Where does a powerful speech come from?

It doesn’t come from power. If it did, Donald Trump would deliver powerful, empathetic speeches instead of the empty, divisive rhetoric delivered in all-cap Tweets.

It doesn’t come from wealth....

It’s been described as pitch perfect, a great speech, and ‘what a president sounds like’ when addressing a national crisis. But it didn’t come from the President.

Former vice-president Joe Biden, the presumptive challenger...

If you’ve been a top-flight sports broadcaster for ten years, a little thing like a Zoom video conference shouldn’t be a problem. And so it proved, when Doug MacLean was guest speaker at a Canadian Association of Professional Speakers...

By Gerard Murphy, President, Barefoot Facilitation Inc.

What if people left your virtual sessions celebrating the outstanding experience they’ve just had?  That would be amazing, right?

I’ve attended countless virtual events since...

I've been sharing a series of short video tips on how to look good when you are using Zoom or any of the other video-conferencing apps. The first tip was about how to change your computer position to give a more flattering picture of you. (If...

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...