by Trish Springsteen | Jun 29, 2011 | Business, Communication, Personal Development, Women in Business
And no; this is not going to be about THAT wall – but the wall between us when we try to communicate our ideas and our thoughts.Sometimes when we try to communicate accurately, it is as if there is an invisible barrier between us that muffles and distorts our...
by Trish Springsteen | Jun 23, 2011 | Business, Communication, Women in Business
“Hey, have you heard about John? (or Mary – put any name in here)- I don’t know how true it is but …”And so it starts: the informal communication process that exists wherever two or three people are gathered together, usually in the coffee room or around the...
by Trish Springsteen | Jun 19, 2011 | Communication, Leadership, Personal Development, Women in Business
It was a networking breakfast at the crack of dawn. I had risen early, collected the other partner, and we had driven off across the city. The sun had barely crossed the horizon and the temperature was hovering around ‘officially winter’. And...
by Trish Springsteen | Jun 9, 2011 | Business, Communication, Women in Business
It’s breakfast table pondering time again … and this time we were pondering on the complexities of communication and how we manage despite mostly getting it wrong!Yesterday the husband was a trifle morose; his usual ebullience was missing and a dour...
by Trish Springsteen | May 15, 2011 | Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking, Women in Business
“And now I’d like to move onto the expected financial expenditure for the next three months. Balanced against the improved performance in sales, demonstrated state wide, and the percentage increase on returns on investment …..”Ah! Financial reports; don’t...
by Trish Springsteen | May 2, 2011 | Business, Communication, Public Speaking, Women in Business
Over 2,500 years ago, a well known public speaker rose to his feet in the Greek Forum and said “One who forms a judgment on any point but cannot explain it, might as well never have thought at all on the subject.” (Pericles quoted in ‘Elements of Rhetoric’...
