by Trish Springsteen | May 4, 2009 | Communication, Leadership, Personal Development
Sometimes all it takes to stop us in our tracks is one failure. Sometimes the humiliation of defeat can be such that we are determined never to put ourselves out there again.We of course have been chanting the mantra “If at first you don’t succeed try, try again” for...
by Trish Springsteen | Mar 9, 2009 | Business, Communication, Leadership
I may have mentioned that I am moving house at the moment, in between working and writing. Yesterday we had a blitz and moved all the three thousand books which litter my household. Previously the pest control people had been in and did a mighty job; corpses littered...
by Trish Springsteen | Mar 5, 2009 | Business, Communication, Leadership, Public Speaking
I heard a ‘sound bite’ the other day, when someone in Trischel said “in this election I am going to be watching what they say” – she was talking about the coming Queensland State election and her strategy on deciding who to vote for. Her criterion was to ‘watch what...
by Trish Springsteen | Dec 4, 2008 | Communication, Leadership, Uncategorised, Women in Business
It’s the age old question! Men claim they cannot understand women, but I don’t know why since there are numerous books on the subject … especially books like “Mars and Venus in the Workplace”. Perhaps, as this book points out, the problem is that while we communicate...
by Trish Springsteen | Nov 9, 2008 | Business, Communication, Leadership, Personal Development
When you are a presenter at a conference sometimes you never know what to expect. Over the weekend I attended a Toastmasters’ Conference, where the husband and I had been invited to give one of the presentations. The conference theme was leadership, especially focused...
by Trish Springsteen | Oct 23, 2008 | Business, Leadership, Personal Development
One of the most used phrases when I was in the army was “Keep It Simple Stupid”. We used it in relation to explanations of difficult concepts. We tried to make them as simple as possible as long as the basic premises were not compromised.It was a long way to the army...
