Over the years I’ve presented using most styles of microphone. On stage I’ve coped with a handheld heavyweight, a clip-on lapel mic and a headset that sat over my hair like a hairband. I’ve also spoken into a mic on radio, internet TV, on Zoom calls and most recently to record my audio book*. And […]
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Having not stayed away from home for the past 20 months I have stayed in 4 different hotels in just the last 2 months; twice for work and twice for pleasure. Pre-Covid, I tended to stay in the same type of hotel for business (low cost, standard service, you know exactly what you’ll get and
Don’t make a bad situation worse. My takeaways from recent hotel stays. Read More »
When I was little, I couldn’t pronounce my ‘R’’s so I would get “Weally, weally cwoss” and my father told me I would be OK so long as I didn’t marry a “Wobert”. I had elocution lessons (as they were called then) to help me change ‘Weally’ to ‘Really’ and ‘Wobert’ to ‘Robert’ … which
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I’m seeing a lot of talk at the moment about visibility. The team and I work with hundreds of people a year who need or want to be seen and heard at work and that means being visible. It means telling people what you know that they may find useful and being the person others
Is your plan for this year to be more visible? Read More »
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
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When others invade our personal space we find it uncomfortable. And what I’m talking about here is the amount of space we like to have between us and someone else. It is dependent on who you are and my relationship with you. And personal space is exactly that … personal. What I consider to be
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Helping you to get a new job isn’t really what I do; although all of the techniques I cover in this column are going to be relevant in helping you to portray yourself well at an interview. Having said that not everyone gets the chance to get to an interview and recently I have received
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When standing, if your feet are jiggling, crossed, moving without purpose, rocking, swaying or shuffling they are telling the person you are talking to that you aren’t as confident as you would like them to think you are. If you are presenting then this can really diminish your audience’s impression of you, which will make
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At a time of year when many of us are making a new start … new term, new university, new job or just turning over a new leaf it seems like a good time to talk about making that great first impression. We all make sweeping assumptions about others based on the way they look
5 things you can do to make a great first impression. Read More »
I was speaking at the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust recently to a group of students. They were all studying architecture or have recently qualified so wanted to brush up on their First Impressions, for interviews, when networking and when presenting. It was a great few hours and amongst many things, we discussed how to handle
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