by Rob Jolles | Jan 27, 2017 | Coaching and Mentoring, Sales Training, Self Help
One of my guilty pleasures is leaving the office and having lunches with others. It can be a lunch with a friend or a client; I enjoy good food and good conversation. The other day, I had lunch with someone who was both a friend and a client. I noticed something...
by Rob Jolles | Dec 2, 2016 | Coaching and Mentoring, Motivation, Public Speaking, Self Help
No matter how talented one may appear, every presenter typically has a few habits he or she is trying to break. I’m referring to the habits that just don’t seem to want to go away, such as body rocking, pen twisting, lectern clutching, or the dreaded “umm and ah”...
by Rob Jolles | Nov 18, 2016 | Coaching and Mentoring, Motivation, Public Speaking
One of the unique challenges of delivering workshops is working effectively with the various personalities that populate your audiences. In most workshops and in some presentations, it’s not unusual for there to be a lot of contact between speakers and their...
by Rob Jolles | Oct 7, 2016 | Coaching and Mentoring, Corporate Communications, Motivation
This past weekend, we were all treated to some amazing golf as the United States won the Ryder Cup. The Ryder Cup is a golf tournament played every two years, and it pits the best golfers from the United States against the best golfers from Europe in a series of...
by Rob Jolles | Sep 23, 2016 | Coaching and Mentoring, Sales Training, success
There’s something special about having a dog in the house. I grew up in a family with dogs, and we raised our kids with dogs. Sadly, our sweet dog Zoey passed away about eight months ago, and the house just hasn’t felt the same since. So, we’ve decided to begin the...
by Rob Jolles | Sep 9, 2016 | Coaching and Mentoring, Sales Training
Part Four The failure to properly sales train our sales forces can be attributed to a handful of different factors. In this final entry of this BLArticle® miniseries, I’ll finish telling you what has created this problem, and exactly what can be done about it. We...
