Thought Leadership

How To Work Well With Difficult People

People skills are really one of the key basics of leadership. Fortunately, leading is easy. Getting others to ...

Motivational Leadership Part One

As leaders, how well do we know the hopes, fears, dreams and situations of our team? In the old model, the per...

Motivational Leadership Part Two

Sales guru Zig Ziglar had a great saying, “If you can help enough people get what they want in this life, you ...

You Can't Cold Call In Japan. Really?

This article will: Stimulate your thinking about ramping up your business Bring you insights from the best tr...

Middle Management Madness

Leadership is critical in business and the ability of companies to keep tapping their talent to make sure they...

Presentations Effectiveness

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How To Lead In Our 4 Gen Work World

The projections are that the total number of the youth population in Japan of those aged up to 34 years of age...

Disagree Agreeably

Never use "but" or "however." No matter how much you empathize with someone, if you follow up your positive so...

Japanese Elites Who Can't Cut It

Imagine the consequences when you combine dead data with a dead delivery? You have a massive bromide of fright...

Sales People Don't Care

I thought “Yes!” at last, I have found my perfect Japanese salesperson. This guy is good, really good at sales...

How To Engage And Retain High Potential Employees

Talented staff are hard to keep. They have options and are free agents, selling their services to the company ...

Dealing With Your Own Mistakes

The dealing with mistakes culture in Japan is definitely in the tough love category. This makes innovation and...

How To Speak To Unruly, Alcohol Fuelled Crowds

Booze and chat are the enemy of event programme speakers. The level of audience rudeness, especially here in J...

How To Be Likeable And Trustworthy In Sales

We like to buy, but few of us want to be sold. We like to do business with people we like and trust. We will d...

Listen To Win

Scrolling, thumb typing, constant checking on updates seem to be the new skill sets we need to make in this sc...

Develop Your Superpower As A leader

We need the leader to provide direction, hope, guidance, the way forward. That same leader needs to be able to...

Storytelling Is A Winner

Having the ability to influence decisions separates the leaders in business from the rest. Getting others to a...

The Ideal Sales Ecosystem

This article will: Stimulate your thinking about ramping up your business Bring you insights from the best tr...

Workplace Idiots

Mistakes happen. How we deal with them becomes a crucial skill as the leader. There is always the contradictio...

Two Minutes To Speaker Oblivion

Your name is called, you are ushered up to the podium. You are in the limelight, all eyes are on you, here is ...