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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.

Effective communication skills for hybrid work: smashing success in the new normal

Can you give me some tips advice on overcoming common communication challenges that people have?

This was asked to me by a client recently and it's a big question, isn't it? Especially in a world that involves more and more hybrid working.

I paused and then I asked them if they’d ever been to Iceland.

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Powerful benefits from the Nativity play for confident communication skills

It’s coming up for Christmas and so it’s that time of year: The school nativity play. Now, there are the favourite parts that everyone wants, aren’t there? And when you’re a seven year-old girl, being an angel is pretty much the top of that list.

With dreams of floating about a stage in a delicate, white dress.

Except I didn’t get to be an angel in the school nativity play. But the role I did play taught me a whole bunch of communication lessons that have benefited my career in a way that flouncing about in a gorgeous white dress may not have.

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