by Trish Springsteen | Aug 4, 2009 | Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking
Today I met a fellow procrastinator. Another devoted follower of the maxim : Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow!For many years I was quite happy to be a procrastinator. That is until I became interested in public speaking and following that became...
by Trish Springsteen | Jul 19, 2009 | Communication, Public Speaking
Isn’t it amazing just how much information we can transmit … without saying a single word!I was reminded of this fact when having a cup of coffee in a shopping centre recently. Near to me was seated an excited five year old and her patient mother. The child was...
by Trish Springsteen | Jun 11, 2009 | Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking
There is an old saying that our brain, a marvellous piece of equipment, starts working from the moment of birth and only stops working when we get up to speak in public. For some reason our ability to charm and impress leaves us as soon as we stand up. Usually it may...
by Trish Springsteen | May 26, 2009 | Communication, Public Speaking
I have a bit of a head cold at the moment and while I feel fine otherwise, my voice has changed! I sound a little like Bozo the Clown; with a mouth full of cotton wool – in short my resonators have packed it up and gone on holiday!Trouble is, I am supposed to be...
by Trish Springsteen | May 24, 2009 | Public Speaking
Yesterday I had the misfortune to break a thread on my overlocker, which meant that I had to sit down and rethread it. Not a problem! While threading an overlocker is a relatively complicated exercise I had the ‘how to’ instruction book, which was easy to understand,...
by Trish Springsteen | May 21, 2009 | Personal Development, Public Speaking
And we sometimes do it to music – move it that is! Public Speakers who command the audience’s attention often need to consider not just what they say or even how they say it; they also need to think about where they say it from.At a recent convention I was asked for...
