How Discernment Makes You a Better Leader: An Undercover Boss Perspective

Jeff is a franchise executive with 25 years of experience founding, building, operating, and ultimately exiting a national franchise brand, AdvantaClean.As a leading national restoration franchise AdvantaClean became a strategic partner with St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital to support families in need, when they need it the most. In January of 2019, AdvantaClean was acquired by Home Franchise Concepts (HFC) to create a combined network with over 1,700 franchise territories operating in 11,000 cities in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. After the successful sale and exit, Jeff set out to help others build sustainable businesses and franchise systems. Jeff is a published author, Forbes contributor, speaker, and consultant to emerging brands.  BEFORE YOU GO ANY FURTHER: The #1 cause of bad sleep   Show Notes   “It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias.” ― Criss Jami Discernment is the ability to obtain sharp perceptions or to judge well (or the activity of so doing). Did you know that it has the potential to make you a better leader?   This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Jeff Dudan to talk about the ways in which discernment can augment your leadership game.   Here is a snippet of what Jeff shared:   “Discernment is a principled effective experience informed process for powerful decision-making and if you're an athlete for example, and you want to be a better basketball player, you might say I'm going to work on my left-hand dribbles. I'm going to work on my rebounding or taking charges or my for I'm going to work on my rebounding or taking charges or my for whatever it is. You break the game down into its component pieces. And if it's true that the quality of our decisions creates the quality of our lives and the success of our business then how do we intentionally work out to become a better decision maker? What are the things that we can acquire? What are the practices that we can engage in? What are the models of thought as we go through life and we accumulate things and have experiences. That's how do we turn these into models of thought for powerful decision making in our life because our batting average overtime on our decisions just means all makes all the difference in the lives that we lead and the impact that we make in other people's lives.”   Listen to the episode and let us know what is your biggest takeaway.   Connect with Host and Creator, Heneka Watkis-Porter   Email Instagram LinkedIn YouTube Twitter Facebook Website WhatsApp - 1876-849-2571   Support The Entrepreneurial You here fo US$5.00 monthly: https://glow.fm/tey.     Connect with Jeff Dudan:   Instagram Twitter LinkedIn Facebook   Visit our Sponsor: Jamaica Stock Exchange   Looking for spiritual upliftment? Listen to My Daily Devotion. A very short devotional to get you closer to God. Listen on:  Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices