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 | Apr 17, 2018 | Speech-writing, Video
“One Team, One Dream” was the theme that brought over six thousand people together recently at the Utility Warehouse Express Day event, staged over two days in Telford. The theme and the content of the day celebrated success, togetherness and the importance of...
by Tina Blake | Feb 28, 2018 | Video
More and more, speakers are presenting less in rooms and more in front of cameras. Whether it’s recorded pieces to satellite links, teleconferences or training videos, the camera is commonplace in the life of many communicators. Surprisingly, it’s also still one of...
by Tina Blake | Dec 8, 2017 | Video
How difficult do you find it to express your message in around a minute? Most of us tend to waffle on if given half the chance. Partly this is because brevity takes a lot of work and thought; partly it’s because communicating in short bursts is an artificial,...
