Tel.: +44 (0)1753 866758 | E-mail: info@illumine.co.uk
Training specialist, Illumine, has found that its speed reading courses are not only helping to improve delegates’ reading speeds but also helping them overcome the stress of ‘information overwhelm’.
Although most of the literature on reading speed suggests that an average reading speed is between 240 and 250 words per minute (wpm), individuals attending Illumine’s first [...]
Can you imagine yourself standing in front of an audience without PowerPoint, without notes, without a script? Just think back to the last time it was vital to get your message across. Did you fully succeed?
The problem is that many people have a small but insistent voice in their heads at such time telling them [...]
How to respond quickly and build (rather than damage) your credibility when you are asked an unexpected question
You are a young/not so young/mature (delete as appropriate) executive, professional/manager/director (again, delete as appropriate) grabbing a coffee first thing on a Monday morning. Your boss (or boss’s boss or head of another department) spots you, ‘Ah, glad [...]
Who wouldn’t want to have the ability to say the right thing at the right time… to speak off the cuff, to improvise, even to wing it?
Have you ever admired someone who is spontaneous? Someone who always seems to have the ‘right’ answer and is always cool, calm and collected? Could that be you?
Is this the gift of [...]
