Michael Speidel

For over the past twelve years, Michael Speidel, aka "The Executive Meathead" has been involved in Healthcare Executive Leadership for various organizations across the country...both in For Profit and Not For Profit sectors. His expertise has earned him National recognition in two Fortune 500 corporations and his areas of expertise include leadership development, employee culture and quality improvement. This very happily married father of five boys played football at the collegiate level, has degrees in business and exercise physiology. He currently competes in powerlifting and, most recently, strongman.

 
Building The Executive Meathead’s Home Office
Building The Executive Meathead’s Home Office

I wasn’t ready to settle for pick-up golf or calf roping. A busy professional and personal life didn’t keep me from making my most important training decision.

How Do You Become a Superhero?
How Do You Become a Superhero?

You don’t have to have powers to be a superhero… after all, not all heroes wear capes.

Small Business Survival Strategy
Small Business Survival Strategy

My goal is to simply get you started thinking more holistically about your business and executing your dream in a way that might prevent it from becoming a nightmare.

How Do You Re-Recruit Your Veteran Staff?
How Do You Re-Recruit Your Veteran Staff?

So, how do you re-recruit your veteran staff? The first step is to understand that it isn’t going to be easy. In fact, it is going to require that you swallow your pride and take responsibility not only for omissions and shortfalls on your part but on behalf of your organization.

Returning to the Commercial Gym
Returning to the Commercial Gym

Unfortunately, in our attempt to downsize into a smaller house, hard choices needed to be made, and the home gym that I had spent years putting together had to be left behind in storage. Although this is temporary, I’m not hating it.

3 Things Great Families and Businesses Have in Common
3 Things Great Families and Businesses Have in Common

Just like families constantly struggle to balance the needs of its members, so too does a business endeavor to find the right balance of serving customers, stakeholders, and employees. There are three key things that, when understood, help achieve these goals.

Consequences of Disrespect: Don't Disregard the Bureaucrat
Consequences of Disrespect: Don't Disregard the Bureaucrat

One of the most important lessons of my 15-year leadership career came from a man capable of responding to disrespect and condescension with calmness and grace.

The Contempt for Millennials: Reconsidering a Generational Divide
The Contempt for Millennials: Reconsidering a Generational Divide

This hostility goes far beyond the baby boomer and Gen Xer tensions that dominated my early professional years. Those generational differences never reached this level of sheer nastiness.

The Privilege to Work Hard
The Privilege to Work Hard

Your skills and abilities can get you the job, but your tenacity will get you the results needed to excel at it.

Exiting Your Comfort Zone: Expect Casualties Along the Way to Success
Exiting Your Comfort Zone: Expect Casualties Along the Way to Success

Winners create their chances and don’t wait for opportunities. They are relentless, ruthless, and focused.

Credibility or Accountability — What Drives Your Organization's Success?
Credibility or Accountability — What Drives Your Organization's Suc...

After 15 years of executive leadership riddled with countless mistakes and faulty approaches, I have come to passionately believe that leadership focused on credibility rather than accountability is the more effective approach to take.

Micromanagement and the Failure of Weak Leaders
Micromanagement and the Failure of Weak Leaders

If you lack credibility and influence, attempting to reduce variance and error by controlling every process and detail of your business unit will erode the loyalty, urgency, and purpose needed for success.

Becoming A Good Leader — Four Improvement Strategies
Becoming A Good Leader — Four Improvement Strategies

How do you know if you are a good leader in the eyes of your people? What are some ways that you can evaluate how well you are doing? It can be profoundly complicated.

How to Leave the Life of Delusion and Personal Hype
How to Leave the Life of Delusion and Personal Hype

I was once told by a trusted friend that the most important thing in life is your perception and your own personal judgment. At the time this seemed to make sense, and then I realized just how dangerous that mindset is.

Expectations and Group Culture — A Conversation for Day One
Expectations and Group Culture — A Conversation for Day One

Business leaders, coaches, and teachers agree, day one must be the day where expectations are communicated and group culture is explained. This conversation takes about 45 minutes and these topics are always covered.

Contingencies — Why Plan B Might Be the Most Important Part of Your Strategy
Contingencies — Why Plan B Might Be the Most Important Part of Your Stra...

As painful as it might be to ponder our actions in the event that the rug is pulled out from underneath our feet, it pales in comparison to the pain of not having a viable Plan B when life happens.

