How do you engage and build rapport with a virtual audience? Covid 19 has changed the way we communicate. These days we’re having to interact through a computer lens to an audience who might be multitasking, as we try to engage with them. It’s useful to think about...
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...
How to Pitch. Pitching seems to be a part of life for all companies these days – from summing up what you do for future investors, to selling your latest life changing app to cash strapped customers. How do you inspire people to jump on board with your idea and invest...
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...
ACT Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is a relatively new therapy, that moves away from more traditional cognitive therapy methods, which look at what we think and feel, towards focusing on how we relate to what we think and feel. ACT...
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...
