by Rob Jolles | Sep 20, 2013 | Coaching and Mentoring, Corporate Communications, Motivation, Self Help, success
Something curious happened a few weeks ago that most of my social network either didn’t notice, or didn’t care about. Unbeknownst to me, my social media consultant sent out a request to “Like” me. I was not asked, and if I had been, I would not have given...
by Rob Jolles | Sep 6, 2013 | Coaching and Mentoring, Corporate Communications, Public Speaking, Sales Training
Remember when reality shows were fresh and new? I can recall watching the very first episode of “Survivor,” and I was hooked. I have not missed an episode since the show first aired thirteen years ago. In fact, I’ve applied to be on the show several times. I’ve...
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 | 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”...
by Rob Jolles | Jun 14, 2013 | Coaching and Mentoring, Corporate Communications, Motivation, Self Help
A BLArticle® Miniseries Part 4 “You Can Judge A Book By Its Cover” We grew up hearing, over and over again, the following statement: “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” In the new, multi-visual, internet driven, see-it-buy-it world we live in, I believe this could...
