by Nicola Hainey | 6 June, 2023 | Authority, Body Language, Building Confidence, Client Skills, Communication
Assertive communication – some people want it, some people fear it, other people overdo it! Life is too short to not speak up and be heard or to be so focussed on exerting control that you damage relationships along the way. It’s important to speak up, but how can we...
by Steven Maddocks | 10 February, 2023 | Communication, Presentation Skills, Written Communications
Smart BrevityJim VandeHei, Mike Allen and Roy SchwartzLondon: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2023. Overview The premise of Smart Brevity is that business writing has failed to move with the times. In the smartphone age, anyone can easily and freely send their every...
by Steven Maddocks | 3 January, 2023 | Communication, Online Meetings, Presenting to Camera
Unlike in real life, the person on the other end of a Zoom or Teams call is stuck with whatever view of ourselves we offer them. Therefore, it pays to think like a movie director, who ‘sets up the shot’ to create the correct relationship between the character on...
by Steven Maddocks | 22 December, 2022 | Communication, Online Meetings, Presenting to Camera
Unlike in real life, the person on the other end of a Zoom or Teams call is stuck with whatever view of ourselves we offer them. Therefore, it pays to think like a movie director, who ‘sets up the shot’ to create the correct relationship between the character on...
by Steven Maddocks | 7 December, 2022 | Communication, Online Meetings, Presenting to Camera
Our partners at the CFA recently asked us to deliver a webinar for their members providing online presentation tips. Drawing on our professional background, we dipped into the movie director’s toolkit. What can Hollywood teach us about communicating effectively on...
by Steven Maddocks | 24 May, 2022 | Building Confidence, Communication, Presentation Skills, Voice
Teaching people how to breathe might strike you as teaching grandmother to suck eggs. But there are different ways of breathing, and some are better than others. By looking first at the habits and consequences of bad breathing, we can make sure we are doing the...
