Keeping Promises – what is 100% By; Adolph Kaestner I was chatting to a friend and colleague about finding the right people to do a job and how difficult this has become. The number of times people “commit / agree” to do something and then just don’t deliver without even a warning or a call[…]
Living the lessons you teach The past 8 months have been ones where I have NOT been walking my talk. What an admission to make for a motivational/inspirational keynote speaker you may say but hey we are not always perfect and things do go wrong even if we put on the “It’s all OK” face.[…]
One of my Professional Speaking colleagues just had a disaster at a conference he was speaking at . The reason was the Event organisers has employed a sound / data company to run the technical stuff . My Colleague did what all professional speakers do and checked with the engineers that all was working ,[…]
“Change is not merely necessary to life — It is life!” Alvin Toffler Every year all good businesses Micro, Small, Medium and Large look at what has happened in the past year/years and tries to predict what they want to achieve in the coming year/years. –Well at least I trust they all do otherwise they[…]
Gifts! – Do you know what yours are? As Mentors we often have to assist our mentees identify their “Gifts” as I find that too many people actually do not know and have not identified their Natural / God Given “Gifts” – also known as “Talents”. I find it rather amazing that people will spend[…]
Are you a Professional? Speaker, Trainer, Facilitator, Coach, Mentor, Entertainer I receive at least 3 enquiries a week from people wanting to know what it takes to be a Professional Speaker. They are either aspiring speakers wanting to get into the business or they are people already speaking with some skill (e.g. well seasoned Toastmasters[…]
Most of the people I work with think that Setting Goals is about as bad a public Speaking or Taking Poison. They hate the concept because it reminds them of Targets and KPA’s and Work and Performance Assessments and most importantly Failure. This is a common issue and they would rather not set the goal[…]
Most people I deal with all seem to either Wish or Hope that something will happen that will make them successful in life. What a waste of time !!- there can be no greater waste of time and energy than wishing and hoping! The Key to success and achievement has to be the Development of[…]