by Rob Jolles | Dec 12, 2014 | Public Speaking
I’ve often wondered what it would be like to be a schoolteacher. Many people look at professional speakers and corporate trainers as teachers, but there is one critical difference between these two professions. That difference involves the students, and how to...
by Rob Jolles | Oct 31, 2014 | Motivation, Public Speaking, Sales Training, Self Help, success
Some time ago, I was reminiscing about some of my favorite commercials, and a number of them came to mind. As a former Xerox employee, I was always a fan of many of the Xerox commercials. There was the Brother Dominic “Monks” commercial series, and a long series of...
by Rob Jolles | Oct 3, 2014 | Coaching and Mentoring, Motivation, Public Speaking, Self Help
The Three Elements of a Successful Presentation When I worked for Xerox, I spent five days teaching trainers and speakers how to present information in a powerful manner. Those five days gave me time to work on many of the critical elements of speaking, including...
by Rob Jolles | Jul 11, 2014 | Public Speaking
Audiences come in all shapes, sizes… and moods. Some audiences are loud, some are pensive, and others are, well, dead. There’s nothing quite like the feeling of stepping in front of a room, opening with one of your best stories, analogies, or jokes, and watching it...
by Rob Jolles | Jun 13, 2014 | Coaching and Mentoring, Public Speaking
In 1986, along with four other trainers at Xerox, I was assigned to teach the new basic training program at Xerox called L87. I had no idea why it was given that name. After a dreadfully short period of time trying to learn it, I found myself up in front of a room...
by Rob Jolles | Apr 4, 2014 | Coaching and Mentoring, Motivation, Public Speaking, Sales Training, Self Help
Part 1 – Making People Believe Although I’ve now spent over thirty years in front of audiences, it wasn’t until my junior year in high school when I first took to the stage. I was fortunate to have an amazing teacher and director, Rob Ramoy, who one day stopped...
