How to be engaging when meeting clients online—the basics of 1:1 on a virtual platform

Register for this free event online: 23 March 11:00 Is this you? #workingfromhome for a week now. Comms sorted. Platform installed (Zoom Video Communications, Microsoft Teams etc). Ready to continue communicating professionally with your clients. Or are you? Yes, you’ve viewed the tech tutorial, but how do you appear on screen? How do you want […]

Breath Leadership 1 – look out for that sabre tooth tiger…

You’ve been there; you know the feeling. You are in your meeting, at your event. You’re about to speak. Not just speak, but stand up and speak, in public. Public speaking. Tension rising, temperature rising, pace of breathing rising. Now breathing short and shallow. Heading towards a sense of panic… Why does this happen? What […]

Wine for the weekend?

One of the joys of living where there was once an orchard is inheriting a vine, about which I know very little other than it now occupies a considerable amount of the fence ‘twixt us and our neighbours. The late sunshine this Autumn seems to have produced a bumper crop of grapes! Left to their […]

The power of breathing!

How can something as simple as breathing have such a dramatic effect on the initial impression you make on your audience? Let’s take a look, and use some practical, day-to-day examples. Have you ever had to stand up to speak at an ‘occasion’? Perhaps you needed to speak a few words at a party, or […]