Bob Mason

Bob Mason helps businesses and organizations excel!

Broadcast Bio:

So often managers are not trained to lead people and the result is usually unhappy and less productive employees. That can also translate to unhappy customers and lost revenue. With us today is Bob Mason who has over 30 years of leadership experience. He founded RLM Planning and Leadership to help others benefit from the leadership lessons he’s learned while advancing from a first-line supervisor to leading large, complex organizations.

Byline:

Bob Mason is a speaker, trainer, and author of “Planning to Excel: Strategic Planning That Works” and “Balancing the Generations: A Leader’s Guide to the Complex, Multi-Generational, 21st Century Workplace.”  He founded RLM Planning and Leadership with the mission to transform leadership by developing great leaders. Learn how he can help you excel at http://www.planleadexcel.com.

Full Bio:

Bob’s first leadership experience occurred when he was 19. Having just joined the Air Force, he was assigned to lead 10 of his peers. Through the years, his leadership responsibilities steadily increased and of the over 58,000 Airmen who enlisted that year, he was one of only 7 who rose to the rank of Lt Col. Along the way Bob learned a lot about leadership through academic training and, more importantly, hands-on experience. He learned how to help people be their best and how to build effective teams with very different individuals.

Bob has learned those lessons from the many great leaders he’s been fortunate to have worked with and for, along with his own sometimes hard-won experiences. That knowledge and experience are what Bob passes on to others.

Bob believes in a basic approach to leadership development. He’s learned that when leaders try to follow the latest fad, or stray from the basic concepts of leadership, their effectiveness decreases, often drastically.

He hasn’t just read some books and taken a few courses. Bob’s worked with government, corporate, small business, non-profit, and charity organizations and learned first-hand what does and doesn’t work when leading people and selecting and training new leaders.

Bob is the author of Planning to Excel: Strategic Planning That Works” and “Balancing the Generations: A Leader’s Guide to the Complex, Multi-Generational, 21st Century Workplace.”