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How to Write a Powerful Speech
This week’s blog post is on the P.O.W.E.R KEY: 5 how to’s for powerful presentations and speeches. For those of you that missed it, it was the subject of the webinar I delivered last...
Published: March 24, 2016
B Corp Certification | Our Commitment to Purpose
Pauses are crucial to good communication These aren’t nebulous empty pauses, but little breaks, which signify a unit of thought. You can think of it as a musical phrase which is part of a...
Published: March 3, 2016
Three Steps To Brave Communication
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I...
Published: February 19, 2016
Louisa’s Communication Coaching Journey
This week's blog has been written by London Speech Workshop Senior Coach Theo about his client Louisa and their journey together. Please note clients name has been changed in order to preserve confidentiality. ...
Published: November 11, 2015
How to Use Gesture in Public Speaking
Jamie Chapman, one of our Principal Coaches shares with us a story of one of his clients’ fantastic transformations that landed her the dream job. “When Rachel came for an Elocution and...
Published: September 25, 2015
6 Techniques to Overcome Public Speaking Anxiety
Glossophobia, the fear of public speaking, is greater than the fear of death for 75% of us. It affects everyone from CEO to student, manager to marketer. Too many of us are...
Published: August 21, 2015
Communication Lessons from Political Leadership
With the Labour Leadership contest hotting up with as many surprises, plot changes and startling character developments as a heart-thudding novel, we thought it was time to put the spotlight on the four contenders...
Published: August 11, 2015
Authentic Speech: What Does It Mean And Why Should You Care?
We all know what inauthentic communication looks and sounds like. Whether it’s a politician from an elite background trying to mimic a Northern working class accent to “get on the voters’ level”, or...
Published: July 23, 2015
How to Eliminate Negative Internal Voices
“The more a person allows the critical voice to affect the way they speak, the more they retreat inwards, away from good communication.” Last week I ran a workshop in Glasgow for...
Published: May 21, 2015
Authentic Communication at Work: What It Is and How to Practise It
Last night I went to a talk on authenticity in the work place. Some of it was good, and some really good. And unsurprisingly, given the subject matter of the talk, the moments that...
Published: February 19, 2015