me.
Thank you for being here today.
I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live.
I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions
as these episodes continue to move forward.
This is gonna get more and more fun.
We'll have more and more engagement as well.
We'll invite people to participate in the show.
And thank you for giving us your time and attention.
Have an excellent time building out your vision
and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.