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Project Your Voice to Create Calm and assurance

For many readers this is the time of year when minds turn to holidays several of which will involve air travel. If you are lucky enough to be boarding a plane headed for far off (or near) climes, may I encourage you to really listen to how the pilot speaks to you and your fellow […]

A Pocket Guide for Summer Party Small Talk

Love them or loathe them, summer parties are part of the annual calendar of professional and social activities… and attendance is usually required at all levels. For some these will be a calendar highlight and for others these will be anxiety-inducing hours of excruciating awkwardness. I am frequently asked for tips about how to navigate […]

Discussion Panel: How to be a Good Monitor. Part 3

This month I’m returning to the topic of panel discussions and focusing the spotlight on the person who, if doing their job properly, makes the panel tick like a metronome – the moderator. In previous sessions we’ve looked at what makes a good panel discussion and how to stand out on a panel so part […]

How to Stand Out on a Discussion Panel. Part 2

We’ve all been there… sitting through a panel discussion where one guest drones on with vague insights, another rattles off jargon-heavy monologues, and the rest simply nod along. But then, there’s that one panellist, the person who captures the room. They’re engaging, relatable, and make you think. So, what makes the difference? In my previoius […]

Why do some panel discussions work… and some don’t? Part 1

What are your thoughts on panel discussions? As we all know, sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t and in this first article of three I’m going to take a closer look at what works and what doesn’t. I spend a lot of time coaching people on how to present. A little like a tennis […]

5 Tips to Create a Great talking Head Video

Using video to engage used to be preserve of those who had extremely deep pockets and the benefit of a technical team to produce the lights, camera, action experience. No more of course. We all have that power cradled in the palm of our hands. But just because we can all make videos, that doesn’t […]