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Here you’ll find inspiration, advice, and best practice 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 job or career, and how to understand your strengths, skills and values.

How showing vulnerability and speaking up can change your world

It’s been 3 months. I’m sitting staring at a wall. This isn’t working. It’s really not. It’s gone from being a nagging feeling following me around to something much bigger.

Now it’s time to talk to someone about it. And I’m about to develop my communication skills in a way I never thought I would be doing…

Many months before during my free time when not teaching, I’d been sitting at my dining room table in an Italian village, reading through brochures, sifting through pages, and filling in application after application.

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Why you should be more like white paint to connect with people

I was painting a wall in my living room the other day.

And as I opened a pot of white paint I noticed something that surprised me.

You normally think of white paint being, well… white.

Plain. Neutral. Disappear into the background stuff.

But on the inside of the rim I could see the finest ring of dark, charcoal grey.

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