by Trish Springsteen | Jul 29, 2011 | Uncategorised
So; you have a presentation to give, and you are not sure where to start. The temptation is to switch on the computer; create a new PowerPoint document and stare at the blank screen; – and what’s wrong with that?Well, it’s like deciding you want to go on...
by Trish Springsteen | Nov 22, 2009 | Business, Communication, Job Interviews, Uncategorised
There is something about the confines of an aircraft that can bring down the barriers between people. Flying up to Port Moresby I sat next to a mining executive who was travelling to the Highlands for some interviews.My immediate assumption that he was going to be...
by Trish Springsteen | Aug 21, 2009 | Uncategorised
We live, I have been told, in a ‘communication saturated world’. With information immediately available at our fingertips; with email; facebook, twitter, mobile phones and access through them to the world wide web, it appears that we must be drowning in effective...
by Trish Springsteen | Feb 8, 2009 | Uncategorised
Since I last sat down to blog things have changed around me. Inside my own little organisation of the family, we have faced the husband’s surgery and convalescence; put up with the loss of mobility caused by the fact he can’t drive yet and I don’t, and are now having...
by Trish Springsteen | Dec 4, 2008 | Communication, Leadership, Uncategorised, Women in Business
It’s the age old question! Men claim they cannot understand women, but I don’t know why since there are numerous books on the subject … especially books like “Mars and Venus in the Workplace”. Perhaps, as this book points out, the problem is that while we communicate...
by Trish Springsteen | Apr 24, 2008 | Uncategorised
A fact that we often overlook is that not all stress is bad for us. Without stress we would not be able to perform at our optimum level. Stress can keep us on our toes, it can drive our creative instincts and after working under pressure we experience a high level of...