by Trish Springsteen | Feb 2, 2014 | Business, Job Interviews, Personal Development, Women in Business
It is a fact of life that most companies still use the interview to select candidates to fill vacancies. Interviews are regularly conducted to assess performance or to judge promotion prospects.For some people having to face an interview is agony; it can be quite...
by Trish Springsteen | Jan 28, 2014 | Business, Job Interviews, Personal Development, Public Speaking, Women in Business
Interviews! Gee, don’t you just love them? Nevertheless we will all, at one time or another, be faced with the traumatic experience of having to front an interview. The problem is that they’re always so important for us; a new job, a promotion or even a...
by Trish Springsteen | Nov 18, 2013 | Business, Communication, Leadership, Personal Development, Women in Business
All organisations need to understand the ‘Closed Loop’ System of applying feedback. Any identified discrepancy between what is supposed to happen and what is actually happening, which is followed by a rectifying action is known as a Closed Loop; and most...
by Trish Springsteen | Apr 22, 2013 | Business, Communication, Leadership, Personal Development, Women in Business
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” Ralph Waldo EmersonA couple of days ago I was at a function which brought together a variety of people from all walks of life. Looking around I noticed a couple of people talking together and I...
by Trish Springsteen | Apr 8, 2013 | Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking, Women in Business
One of the most controversial research studies concern the way that we humans think; how our brain actually works. There have been some interesting theories put forward about the functions of both sides of our brain. Concepts such as ‘Left Brain Thinking’...
by Trish Springsteen | Mar 11, 2013 | Business, Communication, Leadership, Personal Development, Women in Business
As a Warrant Officer in the army, whenever one of my team told me that ‘there is something you ought to know’ a shiver of apprehension went down my spine, because I knew it was going to get ugly. Why is it never, ever going to be good news?In a...
