Thought Leadership

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...

Not Meeting The Leadership Challenge Is Quietly Killing Us

Careers are cut off at the knees and businesses destroyed when people problems are allowed to fester. Getting ...

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

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

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...