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Honing your verbal communication skills to double your personal value
The billionaire, Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, has recently given sage advice in a CNBC interview posted on LinkedIn: “The one easy way to become worth 50 percent more than you are now is to hone your communication skills, both written and...
“Breakfast with Barb: Understanding what people watch” – chaired by Nadine Dereza
The Royal Television Society's ‘Breakfast with Barb: Understanding what people watch’ was held at the Soho Hotel in central London on 7 July. It was chaired by the journalist and broadcaster Nadine Dereza, and produced by RTS London Chair Phil Barnes.
Babaco Media plants a flag in the new events and media landscape
The way we communicate and present ourselves to the world has changed for good, and so have we. Babaco Media is the new face of PS Programmes. Our transformation reflects a new reality and shift in how we’re communicating and presenting ourselves to the world, with a...
6 Strategies to make your story stand out from the crowd in a crisis
Take a walk through the shuttered restaurants and shops of Britain, and you will feel that you are being ignored by old friends. Whether it’s a café you used to regularly meet people in, or a clothes shop that always seemed to have the right outfit for every occasion...
How COVID-19 will change everything by Nadine Dereza and Ian Hawkins
COVID-19 is turning the world upside-down. Some of the recently furloughed are launching new initiatives, others are hiding under the duvet (both responses are perfectly valid). Some people have arranged their stockpile in alphabetical order, and some have realised...
Top tips for presenting online events
As coronavirus forces event cancellations, organisers are turning to online meetings, webinars and webcasts to fill some of the gaps. The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has closed businesses and borders around the world. As people are encouraged to self-isolate, many...
Droning home for Christmas
If your family is driving you crazy at Christmas, spare a thought for those whose travel plans have been disrupted by the drone incident at Gatwick Airport. Here are the numbers at the time of writing this... Over 1,000 flights cancelledAirport shut down three times...
Crisis communications – because saying nothing is not an option!
Donald Trump has made many of us in the communications business shift uncomfortably in our seats in the last couple of years. When Trump became President, he pretty much took the standard advice of the speaker coach, screwed it up, and threw it back in our faces: be...
Kofi A. Annan – ‘An African at heart, but a global citizen, symbolising the best of humanity’.
Recently, the world lost Kofi Annan, the former United Nations Secretary-General. I along with many others was saddened to hear the news of Kofi Annan’s death and felt extremely lucky to have met the great man - the ultimate diplomat. I interviewed him on a couple of...
How to…Speak to a parliamentary select committee
Though some of us will have seen the bawdy Prime Minister’s Questions every Wednesday at 12 noon, a lot of parliament’s work is done in select committees. A select committee is made up of a number of members of parliament, and deals with particular issues relating to...