Jef Menguin is a leadership development consultant, motivational speaker, and founder of Strategic Learning Consultants. He helps CEOs, HR leaders, and L&D teams connect leadership development to business goals and turn strategic priorities into daily leadership behavior.
Students often ask this question: is leadership a skill? The answer is important. Because if the answer is affirmative, then everyone can become a good leader. Skills are learned abilities to get a job done. If leadership is a skill, then leadership can be learned.
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I started using a to-do list more than two decades ago. I was still a seminarian. We practiced listing down everything we had to do because people expected us to serve them all.
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Public speaking can feel like a performance, but it works better when you treat it like giving a gift—something useful people can take home. In this article, Jef Menguin shares how that mindset removes pressure and helps you focus on serving the audience, not impressing
Public speaking turned my life around. But I never thought I would be a public speaker one day. When I was young, I dreamt of becoming a doctor, an architect, and an engineer. In high school, I thought of becoming a lawyer, and then a
Team building importance is often misundertood. Many Philippine companies do not go beyond teaching team concepts or playing games. This post can help you change your perspective about the importance of teams and team building.
Public speaking fear is real. To deny it is ignorance. To say that one can eliminate public speaking fear is a disservice. You don’t become a fearless speaker because fears are always present, and they won’t go away.
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Is public speaking a skill? I am often asked this question by students. I will try to answer to encourage my readers to invest time in public speaking. One purpose of this website is to help you develop your public speaking skills. Public speaking is
Public speaking is an art. I will tell you why and it is my hope that you will engage yourself in learning and enjoying public speaking.
Awesome persuasive speeches make people buy even before you sell. A speaker who delivers persuasive speeches finds ways to help audiences solve painful problems and let them see new opportunities.
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Life goes on. Viruses may limit our movements. Governments may lock us down, but we have to keep moving. Humans decided to leave the caves to see the light of day every morning. We farm. We hunt. We live life to the fullest. Life goes
Here are straightforward and honest answers to the most common public speaking questions. Lots of people want to learn how to become influential speakers. I believe that by answering their questions, they’ll be able to pay attention to essential ideas. You can learn how to
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Yes, there are more than six leadership theories. Every year, new experts come up with their leadership theories. Our ideas about leadership are growing and evolving. But unlike evolution, none of these popular theories or models became extinct. Great Man Theory Leaders are born to
Life quotes are life hacks. These life quotes are shortcuts to the wisdom of world influencers. They are though-provoking, encouraging, and inspiring.
It worked for me. And I know that working on our two feet will work for you two. Rely upon yourself. — The days of the pandemic are not yet over. I believe, and I am hoping that I am very wrong, that we have
I look around, and I saw that there are people who live a good life. These people are my best models and not the book authors who give 1001 techniques on time management. I must observe them. I must listen to what they say. The
People have been dreaming of a good life. In conversations with friends, I often hear them define a good life based on the amount of money in their bank accounts. When I was young, one of my dreams was to be a millionaire. Many Filipinos,
I want Jefferson Carlos to know that aiming for improvement is good. But I will not ask him to do everything to be better than others. I will urge him to be the only one.
Your leadership style is influence by your beliefs, values, skills, and experiences. Leaders use styles that are most adaptive to a situation. We change our leadership style so we can survive and thrive
You can teach your knowledge about leadership. You can show people the similarities and differences of various leadership styles. You can talk about the five levels of leadership or lecture on strategic leadership. You can speak about the 100 universal laws of leadership or the