by Allan Scott | 26 March 2020 | Business skills |
Your ‘inner lizard’? That’s the nasty little creature that takes over your brain in a crisis. Given the interesting times we are living in, yours may well be hyperactive at the moment. And believe me, I know how that feels. Two years after I took the...
by Allan Scott | 12 March 2020 | Business skills, Spoken word, Video |
Confident public speaking. Is that something you’ve mastered – or just something you wish you could achieve? If you’re nervous about getting up on your hind legs in front of an audience (or a camera), you’re certainly not alone. Most people...
by Allan Scott | 20 February 2020 | Business skills, Spoken word |
Are you terrified of public speaking? For a lot of people the very idea of getting up on your hind legs and talking to an audience – any audience – is so frightening that they try to avoid it at all costs.. And believe me, I know how that feels. At the...
by Allan Scott | 30 May 2019 | Business skills, Change management |
If you think everything’s changing too fast for your skills to keep up, take a leaf out of my father’s book. He was still getting to grips with new technology – and enjoying it – at the age of 98. So as it happens, I don’t agree with...
by Allan Scott | 6 March 2019 | Business skills, Customer satisfaction |
‘Helping’ your client? ‘Educating’ your client? ‘Collaborating with’ your client? Are those all polite ways to talk about ‘telling the client what they need to do’? Perhaps, in a way, they are. But even when your...
by Allan Scott | 8 February 2019 | Business skills, Change management |
In times of change, how do you find a futureproof business? The short answer is ‘it’s challenging – but not impossible’. Because obviously you can’t plan for everything when some things simply aren’t predictable. Except, of course,...
