Have you noticed that when you’re out socialising you are naturally expressive and free with your hand and body gestures, and yet, when you get up to present, you can often feel awkward and unsure about what to do with your hands? Purposeful gestures and movement add a richness to your delivery that can help …
Want to make your next meeting or presentation more dynamic? Here is an easy solution you can use to add energy fast… Have you noticed that you can tell just by the way someone walks into a room whether they are feeling confident or intimidated… they haven’t said anything but it’s the way they carry …
One of the challenges with humour is that it is idiosyncratic. We all have different preferences with humour. We find some scenarios funny and others definitely not. Something, which I do not find funny, could be hysterically funny to you. We highly recommend using humour to bring a presentation to life and some ways are …
In the brand-new Mastering Communication Program, we uncover five essential hand gestures and how you can effectively apply them when building rapport or giving an emotionally charged presentation. These hand gestures known as the ‘Satir Categories’, were derived by an American psychotherapist named Virginia Satir in the 1970s. She was known for her leading approach to …
Blog bites: Let the laughter roll Tell stories, not jokes Be playful We see it far too often: someone standing in front of an audience, lazily clicking through a 30 slide PowerPoint presentation compiled on a mundane corporate template. And they wonder why we all start nodding off!Have you ever tried to tell a joke …
