This morning at our weekly MAC Toastmasters Meeting I was asked to give a short recap of my Saturday breakout session “Pumping Mental Iron”. One of the things I didn’t get to do on Saturday, since my time was shortened (read my last blog post) from 50 minutes to about 35-40 minutes, was to do [...]

 
March is the month we are focused on Selection and Retention of Top Talent.  However, many of you are in a position right now where you can’t add staff, and you need to increase profit without hiring. 
 

 
I have written a three-part series for smaller-sized businesses on how to grow your profit without growing your staff.  The three [...]

Every day another business management or leadership book comes out and every day you are wondering how to best leverage your existing workforce.  We read about the top ten CEOs, what we “should” be doing to best manage our people, and we are overwhelmed with quotes and advice from all the top leadership ”gurus”. Just for a moment, let’s STOP.  Take [...]

In my executive coaching practice, it is my policy to bring a cutting-edge, thought-provoking guest speaker to my clients and customer base every month as value added, in the form of a teleconference. Every month I am amazed and impressed by our guest expert, but this month really took the cake.  I was privileged to [...]

Wondering why your tream isn’t as creative and innovative as you have asked/empowered them to be?  Check the attitude in the trenches.  Recent brain research shows that change is interpreted as physical pain. Some people have a higher tolerance for change (pain) than others.  The problem is, if you are making a lot of changes [...]

You’re the guy (or gal) at the top.  The buck stops here.  Let me ask you a question: What is your most important job?  Self-care.  What?  Self-care?  That sounds wimpy, or medical, or stupid; at any rate, we don’t like to hear it.  However, I have personal experience with two separate instances of having to be on bedrest and [...]

This past Monday my executive coaching clients and I had a web conference on “time management”.
The truth is, we don’t, nor can we ever, manage time.  We can’t slow it down, speed it up, stop it, or re-boot it.
What we can do, however, is manage our minds and our energy.
Given that, of course, the natural [...]

Ouch…Does this cartoon hit a chord with you?
Here is my new version of the old nursery rhyme:
“Hickory Dickory Dock
I ’ve sold out to the clock
The clock struck one                            
and I’m undone…….
Hickory Dickory Dock.”This seems to be the mantra of so many of my clients.  You don’t even want to know how many times I hear “I didn’t have time” in [...]

I just answered a question on “Linked in”.  Here I stand on the soapbox again.  And I know, on this site I’m preaching to the choir.  After all, you are the Reading Revolutionaries!  Did you know it is estimated that 90% of sales professionals and their managers don’t read books on their profession? Now, that’s just [...]

Your brain full of wonderful ideas! You’ve been pumping mental iron!
Great news! Last night our new website went live!  There are many more changes coming, but I think you will find it very helpful right now. Please visit www.mentaliron.com Please let me know what you would like to see on the site that would help you [...]