by Rob Jolles | Dec 13, 2013 | Coaching and Mentoring, Corporate Communications, Motivation
When it comes down to doing a job for a customer, it often boils down to two things; price and performance. The first is negotiable; the second is not. To me, this is a black and white issue, but it never ceases to amaze me how confused some people can get over...
by Rob Jolles | Nov 15, 2013 | Coaching and Mentoring, Corporate Communications, Motivation, Public Speaking
No matter how many times you have delivered the same presentation, there are always unknowns. The message might not change, but the audiences sure do. Clearly, the more you deliver the same message, the tighter that presentation becomes. But what about the...
by Rob Jolles | Nov 1, 2013 | Motivation
I think I can sum my father up in two words. The first word presented itself to me in the mail when I was seven years old. One of my many jobs was to retrieve the day’s mail, and I began to notice that a number of letters were addressed to “Lion Lee Jolles.” I had...
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 | 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...