As a participant in my first ever Samurai Game I can now understand why the world has embraced this experience to take people out of their comfort zones and enable them to explore their own everyday existence, values and morals. I would recommend this to any leadership team or business unit wanting to unlock that […]
Um, I am not sure what to say….
September 28, 2016
“Um” and shuffling from one foot to the other as I spoke were two of my bugbears early on. Key thing (and it is paralleled in my advice to people who say they could never act in a play because they could never remember the lines) is that people can’t tell how nervous you are or what you are going to say, or supposed to say, next.
Acknowledgements to http://lifehacker.com/use-this-quick-reference-to-eliminate-um-s-from-your-s-1736896624 for the infographic below.
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Here is what some participants have said about their experience with me:
The real world is never straightforward, and it’s seldom clear what the right answer is for many of our major decisions – especially if there’s some moral aspect to those decisions – and we have to dig down to our core values to make the decisions we can live with afterwards. It’s not often we […]
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Great points!