Podcast

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 #46: Leading Youth Dilemmas

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

Episode #45: Public Speaking Is Your Personal Brand Destroyer

Seriously sad really. Our speaker had some excellent points to convey but due to silly basic errors, killed...

Episode #44: Seriously Nasty Buyers

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

Episode #43: Fond Farewells For Staff

In most Western economies, a colleague’s farewell is no big deal, just a part of the tapestry of business. ...

Episode #42: In Your Presentation Pour On Your Evidence

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

Episode #41: Sales Perils

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

Episode #40: Super Self Awareness

As professionals how do we grow in our business careers? Academic studies usually form the platform to whic...

Episode #39: The Critical 3 E's For Speakers

Clearly not everyone should be a presenter. We don’t need higher levels of boredom or disinterest than we h...

Episode #38: The Best Kept Secret In Sales

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

Episode #37: Reduce Stress

Here are some working habits that we can adopt to minimize worry, fatigue and potential stress induced ill h...

Episode #36: How To End Your Speaker Nerves

When we feel fear, our psychological fight or flight response provides energy to our major muscle groups in ...

Episode #35: Principled Sales

Here are four principles for helping us all to become better with our clients. 1. Become genuinely inte...

Episode #34: Power Up Your Introverts

Your team’s introverts never fight for the brainstorming blue marker pen. They leave it to the extroverts t...

Episode #33: Hints For Women Presenters

The presentations world is still a male bastion in Nippon. Here are some tips and what I have seen work well...

Episode #32: Tell Or Sell

Uh oh! Powerpoint slide after powerpoint slide bombarded me with detailed data, specs, diagrams and text inf...

Episode #31: Be A Gold Medal Listener

There is a tremendous amount of noise buzzing around in the world of business today. The noisiest portion i...

Episode #30: Ending Speeches With Aplomb

It is rare to see a presentation completed well, be it inside the organisation, to the client or to a larger...

Episode #29: Four Principles For Principle Driven Sales

In 1936 an unknown author, despite many frustrating years of writing and receiving rejections, finally manag...

Episode #28: Five Ways To Deal With Your Mistakes

We want people to fail! That’s right, because we all know that we are the product today of all of our accum...