by Trish Springsteen | Sep 26, 2011 | Communication, Personal Development, Women in Business
We ran away this weekend … disappeared for a few days. Became incommunicado in fact (which is why the blog is a little late).We just wanted to relax and get away, and so we ended up in a nearby little coastal town just north of Brisbane. And it was a...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 18, 2011 | Communication
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. ~Winston Churchill Well I suppose Winnie should know, he wrote enough of them – words that is; and I’ve been writing a few over the weekend and have been struggling with some dialogue which isn’t going...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 14, 2011 | Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking, Women in Business
Interesting Point – how do we persuade others to our point of view?When we need to persuade someone it indicates that they may be unwilling to believe us. There is a great deal of difference between ‘informing’ your audience on the history of climate change; and...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 8, 2011 | Communication, Public Speaking
In my previous blog I had outlined the strength of both Churchill and Lincoln’s speeches. They did not depend on ‘overblown rhetoric’ were my actual words, and I have been severely taken to task for them too! I have been accused of being ignorant of the...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 5, 2011 | Communication, Leadership, Public Speaking
I have just returned from listening to some remarkable speeches; and there was one speaker who left me with that feeling – “Wow! That was Good.” I am sure that all of you have been impressed by presentations you have heard at sometime or other, but have you ever...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 1, 2011 | Business, Communication, Public Speaking, Women in Business
It’s the *shudder* old myth again!! Pundits propounding in print about the unimportance of the ‘words’ we use to convey our message. And yet, here we are – together; me at my place and you at yours and all the gestures and body language in the world is not going...
