Should Women Use Smiley Faces in Business Communications?

Recently I was contacted by a writer for the business magazine “The Virago.”  She was writing an article about women’s business communication and how so many women fear appearing “too aggressive” in their communication. Many women she talked to apparently felt like they had to add a bunch of smiley faces to their emails in […]

Control Your Attitude to Improve Your Communications

Hello everyone, Tis the season to be holly, jolly and happy, but unfortunately a few people out there have not received the message. Yesterday I saw two guys almost get in a fist fight on the subway platform, until an undercover cop broke them up. The day before, during a big snow storm, I heard […]

Use EFT for Fear of Public Speaking, etc.

Have you heard of EFT? Emotional Freedom Techniques. This is a non-invasive form of self-therapy to activate pressure points (chi or qi points in Asian medicine) that hold negative emotional build-up and disrupt your body’s natural energy flow. The theory is that if you can release these negative emotions or scars from previous times, you […]

Improve your body language, improve your confidence!

Improve your body language, improve your confidence! The way that you move your body and walk has an enormous effect on the way that you feel and your confidence levels. Let’s start with an exercise. Imagine there are two people standing in front of you – one with “negative body language” and one with “positive […]