Digital Media Embraced!

Posted by Henry Caplan on Aug 10, 2011
in Media Training, Running Effective Meetings, Telephone Skills Here’s an interesting article on teaching digital media in schools. What I particularly like is that the educators in the article are taking the position that the “genie is out of the bottle” so why not try to use digital media as a tool for education and to motivate students, rather then looking at digital media as a potential distraction? In my opinion, the demonizing of digital media...
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Phone-Intonation-animation-inspiration!

Posted by Henry Caplan on Jun 22, 2011
in 1:1 Coaching, Running Effective Meetings, Telephone Skills So how in the world can a video of the actors rehearsing SpongeBob SquarePants possibly have any relevance to the business world? Well, we’ve all been on conference calls where we can tell the person/people to whom we are speaking are not actually giving us their full attention. Or we’re not giving the call, the focus it requires. People can hear in our voice when we’re not...
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New York – So good they named it! Working Voices converges on the ‘Big Apple’ to deliver new training…

Posted by Chris Grimes on Jun 1, 2011
in Assertiveness, Interpersonal Skills, Networking Skills, Personal Brand, Personal Impact, Presentation Skills, Running Effective Meetings, Speakers for Events A truly exhilarating week in New York! The Working Voices ‘Team America’ (!) were joined by teams from both Asia & London as we converged to deliver a whole suite of brand new training courses – to 200 newly promoted Associates flown in from all over the World by one of our major Investment Banking clients. Working Voices MD Nick Smallman kicked off and contextualised the...
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A Meeting of Minds – Wonder Woman & Captain Pajama Shark

Posted by Jennifer Logue on May 10, 2011
in Running Effective Meetings “Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything” John Kenneth Galbraith This hilarious clip is an example of a really diverse meeting at SNL. Although meant to be funny I really loved how this clip showed some examples of an effective meeting. Running an effective meeting feels incredible and really builds your confidence as a leader. Being a part of an effective meeting...
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Death to Idea Thieves! – Delivering your message with Personal Impact

Posted by Tom Cassidy on Jan 10, 2011
in Assertiveness, Communication Skills, Personal Brand, Personal Impact, Running Effective Meetings Does this ever happen to you in meetings?  You know that you have something important to say and often you will say it. However it may not have the impact that you’d like; or it doesn’t come over as powerfully as it could; or people don’t take the necessary actions.  Well although this clip is very tongue-in-cheek and meant to amuse – it’s salient points about...
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