| Michael Neil - Overcoming Obstacles |
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Michael has been coaching CEO's, training coaches, and mentoring the Hollywood elite for the past 13 years. His work has been featured on numerous TV and radio programs and his best-selling book "You Can Have What You Want" has been translated into five languages. In this interview Michael talks with me about overcoming the nine obstacles that prevent you from getting what you want. Enjoy! |
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| Dr. Alan Shelton - Transforming Burnout |
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Dr. Alan Shelton is the clinical director at the Puyallup Tribal Health Authority where he has worked as a family practitioner for 22 years. Dr. Shelton grew up in Japan, an upbringing which helps him adapt easily to other cultures, including the Native American community in which he works. In this interview, Dr. Shelton talks about how his personal renewal and recovery from burnout inspired him to share his secrets through his book Transforming Burnout. Enjoy! |
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| Rochelle Kopp - Intercultural Communication |
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Rochelle is the Managing Principal of Japan Intercultural Consulting and an authority on the cultural and organizational issues of Japanese affiliated businesses and joint ventures in the U.S. She is the author of over 15 books on intercultural issues faced by multinational organizations and individuals, including “The Rice Paper Ceiling”,“U.S. Business Buzzwords” and “English for Effective Business Meetings”. In this interview Rochelle spoke with me about some of the biggest problems non-native English speakers experience in business meetings conducted in English. As the interview progresses she offers some strong advice on how non-native English speakers can assert themselves more in such situations. Enjoy! |
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| Peter Wink - Negotiating Your Way To Riches |
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Negotiating is a fascinating skill that everyone needs to learn especially considering that people are doing it everyday without even thinking of it. The only difference is that 99% of people have no clue how to do it correctly. In this interview, Peter Wink, the author of "Negotiating Your Way To Riches", clues us in and shares some of his fascinating negotiating knowledge with us. Listen in and find out more about it. Enjoy! |
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| John Wood - Applying Business Skills In Philanthropy |
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John left a lucrative and high profile executive position with Microsoft in 1998 to build a non-profit organization called Room To Read which has positively impacted the lives of over a million children in developing countries around the world. In this interview he shares to us how he applied his business skills in running a global non-profit organization, setting bold goals and getting big results. Listen in and find out more about it. Enjoy! |
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| Bud Bilanich - Common Sense Ideas That Work |
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Bud Bilanich, also known as "The Common Sense Guy", shares with us some of the common performance problems , and how leaders can solve these problems by using basic common sense ideas. Learn the 4 keys to having a conversation that will help people be able to be actually be willing to solve their performance problems. Listen in and find out more about it. Enjoy! |
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| Andy Sernovitz - Word Of Mouth Marketing |
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Andy is the author of the book, "Word of Mouth Marketing : How Smart Companies Get People Talking". From his wealth of experience in the interactive markting business, he shares simple tips on how to make word of mouth positive and effective not only for companies, but also for individuals. Listen in and find out more about it. Enjoy! |
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| Paul Gillin - Become A New Influencer |
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Paul is a veteran technology journalist with more than 24 years of editorial leadership on the subject of information technology revolution. In this week's interview, Paul shares how individuals can use the power of social media like blogging and podcasting among others to either build individual branding, or become one of today's new influencers. Listen in and find out more about it. Enjoy! |
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| Christine Beckwith - The Art of Selling Yourself |
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Christine is the co-author of "You Inc.--The Art of Selling Yourself", a book which presents hundreds of usable ideas on how each one of us can improve our ability to present ourselves to the world. In this interwiew I asked Christine about her idea of "living is selling". Just the idea of selling yourself can be a daunting and difficult concept for people to embrace, but Christine reminds us that we all sell (even since we were kids) and why it is so important for all kinds of success in life. Enjoy! |
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| TJ Walker - Making Presentations Memorable |
