It’s surely no coincidence that two of the governments having most difficulty bringing Covid-19 infections under control are governments with disastrous communications strategies.

Both the UK and the US governments were slow off the mark,...

We have Covid hair, Covid nails, Covid beards. We have Covid houses, prone to be messy as the weeks of lockdown tick by and homes turn into offices and classrooms and gyms.

Many of us work from home now, if we’re lucky enough to still have...

Creativity is a silver lining during this dreadful pandemic.

Just look at the impromptu musical performances from balconies in Italy and France, or the speed with which virtual concerts were put together to support front line workers, or the...

How are you adapting your business life to Covid-19? Are you thriving? Or surviving?

Life in lockdown is giving us all time to think. As you plan how your business model will look, post-Covid, I want to share some ideas from a recent Zoom meeting...

Just a few months ago, as we said farewell to 2019, no-one had any idea we were in for such turmoil, both personal and professional. No-one foresaw the shift to WFM - working-from-home - that the Covid-19 pandemic would cause.

As infections...

They sat in their kitchens, in their living rooms, in their offices. They sat in front of provincial flags, or Canadian flags, or a loaded bookcase, or an empty bookcase, or a stone fireplace, or a glorious picture of a mass of multi-coloured...

We’re really happy to share a quick tip for leading virtual meetings that we saw on LinkedIn recently.

This tip will appeal to anyone who is keen to maintain eye contact with remote participants, but needs to refer to notes to avoid straying...

Remember the pre-pandemic days when you spent most of your time attending meeting after meeting after meeting?

How often did you complain those meetings were a waste of time or kept you from getting any work done?

Well, meetings have not gone...

Last week I shared the first of a series of short video tips on how to look good when you are using Zoom or any of the other video-conferencing apps. That first tip was about how to change your computer position to give a more flattering...

If you are a trainer, facilitator, speaker or event organizer you would have loved an event I had the good fortune to MC last week.

The bottom line, according to Kristin Arnold, one of the guest speakers, was that the speaking and presentations...

Halina St James, founder of Podium Coaching and creator of the Presentations Masterclass training program, launches the first of a series of short video tips to help you thrive in our new Covid-19 world of working from home and communicating...

Do you sometimes feel guilty about day-dreaming? You know how it happens: you are sitting at your work station, but you are looking out the window and your mind is on a beach, or a mountain top, or simply counting clouds.

Suddenly a bossy little...