When it comes to becoming a more comfortable, confident Chair, how you prepare makes a big difference to your performance. Preparing to chair is a bit like making a good cocktail. It involves gathering together the right ingredients, and mixing them in the right way. The right ingredients There are three ingredients to pull together:
Rachel Lambert Forsyth CBiol FRSB, Director of Membership and Professional Affairs at the Royal Society of Biology shares how a Presentation Skills Masterclass equipped their students with the tools and confidence to present their ideas, and enhance the value of their Accreditation Conference for attendees and students. Background In 2018 we ran an inaugural Accreditation
If you’re thinking about coming to one of my training workshops, what can you expect? How can you know that you’ll get what you want from it? The success of a soft-skills workshop rests on a blend of things. There’s the content of course, but what sets the best workshops apart are the aspects related
As a design business owner, do you want to develop yourself and your people? What gets in the way that, if you were to change it, would open up amazing opportunities for you, your people and your studio? I was recently shown an interesting piece of research undertaken by an Australian designer Carol Mackay, Co-Founder
1) How do I sell what I do without appearing ‘salesy’? Be aware of what ‘salesy’ behaviour sounds, looks and feels like. It includes:talking excessively about yourself, ‘trying’ hard to get people to commit with tactics such as convincing them they need you. What might you replace it with? Talk about the effects/impact of what
The truth is, it’s actually the other way around. If you prepare, practise and then perform, your personal confidence takes care of itself, as if by magic; except of course it’s not magic at all. So how do you cultivate confidence? How might you block yourself from accessing it and what can you do to