Introduction | Hire Train Monitor Motivate
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INTRODUCTION
Hire Train Monitor Motivate is the culmination of more than two decades of learning and practicing organizational leadership, team management, and individual performance in the transformative workplace.
I began formalizing the principles outlined in the book around 2005, creating a template for a career training business that grew from about 350 customers to over 1,000—and from 40 employees to over 100—in five years. Despite the rapid growth, the institution maintained a strong compliance record, including zero findings of noncompliance during several third-party quality assurance reviews.
During this time, I had the opportunity to present the concepts of Hire Train Monitor Motivate at a company-wide meeting for the organization’s team builders. Several years later, the company recognized an attendee from that original meeting as the year’s top leader. While congratulating her, she mentioned that my presentation had inspired her performance and that she had applied the principles of Hire Train Monitor Motivate during her team’s rise to award-winning status.
I felt both humbled and honored. That moment inspired me to share these concepts with professionals seeking to build distinguished organizations, teams, or individual careers, as well as those whose performance or perceptions might benefit from them.
I aim to present Hire Train Monitor Motivate as a catalyst, a blueprint for organizational, team, and individual effectiveness in twenty-first century local and global workplaces. This book is my professional memoir as a proud veteran leader of organizations where motivated stakeholders learn and reap the benefits of building or contributing to teams and individuals of distinction.
In this spirit, the seven chapters of Hire Train Monitor Motivate strive to provide a simple yet inspiring framework for organizations, teams, and individual contributors aiming to achieve or maintain high-quality and financially stable operations. Groups focused on the desired ethical outcomes for customers, colleagues, and other principal stakeholders.
Chapter One: First People, Then Vision presents a classic paradox in organizational effectiveness initially introduced by author Jim Collins in his book Good to Great. Collins’s work was the main inspiration during my leadership of several award-winning organizations and teams. This chapter outlines the four character traits that I have identified as universal among productive employees and entrepreneurs.
Chapter Two: Build an Organization, Team, or Career of Distinction examines strategies to cultivate a company, group, or individual toward excellence in a customer-centric environment. Chapter Three: Master the Art of Workplace Transformation analyzes how to create an organizational culture of quality from an employee-driven perspective by focusing daily on the learned skills of hiring for optimism, training for quality, monitoring for compliance, and motivating for performance.
Because most organization members are team players rather than leaders, the emphasis in Chapter Three—and throughout the book—is on individual career effectiveness. For example, it describes how the reader presents themselves in the workplace as someone hired and retained for a positive attitude, trained for a commitment to quality, monitored for dedication to compliance, and motivated to perform at or above expectations.
Chapter Four: Play the Game the Right Way presents an operational model with a proven history of achieving outstanding organizational, team, and individual outcomes by embracing the six cultural realities essential for the long-term sustainability of an enterprise. Chapter Five: Leadership and Teamwork by Inclusion explores the concept of balancing the needs of seven stakeholders in a typical organization by implementing an inclusive leadership or teamwork benchmark, and then driving an economic model of mutually dependent engines.
Chapter Six: Make Your Workplace a Great Place outlines frameworks for career success that benefit all stakeholders. This section provides practical guidelines for implementation at the organizational, team, and individual levels, as well as strategies for addressing the challenges of being a role model or an active participant in today’s expansive local and global economies.
Hire Train Monitor Motivate concludes with Chapter Seven: Your Essential Role in the Transformational Workplace, presenting several concepts, including the Millennial Model, that redefine the critical roles necessary for active participation in the twenty-first century’s local and global economies.
For brevity, references to customers throughout the book denote any individual or group served by an organization, team, employee, or sole proprietor. This group includes clients, patients, constituents, readers, viewers, subscribers, students, parents, visitors, diners, purchasers, buyers, patrons, borrowers, shoppers, taxpayers, and consumers. In other words, it describes how an organization—whether in the for-profit, nonprofit, or public sector—identifies the ultimate beneficiary of its goods or services.
Whether implied or explicit, references to leadership in the book address individuals, regardless of their position or rank, who are engaged in enhancing an organization, team, or individual's career.
Several outstanding mentors, peers, and protégés have influenced my rewarding career in organizational development, team building, and personal career effectiveness. I owe my sincerest gratitude to these distinguished partners for making a lasting impact on my performance and, most importantly, for contributing to the positive outcomes of thousands of customers and hundreds of colleagues.
I dedicate this book to every influential partner, passionate and caring organization, and team member who serves and supports customers whose lives improve each day through the hiring, training, monitoring, and motivating of individuals pursuing distinguished careers, whether serving local, national, or global economies.
Thank you, the reader, for investing your valuable time and money into this book and your tireless, passionate contributions to your transformational workplace’s noble and worthy mission.
David J. Waldron, Author
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This Introduction is copyright 2016 and 2025 by David J. Waldron. All rights reserved worldwide.
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