We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Tony Kayyod. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Tony below.

Tony, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today What’s the backstory behind how you came up with the idea for your business?

In 2004, after a rewarding long career in the automotive industry, it was time for me to follow my entrepreneurial dreams. Thought hard & long about marketable experiences and skill sets, and launched a consulting team helping clients improve their business processes and expand their global presence.

It became obvious that the corporate world and consulting for companies had a lot in common, “good people are the most important asset”. Anybody can launch a new product or service, buy equipment and rollout a presence, but the secret sauce to success is to develop a good “doer” professional team. The challenge is always been how to get everyone on the same page, evaluate their skills and implement a productive operational plan. Therefore, the people’s technical skills must be matched with soft skills to be able for the right candidates to flourish in their career plan. Because of them implementing solutions to constraints, we are able to realize the goals of the enterprise we are in.

In 2023, our team decided to consolidate the people development portion of our consulting business into a new venture with the vision of helping others. Our mission is clear: to help professionals earn genuine confidence, respect, credibility, and likability. We’ll equip them to seamlessly integrate into any team, anywhere in the world. Our vision is fill the role of a mentor if they don’t have one at their organization.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I am a mechanical engineer (BSME 1978) and licensed professional engineer (PE, 1983) who was able to transition from creative technical assignments into managing (MBA 1981) and leading many multidiscipline teams. My job experiences were always in developing and commercializing competitive products and/or services.

I was very fortunate that the automotive company I worked for provided all the job training and personal career development soft skills, which I fully embraced and signed up for every opportunity to learn more.

As an independent consulting company focused on eliminating non value added business activities for clients. Although every one of of our 100s of companies we worked with was in a different business and market, they all had people performance and engagement and happiness short falls. Our one on one people interactions sets up a part, we develop and empower willing and able teams.

The proudest moments of every project is when the empowered teammates learn to achieve results on their own. I consider this as earning a new ally on our quest to help others. I get emotional when after working with a team for a while, the leader says we hated you at the beginning because of changes and we didn’t know what we could do with the right skills and mentoring.

Any advice for managing a team?

Reduce meandering: Make sure your foremost task is to foster happy teammates. You can pay people more but you just keep an unhappy person longer. Periodic formal surveys for larger teams and informal one on one conversations provide you with a target rich list of improvement suggestions. Implement them with the sense of urgency and constancy of purpose. be the true champion for your team.

Reduce drama: Assess your teammates for their personal attributes that indicate their level of whole person willing & able readiness for the job they are assigned to. Help them with training, coaching, mentoring to close their skill gaps and flourish in their careers. This is a situational assessment because our teammates wiling & able readiness changes depending on the assignment or changes in their personal lives.

How do you keep in touch with clients and foster brand loyalty?

Helping a client with brutal honesty is our main goal. Every day we come across information that can help a client in a specific way even if it’s not related to our project scope. We take the time to understand the client’s business and how to help them achieve their goals. Helping may or may not be for fees but they appreciate it.

We build long term relationships by getting to know our client’s personal and professional aspirations. I stay in contact with my clients after the project completion and check up on them regularly without a sales pitch for a new project.

I continue networking and ask for referral and advice/help from our clients when I need to learn from their experiences and expertise. Non of us is smarter than all of us, clients appreciate our trust and respect for their insights and wisdom.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.HRFitpro.com, ww,w.GoNow360.com, www.DoThroughput.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hrfitpro/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100094755177766
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/96589580/admin/feed/posts/