Lee Jackson - Online and Offline Motivational Speaker and Presentation Coach in organisations, businesses and education.

Lee Jackson is an Award-Winning Motivational Speaker and Presentation Coach working in organisations businesses and education to help people Get Good® - his style is engaging, authentic and jargon free.

CALL LEE NOW: 0113 2170081
EMAIL: lee@leejackson.org
Lee Jackson on Facebook Lee Jackson on Twitter Lee Jackson on Youtube Lee Jackson on LinkedIn Lee Jackson on Instagram
Menu
  • Home
  • Motivational Speaking
    • Get Good® At Life + Work Motivational Resilience Speaker
    • Get Good® At Life + Work Testimonials
    • Get Good® At School – Motivational/Raising Aspirations Speaker
    • Get Good® At School Testimonials
    • Close
  • Presentation Skills
    • Get Good® At Presenting – Presentation Skills Masterclass
    • Get Good® At Presenting – One To One Coaching
    • Get Good® At Presenting Podcast
    • Close
  • Contact
  • Shop
  • FAQ’s
  • Blog
  • Lee
  • Clients Page
    • Close
You are here: Home / Archives for __EVERGREEN

5 ways to really enjoy your Christmas holiday in 2021…

08/12/2021 By Lee

5 ways to really enjoy your Christmas holiday in 2021…

Things I love about Christmas:

Turkey and cranberry sauce, slightly mad Christmas lights, food, seeing my family, food, time off work, great TV specials, food and a drop of Port with good friends, oh, and, err food!

Things I hate about Christmas:

People buying stuff they don’t need or can’t afford, presents that go straight to landfill, the over-hype of “the day”, hearing of people I know being on their own at Christmas, people who say it’s just for kids, Christmas pudding!

What do you love and hate about this time of year?

Sure, there are things that I love and hate about Christmas time like most people do – but I certainly wouldn’t ban it, like some have said that they would on Martin Lewis’s classic online poll.

He says: “…20,367 voted on whether they’d cancel Christmas if given the choice. Perhaps unsurprisingly, parents of school-age kids were most festive, with 64% of those mums and dads happy to celebrate. Of the rest of voters, 55% would choose to press the cancel Christmas button if they could. Bah humbug!”

People who want to ban it may well be in the majority, but why is that?

Maybe they are reacting to the over-hyped season of shopping?

Maybe they have a different religion, like my old neighbour who was a Jehovah’s Witness?

Maybe they have bad memories of certain events at Christmas time?

Maybe it’s an expense that they just can’t afford?

Or maybe they are just a bit grumpy?!

But for most semi-Scrooge’s, maybe they don’t realise the power of a celebration. Christmas is good for us, in fact any good holiday or celebration is good for us. But we in our British culture often just don’t celebrate very much. And some make not celebrating an art form! It always makes me laugh that anti-Christmas type people still go to Christmas parties but they sit there with a “Bah humbug” hat on while there! Or as I saw the other a few years ago at a posh hotel where a works party was taking place – everyone was wearing a Christmas jumper. I never saw the party as such as it was behind closed doors but one by one people were popping to the loo looking very sheepish wearing a really embarrassing jumper at a 5 star hotel! Their faces were a picture as they mumbled under their breath “please don’t see me please don’t see me” in their rush for the loo! I think they’d had an email from the boss to wear a light-up Christmas jumper, none of them were doing it by choice.

But amazingly it can be good for you…

5 reasons Christmas is good for you

(taken from a classic article in The Mirror newspaper)

1. You sing more at Christmas.

Singing is good for us, it lifts our spirits and makes us feel part of a community. Why not get to a carol service or start a sing-song at home? A study for the annual Sing for your Heart campaign by Heart Research UK found singing is a “great aerobic exercise, giving your heart and lungs a fantastic workout”.

2. You give and receive.

Studies show that when we give and receive gifts, the brain releases the feel-good chemical dopamine. Giving also releases the “cuddle” hormone oxytocin.

3. We spend more time together.

The average family manages just 36 minutes of quality time together a day, according to recent research, yet a separate poll reveals 95% of parents believe the key to happiness lies in spending quality family time together.

4. We make family traditions that will last.

“Whether it’s buying a new tree bauble every year, leaving a mince pie out for Santa or watching It’s A Wonderful Life, family traditions unite all generations”. We always watch National Lampoons Christmas vacation as our start to Christmas!

