by Trish Springsteen | Aug 12, 2012 | Communication, Personal Development, Public Speaking
To be in a ‘good humour’ to the ancient Greeks meant that you were healthy. So are you Sanguine, Phlegmatic, or even Melancholic or Choleric? Yes, even the Greeks were at it way back in 190AD – analysing personality types that is. Sanguine et...
by Trish Springsteen | Apr 26, 2011 | Communication, Public Speaking
Along with computer literacy, professional presentation skills are becoming a new survival skill in the workplace. “ – Ethel M. Cook And as with any survival tactic, we look towards technology to provide us with the equipment. Luckily we...
by Trish Springsteen | Mar 24, 2011 | Job Interviews
When we consider the secrets of the letter ‘S’ in our job interview, we usually think of schools, salary or even success: but there are some not so well known ‘S’ words that deserve some consideration when we are preparing for our interview. The first one,...
by Trish Springsteen | Apr 15, 2010 | Communication, Public Speaking
We all love to laugh. It is known that we are well disposed towards those that make us laugh. Any public speaker needs to have their audience ‘well disposed’ towards them; so it makes sense that we need to come to grips with the use of humour. Unfortunately, humour in...
by Trish Springsteen | Mar 31, 2010 | Communication, Public Speaking
An essential part of public speaking is your Audience. Well obviously you might say – without an audience you can’t really be a public speaker. Audiences are who we speak to and why we are there.It’s surprising therefore, how often we forget them or take the audience...