Why? Why are you doing this? Why bother speaking at all? Well mainly because you want to change the audience in some way, otherwise there is no point. The change does not have to be worthy of a Nobel prize, it just needs to impact the way someone thinks about your topic and ultimately you. …
You know you have a 5-minute slot to speak at a meeting and it will solve the biggest problem your team are facing at the moment. You prepare what to say, have written a clear structured and easy to follow message so everyone has to listen right? Wrong. You have to deliver it in …
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What is your superpower? Mine is my ability to stand on a stage and talk. I have won awards for it. I am an accomplished public speaker. Yet I it has not always been that way. I had to learn to feel the fear and say it anyway. Even back in school my reports …
Don’t be like Alan……last week Gina Miller appeared on the BBC facing her troll, Alan. I don’t know how we got here, but we are. How someone can tell someone they wished they would die an agonising death and claim they had the moral high ground is beyond my comprehension, but it happens, a lot. …
You know you are the best in the room, but when it comes time for someone to lead a project or cover for a senior colleague it is always that idiot who cannot take his foot out of his mouth long enough for a shoe shine that gets asked. Why?
You are talented and you work hard. You know your company inside out and you know exactly what it needs from you. You know your job and how to add value to your role. You can see easily how some small tweaks could make a lot a difference. You sit in the meeting room, but …