5. Err and lastly,

“The Christmas holidays are the most popular time to conceive, according to one US study, probably due to a combination of socialising more and the long, cold days of the Yuletide period when, for many, there isn’t the distraction of work! Condom sales also double in December, showing that sexual activity in general rises. And extra sex is good news for your health. As well as giving your heart a boost and relieving stress, its great for your self-esteem and wellbeing – and even makes you look younger!”

Here’s my 5 ways to really make the most of Christmas this year:

1. Take time to stop and think, reflect on the last year, write down the positives, learn from the negatives, then throw them away.

2. Don’t buy tit-for-tat presents for the sake of it, buy presents for those you want to, maybe even make a present or two yourself, a tin of homemade mince pies is much more meaningful than a bottle of talc! Or just send a text, have a video chat or send a card to someone you’ve lost touch with.

3. Write down a gratitude list. What are you thankful for this Christmas? It’s proven to make us feel better. Maybe also write down a task list for work too, so you can forget it and relax.

4. If you are not on call in the emergency services, then switch off your phone for a while (it’s so rare to do that these days) and put an autoresponder on your email too for a while, use it as your winter break.

5. And lastly, if you are able to go to a party or get-together – be in the moment, enjoy the random conversation, games or cheesy TV, you’ll enjoy things so much more. Just go with it. Work can and should wait every now and then.

Have a great Christmas holiday, however you chose to celebrate it.

Filed Under: business, education, fun, Get Good At Work, leadership, leejackson, motivation, random, __EVERGREEN

Like a cheeky bargain? Me too – just don’t do what Brian Robson from Cardiff did…

05/05/2021 By Lee

Like a Bargain?

<a href="https://www.vecteezy.com/free-photos/ornament">Ornament Stock photos by Vecteezy</a>

Most people like to find a bargain but Brian Robson (not the football one!), now, a 75-year-old from Cardiff took it to a whole new level. When he was 19 he was desperate to come home from Australia. He’d gone there with work, but he was feeling really homesick and he wanted to come home. But in 1965 the fare from Melbourne to London was £700 and the newspapers report that he only earned £40 a month.

So one night he had an idea.

He decided to send himself as a parcel!

He bought a small crate about the size of one of those hotel room mini-bar fridges, minus the whiskey. And he persuaded his new friends Paul and John (no, not one half of The Beatles!) to strap him in and pack him up along with a ‘water in’ and a ‘water out’ bottle, a pillow and his suitcase. The flight was supposed to last around 36 hours, but it ended up taking three days and unfortunately, he didn’t land in London, he only got as far as Los Angeles.

When he landed in the US, an eagle-eyed customs worker found him after thinking he was a dead body. He told the BBC that a man had “looked through a hole in a wood knot in the chest and we caught each other eye to eye”.

It was a miracle he’d survived. He’d spent a day upside down even though there was a sticker saying “THIS WAY UP” and he’d almost died of extreme heat and cold while in the plane’s hold. Once the U.S. authorities realised he wasn’t a spy he was released, found his way home and resumed his life in Wales, hobbling from sore muscles and exhaustion.

Like most Northern blokes I like to save a bit of money, but I also realise that sometimes I have to pay someone to do things.

I paid a guy to fix our lawn the other day, my Facebook friends told me I could do it myself, but I chose to use an expert instead.

Both at work and at home, when have you wished you’d hired someone to help you rather than do something on the cheap?

Remember: your time is valuable, and, whether you like it or not – you, like me, are not an expert in everything.

 

Because of strict copyright, I can’t use a good photo for this article so please go here to see them all:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-56648439 

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/crate-stowaway-who-spent-four-days-in-cargo-could-have-flown-for-free-20210409-p57hrt.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/14/world/australia/brian-robson-crate-australia.html 

——–

P.S. Brian is trying to track down his old friends, so Paul and John, or their relatives can contact Mr Robson at brianpms@hotmail.com

——–

Filed Under: business, education, Get Good At Work, leadership, motivation, __EVERGREEN Tagged With: advice, blog, business, education, happiness, keep on going, leadership

Video and Podcast Ep27 – The future of Speaking, Speakers and the Speaking industry! A frank, funny and helpful Pro Speakers panel discussion

23/07/2020 By Lee

Get Good At Presenting Podcast Ep27 – The future of Speaking, Speakers and the Speaking industry!

