How do I improve my facilitation?

Hi, This is Teppei .

I came back home today from 4 days business trip.

I felt relief finally. During the consaltation with the client I realized that I have some areas to be improved.

Especailly how to deliver and explain the concepts.

Actually one of the most important component of delivering the speech is the sound of voice.

It will influence the impact of the message and the contents.

Also another most important componets is the body language.

When you fold the arms, show no eye contacts and showing no empaty, those body expression give influence other's feeling about yourself.

If you want to deliver good speach or show the good presentation, you have to carry out two components.

In asia countires, unspoken expression are understood in the conversation context, but western way of communication influence our daily conversation.

So we can't ignore their ways any more. So we are all aware the importance of non verbal communication.

Keep tone of voice a little bid higher than usualy and showing the body language to the audience s are key success factor of the presentation and the facilitation.

If you do the presentation in daily business life, it will be definitely helpful to improve your voice tone and body language.

Which skills will be more prosperous to my life?

Hi, this is Teppei again. How are you?

This blog is connected to my Japanese SNS mixi and Facebook.

Obviously most of Japanese friends of mine don't spend time to read my blog in English.

But I have many friend all over the world and now connected on Facebook.

So I thought it is better for me to update what I am doing here in Tokyo.

At the same time this writing will help myself in future to figure out what I am doing and thinking now.

Around Chinese new year many friend of mine visited from Vetname, HongKong and Singapore.

I could manage to meet three of them but could not meet one of them. (Sorry Christina!)

Since last year the economic turmoil make us worry what may happen this year.

It efffects a little bid to my work as well. So it will make me more free time this year I may go overseas to study to improve language or skills.

Or other skills such as playing musical instruments or painting.

Whatever I do , those actions will benefit me in long run.

I am still wondering which skill should I acquire.

How do I improve my English speaking?

Hi, this is Teppei.

Few days ago I went out with my wife and her friend Julia.

She is teaching English at some schools.

Because of my work, I sometime to facilitate in English for natives about the leadership and some other business skills.

So far I don't have any serious issues in speaking English but I am not sure which level I have right now.

I have done the workshop for the organizations in English and received good feedbacks from natives.

I provides the skills and tools for them. After the class all participants are equipped to benefits their works.

The contents and tools are very helpful for them but I always wonder my expressions are right or not.

Now so far nobody give us the feedback.

So I made up my mind to join the Toast master club to improve my English.

Do you know any other ways to improve your English?

Western Values or Asian Values.

Hi, this is Teppei again.

My business partner from Singapore is visiting Tokyo this week. We had several interesting meeting last week.

Over the dinner we discussed about how the western values effect our way of thinking and actions.

We have now new U.S government administation by Barack Obama but the still American govenment have the tendency to think in binominal position like "Yes" or "No".

During Bush administration he said to the world if the nation which support their invasion Iraq means allies and if not it means the enemy.

In reality there are many things we can't put the thing either black or white, we have grey.

Instead western values asian values allow us to have grey area, all things have the meaning and we can't put everything in two categories.

In business and daily lifes asian values and those ways of thinking would be suitable for us.

I can't judge which is better but if you are forced to answer "Yes" or "NO", there is other way to answer for those questions.

Is it our fault or other's fault?

Hi, this is Teppei again.

I often heard from my client " I can't do much about this economic downturn."

Are we really not responsible of those environmental changes?

As the consultant of the corporate executives, the answer of this question is definetly YES.

We are responsible for everything happening to us.

Even this chaotic economic turmoil, some comanies still make the profits in their business.

We chose our products and services.

We chose the target market and the target's customers.

We chose the present situation long time ago.


People who expected property crashes in the states sold their properties a few years ago as about the top prices.

Those people shift their invesment money to total new markets.

If we start blaming other people, we can do that very easily.

We have the tendency to blame others instead of ourselves.

Well, is it OK for us to live like that?


NO, I don't want to be like that.

We should face the reality and observe what was happened to us.


We chose the job, we chose the subject we learned, we chose how to spend our time, we chose the friend who hang around with.

It is totally our fault, if there is something wrong.

If we made the mistakes, we correct the mistakes. If we chose the wrong choice, change the choise.

Change the people who hang around with, change how to spend your time, change the way of thingking.


If we do change, the life will be changing.

Happy Chinese New Year

Happy Chinese new year!

Hello, this is Teppei Ikeda from Tokyo, Japan.

Do you have any resolution for new year yet?

We Japanese celebrate the calender new year and usually we talk our resolution among family members and friends.

My new year's resolution is to publish the second and the third book.

I already finished writing the second book but the third book is still on the way.

By the way why do we try to reset our mindset on new year's day?


Is it possible for us to make the resolution on the other day?

We have the tendency to follow the other people do.

So friends and family keep asking your new year's resolution on new year day so we started thinking that way.

Do you ask your friend resolution?