Confidence and Fear in Communication by Charlotte Lucas Taibi Kahler developed a theory on how we are conditioned to behave which he called ‘Drivers’. There are 5-Try hard, Please Others, Be Perfect, Be Strong, Hurry Up. These...
How to make facts spellbinding. I was recently working for Euipo with 18 participants in Alicante. I was teaching them how to present complex legal information to a teleprompter and make it look conversational. Although we conversed in English, their scripts were in...
Let’s get down and dirty. I was recently at a talk about gathering data to show how hard people in the caring profession find it to ask for help. The very word ‘help’ seems to make a lot of us recoil. Beliefs around looking weak or thinking you’ll be judged...
Training your ears.. I’ve just been asked to learn a new accent for an audition. ‘Posh Geordie’ is what is required. I’ve trawled the internet to realise that whilst finding a Newcastle accent is possible, finding a more gentrified version is not easy. Andrea...
Call The Midwife. Delivering under pressure. I filmed an episode of Call The Midwife this week. It was a great reminder of what to do when you have to work fast with no time for making mistakes. You have two takes at most and then it’s onto the next shot. With the...
