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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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 […]
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How to pass exams – Part 20 – Superman, Muhammad Ali and the air steward!
How to pass exams – Part 20 Superman, Muhammad Ali and the air steward! The heavyweight boxer Mohammed Ali was amazing, I saw him in a Leeds bookshop a few years ago. He is probably the greatest sports star of all time and was known to be quick witted. Interviewers loved him as he bragged about […]
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How to pass exams – Part 19 – The 3R’s
How to pass exams – Part 19 – The 3R’s “At the end of the day it’s really all about people.” Will Smith Before we come in to land, there’s just one more tip to help you, one more thing that you may not hear very often, it’s what I call the 3R’s. The 3R’s aren’t […]
Read More >How to pass exams – Part 18 – Keep on going! #keepongoing
How to pass exams – Part 18 – Keep on going!! “Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.” Josh Billings U.S. funny man (1818 – 1885) In all the years I’ve been in education this one above all is important; When wartime prime minister […]
Read More >How to pass exams – Part 17 – Join in the opportunity to serve and see your job prospects rise!
How to pass exams – Part 17 – Join in the opportunity to serve and see your job prospects rise! Over the summer and in the holidays what are you going to do which isn’t all about you, but is about serving others too? Simon Glass is a former pupil of Allerton High School in Leeds […]
Read More >How to pass exams – Part 16 – Serve
How to pass exams – Part 16 – Serving your fellow adventurers “If there is one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view, and see things from that person’s angle, as well as from your own.” Henry Ford (the first person to make mass produced cars) […]
Read More >How to pass exams – Part 15 – Get good!
How to pass exams – Part 15 – Get good! “A genius! For 37 years I’ve practised 14 hours a day and now they call me a genius!” Pablo Sarasate (1844-1908) Violinist and composer I was speaking at a school assembly once, as I walked into the hall there were flyers all over the place and a real buzz […]
Read More >How to pass exams – Part 14 – Generating ideas and writers block
How to pass exams – Part 14 – Generating ideas “Ideas light the way to success.” Even though I can remember a whole talk lasting an hour or more, I can’t remember a fleeting thought and I bet you can’t either. And now, a quick word about generating ideas. My technique is simple: Use some blank […]
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Read More >How to pass exams – Part 13 – Capture your ideas!
How to pass exams – Part 13 – Capture your ideas, like Bill did! An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.” Stephen Fry Bill Gates the founder of Microsoft probably asked himself many years ago, ‘Why doesn’t every home have a PC?’ At the time there were only a handful […]
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