by Trish Springsteen | Aug 20, 2012 | Business, Communication, Leadership, Personal Development, Women in Business
None of us have problems giving good news – we know that everyone will be happy to hear the news, and we can bask in the feeling of well being all round.But no-one really want to be the bearer of bad news, all too often the messenger bears the brunt of the frustration...
by Trish Springsteen | Aug 12, 2012 | Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking
To be in a ‘good humour’ to the ancient Greeks meant that you were healthy. So are you Sanguine, Phlegmatic, or even Melancholic or Choleric? Yes, even the Greeks were at it way back in 190AD – analysing personality types that is. Sanguine et...
by Trish Springsteen | Jul 3, 2012 | Business, Job Interviews, Personal Development, Women in Business
Interviews! Gee, don’t you just love them? Nevertheless we will all, at one time or another, be faced with the traumatic experience of having to front an interview. The problem is that they’re always so important for us; a new job, a promotion or even a...
by Trish Springsteen | Jun 11, 2012 | Communication, Leadership, Personal Development, Women in Business
I sometimes wonder why certain things happen to me! When I am frantically searching for an item that I absolutely need right now, and cannot find I have often been heard to mutter “why does this always happen to me?”Can you guess why that particular...
by Trish Springsteen | Jun 3, 2012 | Business, Communication, Leadership, Personal Development, Women in Business
The old saying is that nothing is as certain as death and taxes … but I am adding one more certainty – we are all going to make mistakes.Being a leader means that we have to be decisive; we must make decisions and having to make decisions inevitably leads to sometimes...
by Trish Springsteen | Mar 15, 2012 | Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking, Women in Business
This was a question I was asked recently, and my questioner had statistics that were said to prove that body language did not add any real or additional message to the words. ‘I do a great deal of my work on the telephone” she added triumphantly,...