Trust as your main asset
March 7, 2017
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How to earn trust and manage your reputation What types of reputation do you know? Lots of answers may come into your head now: reputation
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I am a professional speaker, but today my 6 year old son taught me something about speaking.
February 14, 2017
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Today I had the joy and privilege to go and attend a performance at my son’s Kindergarten. (I love that I, as a speaker, have
4Cs for Meaningful and Productive Meetings
February 4, 2017
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If you’re a middle manager, you probably spend 35% of your time in meetings. If you’re in upper management, it can be a whopping 50%. Yet
9 Leadership Lessons from Lee Kuan Yew
January 18, 2017
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It has been nearly 2 years since Singapore mourned the loss of its beloved founding father Lee Kuan Yew (died 23rd March 2015). He was
The audience is like a lion. Tame it.
January 14, 2017
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(About reading the audience when you speak.) Does an audience have feelings? Of course they do. Everyone in an audience has their own feelings and
Why you need a different kind of speaker when organizing a global (or international) conference.
January 14, 2017
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I once attended a speaker conference where an American speaker said: “If you speak for an American audience you need to have 80% inspiration and
Changing Behavior with Self Leadership
January 14, 2017
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Changing Behavior is at the heart of coaching and self-development. With Self-leadership we increase self-awareness of the impact of our actions or inaction, and can choose to
How Great Self-Leaders Influence Others — Even Without Title or Authority
January 8, 2017
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My executive coaching client, Mei, had just received a high-visibility promotion. It would shift her from leading the sales function (with full profit and loss