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This turn of events also brought me to the start of a journey into a new season in my life and career. A transition from majoring on sales for other people and minoring on and training, to the new season where I am majoring on speaking, coaching and training and only engaging in sales for the newly formed “Leadership for Business”.
Everybody knows that! There are some things that you either know or you don’t know, and until you know, you know that you don’t know. Things like how to drive or how to change a tyre on a car, or how to make a cappuccino correctly. Everything else is intuitive, isn’t it! Things like how […]
We could consider each day to be like a fresh new cheque (or a new check in US currency) in a chequebook, and we can choose the value to write on that cheque. We can choose to have a lazy day and write a value of £10 for the day, or we can choose to have a really productive day and write £1,000 for the day.
I arrived at the conference a couple of days before it started, and one of my fellow coaches asked me what I was hoping to get out of this conference. My reply was to say; “I am hoping not to screw up on Monday”.
There will never be another you I have heard the phrase “There will never be another you” on many occasions, encouraging the hearer to focus on their uniqueness. In a world of wannabe lookalikes, there is a particular opportunity for those people who can find their unique voice. As we proceed through the education system […]
The lesson here is that where something has all the characteristics of a thing, it probably is that thing, never mind what it is called or presented as, and despite the objective evidence to the contrary.
We all see the conductor standing right there at the front of the sea of musicians waving his baton around, but what does he actually do? Well, the answer is that it’s something that the audience at a concert will rarely if ever see, but it has a massive impact on the performance of the orchestra.
Roger in Deliver, Dream, Implement, Leadership, Leadership Gold, PRIZE, Put Your Dream to the Test
October 26, 2018
In leadership terms, it’s important to know where you’re going to, to define where you want to end up. Sometimes this is really quite obvious. When Kennedy stated “We choose to go to the Moon in this decade” on September 12 1962 it was really quite obvious where there was, and where here was. There was the moon, and here was the earth.
If we don’t know where we are, we’ll not be able to chart the course to where we want to get to …
Having spent many enjoyable years engaged as a sales engineer and sales manager, it didn’t ever give me the rewards that I found from leading a training session where people learned something new and put that into practice. For a season I was both sales manager and training manager for a particular high ticket online secure database product, and I discovered that it was actually so much more rewarding to deliver the training to a new client than to make the sale!
Most people would agree that listening is an essential skill in life and business, yet so few seem to be skilled practitioners. In my line of business I spend quite a lot of time “networking” …
Roger is a leadership specialist delivering Leadership for Business Achievement through Speaking, Training and Coaching to business leaders and entrepreneurs.
“He is articulate, tracks complex issues with ease and has an incredible gift for raising pearls of wisdom out of the murky depths of people and process.” His passion is to help people to learn effective leadership skills to lead their teams to capitalize on their strengths and passions to realize their dreams.
Leadership for Business also invests into the dreams of families in the world’s underserved communities to offer them small loans that empower them to invest in their future, to provide for their families and give back to their communities.