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 29, 2011 | Business, Communication, Personal Development, Women in Business
And no; this is not going to be about THAT wall – but the wall between us when we try to communicate our ideas and our thoughts.Sometimes when we try to communicate accurately, it is as if there is an invisible barrier between us that muffles and distorts our...
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...
by Trish Springsteen | May 2, 2011 | Business, Communication, Public Speaking, Women in Business
Over 2,500 years ago, a well known public speaker rose to his feet in the Greek Forum and said “One who forms a judgment on any point but cannot explain it, might as well never have thought at all on the subject.” (Pericles quoted in ‘Elements of Rhetoric’...
by Trish Springsteen | Apr 21, 2011 | Communication, Public Speaking
We have recently returned from giving presentations in both Sydney and Melbourne, and a basic training expectation was brought back to our notice with a bang!When giving a presentation the star of the show should be the presenter, not the Computer soft ware! And...
