By Staff
April 5th, 2022
BURLINGTON, ON
The Business Before 9 breakfast that the Burlington Chamber of Commerce puts on is going to be a barn burner on April 21st – Ron Foxcroft is going to be talking about Winning in Business.
Michael Jordan during his first college level basketball game scoring points in 1981. Foxcroft is in the lower left hand corner
What does that mean?
Try these for bullet points from his presentation:
Adjusting to the New Normal – Having a positive, innovative, strategic attitude.
Quality Customer Service: BAD – GOOD – SERVICE RECOVERY
Work Life Balance – Volunteer in your community and learn from smart people.
Get Some Grit – Never get too high, Never get too low.
Everybody Needs a Mentor – Benefits of having a Mentor.
Winning in Business – Show Respect to customers, vendors, teammates
Funny in places, wise advice – as a manual for leaders it is very good. Every nickel earned gets passed along to charities..
Foxcroft laid it all out in a book recently: Forty Ways of the Fox in which he suggests every business person pay attention to what Santa Claus does when he is working.
Sound a bit zingy – and off the wall?
Foxcroft was telling business leaders how important their role is in setting the day – and points to Santa Claus who is in a great mood from the moment he sits down until his day is over and every child that sits beside him is treated as the most important person in the room.
That is what leaders are supposed to do – make time on your calendar to attend. Link to making a reservations HERE.
Foxcroft earned an international reputation as a basketball referee and went on to create and market a whistle that did not have a pea in it and wouldn’t jam
Those whistles are sold in 140 countries – he can’t tell you how many he has sold other than to say that his first production run was for xxx whistles that he gave to his fellow basketball referees.
He can say that on average he sells 15,000 every day and has been doing that for 35 years.
This is a guy you want to listen to – not only for his wisdom – but he is one hell of an entertainer..
His book will be on sale at the Business Before 9 .
