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The Reality of Business — 103 episodes

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How to Interview Better (Part 2): The Questions Every Candidate Should Ask

2

How to Interview Better (Part 1): The Questions Every Employer Should Ask

3

Glengarry Glen Ross: The Greatest Sales Play Ever Written?

4

AI & Customer Experience: Why Human Skills Matter More Now

5

Contact Centres: The Brand & Customer Lifetime Value

6

Contact Centres: The Future Team Leader - CX & Performance Coach

7

Contact Centres: The Future - How AI is Reshaping & Elevating Human Skills

8

Incentives, Rewards & Motivation

9

Business Language, Political Spin & the Loss of Plain Speaking

10

Standards Have Slipped: Why Leadership Needs to Step Up

11

Team Leaders Part 2: Managing Time & Managing Work

12

Team Leaders Part 1: People Management Without the Drama

13

Time: Rethinking and Achieving Control

14

25 Years of Bob, Jeremy & Reality: Lessons from Building a Training Business

15

Selling Biases: Are You Taking Choices Away From Customers?

16

When Values Get Quiet: Why DEI Cuts Raise Loud Questions

17

Your Best Sales Conference: Improving the Impact on Sales Teams

18

Guerrilla Marketing: Unexpected & Unforgettable Campaigns

19

Key 2025 Business Strategies: How to Thrive in Twenty-Five!

20

The Digital Nomad Podcast: The Astounding New Truths of Remote Working

21

Motivation Matters: Creating a Culture that Retains and Inspires

22

The Best Way to Measure Business Performance: The Truth Behind the Metrics

23

Executive Coaching: How Does It Work? Where Has It Come From? Transforming The Workplace

24

Building Loyalty: How to Create a Trustworthy Workforce

25

Disloyal Bonding Exposed: Protecting Customer Loyalty & Strengthening Service

26

The Cost of Deception: How Strategic Lies Undermine Business Integrity

27

Disloyal Bonding: The Hidden Costs of Strategic Deception in Business

28

Beginner's Guide to AI: The Evolution & Impact of Artificial Intelligence for Business

29

Networking Do’s & Don’ts: Mastering Networking Opportunities

30

Election Special: Why Does Public Speaking Matter? How Do You Engage & Influence Your Audience?

31

Senior Management Development - What Are Your Options?

32

Tipping, Service Charges, Brand Charges… What is happening with this ‘grey area’?

33

B2B Buying & Selling in a Hybrid Work World

34

Selling More: Is It Down to Behavioural Science or Just BS?

35

Customer Service in the UK – In 2024 How Are We Really Being Served?

36

Sales Targets (& How They Work Against You)

37

First Jobs: What’s the best first job? What should you look for?

38

2024 Reflect and Reset: What are your goals and resolutions? How will you have a great year?

39

Team Leaders Do's & Don'ts: Leadership Tips & Tricks for Thriving Teams

40

The SFC Coaching Model: Sweary Coaching for All

41

What’s Funny? The Evolution & Impact of Humour in Business

42

Bad Management: The UK Corporate Crisis - Your Leadership Challenges & Solutions.

43

Teambuilding Part 2 – Bletchley Park & Codebreaking

44

The Camino de Santiago Podcast – Bob’s Camino

45

Team Building: Do's & Don'ts

46

Decision-Making

47

Interview with Tim Christie (Jeremy's Uncle)

48

Exhibitions - Dos & Don'ts

49

Unlocking Success: Discover the DRIVES That Cultivate Collaboration & Self-Worth for Business Growth

50

Stop Winging It! Why Rehearsal Is Your New Habit.

51

Reviving the Tea Break

52

Conferences: Do's & Don'ts

53

Strikes & Striking

54

Retirement or Reset?

55

Snake Oil to Critical Friend: How the History of Sales Can Improve Your Future

56

Motivation

57

New Year's Resolutions

58

The 4-Day Week

59

Interview with Professor Nigel Adams, Director of the Buckingham Enterprise and Innovation Unit (BEIU), at The University of Buckingham.

60

Quietly Quitting or Quietly Firing?

61

New Managers - Key Things to Work On

62

Who Should You Hire Right Now?

63

How to Manage a Large Training Project

64

How We Won Our Best Clients - Five ways - Five Short Stories (B2B)

65

Leadership Principles For Today

66

Free Inspiration

67

Sales Maxims

68

Sales Manager's Ride Along - Sales Meetings Accompaniment

69

Short Termism and Lifetime Value

70

Selling Things At A Higher Price

71

How to be a Sales Leader Right Now 2022

72

Presentation Skills Please

73

Conferences and Conference Speaking

74

Sales Bonuses Do They Motivate Salespeople Any More?

75

Does All Selling Begin With An Email?

76

Hamlet - The Persuader

77

The Best Sales Films

78

In praise of Glengarry Glen Ross

79

Leadership Levels and Disloyal Bonding from Head Office!

80

Retailers, change or shut up shop

81

Is University Worth the Student Debt? A lively debate!

82

Biases. What are people getting biased about?

83

Your Personal Brand

84

Reappraising the Appraisal

85

Ed Stoppard Part 2

86

Ed Stoppard

87

James Golding: endurance cyclist, cancer beater and former world record holder. Now his sights are set on winning RAAM, Race Across America.

88

2020 Reflections

89

The Office Christmas Party

90

Dissecting the Obsession with Meetings

91

"Your First Ten Words..." The Comedy in Customer Service

92

Follow Up. Why people don't.

93

USA Election, Leadership and Lockdown.

94

NPS - Net Promoter Score, Misguided or Misused? The "would you recommend us" metric the world has signed up to.

95

Working from home or heading back in?

96

Surprise Surprise! You're in sales now too...

97

Disloyal Bonding

98

Two Englishmen in New York...

99

Travel, looking back & ahead.

100

Your Company Values. Total BS?

101

Training in India. Bonus episode, 3.

102

The World will Thrive without Employees, Podcast 2

103

The Age of Targeting is Over. Debriefing the debate.