Spotting Winning Ways with professional speaker Bernie De Souza

Modern leaders have long accepted that their oganisations potentially have lots of leaders in the ranks.

The trick is spotting them, nurturing them and giving them the right jobs to retain their interest and keep them in the business.

Business guru's such as Professor John Kotter indicate that search and selection is a key element of the process.

He says: “with careful selection, nurturing and encouragement, dozens of people can play important leadership roles in a business organisation.”
This is exactly what Bernie De Souza has discovered in his presentations and personal examination of people at the management coal face as a motivational and leadership guru who helps businesses find the perfact match in terms of people and job.

Profiling has become the perfect tool for him to identify the personality traits we all have as potential leaders or business or wealth creators. He is exceptionally skilled at the process he has fine tuned and developed but he now enjoys helping others reap the benefits of the process too.

Bernie has been able to research countless individuals over twenty odd years as a top sports motivator. He agrees with the likes of celebrated leadership coach Humphrey Walters that winning is a habit which has to be encouraged.

Humphrey was responsible for the success of the England Rugby squad in 1997 and like Bernie, who also has experience working with top teams, he has used the experience to benefit companies ever since.

He says: “Companies that have risen to global leadership over the last twenty years invariably began with ambitions that were all out of proportion to their resources and capabilities. They however created an obsession with winning at all levels of the organisation and sustained this obsession over the fifteen or twenty years it took them to get there. They understood that winning is not a one time thing, it is an all time thing. It has to be constantly fuelled.”

As a top sports motivator who has encouraged greatness with the likes of the Pakistan cricket squad as well as Olympians and more lately, a UK national sports team, Bernie De Souza is playing his part in providing the fuel necessary build great business teams as well as businesses.

Bernie is used to individuals feeling out of their depth and helps them recognise the inner potential.
“We all have to feel good about ourselves to achieve our best and my events are geared around helping people recognise their worth and working out their goals,” he says.

Good communication plays its part too, especially in team development where bad mouthing behind the scenes can destroy management goals.”

Bernie is proud that he has helped many poor performers over the years recognise their worth. This has been demontrated time and again on the world stage.

As Mushtaq Mohammed, former Pakistan Captain and Coach discovered, it is possible to help a poor performing team achieve greatness with the aid of someone who knows and understands the things that make people tick. He says: “Bernie De Souza's strategy for understanding people helped me coach the Pakistan cricket team to success.”