What kind of energy do you bring the to room or Zoom?
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What kind of energy do you bring the to room or Zoom?
Www.speakingatwork.co.uk
Elevating voices in the workplace to speak with passion, purpose and power.
There is a beautiful carved white rocking horse that sits on a table in my loft office. It is simple and captivating. It does nothing else but rock back and forth on its rail. But I can’t help but set it in motion as I walk past. Watching it I realised there is a perfect…
Tidying up my daughter’s desk I noticed her well used rubber. When we write in pencil we can simply rub out what we don’t like. We can let our perfectionism run riot across the page. Preferring neat and tidy as an end product. Not so easy when you are speaking. We have no way to…
My knees were shaking under the table, my mouth was dry and I was struggling to breathe. All I could think was, “you have to nail this!”. ‘This’ was a one-minute elevator pitch at a networking event, no biggie. And yet, I felt nervous. Really nervous. After teaching and coaching personal impact and presentation skills…
According to Adam Grant there are three kinds of networker. Takers, Matchers and Givers. Takers traditionally have worked the room quickly and efficiently, creating deals where they can but not really building respectful relationships. Matchers, which is most of us by the way, will give as much as we get but no more. Givers are…
In my old garden, the soil was clay, and I’d have to put all my weight into the garden fork to crack the surface it was an effortful and frankly demoralising task. In my new garden, the soil is really soft and loamy – it is easy to dig and turn over – it takes…