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.

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.

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 - ...

Do you Communicate like a Dog or a Cat?

7 December 2024 / All Posts, Featured, Influencing and Persuasion

Here's a quick way to plug into one of two identies to elevate your leadership and business communication skills. Get to grips with the Dog and Cat.

Unlocking the Art of Conversational Flow

1 December 2024 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Influencing and Persuasion, Productive Meetings

Questions are vital in improving bonds. Here's the E.V.O.K.E. model of questions to unearth customer requirements as much as social affinity.

How to Master the Three Minute Pitch and Avoid its Pitfalls

14 July 2024 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Influencing and Persuasion, Presentations

Getting across your pitch to investors in three minutes is a big ask. Here's how to avoid the common traps and people over.

Effortless Influence: The Simple ‘Pain-Pivot-Prize’ Technique for Natural Business Storytelling

17 June 2024 / All Posts, Influencing and Persuasion, Storytelling

Storytelling can feel like it's been forced into a conversation. This quick structure will show you now you can drop anecdotes into a conversation naturally.

Captivate the C-Suite: A Presentation Blueprint for Influencing Senior Leaders

13 June 2024 / All Posts, Influencing and Persuasion, Presentations

Do you feel overlooked or dismissed at board meetings?You may be a team lead or a head of department ...