The Winning Voice

Below is my Australian Financial Review, Letter to the Editor this past Tuesday, on a video clip on 'How we're responding to AUSTRAC issues', by Brian Hartzer, Westpac Banking [...]

Consider this . . .  In today’s social media world, with people always having their smart device at the ready. Where you can easily communicate with someone by showing or sharing a photo or [...]

In remembrance of two composers born in May – Johannes Brahams (7/5/1833) and Pyotr Tchaikovsky (7/5/1840) – this month’s theme will be on ‘composing’ your [...]

The measure of the impact of a speech or presentation must be viewed within the context in which that the speech is given.

I gave Julia Gillard a 6/10 for her performance in her press conference last week, regarding her time at Slater & Gordon.

While watching Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard present themselves over the last seven days, the words that come to mind are, for Rudd: ‘slippery, phoney, smug’ and for Gillard: ‘shaken, scripted, [...]

While Barack Obama’s political star has dimmed since his 2008 U.S. presidential election victory, his oratory and personal communication skill is still a benchmark of excellence, and one to [...]

The emotion, waver in the voice and tears of Julia Gillard this week, were real. The episode with the Australian flag given to her by the helicopter pilots and the Jordan Rice matter touched her [...]

MARK Latham was less aggressive in confronting Tony Abbott than he was with Julia Gillard, and even seemed intimidated… Download

Leaving aside who won the battle of the ideas and focusing on the battle of the words, voice, body language, presence and feeling tone, consistent with those of a prime minister and leader – [...]