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Confident Speaking vs. Strategic Speaking
Public speaking tips. How to be more strategic. Confident speaking doesn’t mean impact.
What can you learn walking 1000km?
Leadership and life lessons with Dr Paula Smith – My 1000km walk on the Camino
Are you embracing the era of Perpetual Learning Agility?
Perpetual learning agility (PLA) is the ability to continuously learn, adapt, and apply new knowledge to new situations. It’s a critical skill
Don’t waste your training budget (dangers of training your staff)
There is no real need to go into lengthy explanations about the definition of a training budget and why we need one, but it is a good idea to look at the benefits and dangers of training our key people and the costs of not training them. What if we train our staff and they leave? … Read more
More perspective less conflict
Imagine you walk into the office and one of your colleagues, who have their back to you, totally ignores you when you say ‘good morning’. How would you react? It would great if everyone chose number 4. However, many times in the workplace, we react from an emotional, a past experience or a belief perspective … Read more
‘Because it’s always been done that way’ – time for a fresh look at the way we do things
Because it’s always been done that way! Sigh! How many times have you heard that statement in the workplace? Whether it’s changing a procedure, using presentation templates or running the morning meeting; just because it’s always been done that way doesn’t mean it’s the best or most efficient way and there can’t be some improvement. … Read more
How to Influence
How to influence others, get what you want and maintain the relationship I have noticed a huge increase this year with clients asking for sessions on Influential Communication. And it’s not surprising with so much unwelcomed noise, uncertainty and fake news everywhere we look, both business owners and executives are finding it increasingly difficult to … Read more
Future skills needed to stay relevant
There has been a lot of talk about the great resignation, which originated form the United States post COVID and although we have had a big movement in changing jobs here is Australia, it is still at similar healthy numbers as it was pre covid. Around a million people change jobs every year and the … Read more
Presentation Intelligence ® and Multiple Intelligences
Over the past few years, I have been researching, studying, writing about and working with many organisations sharing my work around Presentation Intelligence ® – which is the art, science and practice of powerful presenting. Leadership from the front of the room. I trademarked Presentation Intelligence ® in 2018. It has been a wonderful project to share … Read more
