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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 […]

Micro Habits to Improve Your Work Life

Are you ready to jump back into work after the Christmas break (I say ‘break’… when December 25th falls on a Wednesday it’s more of a disruption than a break)? Most of us will have muttered a quiet mantra as the new year got underway about improving at least one aspect of our personal lives. […]

Whose fault is it when someone interrupts?

Are you someone who hates the sound of silence? Some people find silences very troublesome and can’t resist the urge to fill pauses with rather than sit them out and wait to see what’s coming next. Others prefer to sit back and listen before adding to a conversation. But what happens when these two conversational […]

Visualise Your Next Successful Presentation

If I told you that the secret to making your next presentation a success was to visualise it in advance, no doubt some of you would be wondering if I’d swapped a suit for a string of beads and a headband… After all, visualisation and manifestation are often bundled up together with gamma waves, heightened […]

Using humour to lighten up a speech

Autumn coincides with the political party conference season in the UK. Like many big conferences these are filled with many speeches and most of these are very forgettable. Rhetorical saturation, platitude overload and themes that are drier than dog biscuits translate as a bleak consumer experience for the audience. I have written before about how […]

Kamala’s team brings its A-game

Let’s start this month’s reflection by rolling out the reliable cliché that ‘a week is a long time in politics’. With so many elections taking place this year, I may regret using that line now, but the week in question – August’s Democratic National Convention – is worth mentioning. The Americans sure know how to […]