by York1985Smith | Dec 23, 2019 | Dodd Blog
It was several weeks before Christmas thirty years ago… Something amazing happened. It took place in Prague – the capital of a country in Eastern Europe then known as Czechoslovakia. At the time the country was run by a dictatorship. The...
by York1985Smith | Jul 17, 2015 | Dodd Blog
When business leaders focus on what they need to do to boost their performance as communicators, there’s one term that comes up over and over again. It’s “confidence”. Business leaders who haven’t been trained in the communications field typically say they get...
by York1985Smith | Apr 13, 2015 | Dodd Blog
There was a remarkably enthusiastic reaction to the last issue of this ezine about the British pre-election interviews featuring the dreaded broadcast provocateur, Jeremy Paxman, and the two major contenders for Ten Downing Street. So I feel a moral duty to issue a...
by York1985Smith | Apr 8, 2015 | Dodd Blog, Speaking
As the British general election campaign officially starts this week, the issue of answering questions – and avoiding answering them – is big in the news. If you’re a British-based reader of this ezine you could be forgiven for thinking that the questions...