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An introvert’s guide to getting through the festive season
Raise your hand if you secretly dread the razzle-dazzle time of year: with the people, the noise, the excess, the commercialisation, the demands, the waste, the trying to please, the time-poverty, the purse-poverty, the shoulds [...]
Vertical or Horizontal
Today, will you self-assuredly introduce yourself to the most powerful person in the room, or will you avoid eye contact, feeling self-conscious and less than? Will you cold call the prospective client; confidently believing she’ll [...]
Body clever ways to build Personal Presence
Did you know you can build personal presence just by tuning into your body? Use posture to focus your thoughts. Put your feel flat on the ground, lengthen your spine and notice how your thoughts [...]
Three key questions for new clients
When interviewing a prospective client, or working with a new one, there are three key questions which make or break the outcome of your work together. Getting into your client’s head early and upfront will [...]
Avoid these meeting pitfalls
Want to make a quick, positive impact? Go to a meeting. It’s an easy platform to give value and one of the most effective ways to boost your personal brand. Meetings give you the opportunity [...]
What’s YOUR issue? You know you have one…
Having coffee with a friend the other day I remarked on another friend’s political rant, my cousin’s sensitivity to gender stereotyping, a teacher’s vehement feminism, a girlfriend’s self-proclaimed fatism and the corporate world’s ageism. “I’m [...]
Strong back. Soft front. Wild heart.
I have two teenage boys at home – one my own, and one whose mother has courageously sent him halfway across the world to live with a stranger. A third teenager (mine) is homesick in [...]
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