Verbal Communication

When times are tough people need to ‘up their game’. Here Clive Lewis of Illumine highlights how leaders and managers can develop the ability to reach out and communicate more powerfully .
What’s your natural reaction to economic uncertainty? Do you take fewer risks, delay making the big decisions, keep your head down?
In business such a […]

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a communication approach which can transform your impact and your ability to communicate. Here Anthony Landale outlines the fundamentals.
 
If you were advised to work on your communication to others, how would you go about it? Would you try to develop your Powerpoint presentation skills? Pay more attention to the way […]

How do we spend most of our time communicating? The amount of time we spend communicating prepared presentations in a formal setting to groups of people is tiny compared to the amount of time we spend in informal, impromptu one to one discussions. The diagram below shows this graphically - most of our time is […]

3 Steps For Making Writing Easier
Planning - professional writers often spend twice the amount of time planning comparted to non-professional writers. It is key - it helps the writer gather all their ideas and information and it helps stimulate creative thinking. Mind Map your ideas - allows you to put all your various associated thoughts […]

When most people think about improving the impact of their verbal communication, they probably think about how to improve their presentation skills. That’s because most people would consider a formal, pre-prepared presentation to a specific target audience as the most common situation in which communication creates an impact.
In reality this is simply not the case. Most […]

Silver tongues and fast feet
The ability to be spontaneous when speaking is essential for leaders, managers and front line staff who want to engage their audiences. Here Clive Lewis, MD of illumine training, reveals how you can begin to think on your feet.
Who wouldn’t want to have that ability to say the right thing at […]