Dennis McIntee
…aka The Drama Free Guy is passionate about helping leaders develop their coaching skills. When a leader improves, his organization improves. He keynotes frequently at leadership seminars as well as appearing in magazines, newspapers, trade journals, and on national radio and TV. He is the author of The Power of Pursuit, People Smart and Time Mastery.
About Dennis McIntee
Dennis McIntee (aka That Drama Free Guy) travels extensively working with leaders to uncover constraints and build roadmaps for growth to increase their bottom-line performance. As expert in creating drama-free teams, he assists leaders in leveraging their time and resources more effectively through strategic planning.
Creating Drama Free Teams
The 8 Qualities Of Drama Free Teams will give you the tools you need to accomplish more in less time. This practical handbook shows you 8 different leadership strategies you can use today to see immediate changes in your organization.
Event Coordinator Promise
Every audience and event coordinator can count on a dynamic experience. Dennis is committed to delivering specific, actionable ideas to impact today’s progressive leadership conferences, health care organizations, or sales meetings.
From the Blog
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Did you know that your heart beat vibrations can be felt up to eight feet in front of you? This means that people can feel you before they see you. We are literal walking experiences for those around you. How they experience us determines what they think because it...
Converting stress into confidence
Let me ask you a question. Are you stressed today? Odds are, your brain answered that question before you consciously even began to process it. Our brains are designed to respond to questions immediately because it is what helps keep us alive. Thankfully, it is also...
The Feelings Wheel
Our emotions give us so much power. Naming them can help us deal with them so that peace and joy are much more within reach.
What you think of me is none of my business
You can choose to react. Or you can create.
In choosing your response, you are also choosing your feelings. And if you capture this control, you can control your life.
Go live your life independent of what others think!
If you don’t like the station, change the radio
We have an acronym at Leadership Development Group that we use to explain the impact of our own experiences when it comes to the stories we tell ourselves.
Who determines if you are happy?
When it comes to finding happiness, recent findings of a Harvard study point to personal connections as the most important component of health and happiness. But, how do you find happiness? We love the quote by Dan Sullivan that goes something like this:...
The Seven Freedoms
Goal setting takes many shapes and forms, but when it comes to our family, we envision our future according to what we call the Seven F’s of Freedom.
Becoming is more important than performing
Coming off a holiday break and time with family, I couldn’t help but recognize the creativity and rejuvenation that took place in my mind and soul. We are constantly preaching the importance of white space and setting time for play, but in today’s Mojo, I really want to stress one key element of my time away.
The Biggest Opportunities are Found in the Smallest Things
As we are getting our feet wet in 2023 and figuring out just what these twelve months might hold, we were reminded by some of our Leadership Roundtable participants of four key things you can start doing now to transform your year.
Overwhelm is Just a Feeling
Recently, I was giving a keynote address at a conference talking about the topic of overwhelm. This is one of our favorite discussion points with our audiences because it tends to stir up a bit of controversy–-and the fact that emotion arises when it comes up means we are getting to the good stuff.
drop your resolutions and pursue gratefulness instead
It’s that time of year when we naturally assess how the year went, if we met expectations (either stated or unstated), and tend to cast a vision for the future.
Retention Series Part 3: Why are People Leaving?
Our final part of the three-part retention series examines the root cause of employee departures.
Retention Series Part TwO: Is it a retention problem or a culture problem?
If you are just tuning in to our three-part retention series, we invite you to read part one, where we discuss the importance of truly knowing your team members’ goals, passions, and struggles in order to retain them one-on-one the way they want to be retained. In...
Retention: do you know what it takes?
The topic of employee retention in a tight labor market has perhaps never been more important than it has been over the past two years. Since the COVID-19 pandemic shook up the global economy with every kind of disruption it could muster, the long term impact on the...
Four Ways to Control the Need to Be Liked
One of a leader’s biggest pitfalls is succumbing to the need to be liked. If you are so focused on approval from others, you will never be able to make decisions that are best for your team. There are two elements that affect this need to be liked: recognizing your...
Time and Attention is All We Have–Are You Giving it to the Right People?
Recently, we saw a quote circulating on social media saying, “If you or I die tonight, there might be ten people who will care deeply for 10-15 days. Focus on those people.” Admittedly this sounds dark, but it is also an extremely helpful rubric to help us gut check...
How to Remote Work and Maintain Your Culture
Nearly two years ago, we were all scrambling to identify what a remote work environment could look like for the first time. Home office supplies flew off the shelves. Business casual attire was replaced by sweat pants and ‘top half only’ looks. Zoom and Peloton stock...
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