by Rob Jolles | Aug 23, 2013 | Corporate Communications, irony, Motivation, Self Help
When it comes to true friendship, there is almost no truer or closer friend than my cousin Steve. We’re virtually the same age, and we have been more like brothers since, well, since either of us can remember. We played together when we were very little, we had...
by Rob Jolles | Aug 9, 2013 | Corporate Communications, irony, Management Training, Motivation, Sales Training
Imagine if your job was designed to help influence policy, and in doing so, you would need to understand how to change minds and how to influence decisions. Now, imagine that you were doing this job and 83% of the people were not happy with the job you were...
by Rob Jolles | Jul 26, 2013 | Coaching and Mentoring, Management Training, Motivation, Self Help
You’d think that, after thirty years of delivering seminars all over the world, it would get old and less exciting for me. Oh, some deliveries are easier than others, but last week was special. Last week’s seminar provided me with plenty of motivation to...
by Rob Jolles | Jul 12, 2013 | Coaching and Mentoring, Management Training, Sales Training, Self Help
At an early age, my Dad taught me to despise the word “renegotiate.” If Lee Jolles had his way, he would have had it dropped from the dictionary. Let’s take a look at the definition, and you’ll see why two Jolles men dislike this word: Negotiate (something) again in...
by Rob Jolles | Jun 28, 2013 | Coaching and Mentoring, Corporate Communications, Public Speaking
When I began working at Xerox almost 25 years ago, I had the pleasure of learning how to deliver training from the great Emmett Reagan. He was responsible for teaching every Xerox instructor how to conduct his or her training program. Emmett was a longtime “Xeroid”...
