Why you shouldn’t script a presentation

11 May 2025 / All Posts, Featured, Presentations

Here are 9 reasons that using a script in a presentation doesn't work, plus how to increase engagement by dumping the script.

How to be funny when your content is not

2 May 2025 / All Posts, Featured, Presentations

It's Friday at 3pm and your audience isn't in the mood for your strategy and Venn diagrams. How can you be funny when your content is as dry as a bone?

Get Over It: Knocking Down The Barriers to Influence

14 April 2025 / All Posts, Featured, Influencing and Persuasion

What's stopping you from being effective at influencing others? That'll probably be due to at least one of these six barriers.

The Art of Dealing with Subtle Snipes and Baseless Accusations

13 April 2025 / All Posts, Body Language, Effective Communication, Featured, Influencing and Persuasion

Deal with unfounded accusations or passive aggression with grace: no more feeling 'trapped' or bombarded.

The creative problem solving process – from dream to reality

31 March 2025 / All Posts, Creative Problem Solving, Featured

Creative problem solving is absolutely crucial to as individuals or organisations. Here's how to access more inventiveness.

How to use gesture when you present – and speak to sound confident (even when you’re not)

23 March 2025 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Featured, Presentations

Learn when and how to move and sound to seem more confident: even when you're not.

How to form rapport with others before you even speak

16 March 2025 / All Posts, Body Language, Effective Communication, Email Communication, Featured, Influencing and Persuasion

Forming connections in business relationships can seem like hard work, especially when the client, prospect or colleague is so different ...

Sell with Subtlety: The Ambivert’s Guide to Persuasion

11 March 2025 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Featured, Influencing and Persuasion, Productive Meetings

Need to get others to buy into your ideas? These 13 phrases will increase your persuasiveness.

How talking to yourself can boost confidence and clarity

2 March 2025 / All Posts, Creative Problem Solving, Effective Communication, Presentations

Talking to yourself effectively can boost clarity and confidence. Here's how to do it (and what to avoid).

Muddy to Motivating: 5 ways to Elevate your Presentations

24 February 2025 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Featured, Presentations

Here are 5 ways to make your presentations more direct and compelling as well as easier to follow.