The Cutting Edge Japan Business Show

Welcome back to this weekly edition every Monday of "THE Cutting Edge Japan Business Show" I am your host Dr. Greg Story, President of Dale Carnegie Training Japan Well, where is this Cutting Edge?  For all of us, the quality of our people is the cutting edge for success in Japan. In this show I will: Stimulate your thinking about ramping up your business Bring you insights from the best training organisation on the planet Provide you with the highest quality Japan information Motivate you to

Sales guru Zig Ziglar had a great saying, “If you can help enough people get what they want in this life, you can get what you want”.  Pretty simple idea isn’t it.  It is the same idea when we are the boss.  Don’t focus on what we want, focus on what our people want.  If we do that then we will have great results being created by highly motivated people.   Welcome back to this weekly edition every Monday of "THE Cutting Edge Japan Business Show" I am your host Dr. Greg Story, President of Dale

As leaders, how well do we know the hopes, fears, dreams and situations of our team?  In the old model, the personal lives of the team members was thought to be an off limits area for bosses.  Not today.  The team want to know the boss is in their corner, actively working to help them further their careers. The times have changed and we have to move with it. Welcome back to this weekly edition every Monday of "THE Cutting Edge Japan Business Show" I am your host Dr. Greg Story, President of Dale

How To Work Well With Difficult People   People skills are really one of the key basics of leadership.  Fortunately, leading is easy.  Getting others to follow us is the tricky bit.  I hope this isn’t new information, but not everyone is like you, so how do you get the team to follow you?  Especially how to get others, who are so totally different from you, who are “difficult”, to follow you or support you?   Central to working well with difficult people is understanding ourselves.  Yes, they are

Careers are cut off at the knees and businesses destroyed when people problems are allowed to fester.  Getting the people part right is not just fundamental, it is critical in any business.  Ironically, we are all taught to believe that “hard skills” - our technical expertise - is the main requirement for success.  The reality is that if the people skills part is not working well, no amount of technical expertise will compensate for the damage being done to the business.  Poor, mediocre or