From the Weight Room to the Boardroom
From the Weight Room to the Boardroom

At times, we can be paralyzed by the complexity of our professional lives and it can be very valuable to find simple, yet proven philosophies that help us find our way.

The Coexistence of Politics and Merit
The Coexistence of Politics and Merit

It wasn’t until about five years into my professional career that I started to notice some problems with my upward mobility plan.

A Letter to the Boss
A Letter to the Boss

If I were to write a note that would be applicable and truly helpful for leaders of all kinds, what would it say?

5 Lessons from 13 Years in Leadership
5 Lessons from 13 Years in Leadership

When I began this career, I was 26 years old. I’ve learned a lot since then. These are some of my most valuable lessons.

Top Four: What Are Your Priorities?
Top Four: What Are Your Priorities?

Dave has always said that elitefts is for those who place training as a top priority in their life. But what does this really mean?

Close the Vents
Close the Vents

Here are a couple of ideas that you could do today to improve your work or team culture — they all start with reducing negativity disguised as venting.

How Good Is Your Huddle?
How Good Is Your Huddle?

The huddle has everything to do with your team’s success. What might surprise you is that it also has everything to do with your success in life.

Leaders and Followers: Understanding The Root of Conflict
Leaders and Followers: Understanding The Root of Conflict

Your business or team will only thrive when each member firmly grasps the purpose of the organization and their role contributing to it. Understanding this concept is simple, but applying it is not.

Are You Pissing Off the Right People?
Are You Pissing Off the Right People?

Do great work and take note of who discourages your success. There are critics to listen to and there are critics to ignore.

The Executive Meathead: Profit Status Means Nothing
The Executive Meathead: Profit Status Means Nothing

Break the superior stereotypes about for profits and not for profits.

The Executive Meathead: Training to Choose
The Executive Meathead: Training to Choose

Somehow choosing to challenge myself in the weight room makes the other challenges in my life seem a little less formidable, a little bit easier to face.

The Executive Meathead: Don't Call it a TEAM
The Executive Meathead: Don't Call it a TEAM

This is the one word that gets overused and abused the most in practically all corporate environments.

Lotteries, Battle Axes, and Thanks
Lotteries, Battle Axes, and Thanks

Hope, support, and encouragement are all needed to make your goals a reality. The intimidation that springs from wielding an axe doesn’t hurt, either.

The Executive Meathead: "Those Awful Employees!"
The Executive Meathead: "Those Awful Employees!"

After hearing his answers, my advice to him was to go back to his facility and genuinely thank his employees for working so hard and doing a tremendous job in spite of their staffing difficulties. The answer shocked him.

Meathead Inc. – Prowler® Parenting
Meathead Inc. – Prowler® Parenting

After about a half-hour of this sheer craziness, we all found ourselves laying on the front lawn of our new house laughing and talking while attempting to catch our breath.

The Executive Meathead: Fire the Unhappy People!
The Executive Meathead: Fire the Unhappy People!

This simple philosophy of “firing all the unhappy people” was one of the major reasons why he was so successful.

The Executive Meathead: Leaning Up, Poster Cultures & Great Books
The Executive Meathead: Leaning Up, Poster Cultures & Great Books

What we do is too important to waste time on that which is shallow, false or unproductive.

The Executive Meathead: "Gossip Killer," Mini Meatheads and Christmas Guilt
The Executive Meathead: "Gossip Killer," Mini Meatheads and Ch...

When an employee enters your office to complain about a co-worker, make certain that you listen.

Meathead Inc. – Delegate This!
Meathead Inc. – Delegate This!

Delegation can be something that you dread, or it can be something that can take your business to the next level.

Meathead Inc. - It Gets Good When It Gets Hard
Meathead Inc. - It Gets Good When It Gets Hard

A regular column about getting strong(er) on the platform, strong(er) in business and strong(er) in life.

The Top 10 Reasons for Attending a Learn to Train Seminar
The Top 10 Reasons for Attending a Learn to Train Seminar

For those of you who might be “on the fence” when deciding whether or not it is worth going, I went ahead and compiled my top ten reasons for attending a Learn to Train seminar.

Lessons Learned from a Corporate Meathead
Lessons Learned from a Corporate Meathead

Many of us are not fortunate enough to make a living out of the sport and lifestyle that we love.

Selecting the Best: Finding those employees that will produce and support your business
Selecting the Best: Finding those employees that will produce and suppor...

Whether you are hiring a trainer or a custodian, make certain that you have a very good idea of the basic qualities, skills and experience that would be ideal for that position.

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