Question: When is a Gift Not a gift?
Answer: When it’s a skill. I teach and coach communication skills. Notice the word ‘skills’. Not gifts, talents, or even aptitudes. Skills. As such, they are ‘learnable’ by anyone. As a trainer, I can show people, step-by-step, how to make presentations, negotiate, or run a meeting. I can demonstrate the way to make a first impression, write a report, and...
Read MoreCutting the Crap of Recession-Speak (Part 2)
Breaking news – Gordon Brown has become a personal development guru! I’ll have to watch out for my customers… In Cutting the Crap of Recession-Speak (Part 1) I contrasted the advice of entrepreneur Sir David Tang with our Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Tang urges small-but-optimistic thinking, whereas Brown preaches a kamikaze imprudent doctrine of spend, spent, spend. Now it...
Read More5 Assertiveness Techniques
Last Wednesday and Thursday, Allen and I took our first joint workshop. The topic was Assertiveness and Workplace Confidence. It was very successful and enjoyed greatly by all participants, whose comments you can read on Testimonials. Here is a small part of one of eight sections which made up the workshop: Assertiveness Techniques. It’s all very well knowing that you have the right...
Read MoreFacebook Friday
What is it? Facebook. Are you an absolute beginner? Do you need to know the basics? Do you already use Facebook? Do you need to know more? Join us for a very short and a very casual workshop on Facebook on Friday 13th March at Blick Creative Studios (51 Malone Road, Belfast) from 6-7pm. We intend to run two workshops simultaneously, one for beginners and one for existing...
Read More