Let’s be honest: for many people, public speaking ranks somewhere between “root canal” and “doing taxes” on the fun scale. We often have this image of a “perfect presenter”—charismatic, booming, and effortlessly commanding the stage. If you’re naturally quiet or…
The Quiet Art of Connection: A Field Guide for the Thoughtful Networker Imagine, if you will, the scene. A room alive with fluorescent light and clinking glasses, filled with a kind of cheerful chaos. Laughter rolls like waves across a…
Picture the last time you were penned into a board-room, fluorescent lights humming, while slide after slide of pie charts marched past. Your mind drifted, didn’t it? Now recall a talk that truly stirred you—one where a single tale coloured…
Curtain‑Up: The Pitch‑Perfect Panic Picture the scene: you’ve just uncorked your Big Idea in the Monday meeting. Your heart’s doing an Ed Sheeran drum‑solo, the fluorescent lights are harsher than your Year‑9 PE teacher, and all eyes swivel to the…
I. Let’s Talk About Meetings, Shall We? Meetings. Just the word makes your shoulders drop a little, doesn’t it? Like hearing someone say “car trouble” or “team-building exercise.” You know what’s coming: an Outlook ping, a slot blocked in your…
What is a Creative Voice? Hello there. Come in, make yourself comfortable. Tea? Biscuit? Excellent. We’re going to talk about something rather grand today, something that often gets lumped into the ‘nice-to-have’ pile of corporate buzzwords, but which, I promise…
On Having a Natter, and Why It Might Just Be the Secret to Everything Now, look. It’s a funny old thing, the world of business. We’ve spent the last twenty years inventing ever more complicated ways to avoid actually speaking…
Imagine standing at the edge of a fast-moving river. The map you once relied on no longer fits the contours of this new terrain. The old bridges—titles, rules, command chains—have thinned or washed away. You still need to cross. But…
We’ve all shuffled out of a meeting clutching a lukewarm coffee, wondering why 45 minutes of Q&A felt like a never-ending game of corporate whack-a-mole. Then, every so often, there’s that rare encounter—perhaps at the snack wall by the last…
Introduction: The Workplace Melting Pot (and the Curious Clatter of Keyboards) Step into any modern workplace today and you’ll find a curious cross-section of history and humanity. A Baby Boomer quietly jotting notes on a legal pad, a Gen X-er…