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...
by Rob Jolles | Mar 8, 2013 | Coaching and Mentoring, Motivation, Public Speaking
It happened again. I see it all the time. I watched as a professional speaker fell prey to the same mistake amateurs make all the time. I’m referring to losing your timing in a presentation. We’ve all seen the telltale signs. We sit through fifty minutes of a...
by Rob Jolles | Feb 22, 2013 | Motivation, Public Speaking
Go to any seminar or workshop, and you can usually count on two things: Firstly, there may be too much information presented to you. Secondly, there will probably be some sort of a giveaway. We’ll save the “too much information” issue for another BLArticle®. Right...
by Rob Jolles | Feb 8, 2013 | Motivation, Public Speaking, Sales Training
For years, I’ve specialized in two different topics: I teach people how to influence the actions of others one-on-one, and I teach people how to influence the actions of others through presentations to groups of people. I have modules that teach how to initiate a...
by Rob Jolles | Jan 25, 2013 | Coaching and Mentoring, Motivation, Sales Training, Self Help
Wouldn’t it be nice to go back to the old days, when you could sit by the phone and wait for those clients to call and offer you contracts? Think back to the days when putting a resume out on the street meant multiple job offers. Remember when college graduates came...
