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How to Get Commitment from Your Team - President Amar Singh of Spartan Financial Partners
Description
Stop continuously following up with your team. Start getting real commitment to drive execution. When you get commitment from your team upfront, you can spend more time leading and less time nagging. It allows your team to take more ownership of their work and hold each other accountable.
I host Amar Singh, Chief Operating Officer of Spartan Financial Partners, who shares the powerful strategy he uses to drive commitment, execution, and accountability.
Prior to joining the Spartan team, he held senior leadership positions for Spartan’s parent company, American Credit Acceptance (ACA) with tenure at Smith International, Schlumberger, and CarMax.
American Credit Acceptance is a leading national provider of auto finance solutions with double-digit growth each of the last 10 years.
He started as a Mechanical Engineer in the Oilfield, got 40 patents for many inventions, went to business school alongside and then took on a variety of leadership roles before joining ACA.
Amar holds an MBA from Texas McCombs School of Management (University of Texas at Austin), Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Oklahoma State University, and Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Osmania University.
LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/amardeep-singh-77b9318/
Company Link: https://americancreditacceptance.com/dealers/spartan/
What You’ll Discover in this Episode:
- How you learn the skill of building relationships.
- A fun question to get to know your team.
- The weekly action he and his team takes that boosts their results.
- An effective strategy to gain real commitment from your team.
- Amar’s interesting path from oilfield engineer to COO.
- How to turn any meeting into a learning opportunity.
- A step to add value in any job.
- How to quickly test your idea to know if it will work.
Resources:
The 5 Whys - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys
The Four Disciplines of Execution - Covey, McChesney, Huling https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007IKZLJA/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
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