That title has set me up for a fall right from the word go hasn’t it?
I’m sure comedians hate it when, in their personal life, someone says ‘Go on then: be funny!’
So is there a formula for being funny? And why should we even bother to try?
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How to be funny
Posted by Bronia Szczygiel
How to be calm and cool in a crisis (or a presentation…)
Posted by Liz McKechnie
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs….
This famous quote from Rudyard Kipling’s “If…” poses the question so many of us face on a daily basis in our work lives but also at home as the stresses and strains of domestic life pull us and push us sometimes to breaking point.
How do some people seem to remain calm so much of the time?
On our Presentation Skills courses and often on Personal Impact and Assertiveness courses people ask us for advice on how to handle nerves and anxiety when facing intimidating or downright scary situations.
Well here’s one practical thing you can do that you probably already exercise elsewhere in your life.
You can change your focus. Read more
3 Questions on Creativity
Posted by Bronia Szczygiel
I was giving a talk recently to a group of women engineers and asked the question:
Which is the most creative of all the disciplines, across the humanities, arts, sciences, engineering and social sciences?
There was no question in the minds of the group – it had to be one of the arts.
Drama maybe? After all Tom Stoppard was pretty revolutionary in stretching the boundary between actor, play and audience.
What do you think?