by Trish Springsteen | Sep 28, 2009 | Business, Communication, Leadership, Personal Development
About eighteen months ago, the husband and I had a slight contretemps! During a rather busy time for me he had arbitrary made a decision which affected both us, one which I did not agree with. In fact we had words – but my voice never rose above the decibel level of a...
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 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 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;...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 2, 2009 | Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking
When we discuss gestures in our one day public speaking workshop we use a story that highlights the consequences if you don’t use the appropriate gesture for the size of the venue. Now as this story revolves around an incident in my business partner’s life I quietly...
by Trish Springsteen | Aug 27, 2009 | Business, Personal Development, Training
Communication training is a wide ranging subject; and while we have specific courses which are designed to achieve specific goals, sometimes it just doesn’t work out that way.Our public speaking course aims to address the issues of those who, while nervous, need to...