by Tina Blake | Nov 17, 2020 | Speech-writing
Great public speaking normally involves telling a story and often an anecdote will help make your message sticky. Anecdotes help create authenticity, which helps an audience connect with you on a deeper level, encouraging trust. You can have all the professional or...
by Tina Blake | Oct 20, 2020 | Speech-writing
Audiences are moved by the power of human communication. That means great use of voice, diction, breathing and body language. It’s also true, however, that great speeches start on the page. All the rhetorical skill in the world cannot make a badly written speech soar...
by Tina Blake | Sep 21, 2020 | Public Speaking Tips, Speech-writing
We’ve all heard the cliché about “lies, damned lies and statistics”. We live in a sceptical age, and we’re used to speakers of all kinds manipulating numbers to burnish their argument. You can make statistics say anything, right? Well, yes and no. Numbers are complex:...
by Tina Blake | Sep 7, 2020 | Public Speaking Tips
Facing redundancy? Now may not seem the right time to start a new business but sometimes your best option is to start up on your own. However, attracting funding is going to be particularly hard this year – so the best way to get a loan is to do it face-to-face...
by Tina Blake | Aug 7, 2020 | Video
Yes, lockdowns are easing, but, don’t plan on leaving the Zoom room any time soon. Online presenting will be the norm for a while yet. There’s been a lot written about Zoom fatigue, and it’s real. We click from one call to another without giving ourselves time to...
by Tina Blake | May 11, 2020 | Video
Have you recently been on a call where the other person is sat with a window behind them and all you see is a silhouette? Or have you seen someone with the opposite problem: the window is behind their screen, and all you can see is a bright glow where the person...
by Tina Blake | Apr 15, 2020 | Video
I am currently on lockdown in France, where things are a bit stricter than in the UK. You can only leave your house for 1 of 4 reasons, and you have to have a signed, dated and timed piece of paper with you which states where you live and why you are outside. Luckily,...
by Tina Blake | Mar 30, 2020 | Powerful Video Presenting Tips
Utility Warehouse used their recent Virtual Express Day to launch their new UW branding new green tariffs, new charity foundation and new incentives. The second week of March is normally a hectic one for me with over 7000 delegates at a weekend event in Telford. This...
by Tina Blake | Feb 17, 2020 | Body Language
Good speaking is the art of keeping an audience engaged. That’s because speakers want to communicate – they want everyone to remember what they say. If you’re to achieve this goal, you need to get people to listen … and to keep them listening, too. Some of this can be...
