Impact Coaching for Ambitious Business Leaders A 12-month individual program for leaders who want to shine Want to raise your profile and create a phenomenal personal reputation? Influence and inspire staff, clients and stakeholders? Stimulate a productive culture of communication that increases profits? Boost corporate reputation by up to two-thirds? Escalate the market value of your … Read more
Expert Questioning Techniques Achieve Objectives Fast The importance of creative questioning Business leaders who ask the right questions, in the right way, to the right people, can assess much more easily how to achieve their objectives. At its most simplistic, the basis of questioning creatively involves: Thinking about what you don’t know, and what you … Read more
Developing Voice Projection and Vocal Richness Voice projection for louder speech Do you ever struggle to make yourself heard? Do people ask you to repeat yourself? Is your speech volume dial turned down? As an integral part of our leadership communication programs, Helen Sewell will show you some simple, practical steps to develop your voice … Read more
My last post mentioned the leader of the UK’s Green Party, Natalie Bennett, and her catastrophic pre-election interviews where she clearly didn’t have a clue about the subject under discussion. But what is it about an appalling interview that piques our interest? Why do we enjoy cringing at someone else’s misfortune? Or perhaps ‘enjoy’ is too … Read more
The significance of a strong voice I lost my voice this week. It totally disappeared and there was absolutely nothing I could do about it apart from remain quiet. Even communication professionals can fall victim to vocal cord viruses, although this was a first for me. But never one to let an opportunity slip by, I … Read more
Create clarity – use a helicopter view In communication terms, clarity is everything. Most of the time, this means explaining the implications of something rather than the details. However, when you work with data, it’s easy to lose sight of the implications – and who doesn’t work with data these days? If you can’t see … Read more
The controversy over high heels at work There’s a row in the UK over whether employers should be allowed to force female staff to wear high heels at work as part of the dress code. Regardless of the sexist nature of such an outdated policy, any company that compels women to wear heels is damaging … Read more
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Fear of public speaking (glossophobia) is one of the world’s leading anxieties – outranked only by the fear of snakes. But while snakes are a potentially life-threatening hazard, of which it is entirely reasonable to be scared, getting up to give a presentation holds no such dangerous threats. Luckily, fear of public speaking can be resolved through a process of specialist … Read more
