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Episode #335: Kervin Go On Leading A Small Team In Japan

Episode #46 One Minute To Star

What are you like on creating first impressions with people you meet for the first time? We are all aware th...

Episode #334 Japan Needs More Alien Leaders

Episode #158: Should I Go Over The Top When I Present

In our High Impact Presentations Course we have exercises where we ask the participants to really let go of ...

Episode #45 Few Presentations Are Clear Enough

We are only down to a few seconds today, when we start a talk before the audience decides their phones are m...

Episode #333: When Things Go Wrong Everyone Dives For Cover In Japan

Japan is a no mistake culture. This breeds timidity, resistance to change, lower levels of innovation, avoi...

Episode #157 What Is The Best Way To introduce Yourself When Presenting

Usually when we are speaking we are introduced twice. Once at the very start by the MC and then during our ...

Episode #44 Middle Managers Are Your Firm's Lifeblood

Middle Managers are going to be the leadership group most directly interacting with the younger generation o...

Episode #332: Six Staff Members To Be Careful Of In Japan

In most cases, as leaders we inherit the staff employed by our predecessors. It is a rare chance to employ ...

Episode #43 Old School Japanese Service

Customer service is a crowded field, with so many consumer products and services duking it out for survival....

Episode #331 Luke Verwey-Japan Year One- What I Have Learnt As A Leader

Luke Verwey has been running Nielsen Japan for a little over a year and I wanted to ask him about his experi...

Episode #156: How To Control Your Reactions During Q&A

Creating and delivering the presentation sees you in 100% total control. You have designed it, you have bee...

Episode #42 Presentations Backed By Evidence Do Better

It is a fine line we have to tread. We want to be supplying data etc as evidence to support what we are say...

Episode #330: Harry Hill- From Zero to $700 Million

Today we have an interview with Harry Hill the ex-CEO of Shop Japan. He went from being an English teacher ...

Episode #155: How Many People Should Present

Often, we are presenting as a team and more than one speaker may be involved. Is that ideal or are we bette...

Episode #41 How Do You Make People Feel

Maya Angelou noted, “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, bu...

Episode #329: The Leader Imposter Syndrome

In any field the people at the top can be plagued with self-doubt. It is especially prominent in the artist...

Episode #40 Bad Buyers

The Buyer is God not King in Japan and that difference is huge here. There are so many cases of buyers trea...

Episode #328: The Five Drivers Of A Positive Workplace

As the leader you set the culture and tone of the form. In Japan, up until a few years ago, you could get a...

Episode #39 Keys To Owning The Room When Presenting

Should the business presentations world be a democracy where anyone can speak? Actually no. Who wants to s...