Thought Leadership

Why Authentic Leadership Matters in 2025: Competing with AI in the Workplace

AI is now embedded in daily life at work and home. Tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini generate reports...

7 Easy Steps To End Your Fear of Public Speaking

Public Speaking is the best marketing tool we have today. It costs close to nothing and gives you a platform t...

Four Pillars Of Leadership

What are the starting points, the basic requirements of leadership? There are actually many, which is why book...

Technical Salespeople Must Be Good Presenters Too

Knowledge of the specifications, functionality, inner workings are all fine and dandy but not enough anymore. ...

How To Handle “We Are Happy With Our Current Supplier” Pushback

Japan loves the Devil they know over the Angel they don’t know. Change here is hard to achieve in any field, ...

Never Forget A Customer, Never Let A Customer Forget You

This is an old saying in sales and one we forget at our cost. We might have made the sale and then we keep mo...

How Casual Should I Be When Presenting?

We know that being formal and stiff creates distance between the speaker and the audience. We also know that a...

Negotiation Fails

Former American President John F. Kennedy left us with a great quote: "Let’s never negotiate out of fear. But ...

The Leaders Three Big Roles

Leaders are different from managers. Managers have to make sure everything is humming. The quality standards...

Getting To Inclusion In Japan

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion has become an important topic in Japan and the trigger to getting to diversity...

How To Murder Your Personal Brand In Business In Japan

When you get up and speak in front of an audience, you are putting your professional and personal brand on the...

How To Brainstorm In Japan

Japan can only copy! This once upon a time was what we heard about Japanese innovation. It was used disparagi...

Communicate Effectively Within Teams

No matter what business you're engaged in, it's likely you are a member of one or more teams, or will be soon....

5 Tips for Disagreeing Agreeably

It's inevitable - at some point disagreements are going to come up in the workplace. Power struggles, politica...

5 Tips for Shaking Off a Mistake

Everybody makes mistakes from time to time, and they’re just as vital to the learning process as our successes...

Making Yourself Clear

Public speaking throws up many fears and challenges for all of us.  As part of High Impact Presentations, one ...

Getting Staff Engagement When Doing Business In Japan

According to our global research, there are three critical issues that determine the level of engagement and o...

Show Me, Don’t Tell Me

Japan is an interesting place where there is a lot of respect for people’s job titles and position in the comp...

The Focused And Disciplined Boss

Intellectually, we all know what we should be doing and how we should be doing it, but that isn’t how things w...

Stress In Business In Japan

We know that stress is a killer. Stress is something that sits there under the surface and it effects our hea...