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Do you as a leader, manager or supervisor allow and encourage your staff to disagree with you? Do you promote a culture of dissension within your workplace? Employees need to feel safe to disagree and dissent with something they don’t agree with. Recent studies have found that dissent plays an important role in helping organisations to thrive, innovate and grow. …
Most of us have had a presentation that did not go as well as we expected. The audience was not engaged, they gave us negative feedback on the evaluation form or the conference organiser lets us know that it was not what they wanted and they probably won’t need our services again. So what do we do when our presentation …
There are several ways in which you can conclude or end a speech. In this post I explore are 6 ways that work. The end of your speech is very important and can determine the overall success or failure of your presentation. It is your end that creates great impact and determines what people will walk away with, what they …
3 Tools To Help You Be More Confident And Effective. The two themes that continue to run through my public speaking coaching and training workshops are, “How can I be more confident” and “How can I be more effective” when I am speaking to a group of people. While other themes around, body language, structure, use of story, being influential …
Feedback is a powerful tool that leaders can use when they need to change and influence employees’ behaviour. Ideally, a workplace should have an atmosphere where there is a high level of trust and honesty so that everyone feels confident to both speak up and give feedback and is also open to honest and constructive feedback. Unfortunately, not all feedback …
Eye contact is very important in any communication and even more so when you are standing up front as a trainer, facilitator or when public speaking. In this newsletter I will outline a few tips that will help you understand the importance of eye contact and how to ensure you are using great eye contact. You Don’t Need Eye Contact …
