To prepare for an online job interview there are 6 elements that you need to think about: 1. What you’ve sent them, probably your CV 2. Managing the technology 3. What you look and sound like 4. How you respond…
“Public Speaking is easy – it’s just ABC”. I wanted to believe the instructor on my first public speaking course; but I didn’t find it that easy. She told us that ABC meant Approach, Body and Conclusion. That should have…
“Why are you buying that, Grandad? You didn’t use the one you bought last year”. This is my 10-year old granddaughter challenging me in our local stationers as I take a new wall year-planner to the counter. She’s right, of…
Tom is struggling to get the car in gear. It’s a small Kia, manual gearbox, right hand drive. As an American he’s used to automatic, left-hand drive. Actually, he’s a world traveller and has driven in all parts of the…
I’m driving home on an ordinary country road. It’s late afternoon, dry and bright, with no traffic. Then about 150 metres ahead I see a small kerbstone that’s broken loose lying about 18 inches into the road. I could safely cross…
“After my stroke, it took me 15 minutes to walk 200 metres, and each time I did this I could see the marginal gain”. This was Michael Johnson being interviewed this week on how his stroke affected him last year. You…
Congratulations to the outstanding England Men’s Cricket Team who won the World Cup on Sunday for the first time. And congratulations to the amazing team at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London who separated the conjoined twin girls this month.…
She asked me again “who are you talking to?” I was shocked! I’d been talking to a friend of mine who’s a marketing expert. She’d been looking at our website. I replied, “Businesspeople”. But she said “No. I think you’re…
