
Lessons From A Crash-And-Burn Media Interview Fiasco
In the challenging world of media interviews, you can be asked questions in two main categories. In the first category, questions may be generally soft and easy - resembling a stroll along the sand in a gentle summer breeze. In the second category, media...

Speaking Your Truth In A World Of Disinformation
In a world that’s increasingly infested with deliberately spread disinformation, the art of communicating honest truths is becoming more and more of a challenge. Not so long ago the always-sordid image of disinformation was largely fuelled by visions of deranged...

Shining Through With Straight-Talking Answers
Here’s to a ripsnorting 2025! The start of a new year is always a good time to consider how you and your team members are coming across to others - to clients, to potential customers and to everyone else. As business success is often directly dependent on the way you...

Getting It Right In Your Big Opportunities
2024 has been a spectacular year for high profile examples of appalling communication. At times it’s seemed as if there’s been a kind of competition to overlook well-established rules of effective communication. The good news is that the worst entries in this apparent...

Conveying Your Message With Punch – A Bit Like John Prescott
Britain’s longest serving Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott - whose death has sadly been announced at the age of 86 - was a most unusual and a most colourful communicator. Often - but not always - John Prescott’s communication proved to be a bizarrely...