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You’ve heard everyone tell you, “to get business success, you’ve got to find your niche”, but it’s bloody hard…even when the answer is hiding in plain sight. This week, I had a really rewarding [...]

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can’t buy friendships. – Lindsay Fox Even as someone confident in public speaking, I used to [...]

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson. – John Henrik Clark ​As a comedian, you learn to ensure that you open [...]

With great humour comes great responsibility…use it wisely! I’ve talked before about the transformative power of humour in public speaking, not only in terms of what impact it can [...]

I’ve been feeling torn over the past few days… the beautiful weather we’ve been experiencing in the UK is normally cause for our nation’s mood to lift, albeit temporarily, until we begin [...]

Wow! Politics has never been so riveting! As you can see, I managed to get a photo of the Prime Minister’s new cabinet smuggled out of Downing Street. I know that it will be no solace for [...]

Here are four fab techniques for getting ‘jiggy’ with it… Creating, or even adapting humour requires you to be innovative, to question the status quo, and to use your unique [...]

Some of you may recognise the photo from the film ‘Ice Cold in Alex’…it’s a classic! The beer represents your message, idea, product or service, and by the end of your [...]

Hello, and thanks for stopping by! I did a micro-workshop on wordplay skills for comedy on Facebook Live, so I thought I’d share it on my blog too! Before we head into the training I just [...]

There’s the glass ceiling and now let’s talk about the ‘grey’ ceiling… In my 20 year plus career in HR, it’s become increasingly obvious to me that a good sense of [...]