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Networking Skills in The Lawyer Networking There are certain phrases which can strike a feeling of dread in many people – fancy dress, audience participation, contemporary dance and networking event. Picture the scene – you’ve just joined a top firm, it’s all started off well and then the suggestion comes down that you should get out and […]
“Dynamic Impressions” – click here to read an article on public speaking in The Lawyer At any given moment, there are any number of corporate presentations going on around the world during which people are being bombarded by a barrage of endless lacklustre slides over-filled with interminable data and incomprehensible jargon. We’ve all sat through them, daydreaming of […]
Nigel Marsh is the author of Fat, Forty and Fired, Overworked and Underlaid and Fat, Fifty and Fired-Up – he is also the co founder of Earth Hour and it is his view that work-life balance is too important to be left in the hands of your employer. He sets out, in this extremely engaging talk, an ideal day […]
In two fascinating experiments Dan Ariely explores what motivates us. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we aren’t motivated solely by money. Professor of psychology and behavioral economist, Dan Ariely, presents two eye-opening experiments that reveal our unexpected attitudes toward meaning in our work. It seems that most of us thrive by making constant progress and feeling […]
“You can make more friends in two months by being interested in other people than in two years of trying to get people interested in you.” Dale Carnegie. Being interested in other people is, without doubt, one of the most fruitful aspects of developing business. Very few people are so completely unique that they are […]
Many people dread public speaking – Megan Washington has good reason to do so For many, the fear of public speaking is one of the foremost causes of anxiety and stress. Sleepless nights, cold sweats and panic attacks and yet there is often actually very little to be afraid of and the fear itself can […]
Outside is where the meat of our life lies. Serial explorer Ben Saunders wants us to go outside! Not because it’s always pleasant and happy, but because that’s where the meat of life is, “the juice that we can suck out of our hours and days.” Spending time outside is one of the surest ways to […]
How do great leaders inspire action and make you feel safe Simon Sinek has delivered two TED talks on leadership, both of which are equally thought-provoking and inspiring. Two words are synonymous with those talks: ‘Trust’ and ‘Why?’
“First rule of leadership – everything is your fault.” Wise words from Hopper (A Bug’s Life). We have all worked with great leaders and been inspired by them and then there have been those whose leadership style can be described at best as being modelled on that of Vlad the Impaler. Leadership is about inspiring others […]
What is it like to raise a child who’s different from you in some fundamental way (like a prodigy, or a differently abled kid, or a criminal)? In this quietly moving talk, writer and speaker Andrew Solomon shares what he learned from talking to dozens of parents — asking them: What’s the line between unconditional […]
For the frist time in British general election history, 7 party leaders take to the same stage to debate, discuss and generally jockey for position in the public eye. Each one has a clear set of objectives – things they need to say and do and things they need to avoid. What are the dangers […]
Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class there. Based on his research and 12 years of experience at Harvard, he clearly and humorously describes how to increase happiness and meaning, raise success rates and profitability and […]
All to often we are faced with a problem which is seemingly too hard to solve. What do most of us do? Give up? Procrastinate? Avoid? We are conditioned by a system that has tuaght us to pursue the best grades at all costs and so for many the ability to set about strategising is […]
When is the last time you did absolutely nothing for 10 whole minutes? Not texting, talking or even thinking? Mindfulness expert Andy Puddicombe describes the transformative power of doing just that: Refreshing your mind for 10 minutes a day, simply by being mindful and experiencing the present moment. Reassuringly there is no need for any […]
In 2009 and article appeared in The Guardian which named Gordon Brown as being one of the most boring public speakers around. Yet in the same year, when asked to speak on a topic dear to his heart, one in which he clearly believes and to an audience who are away from the &lsqulsquo;calm of […]