Why Senior Business Leaders Can't Mouth off like Donald Trump
A surprising number of media training participants have asked me why they can't just speak their minds like Donald Trump. They admire his courage to say what he thinks. They find it refreshing and authentic to get an unvarnished, warts-and-all view on virtually every topic imaginable, even if they disagree with it.
- 16/11/2019
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Six Communications Skills to Learn from John Bercow
In the whole Brexit chaos, the person who has impressed me the most is the former Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow. He has ensured that the agenda and the rules of the House have been followed, that parliamentarians wishing to speak got their turn, and he has waded into the frequently unruly debate to keep "OOORRDEERRRR!"
- 15/11/2019
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2020 Foresight: Is Much of your Big Data Lost in Presentation?
If the 2010s were the decade of cloud computing and big data, the 2020s will see a torrential downpour. Already more than 20 billion IoT devices are contributing data. Smart cities will add to that, as will Enterprise Content Management and Machine Learning. These will threaten to drown business leaders that have to derive insights and plan strategies based on veritable oceans of data.
- 04/11/2019
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Why Teaching MBA Students Presentation Skills is Easier said than Done
My clients for media skills and executive presence training are almost exclusively senior business and government leaders. But when National University of Singapore asked me a few years ago to coach their top MBA students, I accepted. The opportunity to contribute to the development of future business and government leaders was too good to pass up.
- 01/11/2019
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2020 Foresight: Can You Prove Your CEO Didn’t Say This?
Read the headline again. Isn’t it crazy that in the 2020s your corporate communications team is going to have to grapple with such strange media enquiries.
- 30/10/2019
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