Todd Wangsgard
Enterprising, results-driven, and grounded are words that describe Todd Wangsgard. He brings 24 years of leadership and organizational development experience to his clients.
Clients value his ability to create clarity out of the business fog that prevents most companies from enabling greatness and developing the capabilities of their associates.
Todd has excellent professional experience. He was Senior Manager of Training, Talent Management, and Communications for ATK Lake City, a government-owned, company-operated manufacturing center in Independence, Missouri. He organized the training department, developed and implemented all levels of leadership curriculum, and oversaw the operation’s succession planning and teambuilding strategies.
As the Manager of Professional Development for ATK, a $4 billion aerospace and defense company, Todd led the creation of employee and leadership assessment and development initiatives for operations in 23 states.
Todd worked for Intermountain Healthcare, Inc. in Salt Lake City, Utah, the intermountain west’s largest physician, clinic and hospital network. He founded IHC University and managed the implementation of curriculum as well as the administrative team of IHCU.
An industry cross section of Todd’s clients represent higher education, health care, insurance, manufacturing, aerospace, and defense.
Todd holds a PhD from Walden University in Leadership and Organizational Change. He has also earned his MBA from the University of Phoenix and a B.A. from Weber State University (Ogden, Utah) in communications.
Todd is affiliated with a number of professional organizations and holds certifications to teach a number of programs. He is a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), a Master Facilitator for Achieve Global, and a Certified Professional Behavior Analyst (DISC).
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FranklinCovey Consultant Blogs | Todd Wangsgard | February, 2012
See. Do. Get
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After working with a client in Times Square last week, I took a day off to enjoy some of the historical sights of NYC. I took this photograph of lower Manhattan from Liberty Island, home of Liberty Enlightening the World (aka Statue of Liberty). This view caught me off guard. Even though I had never stood on this spot, before or after the tragedy of September 11, 2001, it seemed different, out of place. I could feel something was missing.
In almost all FranklinCovey coursework, we discuss the power of paradigm shifts – a significant change to our world-view or life’s perspective. Some happen naturally over time, some suddenly. Some are brought about by gaining new information, some by engaging in new relationships. They powerfully shape our behavior and our results. We often refer to this dynamic as the See-Do-Get cycle. What we See motivates what we Do. And what we Do dictates the consequences, or what we Get.
I believe all of us, to some degree, experienced a shift in our world-view that fateful day in the summer of 2001. Just as there is a significant hole in the skyline where the twin World Trade Center towers once stood, there is something new. The most obvious development to the lower Manhattan skyline is the rising of Freedom Tower, officially One World Trade Center, still a year away from its completion. Perhaps now the onlooker’s eyes are drawn to the Empire State Building to the left or the Brooklyn Bridge on the right.
The onus of this change to our See was imposed on us by others. To be accurate, our response as a nation and a people was our chosen response. Nevertheless, our new world view instantly had a profound reactionary and taxing impact on our Do or behavior in the form of increased security, suspicion, and formality. The results we experience, or the Get, is longer lines when we travel, more fees to fund the likes of the TSA, and more tenuous rules to engage in interstate and international commerce.
But the more powerful See, I believe, is within our control. One voluntary worldview that is ours for the taking (or perhaps shaping) is the perspective of heightened awareness surrounding the value of our relationships. This likely leads us to a choice around Do to now view our most intimate professional and personal ties as a place to build lasting trust by (among other ways) making and keeping specific commitments, extending trust to others, deliberately providing opportunities to those who deserve a break, and focusing the way we spend our time on those people (less things) that are most relevant to our long-term satisfaction. The Get or results of these kinds of behaviors are self-evident.
Your life is changing by the hour. Those changes are certainly more subtle. But as you survey the skyline of your current state, be sure that those micro-changes happening as you read this (the ten new email propositions you’ve received in your inbox since reading this, for example) are met with sincere scrutiny, laser-like decision making, and flawless execution.
Ensure that what you choose to See compels you to Do exactly what you wish to Get.
Super Perspective
I got to see the Super Bowl live on Sunday! Wow, what a show!!!
Okay, allow me to clarify. I’m certain I witnessed a couple plays during the third quarter with my own eyes, but the players, field and fans were quite fuzzy. VERY fuzzy. In fact, I was watching these brief moments of the game from 30,000 feet in seat 3A on Southwest flight 617 on my way to Raleigh, North Carolina. Sure, I had the ‘big picture,’ however it was impossible to focus on the details of each play, actually see the score, and get excited about either team’s progress.
In our latest time management offering, The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity, we emphasize the need for the right perspective when planning, in order to strike a balance between the strategic, long-term view and the day-to-day, crisis management mode. Planning an entire year by itself doesn’t translate well into action. And of course, only reacting to the daily interruptions, requests, and surprises may seem productive, but runs the risk of mistaking activity for real results.
Nothing has helped me to personally get it all done in my quest for time management Nirvana over the past 16 years of teaching FranklinCovey material (and I teach a rather broad curriculum of over 25 titles) than the practice and discipline of weekly planning. This perfect perspective connects the long-term (mission/vision/goals) with the daily focus and adjustments that are necessary to keeps my priorities on track. Weekly Planning is my super perspective.
I don’t deny that a comfy seat in my family room watching the big game from the perspective of 10 or 12 high-definition cameras would have been the perfect angle to watch the Giants win. But if you’re going to see the game in person, you have to admit I got away rather inexpensively, sticking to the cheap seats in Row 3.