Podcast

Episode #207: Virtual Selling - Virtual Story Telling

We all know that buyers remember stories more easily than facts and data points. In fact, the ratio is twen...

Episode #51: Acting Like A Winner

The hush has now swept across the room. All eyes are fixed on the MC, breaths are being held, awaiting the ...

Episode #206: Virtual Selling - How To Present Virtual Solutions With Impact

We receive permission first, then we proceed to ask questions of the buyer. We want to gain a sense of whet...

Episode #150: More Power To The Positive

We can control 100% of our attitude. Yes, but often we don’t. There are few things we can be 100% in contr...

Episode #15: Laurent Depus, CEO of Natixis Japan Securities

Laurent Depus, President of Natixis Japan Securities, the Japanese branch of French bank corporation Natixis...

Episode #205: Virtual Selling: Engaging Decision Making Teams

In a virtual call, what is the maximum number of people who should be joining on the buyer side, to make the...

Episode #50: Best Negotiator Attributes

We can’t control the issues which arise during a negotiation or the attitude of the buyer, but we can contro...

Episode #49: Super Important Soft Skills

Dale Carnegie Training conducted a global survey to examine what are the key people issues organisations are...

Episode #149: Self Delusion Has No Place In The Sales World

Sales is one of the few things in business you can measure accurately and immediately. Are you getting grea...

Episode #204: Virtual Selling - We Need A New Questioning Approach (Part Three)

One of the sad things about salespeople is they mostly have no idea what they are doing. So we transfer tha...

Episode #48: Stop Being Scared To Death When Presenting

Hands and legs quivering, knees knocking together, face turning red, pulse racing, mind whiting out – this i...

Episode #14: Vijay Deol, CEO of en world

Vijay Deol originally came to Japan to teach English in rural Kyoto before starting at en world, a global re...

Episode #203: Virtual Selling - We Need A New Questioning Approach (Part Two)

In Part One, we looked at the difficulties the modern communication platforms throw up because of the limita...

Episode #148: Differentiate Or Continue To Suffer

Education can be a barrier to intelligence sometimes. This is often the case with people educated in very h...

Episode #47: Service The Way The Japanese Do It

I am sure you have you seen notices explaining that this location is going to close while the building is be...

Episode #13: Robert Heldt Founder & President, Custom Media

Robert Heldt, founder and President of Custom Media, an award-winning bilingual media agency, originally sta...

Episode #202: Virtual Selling - We Need A New Questioning Approach (Part One)

Salespeople’s bad habits just migrate right across to the online world. If you were just pitching your prod...

Episode #147: The Art of the Possible

“We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do”. This quot...

Episode #46: Leading Youth Dilemmas

Japan is entering a scary world of work. The tried and true assimilation methods of the past, for injecting...

Episode #12: Allan Smith Ex-CEO of RGA Japan

Generally speaking, compared to other nationalities, they are a bit more reluctant to state their opinions s...