by Rob Jolles | Apr 30, 2015 | Public Speaking, Sales Training
If you ask most performers if they can remember the first time they took to a stage, the answer will come with surprising clarity. I don’t have the greatest memory, but I can remember my first time in front of an audience like it was yesterday… and I was four years...
by Rob Jolles | Apr 17, 2015 | Coaching and Mentoring, Corporate Communications, Self Help
As a Xerox trainer in the 80’s, the Xerox Corporation gave me the opportunity to go through their “Leadership Through Quality” program. I jumped at this chance to learn about the “Problem Solving” and “Quality Improvement” processes – something the company was known...
by Rob Jolles | Apr 3, 2015 | Coaching and Mentoring, Corporate Communications, Motivation
One of the benefits of being raised by a marine was that I was taught the meaning of courage. My father was a corpsman in not one, but two, wars, and the courage he displayed was beyond imagination. At an early age, my father demanded that I learn how to be...
by Rob Jolles | Mar 20, 2015 | Coaching and Mentoring, Corporate Communications, Sales Training
At some point in a workshop, you’ll probably be engaged in a role-play. Did you see that face you just made? It wasn’t a happy face; it was a face that looked like you had a toothache! I’m not sure I’ve ever met a person whose reaction to a role-playing was this: “Oh...
by Rob Jolles | Mar 6, 2015 | Corporate Communications, Sales Training, Self Help, success
I still have a few painful memories of my first awkward dates when I was in High School; some rather unlucky girls were treated to an awkward, but well meaning, Rob Jolles. At the time, I thought I was quite a prize. After all, I wasn’t a person who had nothing to...
