Have YOU got Charisma? That’s the question posed by Brazilian journalist Joyce Moysés in this cover article for readers of the Tribuna newspaper weekend supplement in the coastal city of Santos. The Tribuna de Santos article (in Portuguese) makes a broad assessment of the role of Charisma in public life — and kicks off with [ more » ]
Do you believe it’s possible to boil someone’s personality down to a mix of just four letters? If the answer is yes, then is it inevitable that in conversation, someone with an ENFP personality type will outshine an INTP? We all love the security that labels bring us – but when it comes to human [ more » ]
Can words or gestures really deliver us power and influence? And if so, what’s the unseen mechanism enabling us to direct or prevent the actions taken by others? The lives of leaders, politicians, trial lawyers and advertising mavens offer up daily confirmation such a mechanism exists. Yet the rest of us find it harder to [ more » ]
More and more we hear that “body language” is a key component of the way we communicate – but little concrete information is shared about the grammar and syntax of the mysterious language of what isn’t said. What we do hear tends to focus on the effectiveness of what appear quite superficial or artificial gestures [ more » ]
How many times has the voice of hindsight told us we could have achieved a better outcome from a meeting or event if only we had proved able to communicate more effectively? Our ability as communicators to always lead with our strongest suit – ensuring that what we have to say and the way we [ more » ]
From the mighty pyramid of words that constitutes a swelling testimonial to the life of Nelson Mandela, one thing shines through. He was a man who changed things around him, without changing so much himself. Following his Long Walk to Freedom in 1990 he went onto become the most venerated global leader of the electronic [ more » ]