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.
Many organizations spend millions on training programs. They want to develop leaders, build teams, and engage employees. Unfortunately, many of these training programs fail to deliver desired results. Here are five reasons. Most training programs don’t have measurable goals. Many organizations who have professional development
Ten years ago, I attended sales training for real estate agents. The sales trainers spoke highly of the company which sponsored the training.
I will begin by introducing to you my family because they are everything to me. Meet my wife Romelyn. She is a librarian at the University of the Philippines, Los Banos. She’s finished her masters in Library Science in 2018. She intends to invest her
When your starving crowd are accomplished individuals, get an inspirational speaker. They do not need another motivational speaker. They need someone who can pull them to think beyond themselves. They need someone who can inspire them to leave their pedestals and lift others. Medical doctors,
Every year, companies spend millions of pesos on time management training. We have this wrong belief that low productivity has something to do with our sense of time. Aside from stress management, time management training is an obvious solution for unproductive employees. Unfortunately, this obvious
Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. That’s from Dr. Seuss. Let’s talk about uniqueness. When we are still starting in a certain profession, it is tempting to imitate our heroes and believe
Good leaders work with a sense of urgency. Their words are their vows. They work on the most important and stick to it until it gets done.
A team charter fixes the silent drift that makes meetings heavy, decisions slow, and “we’re not aligned” become the team’s favorite excuse. In this article, Jef Menguin shows how to use a team charter as a strategy conversation—not a form—so roles, rules, and “what winning looks like” become clear. Practice it and share it with your leadership team so you stop guessing, decide faster, and commit harder.
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Let’s make leadership development easy. I have designed Exemplary Leadership so organizations help leaders learn leadership that supports organizational objectives.
Exemplary Leadership Workshop is focused, engaging, and and experiential.
Lead yourself before you aim to lead others. This is not just a saying but a fundamental principle of leadership. For every Filipino professional aspiring to climb the ladder of success and influence, understanding the essence of self-leadership is crucial. This article offers insights and
Let’s say goodbye to excuses. Enabling people is a competence that every manager must master. One of the more effective ways of enabling people is through active training.
But not just any kind of classroom training. You can make your learning faster and better by making your classroom training important.
Customer experience management (CXM) is the practice of designing and reacting to customer interactions to meet or exceed customer expectations and, thus, increase customer satisfaction, loyalty and advocacy.
This workshop teaches the fundamentals of customer experience management, with a focus on the particular issues and challenges faced by the organization.
Customer journey mapping gives managers an overview of the customer’s experience. Managers will see how customers move through the sales funnel. Customer journey mapping help managers identify opportunities to enhance customer experience. The map can show how customer experience can be influenced by the organization
Design Sprints started in Google’s workplace. They designed customer-centric solutions and they do it very fast. It is now also used by Facebook, Apple, social entrepreneurs, and even government agencies around the world. Sprints are practical way of designing solutions to the challenges in an
Loyalty is a function of respect and allegiance to you… and it is the glue that ties your people to the jobs.
More and more business owners and organizational leaders contact me to train their people to be loyal. They want me to change their attitudes. They want me to make them realize that it is to the employees ultimate benefit to be loyal.
Passion originally means suffering. Recently, the meaning expanded to an intense feeling that moves us to action…and that feeling is usually seen as love.
So, do not be surprised when I tell you to do what you love. I believe all leaders will tell you the same. I cannot claim any originality. Passion is doing what you love.
To turn strangers into friends, leave them smiling. To strengthen friendship, leave your friends smiling. To attract more customers and make every customer come back to your store again and again, let them leave smiling. To make every member of your team engage and commit
Have you ever felt you had something important to say, but you stayed quiet? Maybe in a meeting, an idea came to you, but you thought, “What if they laugh? What if I’m wrong?” Maybe you wanted to share your talent, but fear whispered, “You’re
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Begin now. You don’t have to wait until everything is perfect. You have a big project to accomplish. Maybe, a project worth a million pesos. Don’t get yourself be overwhelmed by the bigness of this project. Do not spend too much time on planning. I
When accountability is weak, leaders carry the load and teams fall into a cycle of excuses and delays. In this article, Jef Menguin offers practical frameworks to make ownership clear and follow-through visible every day. Read it and share it with your team so you get consistent execution and fewer dropped balls.