Category Archives: Dale Carnegie

How to get More Time in Your Day

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You are trying to get your work done, when one of your employees gives you a call.  You find yourself pulled in to their issue.  This is what you are supposed to do.  You are there for them.  You finally get their issue resolved, and back to your project when another employee stops in to discuss an issue that they are having.  This one ends up taking the rest of your day and you have to stay late because you are responsible for getting your work done on time as well.  Does this sound like a normal day for you?  Read more

Today, I Was Referred by a Billionaire

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It is not everyday that a billionaire tells the world about you, so today I get to toot my own horn.  Wednesday night on the CBS show “Person to Person” Warren Buffett was profiled.  He walked the audience through his office and discussed the things there that were important to him.  I will let him do the talking instead of me:

Skip to minute 6:00 if you only want to hear the part about Dale Carnegie.  (I would recommend watching the whole thing though as he talks about his philosophy of investing throughout.)  Read more

How to Achieve More Results Faster

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A week or so ago I was having a one-on-one coaching session with a client.  We had some real breakthroughs and had covered many of the things that his boss wanted me to work with him on.  We still had half of our time left and so I asked him if there was anything that he specifically wanted to work on.  He asked me about getting more done in a shorter period of time.  That lead to how to set goals for the short run, as well as the Big Audacious Goals in business and life.  We had a very interesting conversation, so I thought I would share.  Read more

The Value of Persistence

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I am now about 3.5 months deep into my new job at Dale Carnegie, and man have I been kept busy.  If I am not training, I am in training. If I am not prospecting, I am in a meeting.  And I am very lucky to have three mentors who are as pumped for Dale Carnegie as I am.  I am loving my new job, and can’t wait to get to the point where I am the seasoned pro.

But I am not there yet.  Read more

How Being a Serial Killer Finally Helped Me

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This week I killed the professor.

I have been an official coach for Dale Carnegie for only two months now.  I have been working towards being a coach for almost two and a half years.  But I became official in January.  This has lead to me being in the middle of my first session as a coach right this moment.  This has also lead to me having a problem.  Read more

The Power of the Mastermind

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I have been reading and listening to Napoleon Hill as of late and thinking about one of the main concepts that he talks about: the Mastermind Principal.  This principal is that if you get a group of people together who are focused on the same goal, together they will produce more, faster than if each of them had worked on it separately.  I have found that it does more than that.  Read more

10,000 Failures

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I am amazed at how differently I can view the exact same thing at different points in my life.  Is it that I am more prepared now than I was back then?  Is it that I have different priorities?  Or am I a whole different person than I was then?  I would bet it is a little bit of all three.  Read more

Coaching the Coach

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Just over a week ago I went through one heck of an experience.  I have been working with Dale Carnegie Training since September of 2008 to become a trainer for them.  Needless to say, it is a long process.  It all ended last Sunday.

I went to Iowa City for a four day weekend where I went through the final step of the process, what is called product endorsement.  I met up with five others who had gone through the same process as me and we were tasked with training a full course, for our very first time, with two master trainers watching us.  We had eleven participants over the four days.  Our days consisted of practicing from 8am – 1pm, followed by actually doing the program from 2pm – 6pm.  Then getting our assignments for the next day, studying, pretending to sleep and starting all over again.  Read more

Dale Carnegie, Here I Come!

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I am proud to announce that I have started a new job with Dale Carnegie & Associates.  I am now a Strategic Business Consultant, and I am so excited that I am in a state of perma-grin.

Many of you may know that I have been working with Dale Carnegie (DC) for over two years now to become a trainer.  That has recently culminated in one of the most difficult and rewarding four day weekends of my life, but that is for my next blog post.  Read more