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.

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.

From Problems to Possibilities – how to snap into creative thinking mode

17 February 2025 / All Posts, Creative Problem Solving, Featured

If you're finding you're in a rut with problem solving, here's how to snap into a more resourceful mindset to tackle problems creatively.

Tensing Up: How Speaking In The Now Increases Persuasion

9 February 2025 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Featured, Influencing and Persuasion, Job Interviews, Presentations

Convincing others that you can do something that you haven't done for a while - maybe many years ago - ...

The sting of sarcasm and how to deal with it at work

26 January 2025 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Featured

Sarcasm can be an effective communication skill but it can also harm relationships. Here we explore how to deal with sarcasm when you're the target of it.