by Trish Springsteen | Sep 22, 2009 | Communication, Public Speaking
2000 years ago an ancient philosopher (Zeno of Citium – if anyone asks) once said “We have been given two ears but a single mouth in order that we should hear more and talk less”. And of course it is still as relevant today as it ever was.Often we interchange the...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 15, 2009 | Public Speaking
One of the most common reason people want to know more about public speaking is to “organise their thoughts”. When we do a quick survey of why people attend our workshops, this comes right after “becoming more confident”It is, of course, a result of misunderstanding...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 6, 2009 | Communication, Public Speaking
Writers and Speakers use the same basic building blocks for their craft … but often they use them differently.Unfortunately when we first start out on our speaker’s pathway we sometimes forget that fact, and we sit and carefully craft our words to create the utmost...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 2, 2009 | Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking
When we discuss gestures in our one day public speaking workshop we use a story that highlights the consequences if you don’t use the appropriate gesture for the size of the venue. Now as this story revolves around an incident in my business partner’s life I quietly...
by Trish Springsteen | Aug 31, 2009 | Communication, Public Speaking
This was a question I was asked recently, and my questioner had statistics that were said to prove that body language did not add any real or additional message to the words. “I do a great deal of my work on the telephone” she added triumphantly, “and you don’t...
by Trish Springsteen | Aug 18, 2009 | Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking, Women in Business
There is an old saying: ”A journey of a thousand miles begins with that first step.”Well my journey began many years ago when I took my first step to conquer my fear of public speaking. It has been a journey fraught with many highs and some lows; and it is a journey...
