by Nicola Hainey | 29 November, 2019 | Building Confidence, Featured, Performance, Team Building
Why is it that companies such as Facebook, Uber, Apple and Pepsico are part of the growing trend in bringing improv into their employee training programmes? What can we learn from an art form that spontaneously creates a whole show out of nothing? Well, it turns out –...
by Martyn Barmby | 25 July, 2017 | Authenticity, Authority, Blog, Building Confidence, Emotional Engagement, Pitching, Presentation skills, Public speaking, Storytelling
Earlier this month we were delighted to work with the team at Reload Greece. They were founded in 2012 after seeing the inspirational effects of young entrepreneurs in Greece during the crisis. Youth unemployment in Greece hit a staggering 60% in March of 2013. Even...
by Martyn Barmby | 3 August, 2016 | Blog, Building Confidence, Presentation skills, Public speaking, Voice
Last week we enjoyed running a day’s team-building activity in the open air with the team at Bianca Sainty Personal Training. As well as looking at body language and posture we spent a large percentage of the programme exploring the speaking outside. In particular we...
by Martyn Barmby | 30 June, 2015 | Building Confidence, Featured
We were delighted to be approached as sponsors of the junior prizes for the Windrush Aquathlon 2015, an event organised by our local Triathlon Club based in Brixton, South London. It was a really amazing event, excellently organised and we even made the local press....
by Martyn Barmby | 19 May, 2015 | Building Confidence, Difficult conversations, Interview Skills, Nerves, Perception
We talk to every client about the effect the nervous adrenaline produced by our amygdala can have on our bodies. Our brain senses fear and our system rapidly produces a defence – flight/fight or freeze, in short a way to get ourselves out of imminent danger....
by Martyn Barmby | 7 October, 2014 | Authenticity, Authority, Blog, Body Language, Building Confidence, Emotional Engagement, Featured, Perception, Performance, Personal Profile, Presentation skills, Public speaking, Voice
“Getting to the top is as much to do with how you look as what you achieve.” So says this week’s Economist. It is backed with an array of striking facts about the most successful CEOs being taller, fitter and deeper voiced. It is a great read so have...
