Listening With a Willingness to Change

Listening With a Willingness to Change

It sounds like a mouthful compared to active listening, deeper listening or, even, empathetic listening and yes, it is. After having had thousands of discussions and practice sessions in communications,

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The Night of the Jitters

I was once invited to compére a dinner function where there were several speakers. The chief amongst them was a lady Philippine presidential candidate. My job was to stay within

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Emotionally Intelligent Facilitating

Out there, there are shiploads of ideas, opinions and practices about being Emotionally Intelligent at everything. Here’s hoping that what I say stands out and answers the needs of trainers

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On Higher Ground

Years ago when my friend, Adrian Martinez, had shared this story with me it got stuck and has stayed until now. I know not the author but here it is

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Strive or Surrender in 2017?

On my mind always has been the question “how much should we strive and how much should we surrender?” The world is filled with free-flowing advice on how to “never,

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Kinesthetic Charisma

Scores of times in my workshop InSpire Like a CEO, I have been asked the question, “At work and in life, how do you make an impact and sustain it?”

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Designing a Talk

No matter how much I know about the subject or how long I have been in the field… Designing a talk, a facilitation or an intensive workshop is always much

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Humata, Hukata, and Hvrashta!

My school, the Sardar Dastur Hoshang Boys High School left major impressions in me about kindness, respect for others and personal presence.  The immortal words “Humata, Hukata” were encrypted on

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Innovation & EntrepreneurshipLeadership & Strategy

We are in the midst of a crisis, the kind people have not seen in a hundred years. Neither has all the workforce of the

Public Speaking

COVID 19 and Community Quarantine across the world has had a major impact on how we run meetings. Up until seven weeks less than 10%

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

These are tough times. These are scary and very unusual times. Neither I nor every elderly person I know or knew have experienced anything like

Cross Cultural LeadershipInnovation & EntrepreneurshipLeadership & StrategyPublic SpeakingSales & Communications

A few years ago, I had the honor of interviewing the Director of Application Services of Hewlett Packard, Philippines, one Mr. Noel Mendoza and though

Leadership & StrategySales & Communications

It’s sad enough that the world is broken up into so many geographical parts. We have drawn lines of differentiation from the North to the

Sales & Communications

In his book, What the Customer Wants You to Know, Professor Ram Charan shares the story of Unifi Inc., a textile maker in Greensboro, North

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