Whenever you’re asked a tough professional question - or even an easy question - what you say at the very start of your response is vital to your success. Be assured that your questioners - and any wider audience - will typically begin forming a view about how helpful...

Long before the age of TV news, a perceptive poet wrote about the challenge of keeping your head when all about you are losing theirs - and blaming it on you! The poem was written around 1895.       And if, in 2023 or beyond, you ever end up in the media...

Do you ever wonder why seemingly intelligent people sometimes make a complete mess of their communication efforts? More specifically, can you imagine what has enticed a traditionally anti-terrorist British Conservative MP to make a video praising what he claimed to be...

Let me draw your attention to two inspiring live TV interviews!  Both feature interviewees who shine out as a result of their big underlying positive messages which fuel everything they say. The first is Susie Ma - a one-time contestant on BBC’s The Apprentice - who...

The British media have been in a frenzy following news that high profile morning commercial TV presenter Phillip Schofield has lost his job. The presenter had to leave his role as co-presenter of ITV’s This Morning programme after having consistently lied about -...