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TJ's expertise in media and training presentation brings us one of the most important, but often forgotten aspect in making presentations - making our audience remember what we have presented. He shares some tips on how to do it best - from sharing stories to limiting your speech on important keypoints. He also shared the 5 important tips to remember when making presentations. What are these? Listen to the audio to find out. Enjoy! |
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| John Miller - The Power of Personal Accountability |
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John's focus is on personal accountability, something that many of us recognize as important but often forget to practice. He has created a very useful concept, QBQ, to help people embrace personal accountability in a way that keeps them living with integrity and generating positive results. What is QBQ? Listen to the audio to find out. Enjoy! |
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| Rory Cohen - 10 Minutes To Success |
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Like PowerUp English, this week's guest Rory Cohen understands the powerful positive changes that can take place in just 10 minutes of regular focus. Her "Take 10" system helps people get on the path to action by helping them clearly visualize their desired outcomes. In today's interview Rory discusses her approach to working with people to help them see and achieve the results they want but haven't gotten around to make it happen. Her simple 10 minute process gets people moving towards their heartfelt goals and helps them feel more powerful, more competent, more confident and more alive. Enjoy! |
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| Dr. Tony Alessandra - The Platinum Rule for Sales Mastery |
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We recently had Dr. Ivan Misner on PowerUp English with a great interview focused on the Platinum Rule for Networking. Now this week we're honored to have Dr. Tony Alessandra, who coined and trademarked the term, tell us about the Platinum Rule for salespeople. In our discussion he talks about the four basic business personalities and how understanding them can lead you to success. As you listen to the interview, think about which if the four type is your dominant type and how you can apply this understanding in assessing others to get better results. Enjoy! |
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| Kevin Eikenberry - Remarkable Leadership |
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Kevin Eikenberry is a leader of leaders. He works with experienced and aspiring leaders to help them develop the skills they need to achieve their loftiest goals. In his newly published book "Remarkable Leadership: Unleashing You Leadership Potential One Skill at a Time" Kevin talks about the critical components of time and focus in developing a long-term strategy for developing leadership skills. In this interview, you'll come to understand why "one skill at a time" is an important process. Enjoy! |
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| Dr. Ivan Misner - Follow the Platinum Rule |
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Called the "Father of Modern Networking", Dr. Ivan Misner shares his ideas with PowerUp English of how to apply the “Platinum Rule” in order to create solid relationships with people in your business network. He also talks about the importance of trust in building these relationships. As the author of the New York Times bestseller "Truth or Delusion: Busting Networking's Biggest Myths", Dr. Misner has identified many of the major myths surrounding building a strong business network and has not only addressed these issues in theory, he has also built the world’s leading business networking organization, BNI, in over 40 countries. Enjoy!
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| Adam Eason -The Hypnotic Salesperson |
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Quickly establishing real rapport with others is one of the key factors
for success as a salesperson. In this week's interview renowned
hypnotist Adam Eason, author of "The Hypnotic Salesman", shares some
fundamental ideas on how you can rapidly improve your ability to connect
with people who you meet for the very first time. He also explains the
underlying logic behind the processes which help to establish rapport.
Whether you are in sales or not, this is truly valuable information for
improving your relationships with others. You may think the exercises
he recommends are a bit odd, but do what I did--just try them--and see
what a difference it can make in your life. Enjoy!
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Joe Calloway - Work Like You're Showing Off
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Did your mother or father ever tell you not to be a show-off? Well, Joe
Calloway encourages all of us to show off at work because his definition
of showing off is "bringing the best that you are or the best that you
have to any situation". Joe shares an example of how one front line
service staff's approach to her work positively influences everyone she
comes into contact with and he gives us some great action items for this
week.
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Bob Burg - Endless Referrals
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Bob’s book “Endless Referrals” is considered to be one of the very best books ever written on the subject of cultivating business referrals. It is one of the books that I’ve enjoyed reading multiple times to remind myself of its important ideas. In this interview Bob talks about how to ask “feel good questions” and develop “know-you-like-you-trust-you” relationships that will truly help you generate endless referrals. Enjoy! |
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