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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.
Ten top tips for networking (how to speak to strangers)
Great questions to develop rapport, the Dalai Lama telling it like it is and the mighty power of a handwritten card.
You know how it goes, your manager’s keen that you go to that networking event, get the word out about a new service and come back with a host of eager customers that want a follow up meeting.
But networking doesn’t quite work like that. It’s about creating connection, solid listening skills and being helpful to others. Here are real, practical ways to successfully network and be a good asset to others in your network.
From good to great: how influencing skills can propel your career
How would you rate your influencing skills? And how good are you at influencing the influencers?
When you know how to do that well your career picks up pace. Meetings get more productive. Communication is easier. You start getting noticed for all of the right reasons.
In my 1 hour bitsesize workshop “Influencing the Influencers” I help you explore the different needs of your stakeholders.
Diving into the deep end of meetings and how to keep your cool
That meeting. You know. The tricky one. Here's how to manage that. With some tips taken from swimming in cold water….
A few times a week I go to a local outdoor pool. They say it’s heated and I think it was probably was - shortly after the last Ice Age.
And so getting in the pool as you can imagine is quite the experience.
How your career can grow and flourish with communication skills coaching
Communication skills coaching has a lot to do with gardening. Are you after a brilliant pot plant, a section of your garden looking stunning or do you want the whole package: landscaping the lot, to create a wow factor among your colleagues and the leadership?
What I am talking about? Well, it all started when I went to the garden centre at the weekend. And it swallowed me whole.
It’s where, in addition to 15 other indoor and outdoor plants, I picked up Chamaedorea Elegans, which sounds like a posh sexually transmitted disease but isn’t.
Stories to make you sparkle at your next job interview
Here's how to tell stories to make you sparkle at your next job interview. Do you have an interview coming up? Are your communication skills up to scratch? Got your stories ready and good to go? Things like…
“Can you tell me about a time …?” “How do you approach a situation when…?” “Describe to me what you’ve done for…”
Ring any bells?