Recently, there was a thread on Twitter about public speaking by an academic called Dr Nicholas Coles. He’s a Research Scientist at Stanford University and one of his friends had critiqued a talk which he had given. These are the lessons he learned: A year ago, a non-academic friend listened to a talk I gave. […]
Good communication skills: using the right words
There is an oft-quoted statistic that the words you say make up just seven percent of successful communication skills. However, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t think about them carefully. Here are three quick tips: The art of listening The first key to communicating well is to learn the art of listening. This is really the […]
6 performers tricks to improve your presentations
Ron Aldridge is a successful theatre director, writer and actor who uses his experience on the stage to help people to become ‘complete’ performers, whether speaking in public, presenting, or selling — at conferences, in the workplace and in the boardroom. In this guest post he lets us into some theatrical secrets to improve your presentations. A […]