How You Learn Is How You Communicate: The Overlooked Skill Every Professional Needs

26 April 2026 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Featured, Influencing and Persuasion

Your preferred communication style has an impact on how you learn. Find out how and discover your own preferences -and how to adapt.

The Spice Rack™: How to Engage Your Audience

9 March 2026 / All Posts, Featured, Presentations

Whether you’re presenting online or in person, the problem is the same: engagement drops faster than your Wi‑Fi on a...

Read the Virtual Room – and knowing how to engage with it

15 June 2025 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Featured, Presentations, Productive Meetings

Virtual presentations are usually characterised by a dense slide onslaught or one-way conversation. Here's how to keep them engaging and purposeful.

18 Actions To Optimise your Virtual Meetings

31 August 2023 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Productive Meetings

Want to make sure your virtual meetings are a good use of everyone's time? Then make sure you're applying these tips.

Flip the Fillers

30 May 2023 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Featured, Presentations

Want to sound more fluent when presenting? Say goodbye to annoying speech fillers and discover practical techniques to stop using them.

Here’s why your audience is zoning out

16 January 2023 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Presentations, Productive Meetings

Sometimes remote presentations fall as flat as a pancake. To reduce the risk of yours missing the mark, here are 6 reasons why they commonly fail.

How to deal with virtual presentations when you can’t see each other

14 February 2022 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Featured, Influencing and Persuasion, Presentations, Productive Meetings

%%excerpt%% Here's how to make remote presentations more engaging, whether the cameras are on or off.

How to use emotion to get people to act (when you present and for everything else…)

4 October 2021 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Presentations

When you want others to make decisions as a result of your presentations, you need emotion. Here are 10 ways to include emotion that make people want to act: even when the content's dry.

3 ways to use anticipation to keep your audience alert (and wanting what you’ve got)

14 June 2020 / All Posts, Influencing and Persuasion, Presentations

The danger of an audience drifting off mentally when they're in front of you is as imminent online as when...

7 ways to hook your audience when presenting online

24 May 2020 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Presentations, Productive Meetings

Guilty! I admit it. I've logged into online presentations, turning off the camera and mic. All very convenient as this...

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