by Trish Springsteen | Oct 18, 2009 | Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking
…All shiny and new and wide awake!Isn’t language wonderful? Who hasn’t sat and listened as a consummate storyteller wove mental pictures for us with wonderful words?Have you ever wondered why language evolved the way it did – after all we are told that “a...
by Trish Springsteen | Oct 16, 2009 | Communication, Public Speaking
Yesterday Trischel conducted a Presentation Skills Workshop where we had a lively discussion about the effectiveness of business communication. We considered that since we have been ‘communicating’ since we were babies we should know what we are doing. Alas – some of...
by Trish Springsteen | Oct 13, 2009 | Communication, Public Speaking
One of the things I really like about travelling is the plane travel. It is a great opportunity to catch up with all those movies you haven’t had the time to see in the normal hectic day to day life. Especially when you can choose from 20 or more movies! For the last...
by Trish Springsteen | Oct 1, 2009 | Communication, Public Speaking
We know that communication is designed to pass on our ideas, opinions and thoughts to others – to share our knowledge and to persuade others to our point of view. But in a business sense there is much more we need to consider when we are giving a presentation designed...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 29, 2009 | Public Speaking, Training, Women in Business
At a recent personal coaching session I was amused to hear that the main thing the client wanted was to “Startle, Dazzle and Amaze them!” – Oh! Don’t we all!!She was very happy with the body of her speech; she felt that she had the ideal arguments to convince her...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 24, 2009 | Business, Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking
Yeah like that is going to happen. Let’s be perfectly honest between ourselves, we probably haven’t ever told anybody “all about ourselves” and that includes spouses and best friends. So let’s have a discussion on disclosure.Most of us have a real problem with ‘self...