Why communication skills training?  Why now? 
Before I can answer, let me first ask you a couple of probing questions.   Are you feeling pressure to justify every dollar you spend?  Would you like to strengthen your current efforts to finding and securing new customers?  Could you be doing more to improve your relationships with existing customers?
If your answer is “Yes” to any [...]

Public speaking feeds the ego.  When you step onto the platform, all eyes are on you.  You might even get the feeling you matter.  Your ego is further enhanced if you do a good job.  Can you hear the applause?  Can you see their smiles?  Can you feel the love?   There’s no longer any [...]

Politicians must be addicted to stress.  They must thrive on it!  How else could they possibly survive under the pressure?  From the moment they throw their cell phones into the ring, they’re under constant pressure to be innovative, adaptable, constantly aware, forever positive, amazingly unflappable, always energized, and inhumanly correct and clean-shaven 24/7!  They can’t [...]

“Cut!”  Back in the days when I produced film and video programs, that cry was heard many times throughout the day when a take was successfully recorded or when there was a screw-up in the middle of the take requiring a ”Take 2″ (or 3 or 10 or 11!).
In today’s business environment upper management has been yelling “Cut” more [...]

Can you feel it?  Is your hand poised over the panic button while beads of sweat begin to form on your furrowed brow?    Have you noticed you can’t stay focused on anything for more than a few seconds at a time?  Was it you who just asked your boss to repeat what he anxiously just aked [...]