I saw a great blog the other day about the importance of having a capsule wardrobe. This has long been an ideal of mine: I say ideal because anyone who knows me knows that I am like most other people with a wardrobe full of favourite items, items too small/large, fashion items woefully out of […]
Working with a client recently reminded me of doing a jigsaw puzzle. We had most of the pieces there but it wasn’t quite making the full picture! The words were there (carefully crafted, elegantly sequenced, engagingly engineered). The will was there […]
TIP ONE: Do your preparation. And do it effectively. Think about what your audience need to hear from you not what you want to say. Take time to consider what their world is like at the moment – the hopes, dreams, desires, problems, frustrations and barriers to what they want. This will help you target […]
It is a challenge isn’t it? When you know your subject inside out but you are speaking to people who may not know as much as you, or may even know more than you: people who are interested in what you say or people who are there because they have been told to be there. This […]
I was listening to Richard Eyre the director speaking on Radio the other day. It was interesting hearing how he goes about directing a play or film from the beginning. He described it as ‘creating a landscape from scratch, with a world, people, language and activities’ This world was for the audience. It made me […]
I came across a story the other day that really made me pause and think. An elderly gentleman in his seventies had prided himself on his good memory all his working professional life. As a medical doctor and professor he had been able to learn and recall information easily and almost without thought. As he […]
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