My musings today come from a couple of weeks of research concerning the generation gap – the arrival of Gen Y into the workplace has caused a frenzy of theories, studies and articles about ‘how different’ these young people are; and how we older generations will...
When talking to people about public speaking one of the most common comments I hear is “I’ll never be as good a speaker as…..â€. Closely followed by “I wish I could speak just like ……â€.We often spend so much time wishing we were someone else that we...
I have spoken a number of times of the value of the right word at the right time; and how the words can be understood differently because of experience, culture or conditioning.Today I want to talk about the little words that mean a lot – and we may not even realise...
Do you find yourself shaking at the prospect of putting together a presentation and then having to stand up in front of an audience to deliver it?If standing up in public isn’t bad enough, when you get up to make a presentation you are not just putting yourself on...
I read somewhere that words were the way we made sense of the world around us. And the fluency of our communication is the only difference between animals and humans.But then someone else posed the philosophical question “Do words create our reality or does our...
