Podcast

Episode #108: Business Schools Get This Wrong

Everyone is a critic today, holding their firm opinion, swanning around full of biases and prejudices. We b...

Episode #435: Balancing People and Process and Leading and Doing

We are super busy people, hitting our targets, ploughing through the workload, coming in early, staying late...

Episode #261: Honing Our Unique Selling Proposition

Every minute, there is more and more competition for the same clients, so we need to differentiate ourselves...

Episode #261: The Purpose Of Our Presentation

Before we tackle the purpose of our presentation we need to understand who is our audience. We covered this i...

Episode #208: Dress For Presentation Success

There is an old saying about lies, damn lies and statistics. An often misquoted statistic in the presenting...

Episode #73: Danny Risberg, President & General Manager, Baxter Limited Japan

Growing up in California, Mr. Risberg has been an entrepreneur since high school and by his mid-20s he had a...

Episode #107: Presenting Needs Rhythm

The competition to grasp and then hold the attention of our audiences is becoming more and more fierce. We ...

Episode #434: How to Stop Forgetting Things

I don’t know whether we tend to forget things because we are getting older or because as we get older, we ge...

Episode #260: How To Get Better Results

We have so many things pulling us in different directions at the same time, we can get a bit overwhelmed by ...

Episode #260: Who Is Our Audience

Before we do anything, we need to ask just who is going to be in our audience? If we don’t know that informa...

Episode #207: Entrepreneur Top Requirements

There are many things which impact an entrepreneurs success. Usually, when we think about how to succeed in...

Episode #106: Go For The Bullseye in Sales

The client has a problem and we fix it, our goods or services are delivered, outcomes are achieved and every...

Episode #433: The Right Japan Workplace Culture

Starting something new means we start with a clean slate and can create the culture we want to predominate t...

Episode #259: How To Build Strong Relationships With Our Buyers (Part Three)

Over Parts One and Two we have been exploring how to apply some human relations principles when we are worki...

Episode #259: How To Have An Audience Like You By Building Rapport

They are usually a bunch of strangers attending out talk. We may know one or two people in the audience, but...

Episode #206: Nemawashi Is A Key Skill In Japan

Understanding the basics of Japanese business requires we have to know about nemawashi and what it means for...

Episode #72: Shinzo Yotsumoto, Senior Counselor, Kiduki Architect & ex Managing Director, Schaeffler Japan

Shinzo Yotsumoto shared great insight from his extensive leadership career in the manufacturing industry in ...

Episode #71: Paul Atkinson, Representative Director, Country Manager, Swiss Re Corporate Solutions

Paul Atkinson shares his journey as a leader of a multinational global insurance company and his insight in ...

Episode #105: Do You Really Know How To Handle Mistakes

Doing more, better, faster with less, screams out for innovation. This could be a kaizen approach of contin...

Episode #432: How To Remember People

Are you good at remembering the names of people you meet? Are you having that embarrassing situation where ...