by Trish Springsteen | Oct 9, 2011 | Business, Communication, Women in Business
It’s Monday morning and I’ve just spend an hour deciphering, decoding and deleting a pile of emails; very few of which were of importance in either my professional or my personal life.It is really incredible how this insidious means of communication has stolen in and...
by Trish Springsteen | Oct 3, 2011 | Business, Communication, Leadership, Women in Business
Or … Making Group Discussions Really Work.Simon was looking particularly glum when I bumped into him recently, and it didn’t take long to find out the problem. He had been detailed to lead the monthly get together at work; to receive reports on progress,...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 26, 2011 | Communication, Personal Development, Women in Business
We ran away this weekend … disappeared for a few days. Became incommunicado in fact (which is why the blog is a little late).We just wanted to relax and get away, and so we ended up in a nearby little coastal town just north of Brisbane. And it was a...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 14, 2011 | Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking, Women in Business
Interesting Point – how do we persuade others to our point of view?When we need to persuade someone it indicates that they may be unwilling to believe us. There is a great deal of difference between ‘informing’ your audience on the history of climate change; and...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 1, 2011 | Business, Communication, Public Speaking, Women in Business
It’s the *shudder* old myth again!! Pundits propounding in print about the unimportance of the ‘words’ we use to convey our message. And yet, here we are – together; me at my place and you at yours and all the gestures and body language in the world is not going...
by Trish Springsteen | Aug 29, 2011 | Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking, Women in Business
One of the pleasures of working in communication training is that you receive exciting invitations to attend, or even judge, speaking events across the nation.I was privileged to be invited to such an occasion recently, where there were a number of speakers on display...
