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The Forgotten Panel Participant – The Audience
Many people I know – both panelists and audience members - are wondering what is the point of panel discussions. This is what I am told by the senior managers, leaders and experts I have been training in various communication skills. It seems they are often too...
Lessons from the Pandemic on Communicating Science
What lessons have we learnt from how we communicated on the COVID health crisis that we can apply to the climate crisis? That has been a recurrent question in some of the panel discussions I have moderated at conferences over the past year. Two years ago, this month...
Media Training: How to Answer the Personal Question
Journalists like to probe during an interview and often ask you a question about what you would personally do or what you think. Depending on how you answer, you can find yourself caught in a spider's web that is difficult to escape. In this blog, I will share an...
Wolfgang – The Master Storyteller
I have waited two years to tell you this story. In January 2020, I went on a guided walking tour of Vienna with an Austrian friend. It was memorable because it was bitterly cold, and we wondered if we would last the two and a half hours. Forty of us were huddled...
Demystifying the Art of Storytelling
Everyone loves a good story. Our parents read us stories, and we tell them naturally to friends and family. So why is it that in a professional context, we are so reluctant to tell stories? I ask this question at the start of my storytelling workshops. Participants...