How do we get more women in the boardroom?

Posted by Kate Faragher on May 16, 2012
in Business Psychology, Communication Skills, Personal Brand THE FACTS A study for the Department of Business Innovation and Skills this year showed 12.5% of members of the boardrooms of FTSE 100 companies were women. The study said “at the current rate it will take over 70 years to achieve gender balanced boardrooms in the UK” Susan Vinnicombe Director of International Centre for Women Leaders at Cranfield University said “Businesses...
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“Officer – That’s personal!”

Posted by Henry Caplan on May 10, 2012
in Communication Skills, Motivation & Inspiration, Personal Brand, Personal Impact, Presentation Skills I found this video quite powerful. Rhode Island Police Chief Dean Esserman is addressing the graduating students of Year Up. It’s an organisation that mentors young adults by offering six months of training and then six-month internships in companies like Bain Capital, Marsh and McLennan, and Bank of America – to name but a few. There is so much that Mr Esserman is doing right as a...
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A Google Doodle for International Women’s Day

Posted by Kate Faragher on Apr 23, 2012
in Motivation & Inspiration, Personal Brand Did you see the Google Doodle on 8 March? The colourful cogs turning the google icon around? It was for International Woman’s day. On that day, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined a group of accomplished women in New York – including Meryl Streep, Angelina Jolie and Nobel Peace laureate Leymah Gbowee – at the third annual “Women in the World” summit. Female...
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“An Audience is a Direct MIRROR to How You Yourself Are Feeling: Relax and your Audience will too…”

Posted by Chris Grimes on Feb 8, 2012
in 1:1 Coaching, Communication Skills, Interpersonal Skills, Personal Brand, Personal Impact, Presentation Skills We often quote the title of this Blog post directly in our Presentation Skills or Personal Impact Coaching sessions here at Working Voices. And it is absolutely true: “Relax and your audience will too…” They are in fact a direct mirror to how you yourself are feeling. And you can “infect them” (as it is so called) with your MOOD – either positively or...
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Ed Milliband – Monthy Python – and the Dangers of Being Upstaged by your Tie!

Posted by Chris Grimes on Jan 24, 2012
in Communication Skills, Personal Brand, Personal Impact, Presentation Skills, Voice Coaching I read an interesting article recently on the BBC News about Ed Milliband and his qualities – or more precisely his shortcomings – as a Leader. In an article for “The New Statesman” picked up by the BBC, Ed Milliband is being strongly criticised by Lord Glasman (the founder of the “Blue Labour Group” and often an outspoken critic of Labour strategy) for having...
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