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A practical technique to disrupt your day dreaming

As this is the fourth week of the month, the focus is on giving ideas and strategies for challenges that my clients and prospective clients have shared with me. The challenge one executive recently shared was this: ‘I had so much on my plate I was too busy to be in the moment’.Continue reading
Linda Stone M. Scott Peck

A video clip example of energy & certainty from IBM’s CEO.

Do you ever rush when you speak? Let’s agree, at times we all rush. (unless you’re Barack Obama). But how is rushing perceived by listeners? My field work with clients reveals that,

Rushed speaking is perceived as junior behaviour.

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A process for constructing business metaphors

Power is like scissors, because if you’re not careful with power, it can cut people to bits. The focus this week is on practical ways of making your language richer, memorable and less stale. The sentence above – which I heard a number of years ago and still remember – uses the literary devices of ‘similie‘ and ‘contrast‘.Continue reading
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10 sports metaphors to be a more memorable speaker

In memory of the poet and playwright William Shakespeare – who was born in the month of April  (23 April 1564) – this month’s theme is: Sharpen your language.Continue reading
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