Lee Jackson - Award-Winning Motivational Speaker, Trainer and Presentation Coach
Lee Jackson is an Award-Winning Motivational Speaker, Presentation Expert and Trainer working in organisations businesses and education to help people Get Good® - his style is engaging, authentic and jargon free.
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The key to a good team at work
Here is a nugget that I sometimes share when speaking at leaders and managers events. I learnt this twenty years ago and it just stuck somehow. Sometimes it’s good to go over the stuff that we probably do know but can forget in the busyness of our working lives. The key to a good team […]
Finland schools throw down the gauntlet to English schools… Subjects scrapped and replaced with ‘topics’ as country reforms its education system via The Independent
Wow this is very challenging for the top brass in the Dept. For Education. So often in the past few years Finland and Singapore amongst others have been lauded as the top countries to emulate… …and now they want to scrap some subject teaching. How will that fit with OFSTED and the obsessive reporting and admin that causes […]
PowerPoint Surgery – Tips to create presentation slides that make your message stick, not suck!
PowerPoint Surgery – Tips to create presentation slides that make your message stick, not suck! Lee Jackson “If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in colour won’t make them relevant…Power corrupts, PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.” Edward Tufte, Yale Emeritus professor There are three very big things that we are expected to do, […]
How to pass exams – Part 12 – How to feel more confident everyday
How to pass exams – Part 12 – How to feel more confident everyday There are lots of crazy theories out there, but the following exercise has been scientifically proven to help the way we feel about our lives (and that obviously includes our education too). The fascinating book ‘59 seconds’ by Professor Richard Wiseman looks […]
What’s really important? My neighbour found out the hard way…
A couple of weeks ago, I was in the bedroom doing some weekend tidying up after a busy week speaking away from home. In a daze with the radio on, I was in a world of my own as I unpacked. In my relaxed state I heard my daughter running upstairs shouting “Dad, Dad, you’ve […]
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 […]
Interview with Nate Robinson: How to Be A Short Basketball Player! – Esquire
Interview with Nate Robinson: How to Be Short – Esquire.
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 […]
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