Brett Shannon Essay

Brett Shannon, who works as the Director of Retail Operations at the Luxor and Excalibur along with the MGM Resorts International came to our class to talk about the talents of being a leader and what it really takes. He has had over seventeen years of retail management experience where his career had started, working at Treasure Island. Mr. Shannon’s life had started just like most average kids, which was growing up working in retail department stores such as Macy’s. Brett stated in his presentation that he his always fascinated how he worked for really good and really bad people. When Brett said this it makes me think about the jobs that I have had and to come to the conclusion that this is very true. I have worked for a company where I would never go back and work there where as the catering company that I work for right now I feel as if they are my family. Mr. Shannon’s main concept throughout his presentation was about the twelve talents of Centric Leaders and how you can choose to impact your world, ever day, starting immediately. There were a total of twelve talents, but a few had stood out to me. When Brett Shannon had said …show more content…
In this talent he had discussed creating alignment and what it is. He discusses that a unified goal provides clear decision-making and the most positive outcome. I believe this is true, when I was in leadership this task had applied greatly to us. We would discuss how we feel the activity we put on went overall and what we could improve on for the same event the following year. This would greatly improve the same event the following year and just like Brett stated in his presentation, big changes do take time and small steps create big change. This can apply to life aspects as well, if a person wants some sort of change in their life they must understand that it wont happen within the blink of an