Blue-Collar Leadership | I help leaders engage the frontline to improve the bottomline. | Speaker | Trainer | Author 15X | Catalyst for Growth & Change

Joined June 2012
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🔥🔥🔥Most are hired for what they know and fired for who they are. #skilledtrades #successtips #careertips #careeradvice #character
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💪This @delta airline ground support crew was making it happen in Houston, TX at IAH. #groundsupport #bluecollarlife #airlineindustry #groundcrew #bluecollarboys
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‼️ATTN Leaders: Stop letting brilliant jerks contaminate your team. ⚠️It’s your job to improve them or remove them. This clip was taken from the 7.5 hour course “Blue-Collar Leadership & Culture: The 5 Components for Building High Performance Teams” 💥Learn more about the course and watch a ~10 minute preview at BlueCollarLeadership.com/cul… #toxic #toxicworkplace #toxicpeople #leadership #leadershiptips
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⚠️High impact leaders intentionally develop their team members beyond what is required to do the job. They know the better they each get, the better the team gets. #skilledtrades #construction #leadershipdevelopment #leadership #leadershiptips
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⚠️I’ve led thousands of team members and their leaders through hundreds of lean/kaizen events. Do you lead Lean? If so, I can help you gain buy-in quicker, engage the team, and get better results. Visit BlueCollarLeadership.com/kai… for info on several Lean related resources. #lean #leanmanufacturing #kaizen #leanconstruction #continuousimprovement
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🇺🇸It’s a privilege to get to travel and speak with people throughout the USA! #speakerlife #bluecollarlife #leadershipspeaker #makeithappen #leadershipdevelopment
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⚠️It’s a FACT‼️Most blue-collar guys and gals are promoted into leadership positions without ever being given any type of leadership development training. 💥If this is you, I wrote a book specifically to help you: Blue-Collar Leadership & Supervision: Unleash Your Team’s Potential 🔥Use it to increase your influence and decrease your frustration. 👀Learn more about this resource at BlueCollarLeadership.com/lea… #leadership #leadershiptips #bluecollarlife #leadershipdevelopment #leadershiptraining
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❓I get asked this question a lot because I wrote a book on selling with a high degree of character. #salestips #salesadvice #selling #salestraining #saleslife
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🇺🇸Are You Proud of YOUR Blue-Collar Dad🇺🇸 Let him know with a gift from our “The Blue-Collar Workforce is the Backbone of America” lineup. Visit BlueCollarLeadership.com/sto… to shop through our gear for welders, electricians, handyman, truckers, lineman, firefighters, heavy equipment operators, and more. #skilledtrades #fathersdaygift #fathersdaygiftideas #fathersdaygifts #bluecollar
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🔥Leaders are readers‼️ 🔥Leaders are learners‼️ 🔥Leaders read to succeed‼️ 💥Preview 100’s of pages of excerpts from most of our books at BlueCollarLeadership.com/dow… and start separating yourself from the masses of average leaders who don’t read. If you’re not developing yourself, expect to be left behind by those who are developing themselves. #skilledtrades #constructionlife #machinistlife #bluecollarlife #bluecollarleadership
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‼️I’ve been reading daily for 18 years. 🔥🔥🔥The Result: I transformed my life personally and professionally AND now get paid to talk about leadership throughout the USA and beyond. 💥In 2008, 20 years into my manufacturing career, I read my first leadership book. 💥In 2014, I published my first leadership book. Today, I have published 15 books and recorded over 500 Blue Collar Leadership podcast episodes. 💥In 2016, I was paid $20,000 to speak about leadership for 4 hours to 80 leaders from 40 countries who were leading a $3 billion global organization. 💥In 2018, I was asked to speak at Yale University about leadership. ⚠️When you start turning pages and soaking up what you’re learning, there’s no telling what you may achieve as the months and years pass. #leadership #leadershiptips #leadershipspeaker #leadersarereaders #leadershiplessons
