Regular blog posts on management, communication & cars
A Fine Finish: How to draw a memorable conclusion
Just as your INTRO can be devised with a simple model, you can do the same with your Conclusionsssssss. And here the trick is remembered by keeping just one letter in your mind ‘S’. But there a few of them.
A Paean to the Pen
For Christmas two years ago, my wife Luisa bought me a lovely wooden pen cabinet. I gathered up the various pens that were lying unloved in drawers – and suddenly they became a collection under glass.
Presentations: All you have to do is start well. The rest is easy.
The purpose of this little piece is to help you with the most important part of a presentation: the start. After all, most people fall asleep soon after that. As with any activity, if we make a good start our confidence and form improves. But if we make a mess of the start, it is hard to recover.
5 tips for putting together a great story
The best stories hold people’s attention, are told in an engaging way and are relevant to the audience – by following the tips David talks about in the video, you will be able to improve your storytelling skills and impress audiences in and out of the workplace.
6 Weapons of Influence
If you want to master the art of influencing and become a skilled communicator, then you’ll want to understand Cialdini's 6 key principles of influence.
And I always thought Zoom was just an ice lolly!
Zoom isn’t an ice lolly anymore, but an application allowing us all to fly out into cyberspace to meet up; fighting coronavirus and saving our social lives in lockdown.. And it doesn’t even cost six new pence -it’s free.