by Michael Dodd | May 30, 2024 | Dodd Blog
From a good and bad communications perspective, the start of the British General Election campaign has been highly eventful. It began with the announcement of the election date – 4 July 2024 – with a rain-drenched Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, in front of...
by Michael Dodd | Apr 25, 2024 | Dodd Blog
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...
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 –...
