Skills and Competencies: Grant Cardone’s Leadership Management Style

This presentation analyzes Grant Cardone's key skills and competencies that have contributed to his business success. It highlights his public relations skills, creativity, selling skills, market analysis abilities, human resource management, risk-taking propensity, enterprising skills, internal locus of control, and managerial skills. The presentation references Grant Cardone's website and Forbes articles to support the analysis, showcasing his achievements as an author, sales trainer, real estate investor, and motivational speaker. This resource and many others are available for students on Desklib, a platform providing AI-based study tools and a wealth of academic materials.

Grant Cardone’s Skills
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About Grant Cardone
According to GrantCardone (2018).
• Born in March 21, 1958 in lake Charles USA.
• Holds a Bachelor of science degree in accounting from McNeese State
university.
• He is a professional Author, sales trainer, real estate investor, and
motivational speaker.
• His net worth is approximately 100 million USD.

Skills: Public Relations skills.
• He interacts with various investors who hire him as a sales and
marketing consultant (Schawbel 2018).
• His has built a good reputation in the public domain as a trainer.
• His philanthropic acts has lead to the social acceptability of his
businesses.

2) Creativity.
• He started his real estate holdings as a side business to boost his
primary business.
• He established an online training platform known as Cardone
University which has over 50,000,000 users (GrantCardone 2018).
• He offers personalized consultancy services to his clients, thus
enhancing customer satisfaction.

3) Selling skills.
• He is able to market himself as a trainer and consultant.
• His book “If you are not first you are Last” was the best selling in New
York Times (Schawbel 2018).
• He uses online and offline marketing techniques to market his real
estates.

4) Market analysis skills:
• As a consultant he analyzes the current market trends and gives viable
recommendation to his clients (Schawbel 2018).
• He is able to prospect the future of the real estate industry and make
quality decisions on when to buy , develop, and sell property.

5) Human resource management:
• As a motivation speaker he motivates his own staff to achieve self-
actualization, thus improving their productivity (GrantCardone 2018).
• He embraces relevant training and development of the staff in his
business as a way of improving their efficiency.
• He creates a conducive working environment for his staff.

6) Risk taking propensity.
• He invests heavily in the real estate industry despite the fact that its
performance can be influenced by political and legal factors.
• He founded Cardon capital which offers funding to investors in
overlooked markets. (GrantCardon 2018).
• He is focused on returns rather than prevailing risks.

7) Enterprising skills:
• He identifies an opportunity and gathers resources to create value out
of it.
• He focuses on delivering value where the market is underserved.
• He diversifies his investments as way of spreading the investment risk
(Schawbel 2018).
• He engages in both short-term and long-term investments.

8) Internal locus of control:
• He has full commitment towards his business (GrantCardone 2018).
• He is internally motivated to achieve success in his business.
• He is tolerant even when a business deal does not yield as expected.
• He solves business problems accordingly within the shortest time
possible.

9) Managerial skills:
• He develops strategic business plans and contingency plans for his
businesses (GrantCardone 2018).
• He controls the business to ensure the goals are achieved.
• He coordinates the various stakeholders and resources in the
businesses.
• He monitors the performance of various staff in his businesses.

References
GrantCardone (2018). About Grant Cardone - New York Times
Bestselling Author. [online] Grant Cardone - 10X Your Business and Life.
Available at: https://grantcardone.com/about/ [Accessed 18 Oct. 2018].
Schawbel, D. (2018). Grant Cardone On How to Turn Your Business
Around. [online] Forbes. Available at:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danschawbel/2011/09/07/grant-
cardone-on-how-to-turn-your-business-around/ [Accessed 18 Oct.
2018].