by Rob Jolles | Apr 29, 2011 | Coaching and Mentoring, Corporate Communications, Motivation, Public Speaking, Self Help
This week I received an unusually high number of calls from clients who, for the lack of a better word, are worried. They are worried about the market. They are worried about the economy. They are worried about their budgets. They are worried about the companies they...
by Rob Jolles | Feb 25, 2011 | Public Speaking, Sales Training
This week I completed a seminar that was pretty damn good. My client was happy, and I should have been too, but I wasn’t. I wanted more. For some rather personal reasons, I wanted to put on one of the greatest seminars I had ever conducted. I...
by Rob Jolles | Dec 3, 2010 | Management Training, Public Speaking, Sales Training
The other week I was putting on a program for a good client of mine and I was really strutting my stuff. I had a right to! The client I was working for had asked that I put on a program that was as close to the real world as possible. This was a...
by Rob Jolles | Oct 15, 2010 | Public Speaking, Sales Training, Self Help
Conventional sales techniques have not worked well in the past, and they sure as heck don’t work very well today. In spite of the millions of dollars spent annually to train corporate sales forces how to sell, they fail again and again. There are two major...
by Rob Jolles | Aug 27, 2010 | Motivation, Public Speaking, Self Help
For twenty-five years I’ve either pulled a microphone out of a mike stand, or clipped a microphone to my tie and worked a room. Sometimes for an hour, sometimes for a day, and when I was younger, sometimes for as long as two weeks. I thought I had...