Episode 11: Dan Ralphs - The Dream Manager
The Dream Manager with Dan Ralphs
Episode 14: Show Notes
The biggest problem facing manufacturers today, apart from supply chain issues, is the labor shortage. In light of the Great Resignation and a number of other factors, manufacturing leaders are increasingly struggling to fully staff their facilities. Today’s guest, Dan Ralphs, is an expert in improving employee retention. He believes that people quit leaders, not companies, and the best way to keep your employees, and to keep them productive, is to be a dream manager. Dan joins us to explain that the best way to create and generate loyalty and commitment from employees without having to break the bank, is simply by asking them what their personal dreams are and then helping them to achieve them. Tuning in you’ll hear how Dan became a dream manager, the benefits you can gain just from asking people what their dreams are, and what to do once someone has told you their dream. To find out how manufacturing leaders can implement this practice to generate loyalty, how to make your company stand out and be attractive to potential employees, and where to find other helpful resources on this topic, tune in today!
Key Points From This Episode:
Dan’s thoughts on the Great Resignation and where we stand as an economy right now.
An introduction to the book The Dream Manager and what a dream manager is.
How Dan became a dream manager and some of the dreams he managed.
How to get team members to articulate their dreams, especially in an industrial environment.
The benefit of just asking people what their dreams are.
What to do once someone has told you what their dream is.
Thoughts on how fear prevents people from pursuing their dreams.
The story about a company that had a huge retention problem and how they overcame it.
How manufacturing leaders can implement this practice to generate loyalty.
Why zero turnover should never be the goal.
Resources that Dan recommends to manufacturing leaders.
Insight into the book Dan is working on and what it is about: The three different ways that we can get people to be productive.
How to make your company stand out and be attractive to potential employees.
How the dream manager program increases productivity.
Dan’s thoughts on whether or not the labor pool will fill back up and people will return to work.
Dan’s number one piece of retention advice outside of the Dream Manager Program: People quit leaders, not companies.
What Dream Leadership Consulting does and some of the services they provide to manufacturing facilities.
Tweetables:
“A dream manager is essentially someone within a company whose job it is to help the employees of the company to identify, articulate, and then accomplish their personal dreams.” — Dan Ralphs [0:06:58]
“If you can communicate belief in that person when they share a dream with you, you’re going to build tremendous trust with that person. And you’re going to begin to grow in your influence with that person. That belief, that trust, is the beginning of the loyalty that we talked about.” — Dan Ralphs [0:10:04]
“How do we generate loyalty? We generate loyalty by demonstrating and building a real relationship with those that we lead. We can do that in every interaction.” — Dan Ralphs [0:17:18]
“I’ve always believed I’d rather have somebody alive and energized and motivated and loyal for three years than someone stumbling into work, coming late, avoiding work for five.” — Dan Ralphs [0:18:46]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
The Industrial Movement on Twitter
The Industrial Movement on Facebook
The Industrial Movement on LinkedIn