by Trish Springsteen | Jul 15, 2010 | Business, Communication, Leadership
How do you get the best out of your team? How do you take a group of individuals with individual goals, skills and personalities and have them work together to achieve a common goal and purpose?Well if it was that easy there wouldn’t be so many books written about...
by Trish Springsteen | Jun 24, 2010 | Business, Communication, Leadership, Personal Development
Have you, on one of your MBWA tours, ever come across something that is not working and then think to yourself “Well, it’s not my place to fix it”?Or have you been to see a staff member about a task, only to come away half an hour later and realise that the one thing...
by Trish Springsteen | Jun 18, 2010 | Communication, Leadership
We have been discussing the varying types of leadership over the breakfast table recently and we have come to some startling conclusions which I would like to share with you today.Perhaps I should indicate our level of expertise in this subject, as I expect you would...
by Trish Springsteen | Mar 7, 2010 | Communication, Leadership, Public Speaking
I had my feathers slightly ruffled over the weekend – I found myself passionately defending a point of view to a sceptical disbeliever only to be told“The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion!” Thomas Babington Macaulay, Essay on Athenian OratorsAs I...
by Trish Springsteen | Mar 4, 2010 | Communication, Leadership, Personal Development
So said Albert Einstein; and one would suppose that he would know!At a recent discussion at my daughter’s (who seems to be growing intellectually more like her mother daily, according to the husband) we took apart this idea, and asked ourselves if it is still true...
by Trish Springsteen | Feb 28, 2010 | Business, Communication, Leadership, Personal Development
I started thinking about the question of problems during a recent One-Day Public Speaking Workshop.We had just finished working on the organisation of information to achieve the required outcome (which is posh talk for ‘putting your ideas in order’); and during the...
