by Trish Springsteen | Sep 18, 2009 | Business, Communication, Personal Development
Ah! The joys of hypothesis, theory and scientific law! The uncomfortable feeling when they don’t mean what you want them to mean!I don’t want to get into a huge debate between scientific theory and law, only to say that when I went to school theory was something that...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 15, 2009 | Public Speaking
One of the most common reason people want to know more about public speaking is to “organise their thoughts”. When we do a quick survey of why people attend our workshops, this comes right after “becoming more confident”It is, of course, a result of misunderstanding...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 13, 2009 | Communication, Leadership, Personal Development
Tell me; have you ever had a project which challenged you, and on which you spent time and effort only to have it received with curt thanks and very little else? How did you feel?At a recent discussion group on Leadership we spent a lot of time on Vision and Values;...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 6, 2009 | Communication, Public Speaking
Writers and Speakers use the same basic building blocks for their craft … but often they use them differently.Unfortunately when we first start out on our speaker’s pathway we sometimes forget that fact, and we sit and carefully craft our words to create the utmost...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 2, 2009 | Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking
When we discuss gestures in our one day public speaking workshop we use a story that highlights the consequences if you don’t use the appropriate gesture for the size of the venue. Now as this story revolves around an incident in my business partner’s life I quietly...