A frank, funny and helpful Pro Speakers panel discussion.

You can subscribe/listen to it now, wherever you get your podcasts, more info/podcast links here, click the player below or watch us in glorious technicolour here:

Lee brings together a stellar panel of top award-winning pro speakers to answer the big question…

“What is the future of Speaking and what is the future of the Speaking industry?

In this unique Pro Speakers panel discussion, Lee asks the panel “what do they do different now they deliver online?” and “how have they changed their business model to help their clients post-covid-19?”

The panel consists of Wellbeing expert Pam Burrows, Neuro-science expert/President-elect of the Professional Speaking Association Dr Lynda Shaw, Motivational expert/Chief Zookeeper Nigel Risner, Researcher/Massive goals Speaker David Hyner, Corporate Sales expert Simon Hazeldine and Entrepreneurial mindset expert/Chair of the Professional Speaking Association Rebecca Jones.

Enjoy a lively debate with top tips (occasional light swear words) and honest appraisals of where we are now and how we can adapt to thrive in the Learning and development world in this new season.

P.S. We banned the use of the words “unprecedented” and “new normal” 🙂 

Find out what all our speakers are doing post-coronavirus here:

www.leejackson.org/newseason

www.pamburrows.com

www.nigelrisner.com

www.drlyndashaw.com

www.simonhazeldine.com

https://rebeccajones.biz

www.davidhyner.com

Filed Under: business, education, leadership, leejackson, Podcast, Podcast/Interview, presentationskills, speaking, __EVERGREEN

Free printable Zoom Signs for online meetings…

12/06/2020 By Lee

Here is Lee’s printable PDF of helpful signs, notices etc to hold up while on Zoom calls.

How many times do you say “can you unmute yourself?!” not any more, download, print and enjoy…

Free printable Zoom Signs for online meetings…

Free PDF Printable Hold up Zoom signs notices phrases cards LeeJackson.biz


You can book Lee to teach his Zoom Presentation Masterclass by emailing or calling him today.

Filed Under: business, education, fun, leadership, leejackson, motivation, presentationskills, speaking, __EVERGREEN

Get Good At Work Video – Success is not a solo sport, we all need more – a little lesson from history…

05/05/2020 By Lee

Filed Under: business, education, leadership, leejackson, motivation, __EVERGREEN

How to Get Good At Presenting – a candid and honest podcast with Presentation Coach and author Lee Jackson c/o ‘Be your best in business’.

28/06/2018 By Lee

How to Get Good At Presenting – a candid and honest podcast with Presentation Coach and author Lee Jackson c/o ‘Be your best in business’.

Original Podcast URL: http://innovatetosuccess.com/project/ep029-how-to-get-good-at-presenting-with-lee-jackson/?v=79cba1185463

Filed Under: business, leadership, Podcast/Interview, powerpoint, presentationskills, slides, speaking, __EVERGREEN

Forbes Books Radio interview with Presentation Coach and author of Get Good At Presenting Lee Jackson

17/05/2018 By Lee

Forbes Books Radio interview with Presentation Coach and author of Get Good At Presenting Lee Jackson. You can book Lee to teach your workplace Presentation Skills here.


Original URL: https://soundcloud.com/forbesbooks_radio/lee-jackson-leejackson-org-is

Filed Under: business, leadership, Podcast/Interview, presentationskills, slides, speaking, __EVERGREEN

Did you know that knowing lots of people can be bad for our health?!

06/03/2018 By Lee

knowing lots of people can be bad for our health

Did you know that knowing lots of people can be bad for our health?!

Research says that on average we all know about 150 people. We have 3-5 close friends/family, then 15 people who are quite close to us, 50 people who are acquaintances and finally a large group who we know a bit and we just wave to in the street!

But because of social media now we can easily keep tabs on hundreds or even thousands of people, this is great in many ways but it also can bring us stress too. If our brain is only really designed to hold the tension of a handful of people, then keeping tabs on hundreds means that there is – always someone ill, always someone struggling, always someone having a tough day, always someone who hates their job. And the flip-side too – there is always someone having a great time, on a great holiday, got a better job and earning more money that us that day. And all this can happen when we are sat in our dressing gown feeling sorry for ourselves!

