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.
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Speakers: Don’t just repeat a quote but investigate it…
Speakers: Don’t just repeat a quote but investigate it… …and here is the perfect website to save our blushes… …misquoting happens but it’s often lazy and frankly unprofessional. …lets get it right… e.g. “Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Already Taken” Oscar Wilde Well, this may not actually be actually Oscar Wilde… Quoteinvestigator.com investigates… http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/20/be-yourself/#more-8025
Read More >Why we all need to learn from the Sign Language Interpreter at the Mandela Memorial…
The Sign Language Interpreter at the Mandela Memorial… caused quite a stir. Apparently he’d been reported before many times, but they still booked him. Many people including other speakers, say “fake it until you make it!” and “you can do anything!” and I understand why they say that, to a point (although I’ll never say that […]
Read More >Can you check when you are being plagiarised?…
Sadly plagiarism happens in my industry a lot, in fact only the other day I saw another speaker use my friends material as his own! You may not be able to check that your speeches are being plagiarised very easily, but you can check if your website has been used elsewhere now. I’ve started to […]
Read More >Marriage makes people happier than six figure salaries and religion – via Telegraph
Fascinating and challenging article from The Telegraph. People are often seeking to earn more money, but maybe we should seek to have good marriages instead, it makes us happier(!)… Link: Marriage makes people happier than six figure salaries and religion – Telegraph. The ONS has found that being married is 20 times more important to a person’s well-being than […]
Read More >7 Terrible Management Fads That Just Won’t Die via Business Insider
7 Terrible Management Fads That Just Won’t Die – Business Insider.
Read More >Don’t be shy, open up your music collection, I have… http://leejackson.org/category/mytop30 #mytop30 #wartsandall
Being a leader is all about stepping out and up. Some people are reallty scared to say what music they really listen to. They are very secretive about their iTunes collection, fearing that the discovery of Abba’s greatest hits may leave them a little red-faced at work! I decided to undertake this task with complete transparency… here […]
Read More >Are ‘cultures of worklessness’ passed down the generations? | Joseph Rowntree Foundation
via jrf.org.uk Daily Mail and politicians take heed!!
Read More >The self-help / positive thinking industry can be misleading and sometimes plain wrong but… gratitude journals shine through…
How to feel up in a downturn by Oliver Burkeman – The Guardian article is here – guardian.co.uk Extract…”For the past year or so, sporadically, I have kept what the University of California psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky calls a “gratitude journal”: a notebook in which I list between three and five things for which I am currently thankful. Naturally, […]
Read More >Me, Lee Jackson, The Dalai Lama (!), a retail guru and an Olympic legend, what a day!
My latest newsletter is getting some great feedback and responses so I thought I’d post it below. To get my next one just add your email address into the form on my website – http://leejackson.org To say it was a unusual day would be an understatement. Have you ever been in a situation, and […]
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