by Maureen Steele | Jul 13, 2015 | Personal Mastery, Responding To Change and Transition
“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.” Brian Tracy Personal and professional growth do not always come knocking at your door – sometimes you have to...
by Maureen Steele | Oct 24, 2013 | Interpersonal Communication, Written Communication Skills
Communication is commonly talked about in terms of a cycle. In any communication, the principal characters are known as the sender and the receiver: Ideas exist in the sender’s brain as electrochemical neuron systems, not words. Encoding is what happens when we...
by Maureen Steele | Jul 17, 2013 | Presentations And Public Speaking
We offer you the following insights courtesy of a great book called “slide:ology” by Nancy Duarte (2008, O’Reilly Media). Duarte Design created the presentation for Al Gore’s Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth. This extract is from Chapter 12 and offers a...
by Maureen Steele | Jul 17, 2013 | Presentations And Public Speaking
“To succeed as a presenter, you must think like a designer. Every decision a designer makes is intentional. Reason and logic underpin the placement of the visual elements.” Nancy Duarte The watchwords for great slides are readability, simplicity,...
by Maureen Steele | Jul 17, 2013 | Presentations And Public Speaking
“Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In our tip, Prepare your story first, we outlined the four key elements needed in your early presentation preparation. Here we offer you an...
