by Trish Springsteen | Mar 6, 2011 | Business, Communication, Job Interviews, Public Speaking
… and the triumvirate of ‘L’s that lead to success are Letters, Leadership and Listening. A somewhat disparate lot!!Why Letters? So many job applications these days are submitted as ‘Forms’, which can be simple or complex depending on the company; so...
by Trish Springsteen | Mar 1, 2011 | Business, Communication, Job Interviews, Public Speaking
Job seeking can be an emotional time; if this is our first job we can approach it with excitement and enthusiasm. Our first job is often the demarcation between youth and maturity. However, if we have been a victim of economic uncertainty finding another...
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 | Sep 16, 2010 | Communication, Public Speaking
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 the...
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 12, 2010 | Communication, Public Speaking
Due to a slight problem I have been computer-less for the weekend. The weather and the arthritis were not conducive to gardening; and the library is still in such a state of flux that reading is somewhat guilt-ridden. I was therefore thrown on the mercies of the...