by Trish Springsteen | Jun 2, 2009 | Business, Communication, Leadership, Women in Business
There is an old Irish blessing, which goes “May you live in interesting times” – and these days most of us can say we have been blessed!These are indeed interesting times for many organisations: some are re-defining their operations, some are struggling to recast...
by Trish Springsteen | Mar 9, 2009 | Business, Communication, Leadership
I may have mentioned that I am moving house at the moment, in between working and writing. Yesterday we had a blitz and moved all the three thousand books which litter my household. Previously the pest control people had been in and did a mighty job; corpses littered...
by Trish Springsteen | Oct 17, 2008 | Communication, Leadership
I had a really strange morning yesterday while out on a quick shopping trip. I only needed milk and bread and you would have thought that it wasn’t a difficult assignment. Well, you would have been wrong. The problem was that I was invisible.First I tried the bread...
by Trish Springsteen | Oct 14, 2008 | Business, Communication, Leadership
I am sure that you have met someone for the first time, and while they were pleasant there was something about them that didn’t ring true. We may not be absolutely sure why it is that we don’t trust them, but …In our public speaking workshops we highlight the...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 22, 2008 | Business, Communication, Leadership
Great necessities call forth great leaders ~ Abigail AdamsIt is said that difficult times will produce the leader needed, and some people point to the rise of Churchill in the Second World War as the leader that Britain desperately needed. It certainly worked for...