Lead With Speed with Alan Willett

Nov 9, 2020

Do you feel you need to move faster just to catch up? Listen as Liz's guest, Alan Willett, the author of the book Lead with Speed: Fire Up Your Team, Power Your Engines of Development, and Make Your Organization Soar and Tech Consultant, shares how to lead with speed and the laws that leaders must master on this episode of The Leadership Coaching Group. 

Alan shares why it's important for an organization to move quickly, what speed in business means, and some of the most common speed bumps that slow people down. Alan discusses slowing down while creating a process and then moving quickly to adopt it and increase speed while working virtually. 

"People need to learn how to walk around the virtual hallways." Listen, as Alan shares what he means by this and how to handle people who are nervous about speed and are scared of risk. Alan shares some great advice for anyone new to a management role and where to look for training if your company doesn't offer it.

In This Episode

• [00:57] Welcome to the show, Alan!
• [01:05] Alan shares why organizations need to move quickly.
• [01:32] Speed means understanding what the value you want to provide is and draw the best line from where you are now to that value.
• [01:49] Alan discusses the most common speed bumps that slow people down.
• [03:11] To develop a good process, don't you need to slow down first to get it created and then move quickly through the process?
• [04:41] Alan shares how to increase the speed when communicating virtually.
• [05:31] Listen, as Alan speaks about influencing planning horizons when you have a deadline.
• [07:04] Alan believes that people need to learn how to walk around the virtual hallways.
• [08:16] Alan speaks about how to handle people nervous about speed and scared of risk.
• [08:56] Alan gives some advice for anyone new in a management role.
• [10:11] Thank you for being on the show!

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