by Trish Springsteen | Sep 24, 2009 | Business, Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking
Yeah like that is going to happen. Let’s be perfectly honest between ourselves, we probably haven’t ever told anybody “all about ourselves” and that includes spouses and best friends. So let’s have a discussion on disclosure.Most of us have a real problem with ‘self...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 22, 2009 | Communication, Public Speaking
2000 years ago an ancient philosopher (Zeno of Citium – if anyone asks) once said “We have been given two ears but a single mouth in order that we should hear more and talk less”. And of course it is still as relevant today as it ever was.Often we interchange the...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 18, 2009 | Business, Communication, Personal Development
Ah! The joys of hypothesis, theory and scientific law! The uncomfortable feeling when they don’t mean what you want them to mean!I don’t want to get into a huge debate between scientific theory and law, only to say that when I went to school theory was something that...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 15, 2009 | Public Speaking
One of the most common reason people want to know more about public speaking is to “organise their thoughts”. When we do a quick survey of why people attend our workshops, this comes right after “becoming more confident”It is, of course, a result of misunderstanding...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 13, 2009 | Communication, Leadership, Personal Development
Tell me; have you ever had a project which challenged you, and on which you spent time and effort only to have it received with curt thanks and very little else? How did you feel?At a recent discussion group on Leadership we spent a lot of time on Vision and Values;...
