Podcast

Episode #98: Chinese Tourist Tsunami Stress

You know you have adjusted to Japan when you get totally annoyed by visiting Chinese tourist’s behavior. Th...

Episode #97: Leadership Soft Power

Harvard Professor Joseph Nye coined the term “soft power” to describe how nations can achieve their aims thr...

Episode #96: Why Your Boss Is Difficult

Are you the engagement survey assassin carving up your boss or are you the victim having to explain to senio...

Episode #95: Modern Sports Coaching For Business Leaders

The classic half-time locker room Churchillian oratory from the coach, whipping the team into a frenzy for t...

Episode #94: Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys

This Polish proverb made me smile. A handy phrase for whenever the needle on the “ridiculous meter” is hitt...

Episode #93: Market Yourself In One Minute

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

Episode #92: Mad Terrorists and Middle Managers

“They are looking for a place where they are highly valued, feel they are needed, and are praised for being ...

Episode #144: Delivering Presentations with Clarity

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

Episode #91: How To Command Unruly, Alchohol Fueled Crowds

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

Episode #90: How Do You Make People Feel?

We are all pretty average on recalling events, people’s names, locations, sequences, etc., but we are genius...

Episode #89: Self Sourcing Confidence

Are you confident? If the answer is “no”, then how can you become more confident? If the answer is “yes”,...

Episode #88: Business Five Step Storytelling

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

Episode #87: Hard Impact Soft Skills

Dale Carnegie Training conducted a global survey to examine what are the key people issues organisations are...

Episode #86: Mysterious Millennials

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

Episode #85: Dale Carnegie Training Secrets

Interview with Mr. Yuichiro Ishihara, Director of Training for Dale Carnegie Training Japan.

Episode #84: A Wet or Dry Sayonara

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

Episode #83: Go For The Sale’s Bull’s-eye

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

Episode #82: BE, DO, GET

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

Episode #81: How to Give Praise That Resonates

Cynical, skeptical, doubtful, cautious, suspicious, worried – yep, that is our usual reaction when we hear p...

Episode #80: Mr. Nakatani And The Gold Plated Room

The snow was heavy as the bus pulled out of the Yamashiro Hot Spring Hotel. Twenty minutes later we were dep...