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...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 5, 2010 | Communication, Public Speaking
Like Mehrabian before him, Allan Pease created a new concept on the mystery of how we communicate – and I feel, like Mehrabian, his ideas have sometimes been misinterpreted.In Body Language – How to Read Other’s Thoughts by their Gestures* he explains the various...
by Trish Springsteen | Jul 6, 2010 | Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking
There has been a lot of discussion recently about the role of the non-verbal dimension in communication, and especially the accuracy of Albert Mehrabian’s formula.Unfortunately we live in a world that seems to prefer sound bites rather than complete explanations and...
by Trish Springsteen | Jul 4, 2010 | Business, Communication, Personal Development, Women in Business
Rogers and Hammerstein put it in a nutshell with their song “I’m just a girl who can’t say No” and alas it is not just the girl that can’t do it; there are an awful lot of the rest of us who can’t do it either.Why is it that even when we are up to our eyeballs in...