Last week, I watched a brilliant engineer with groundbreaking ideas completely lose her audience in the first five minutes. She had slides packed with data,...
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Stop Failing at Virtual Presentations: The Proven 3-Step Framework That Builds Workplace Confidence on Zoom
Last Tuesday, whilst doing the washing up after another day of back-to-back video calls, I found myself reflecting on the peculiar phenomenon of virtual presentation...
The Proven Negotiation Framework: How Improv Techniques Unlock Better Business Deals
Last Tuesday, whilst facilitating a corporate training session, I watched something fascinating unfold. A senior finance director, notorious for his rigid negotiation style, suddenly found...
AI Can't Teach This: 7 Improv Techniques That Beat Technology for Authentic Leadership Communication
We're living through the age of artificial intelligence, chatbots, and digital communication tools. Every week brings a new platform promising to make us better communicators,...
How to Build Authentic Communication Skills in 5 Minutes (Even on Zoom)
There's something profoundly unsettling about watching a colleague deliver what should be genuine feedback whilst staring at their own reflection in the corner of their...
Stop Sounding Like a Corporate Robot: 7 Improv Tricks to Communicate Like a Human
Picture this: you're in a Teams meeting, and someone's presenting the quarterly figures. Their voice is flat, their language peppered with phrases like "optimise our...
Challenging Questions
https://youtu.be/PhefmGrdGwU?si=7RBuPDIDQHdBZZLz&t=2730 This happened last night – a question in the UK election campaign to the two main party leaders, live on the BBC in front...
Crushing advertising – Apple’s iPad Pro commercial
When I was a tiny child I would go to sleep to the sound of musicians downstairs, led by my mum. She plays the French...