by Trish Springsteen | Oct 12, 2010 | Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking
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…..”. Closely followed by “I wish I could speak just like ……”.We often spend so much time wishing we were someone else that we forget that we have...
by Trish Springsteen | Oct 1, 2010 | Communication, Personal Development, Women in Business
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...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 27, 2010 | Personal Development
Do you have a dream? Something that you have always wanted to do; but the time never seemed right?Perhaps you vaguely remembered that dream while in the middle of living a busy life, and thought “Soon, I’ll get round to doing that” but never seem to get there?I ask,...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 15, 2010 | Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking
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...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 8, 2010 | Business, Communication, Personal Development
According to research in 2008* workplace stress was costing the Australian economy $14.81 billion a year. Stress related presenteeism and absenteeism was directly costing Australian employers $10.11 billion a year and 3.2 days per worker were being lost each year...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 3, 2010 | Communication, Personal Development
I am sure we have all had moments when we thought …”It seemed like a good idea …”. Perhaps a time when you decided to go ahead with a project or idea and then find yourself in the middle of chaos wondering just what happened. Or a time when someone suggested “lets do...
