May 28, 2020
Your team’s introverts never fight for the brainstorming blue marker pen. They leave it to the extroverts to occupy the white board, the ideas, the airwaves and the debate. Consequently, we wind up with a shallower harvest of ideas for the organisation. How do we unleash the full power of these introvert types, who...
May 21, 2020
The presentations world is still a male bastion in Nippon. Here are some tips and what I have seen work well for businesswomen when speaking in public in Japan.
- Confidence is the overwhelming positive first impression.The voice is strong and clear. Even relatively soft female voices can become powerful enough,...
May 15, 2020
Uh oh! Powerpoint slide after powerpoint slide bombarded me with detailed data, specs, diagrams and text information. After 20 minutes the salesperson stopped the torture. “Wow”, I thought, “he hasn’t managed to ask me even one teensy question during this session of our first meeting”.
What could he have...
May 7, 2020
There is a tremendous amount of noise buzzing around in the world of business today. The noisiest portion is the bit going on between our ears, inside our brains. We are so busy, so immersed in what we are doing, we are forgetting some of the basics.
We are running our lives as a meeting conveyor belt, moving...