My Best Advice for Leaders – Listen More!
My definition of a leader: “A leader is someone who others will follow”. To become a leader it’s important to acquire good communications skills. If people do not know where you want to take them and why, there will be a real reluctance to follow. Good communications is not sending an email or some other […]
Stay Sharp – How to Engage your Customers and Colleagues
Every time I sharpen my pencil, it reminds me of how I loved to draw as a child and as a teenager in art and technical drawing classes. Not surprisingly, my first job was in the drawing office of Tonge & Taggart, who celebrated 100 years in business the year I joined the company. This […]
How to Make Better Use of Your Day!
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] I feel that I am in more control of my life, in particular my working life. I believe this is because I am attempting to block out time in my day and week to get specific things done. For example, early morning is journaling, exercise, shower and then […]
Tips to Improve your Online Presentation Skills
I always emphasise to my clients that if they wish to be good presenters, they critically need to take Ernest Hemingway’s advice. “When writing a book, start by writing down the truest thing you know and then write down the second truest thing you know”. The same applies to creating a presentation; unless you believe […]
I Love This Article – My 100th & Best Ever?
Stop Working Hard! I have always had a work ethic; I suppose I got this from my parents. Well into her eighties, my mother was still living alone, looking after herself, her home and her garden. By way of example, late in her life, the local authority provided exercise classes for older people and my […]
How Your Communication can lead to #Subscribe or #Unsubscribe
Thank you for Your Suggestions and Support I asked my readers to suggest some topics that they would like me to address in my articles. I wish to thank the many people who replied, I will endeavour to write on each of the topics suggested in future correspondence. Here is one such reply I received, […]
The Three Questions Every Winning Pitch Must Answer
I am very sad to see Niamh Collins depart the DCU Ryan Academy for pastures new. Over the last ten years, she was the heart and soul of the ‘Female High Fliers’ programme in particular, but also the other programmes, such as Illuminate, Propeller and numerous SFI programmes. Niamh was the most caring, well organised, […]
First Steps to Pitch Perfection
Perfecting Your Sales Pitch I did not ever see myself quoting Anna Geary as she is not a person I would come into contact within my business life. Yet, her advice in a recent Sunday Independent – Life magazine was the advice I find myself giving to clients in a completely different scenario. “Strive for […]
Everything Is Going To Be All Right
Welcome back to my article; thank you very much for reading my scribbles over the years. Before Christmas my last article generated a great response, from people who enjoy poetry and lots who feel they are too busy usually to read anything other than work-related topics. Over Christmas, I heard this poem by Derek Mahon […]
A Reflection at Christmas
Aristo Christmas Message I have been thinking for a while about writing a Christmas article while getting our home ready for Christmas. Which usually means some painting and decorating while moving things about and putting stuff away, to make room for the Christmas tree and the decorations. Most people’s thoughts are that Christmas marks the […]