Anyone else broken their New Year Resolution? Mine went by the end of Jan 2nd! Why? Mainly because I hadn’t told anyone what they were, so I wasn’t accountable to anyone but me. I don’t know about you but if I want to make a change in my life (large or small) I have to […]
This month Partners With You enters its 20th year of trading. I can’t quite get my head around that and nor can I believe that 19 years ago I left full time and fully paid employment. So, what have I learnt since December 2000? If I wrote an article a week for the next year, […]
Have you noticed the difference in the way that other’s answer an easy or a hard question? Watch the next time there is a Q&A or you are at a meeting (or even if you are chatting to your family). When it is an easy question (or one the speaker knows the answer to) they […]
Is it so loud that it keeps you awake at night? Is it hurtful? I know my internal voice says things to me that I wouldn’t dream of saying to anyone else! Yours may not be quite as negative, but it probably is … at times. The thing to remember is that your brain’s function […]
Have you sat through a lousy presentation recently? When the speaker literally read his slides out loud to you? I’m old enough to remember when we didn’t have PowerPoint and speakers didn’t use it as a crutch to lean on during their presentations. In fact, my first sales role entailed me turning up to a […]
Do you think that the concept of being polite is disappearing? I do! A woman barging past on the street, a man shouting at others for banging into him as he leaves his arm hanging over the armrest on a train, the colleague who doesn’t apologise for keeping you waiting for 20 minutes and of […]
I was in London a couple of weeks ago for several meetings so I stopped in a nearby coffee shop before each one. I expected to get a bit of work done but what I got was a quick lesson on how two businesses can deliver the same service and yet leave the customer with […]
Well to my mind, it’s to overrun. Time is our most precious commodity. You can’t make or earn more and once it has gone it can’t be replaced. Which means that as a speaker if you take more time than allotted you are saying that you don’t think that the audience’s time is important. And […]
This is possibly one of the most frequently asked questions at our successful communication workshop. That and “how do I stop someone I don’t know kissing me in greeting”! Here in the UK there is definitely an awkwardness around meeting and greeting! Probably because we no longer have a commonly recognised norm for how to […]
I was listening to a radio interview recently and the interviewee was asked about the tube system in London and said something along the lines of “I don’t want to be rude but unlike Southerners when we Northerners travel we’re friendly and like to talk to each other”. And it got me thinking …. Are […]
