7 ways to boost your authority – without feeling like a fraud

6 January 2020 / All Posts, Body Language, Effective Communication, Influencing and Persuasion, Presentations

If you want to increase your presence and authority without sacrificing your personality, here are 7 ways to do it: boost your influence skills.

How to get down to business from the small talk

18 November 2019 / All Posts, Body Language, Effective Communication

You've come to get a contract negotiated or your employment terms agreed, yet you're sitting there discussing the joys of...

How to disagree with others and win them over

3 November 2019 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Featured, Influencing and Persuasion

Saying "you're wrong" is counter productive in influence. Here are 13 phrases to change peoples' minds so they genuninely buy into your thinking.

13 Unexpected Places that turn Networking into a Pleasure

21 October 2019 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Influencing and Persuasion

When a well known networking organisation told me not to return for flouting their rules, I was overjoyed.  So much...

Why you should be complimenting more at work

16 July 2019 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Influencing and Persuasion

When I was working at a college, my line manager, Keren, would request that I do various pointless administrative tasks....

How to give an update where you come out shining (even if there’s been a ton of challenges)

24 June 2019 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Featured, Influencing and Persuasion, Presentations, Productive Meetings, Storytelling

"So where are you with the Beckham project?" asks your CEO. You're handed a microphone as you silently try to...

How to deal with those vague emails

20 May 2019 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Email Communication

If someone sends you a vague, unspecific email, we tend to just let it rot in the inbox.  While that’s...

Is being too ‘nice’ hijacking your time?

2 April 2019 / All Posts, Effective Communication

The steam's coming off the keyboard as you try to chuck out email, write proposals, check your diary and edit...

The 3 Communication Pitfalls for Technical Experts

28 June 2015 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Featured

Some time ago, I walked into a client's office to ask who the new CTO was:  all I could see...

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