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Articles about communication, business building and personal development.
The Fatal Assumptions About Leadership Communication
"The leader speaks. Followers applaud on command. There is an illusion that communication took place, but it didn't." - from The Leader's Voice by Boyd Clarke & Ron Crossland If you have done a workshop with me there is a good chance you have heard me speak...
It’s easy when you want to, but so hard when you have to
Any purist who has read my writing will tell you that I'm not the most grammatically correct writer in the world. But (ha ha) I hope that my writing is easy to read and reasonably engaging, which is what I aim for. While I am better known for speaking, writing...
Get the Facts About Fear of Speaking In Public from an Old Master
One of my favourite books about public speaking is called "The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking". It is a 1962 rewrite by Dorothy Carnegie of the textbook her late husband Dale Carnegie wrote for his courses called Public Speaking and Influencing Men in...
There’s No Substitute for Stage Time
“I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get. You only get better by playing.” – Buddy Rich Okay, I don't think practising is a bad thing. I don't think that Buddy Rich meant that either. I think what the great jazz drummer meant was...
Speak Naturally & Outshine the Overscripted
“Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.” – Zach Galifianakis I'm not sure about the context that Zach Galifianakis said this in but let me be clear, when I chose this quote I wasn't thinking that you should literally make stuff up....
Should I be worried when I am described as ‘professional’?
I used to have a boss who taught me to look a little deeper whenever somebody described our company as "very professional". Why? Surely that's a positive thing, right? Well, yes, being professional means that you did everything right, there were no mistakes and...
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