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.
You don’t have to have powers to be a superhero… after all, not all heroes wear capes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Your skills and abilities can get you the job, but your tenacity will get you the results needed to excel at it.
Winners create their chances and don’t wait for opportunities. They are relentless, ruthless, and focused.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It wasn’t until about five years into my professional career that I started to notice some problems with my upward mobility plan.
If I were to write a note that would be applicable and truly helpful for leaders of all kinds, what would it say?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Do great work and take note of who discourages your success. There are critics to listen to and there are critics to ignore.
Break the superior stereotypes about for profits and not for profits.
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.
This is the one word that gets overused and abused the most in practically all corporate environments.
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.
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.
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.
This simple philosophy of “firing all the unhappy people” was one of the major reasons why he was so successful.
What we do is too important to waste time on that which is shallow, false or unproductive.
When an employee enters your office to complain about a co-worker, make certain that you listen.
Delegation can be something that you dread, or it can be something that can take your business to the next level.
A regular column about getting strong(er) on the platform, strong(er) in business and strong(er) in life.
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.
Many of us are not fortunate enough to make a living out of the sport and lifestyle that we love.
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.