by Trish Springsteen | May 15, 2011 | Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking, Women in Business
“And now I’d like to move onto the expected financial expenditure for the next three months. Balanced against the improved performance in sales, demonstrated state wide, and the percentage increase on returns on investment …..”Ah! Financial reports; don’t...
by Trish Springsteen | May 13, 2011 | Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking
One of the prices paid by being a Communication Trainer is that I rarely listen to other people’s presentations without making a performance assessment with some suggestions for improvement. It may be good practice, but it means I can focus on the delivery and...
by Trish Springsteen | May 9, 2011 | Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking
“I will do all I can to help you understand, and you must strain every nerve to follow what I am saying.” Plato – SymposiumIt is an unfortunate fact of public speaking that many people worry terribly about such things as being nervous; organising their...
by Trish Springsteen | Apr 12, 2011 | Communication, Leadership, Personal Development, Women in Business
Earlier this week I had an impassioned plea from a newly promoted Team Leader to simplify ‘Leadership Choices’. On receiving her good news she had hurriedly disinterred her books on management and leadership to brush up her skills – and promptly had a panic...
by Trish Springsteen | Apr 11, 2011 | Communication, Personal Development
Some of the more astute of you might realise, that while we were wrestling with the intricacies of interviews; (I must try and break my addiction to alliteration – but I digress!); in the middle of it we sort of disappeared for a month or so.The reason is not...
by Trish Springsteen | Apr 7, 2011 | Communication, Job Interviews, Personal Development
After working through the letters of our alphabet, we have now reached the final three; and I have put them together because they have a theme – see if you can pick it.Firstly the Letter X – now, try as I might I cannot find a way to link xylophone to your next...