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⚓️We had a great time in Houston, Texas speaking to the Kirby Inland Marine team! #towboat #towboatlife #towboater #marineindustry #leadershipspeaker
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We met some great people in Houston, TX at Kirby Inland Marine. No storm delays and home on time! #speakerlife #flying #stormyweather #bluecollarlife #airtravel
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🔥Kirby Inland Marine has a great team of Deckhands, Tankermen, Captains, Onshore Support, and Leaders. @Ria_Story and I had a great time speaking to them for the 7th time. ⚠️Looking for a cool, well paying career (it’s not a job at Kirby) that’s a bit different? Check them out! You can pretty much live anywhere in the USA…travel to the boat for a few weeks of life on the water followed by a few weeks back home. They have a wide variety of schedules. #boatlife #towboat #towboatlife #marineindustry #towboater
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💥Most blue-collar leaders have never received any leadership development. ⚠️As a result, they don’t develop themselves or their team members in this area. 🛑Stop waiting on your boss to develop you. They most likely never will. 🔥YOU develop YOU! 🔥🔥I wrote this series of books to help those who are hungry to climb to the next level and beyond. ‼️Each has 30 chapters, 3 pages per chapter. 😎They’re all easy reads that are packed full of leadership nuggets from cover to cover. 👀Preview them all before you buy at BlueCollarLeadership.com/dow… 🇺🇸Available on Amazon as paperback, ebook, & audiobook. #skilledtrades #construction #leadershipdevelopment #bluecollarleadership #bluecollarlife
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High impact leadership is always uncomfortable because high impact leaders always take responsibility for their team’s performance. Low impact leadership is a bit more comfortable because low impact leaders tend to dodge responsibility and blame their team for their performance. Blame may make you feel good, but it will never make you look good. Lead with purpose! Do you have the character needed to lead at a higher level? If so, 10 Values of High Impact Leaders will help you think at a higher level, so you can lead at a higher level. Available as paperback, audiobook, and ebook on Amazon. Keep climbing! #leadership #leadershipbook #skilledtrades #leadershiptips #successmindset #extremeownership #leadershiptraining #leadershipspeaker
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🔥🔥🔥Leaders without this WILL be FRUSTRATED‼️ 💥Think leadership is about titles? Think again—it's about INFLUENCE! 🔥Don’t wait for your boss to develop you. 🚀YOU develop YOU‼️ ❓If you won’t invest in yourself, why should anyone else? ⚠️Learn HOW to lead with confidence at BlueCollarLeadership.com #leadership #growthmindset #leadershiptips #inspiration #motivation
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🇺🇸Are You Proud of YOUR Blue-Collar Dad🇺🇸 Let him know with a unique 22oz tumbler from our “The Blue-Collar Workforce is the Backbone of America” lineup. Visit BlueCollarLeadership.com/sto… to shop through our gear for welders, electricians, handyman, truckers, lineman, firefighters, heavy equipment operators, and more. #skilledtrades #fathersdaygift #bluecollarwife #womeninconstruction #bluecollarlife
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🔥The Blue-Collar Workforce is the Backbone of America🇺🇸 💪We have the phrase above printed on a lot of our merch with images from the various trades. 🔥🔥Check out all of our blue-collar merch at BlueCollarLeadership.com/sto… #bridge #bridgemaintenance #maintenance #bridgebuilder #bluecollarpride #bluecollarleadership #construction #constructionindustry
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🔥I want to help you climb to the next level and beyond‼️ 🤷‍♂️In my 20 year blue-collar career as an employee (1988-2008), no leader ever invested one penny or one minute teaching me the principles of personal growth and leadership development. 💪When I discovered it in 2008, I made it my lifelong mission to share what I was learning with as many blue-collar men and women as I could. #skilledtrades #bluecollarlife #bluecollarboys #bluecollarwomen #bluecollarmen
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