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Here you’ll find inspiration and practical advice all focused on your communication skills development, managing public speaking anxiety, improving your confidence in the workplace, developing effective leadership skills, knowing how best to find a new role or career, learning how to get promoted and understanding your strengths, skills and values.

What sweaty rugby players can teach you about acing winning meeting skills

The Rugby World Cup is edging to a close with the remaining 4 teams left in the competition. It’s thrilling stuff.


And apart from showing the million and one ways you can play about with a ball they’ve also had some fabulous lessons in how to communicate.


Lessons that can show us how to interrupt effectively, show top leadership skills and manage meetings successfully. Here's how.

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How to improve your visibility and value at work

A website’s a place to announce things, isn’t it? And I’ve just done one small thing that’s made a big difference.


Chosen words to shape a message and get clearer about what I do and the benefits I bring to others.

Which leads me to this question and short exercise that you can do to strengthen your profile and raise your visibility to others…

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How to increase your value by talking to invisible people

Raising your visibility and value at work. Deepening your engagement with your clients and stakeholders. Developing more trust and connection with colleagues. These are big, bold asks. And you can improve all of them by doing this one thing. And, speaking from direct experience: not many people do this at all.

I used to work as a receptionist. A role that mostly gets ignored by folk. You’re in the background in many ways. Almost invisible, really. And not many people really talk to you.


But one person did.

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