Everyone knows that a great talk or presentation doesn’t just happen… engaging speakers like Obama, Churchill, and the wonderful TED talkers… don’t just turn up and open their mouth.

Tony Robbins, the world renowned high performance coach, says that if we are not in a positive state when we sit down to plan or do strategy, we'll only see the problems and not the solutions.

Corporate speak in internal communications, the seriously dry, text heavy, power point based presentations & the concern about ‘saying the wrong thing’, means that fun & laughter can be scarce

I've seen so many people doing pitches and presentations make the same fatal error…they make it all about them. How many sales presentations have you seen where the opening slide says things like…

Here are four great ways of increasing your creativity for generating humour, or generally coming up with some cool ideas.

Our lives are a rich tapestry of tales, and we just need to know how to dig in the right way, to bring up the gold. That's what I'd like to focus on this week.

The subject of life's fragility, came up in a podcast I was listening to this week. It was an old episode of the ‘Art of Charm’ with Jordan Harbinger...

With great humour comes great responsibility...use it wisely!

In the first 30-60 seconds, you need to do, show, or say something that will shock the audience, that will intrigue them, and that will get them to focus on listening to what you have to say.

...but that was old style networking… it was a time of power suits, pin stripes and Ponzi schemes. I’d like to think things have changed today, and I think mostly they have, although…

You’ve heard everyone tell you, “to get business success, you’ve got to find your niche”, but it’s bloody hard…even when the answer is hiding in plain sight.

It can be soul destroying…knowing you have a great product or service but not being able to get the attention of your dream customer...

Maybe you’ve heard that the secret to standing out, making people care and selling online is telling stories...

It’s likely you understand — what stories are, and the different types you can use when you’re speaking… BUT… there are some stories that are more powerful than others.