Don’t Turn A Tough Situation Into A Verbal Nightmare
A tense verbal confrontation between a prominent British Jewish leader and police in London has triggered a wave of condemnation over the way one of the officers spoke to the man. Video footage of the interaction has sparked outraged over what the police officer...
Make Your Business Presentations More Entertaining!
There’s a kind of joke in the world of professional speaking which goes like this… Question: “To become a professional speaker, do your presentations have to be funny?” Answer: “No - but they do if you want to get paid!” This is, of course, an exaggeration. However,...
Should your business talk to the media? YES, BUT…
Many business leaders suspect that they - and some of their key people - should be talking more to the media. Often they’re right - subject to a few essential conditions. The top condition is that anyone who takes part in a media interview on behalf...
Tribute To A Murdered Communications Hero
The enforced death of Russia’s heroic pro-democracy, pro-transparency, anti-corruption campaigner - Alexei Navalny - does not just mean the massive loss of one of the world’s most courageous freedom-fighters. It’s also the massive loss of a great communicator who,...
Saving The World From Truly Terrible Technical Talks
Being on the receiving end of truly terrible technical talks is sadly becoming a universal human experience in the modern world. It happens most frequently with those atrocious techy presentations consisting of far too many deadly dull - and overly wordy - PowerPoint...