When I first started my job as a pro speaker I used social media to grow my business as I still do now. But in the early days of self employment it can be very quiet! You don’t get as much work as you’d like, as things have to grow and the word about you has to spread. So for me it became bad for me to see what I thought was that every other speaker and trainer I knew was working and I wasn’t! They all seemed to have bigger and better clients than me too. I think it really got to me for a while and certainly de-motivated me at times. It wasn’t good for me. So I made a few decisions and reminded myself that I was not seeing the world as it really was. Not everyone was working every day but because I followed 200 other speakers there would be always someone working but maybe 185 of them weren’t! But people rarely say online that they are doing nothing (unless it’s the old double hot dog leg shot from a foreign beach somewhere!).

When you have a “gig” based job like mine there is lots of marketing to do and contacts to make but there is also a part of my job where I’m waiting for the phone to ring or an email to arrive out of the blue. It’s just part of what I do. So I do still play the numbers game for business purposes but I also know that personally I should meaningfully connect to less, not more people and we should all of course choose those people very carefully.

We are designed to have a few really good friends not hundreds of vague acquaintances that always seem to be having more fun than us!

So:

Don’t compare yourself to others

Watch the numbers that you connect with

(have an occasional cull and remember on Facebook you can stay ‘friends’ with people but ‘unfollow’ them and they will never know!)

and

Let’s learn to live a deeper life with fewer people rather than a shallow life with hundreds online.

We’d find life a whole lot less stressful I reckon.

Filed Under: business, education, leadership, leejackson, motivation, __EVERGREEN

Interview with Sam Dixey the Tinder Powerpoint Viral sensation!

23/02/2018 By Lee

Interview with Sam Dixey the Tinder Powerpoint Viral sensation!

This week a Leeds lad went viral for posting a funny powerpoint presentation on Tinder!

With a glint in his eye Sam Dixey (@samdixey) did a really bad (in fact – so bad – it was good!) Powerpoint Presentation on his Tinder profile to stand out from the crowd for potential girlfriends.

He uploaded his Powerpoint over a year ago and it randomly went viral this week after a potential date Gracie Barrow (@GracieBarrow1) posted it on Twitter

“A genuine 10/10 effort from this lad lmaooo I’m crying” she said – https://twitter.com/GracieBarrow1/status/965001035151495168

“On one slide, the 21-year-old detailed his hobbies as “laser tag”, “dad jokes” and “petting doggos” and even added some pretty cool pictures alongside. Another listed his rather notable skills, including “knowing all the rules to drinking games”, “not the worst at sex” and “owning a Netflix account”
The Sun – https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5625749/tinder-powerpoint-extra-swipes-sam-dixey-leeds-student/

“And, once she’d stopped laughing, Gracie knew what to do. “I swiped right,” she said. “And we matched and have spoken about how viral the tweet has gone. I’d say I would go on a date with Sam based on his tinder profile, because it shows he’s got a really good sense of humour and I like that, plus he seems like a lovely lad.”
The Lad Bible – http://www.ladbible.com/community/uk-viral-guy-creates-presentation-for-tinder-profile-20180220

This week has been mad for him as he has been interviewed on national media and has become a bit of a star around Leeds, where he is a student.

So because he was based in Leeds and he made headlines for a Presentation related story I contacted Sam and met him for a coffee today.

He is a great guy and has a great future ahead of him and thankfully he is not taking his temporary fame and himself too seriously.

I gave him copies of my books and offered to coach him in the future before his next Presentation at Uni. A fun meeting.

Here is a short interview recorded in the cafe…

Here are his fun slides…

Sam Dixey the student Tinder Powerpoint Viral sensation! from Lee Jackson


PLEASE NOTE: This is the only time that I think that bad Powerpoint has ever been good!

Do not let bad slides kill your Presentations there is another way!

Filed Under: business, fun, leadership, powerpoint, presentationskills, slides, speaking, __EVERGREEN

Free booklet for Parents and carers of GCSE age students

24/10/2017 By Lee

Lee’s Education publisher Collins published this free guide written by him and put it into WHSmith and Waterstones for parents to takeaway – you can grab it free below too – no strings attached – just click the link, the cover or just “save as”…

Lee Jackson Collins GCSE Parent Guide 2018

Here are some of Lee’s free youtube videos for revision and exams too:

 P.S. You can buy Lee’s books here.

Filed Under: education, exams, leejackson, motivation, teens, TESvideos, __EVERGREEN

  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 8
  • Go to Next Page »

Privacy Policy

© 2023 Lee Jackson. All rights reserved.