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Episode #258: Face Is Very Important In Business In Japan

If you enjoy a good debate, well Japan is not the place for you then. In Western culture debating is part of...

Episode #10: Nasty Buyers

The customer is Kamisama (God) in sales in Japan. We hear this a lot here across all industries and sectors....

Episode #94 How To Liven Up A Speech You Need To Read

Watching a friend of mine deliver his speech to my Rotary Club reminded me of the perils of reading speeches...

Episode #257: Getting Change In Business In Japan

Getting change anywhere is a difficult process, but Japan is a special case. Often in business, we represen...

Episode #9: The Sales Valley Of Death

Sales cannot run like a manufacturing production line. We are not making industrial cheese here. This is mor...

Episode #93: The Importance Of Analysing Your Own Presentation Performance

The presentation has come to a close and we are relieved it is all over. We pack our stuff up and get back ...

Episode #256: 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...

Episode #8: Let's Go for The Sale's Bulls-eye

Sale’s solutions are what make the business world thrive. The client has a problem and we fix it, our goods ...

Episode #92: How To Speak To 5000 Plus People Audiences

The chances of this happening and happening regularly are remote for most of us. The happening regularly pa...

Episode #255: Recruiting Staff In Business In Japan

Demographics are accentuating a talent shortage in Japan. The supply of young people has halved over the la...

Episode #7: Selling Ain't Telling

He slid effortlessly into the chair and before I knew it, he had popped open the oyster shell of his laptop ...

Episode #91: Presentation Practice Frequency

The usual frequency for most people for giving formal presentations is once in a blue moon. In other words,...

Episode #254: How To Brainstorm In Japan

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

Episode #6: Principled Salespeople Win

In 1936 an unknown author, despite many frustrating years of writing drafts and receiving publisher rejectio...

Episode #90: How To Get Self-Belief As A Presenter When You Don't Have Any

We don’t get the chance to do so many public presentations in business, so it becomes a hard skill set to bu...

Episode #253: Bosses Need To Celebrate Wins In Business

Engaged employees are self-motivated. The self-motivated are inspired. Inspired staff grow your business but...

Episode #5: Credibility Counts for Everything In Sales

Salespeople are carrying around a lot of baggage with them when they visit clients. The smooth talking, dodg...

Episode #252: Execute On My Shiny Idea, Now!

A genius idea springs into your head and off you go to share it with your staff member. Well share isn’t qu...

Episode #4: Sales Certainty

The hardest sales job in the world is selling something you don’t believe in yourself. The acid test is woul...

Episode #251: Ownership Versus Dictatorship In Leadership

Leading people can be easy, if you want to be a total dictator and just order everyone around. The way of do...