by Trish Springsteen | Aug 29, 2011 | Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking, Women in Business
One of the pleasures of working in communication training is that you receive exciting invitations to attend, or even judge, speaking events across the nation.I was privileged to be invited to such an occasion recently, where there were a number of speakers on display...
by Trish Springsteen | Aug 8, 2011 | Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking
That is a really bad pun, but the best I can do on a Monday morning! However I was forced to watch some horse racing on televisions over the weekend (yes – forced! The husband nodded off and was sitting on the remote; it was a delicate situation) Anyway –...
by Trish Springsteen | Jul 13, 2011 | Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking
Trischel’s two principles of communication © reflect the realities of getting information across to our listeners; having it accepted and, hopefully, acted upon.If you recall the second one is to engage the audience personally by applying the arts of persuasive...
by Trish Springsteen | Jul 10, 2011 | Business, Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking, Women in Business
“It’s not something I ever do” said Steve, confidentially; “I run my own business, I don’t need public speaking!”I had been talking to a group of business people about the importance of good public speaking skills. And Steve was one of the many who came up to...
by Trish Springsteen | Jul 6, 2011 | Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking, Women in Business
I have been refreshing my knowledge of what makes up effective communication again for an upcoming presentation. I think I may have mentioned once or twice that I have a large library of reference books; and so I aimlessly pulled one out and sat down to do...
by Trish Springsteen | Jun 15, 2011 | Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking
Back in the 90’s this was a phrase going the rounds – ‘Talk to the Hand … coz the ears aren’t listening!”It was a rather rude way of saying ‘Shut up, stop talking to me because I am not going to listen to you!”Why did that pop into my head recently...
