Disney Traditions Day One

Disney University and Disney Traditions facilitators
1988 Disney Traditions Instructors.

Does your organization have Day One new-hire orientation to share your Company’s origin story and Customer Service architecture?

Pictured here is the 1988 Disney Traditions Team…i’m the one standing far left, eyes closed. Eleven front-line employees (Cast Members) selected from hundreds of applicants for one-year to “Cross-U” (cross-utilization). They trained every new employee on Day One at Walt Disney World in 1988. Once or twice a month, each of them was pulled from their normal front-line role to teach “Disney Traditions”.

Have you ever thought about the power (and credibility) of having your Day One trainers be people who were on the front line yesterday and after your class, they go back to the front line tomorrow? No theory here. Real life stories from people living it every day.

The intent is to select a new team every year to meet the forecasted hiring numbers. The program has matured and flexed as the years challenge in predictable and unpredictable ways.

It dawned on me after all these years… my signature Disney Customer Service Keynote contains the “Disney Traditions” Day One DNA for Disney’s World-Class, time-tested Customer Service architecture.

What felt like content built from a lifetime of learning, doing, and teaching (in operations and at Disney Institute) is actually the simple yet powerful Disney DNA from Day One…operationalized from a lifetime of serving Guests and Cast Members.

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Magical aha moment

Pixar character at conference room
Just an ‘i was here’ photo.

Been teaching Disney Customer Service since forever.

It dawned on me during the flight home…

The content is the same content brand new Cast Members get on Day One in Disney Traditions.

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Beyond ready

Disney Characters on a table
Celebrating TEDx AUK (American University of Kuwait).

Beyond ready.

That’s a vision for every speech and workshop.

Same vision for every client call, every inquiry.

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Disney’s Secrets

Bob Iger's book
Worth a second look? Read the book and or text Jungle Jeff.

Disney’s Secrets.

Privileged to have learned them, done them, and teach them.

And someday, maybe, there will be a seven-book series featuring Disney’s Business Wisdom.

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Non-traditional work

Disney Podcaster Jeff Noel with Jody Maberry
Jody Maberry and me. Working. Podcasting. Strategizing.

Non-traditional work.

Traditional is on-site, working for someone else.

Non-traditional is remote, working for yourself.

Traditional is closed mindset.

Non-traditional is growth mindset.

Non-traditional is in it’s infancy, motivated by the great resignation sparked by Covid-19 in 2020.

Humble note: Been working from home since 2009. Been working from anywhere since November 1, 2014. Reminder, retired from Disney October 31, 2014.

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