Podcast

Episode #8: How To Market Yourself In Under One Minute

Meeting new business contacts, expanding personal networks, promoting a reliable, trustworthy “Brand You” ar...

Episode #7: How To Command The Rabble

The Master of Ceremony (MC) goes to the microphone to get the programme underway but the audience are simply...

Episode #6: Storytelling For Business

Best intentions, higher callings, righteousness – all good stuff but without good communication, our efforts...

Episode #5: Making Yourself Clear

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

Episode #4: How To Destroy Your Reputation In 60 Seconds

It is a big crowd, yet the conversation suddenly dies and a hushed silence now sweeps through the room. All ...

Episode #3: Presentation Effectiveness For All

We are such a judgmental lot aren’t we! We form opinions about people within seconds of seeing them, often e...

Episode #2: Delivering Presentations With Clarity

There are a number of common structures for giving presentations and one of the most popular is the opening-...

Episode #244: Japan Must Globalise But Where Are The Global Leaders?

The consumer demographics for Japan are crystal clear. The domestic market is shrinking and will continue to...

Episode #243: Questions As Incoming Missiles

The new President, a super star with a brilliant resume, started attending our Division’s weekly meetings. W...

Episode #242: Effective Team Building Is Not A Snap

You are sitting there at your desk beavering away as usual when you get the phone call. Suddenly you are cal...

Episode #241: My Japanese Managers Are Duds

The foreign firm sets up in Japan and they hire an experienced senior Japanese President. Things roll along...

Episode #240: Me, Me, Me Leaders

Getting to the very top of a company is a zero sum game where you either make it or you don’t. There are win...

Episode #239: Japan's Big Challenge

The demographic challenge for Japan is looming on the horizon. The decrease in the numbers of young people ...

Episode #238: Stop Making Yourself Invaluable

It is rather counterintuitive to suggest we leaders become less invaluable isn’t it. When you are climbing o...

Episode #237: Boss - Maintain Your Enthusiasm

Episode #236: Dealing With Companies' "Senior Problem" In Japan

A senior problem in the past meant having a “senior moment”, where you forgot something and this lapse hinte...

Episode #235: The Foreign Leader In Japan

We know leaders who are friction magnets. They upset those working with them on a regular basis. They are qu...

Episode #234: How To Guide Your Team In Japan Through Change

Up until these last few years being capable and loyal was enough in Japan. Technology has changed the busine...

Episode #233: How To Get Change In Japan

Japan doesn’t have a monopoly on resisting change. Having said that, it will probably rank fairly high in te...

Episode #232: The Leader Is The Mood Maker

When you are on the executive floor, the carpet is thick, the mood is quiet and the décor is sumptuous. It i...