Sep 30, 2015
PM Abe Deletes Soft Skills Development
On June 8th this year Education Minister Hakubun Shimomura told Japanese universities to take “active steps to abolish (social science and humanities departments) or convert them to serve areas that better meet society’s needs”. There was no wiggle room on interpreting the...
Sep 23, 2015
It is rare to see a presentation completed well, be it inside the organization, to the client or to a larger audience. The energy often drops away, the voice gradually fades out and there is no clear signal that this is the end. The narrative arc seems to go missing in action at the final stage and the subsequent...
Sep 16, 2015
That Vital Two Second Window
How long does it take on average to form a first impression? My students tell me two seconds. Wow. What does this mean for the speaker? It could be in the boardroom, at the networking event or at the pitch to the client. Regardless of the location, one thing is sure – everyone is a...
Sep 9, 2015
Chaos, Mistakes and Idea Popping
Doing more, better, faster with less, screams out for innovation. This could be at the incremental level – a kaizen approach of continuous improvement or it could be breakthrough leaps that forge new businesses. Either way, there is a dynamic in play here between processes...
Sep 2, 2015
Market Yourself In Under One Minute
Meeting new business contacts, expanding personal networks, promoting a reliable, trustworthy “Brand You” are the basics of business. By the way, even if our job title doesn’t explicitly mention “sales and marketing” we are all in sales and marketing. In modern...