by Michael Dodd | Apr 3, 2024 | Dodd Blog
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.... 
by Michael Dodd | Mar 4, 2024 | Dodd Blog
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... 
by Michael Dodd | Feb 19, 2024 | Dodd Blog
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... 
by Michael Dodd | Jan 18, 2024 | Dodd Blog
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 –... 
by Michael Dodd | Jan 2, 2024 | Dodd Blog
How ready are you for the communications challenges you and your organisation will face in 2024? The reason I ask is because the acceleration of change has been particularly rapid in recent times. This means that when you seek to convey any message to your target... 
by Michael Dodd | Dec 20, 2023 | Dodd Blog
As an exercise in self-destruction, a confessional interview given to the BBC by controversial House of Lords Member, Baroness Michelle Mone, is right up there with the kind of performance which once brought Prince Andrew unstuck. If you need to know just how to set...