by Rob Jolles | May 31, 2013 | Coaching and Mentoring, Management Training, Motivation, Self Help
A BLArticle® Miniseries Part 2 “It Starts With…” I can see the question coming a mile away. Almost every time I finish a keynote or a workshop, I end up talking with a handful of courageous souls who come on up to meet me. Some just want to say thank you, and others...
by Rob Jolles | May 23, 2013 | Corporate Communications, Motivation, press
(For best results, watch in full screen mode and change to 720p Quality, and if your connection bogs down, take back down to regular quality.) A BLArticle® Miniseries Part 1 – “The Pre-launch” When I’ve written a book in the past, I used to tell my friends that...
by Rob Jolles | May 17, 2013 | Coaching and Mentoring, Corporate Communications, Management Training, Motivation, Self Help, success
It amazes me how often we throw around the word “team.” Some people think that just because you’ve formed a group, you’ve formed a team. In sports, our teammates are often others who were selected from a pool of players, but the moment we show up, and are handed a...
by Rob Jolles | May 3, 2013 | Corporate Communications, Motivation, Sales Training
There seems to be so much doom and gloom in the book world. Bookstores are closing, and Nielsen BookScan, (the organization that tracks book sales,) tells us that book sales around the world are in general decline. This decline is being seen not just in the United...
by Rob Jolles | Apr 18, 2013 | Motivation, Self Help
Choices. Comedian Buddy Hackett once said this: “As a child, my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.” Choice sounds so easy, but the truth is, making the right choices is anything but easy. Ask my friend Ron James. He made the choice...
by Rob Jolles | Mar 21, 2013 | Corporate Communications, Motivation, Self Help
In the morning, we all have our own private office routines. Checking for phone messages, grabbing a cup of coffee, turning on our computers, and checking our email. Then there are the social media routines. For me, that means checking my Facebook and Twitter...