I presented at a Business Link networking event recently. There were approximately 70 people there representing small business owners or bankers! Before I started I watched the peoples’ behaviour…it was normal. People who knew no-one found a quiet spot and… Read More »Nothing ever changes. People are all the same wherever you go.
I heard this phrase recently and as I had never heard it before asked what it meant. It is Latin for the “The more we teach, the more we learn.” So true
We all know the phrase ‘You don’t get a second chance to make a first impression.’ Not always true but more often than not. You want, always, to create a great first impression? S mile H andshake. Make it firm… Read More »S.H.I.N.E. to make a brilliant first impression
Most people are somewhere between a touch anxious and petrified when they attend events, social or business, and have to meet new people. I have discovered the secret to overcome this problem. It is all about focusing on the right… Read More »THE SECRET OF THE CONFIDENT NETWORKER
I arrived in Edinburgh, my favourite UK city, and was invited by my co-presenter Clark Cunningham to join him at a story telling evening. My first reaction was ” What?” But I went and what a great evening. People told… Read More »Magic…a story telling evening
KINTISH BLOGGING RETURNS I changed, no was forced, to the new Blog and through some teccy problem couldn’t seem to sort things out…hence no blog. I miss telling the world about my new-found knowledge but here we go again.
A beautiful privately-owned hotel near Derby.i got a really warm welcome, the “dining room” was the kitchen table and the service was 100% it’s called Kegworth House. I spend my life in ‘chain named’hotels…expensive, impersonal and samey. call Trish and… Read More »Check out this hotel
Peter Thomson sent this in his weekly tgimondays.com newsletter This message is based on a true story I heard at dinner, at a friend’s house, last Friday evening: And the boy, about 12 twelve years old, turned to his father… Read More »Alarm clocks and trainers
it doesn’t stop me going to my ‘trade association’ ( Professsional Speakers Association in this case)and listening to others. When you go with the right attitude and listen carefully you ALWAYS gain something. I learn lots about humour and story… Read More »I’m top of my career but
Lawyers should never ask a honest grandma a question if they aren’t prepared for the answer. In a trial, a Southern small-town prosecuting attorney called his first witness, a grandmotherly, elderly woman to the stand. He approached her and asked,… Read More »Grandmas and lawyers
