“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” –Benjamin Franklin These wise words of one of the USA’s founding fathers are well over 200 years old but remain relevant to the communication training requirements of global organizations today. Any company operating across multiple regions or jurisdictions needs its communications to be aligned, as news a...

The academic year has started, and one thing is for sure: the virtual classroom experience this time will be different.   School districts will make virtual education possible thanks to an array of digital platforms. For students, punctuality, engagement, and participation will be essential to receive a passing grade. For educators, there are effective techniques you can impl...

Dust off your Spoken Word media training skills for desktop video conferencing, whether you’re using Zoom, Google Hangouts, GoToMeeting or any other online meeting app.   Avoid these common delivery pitfalls and your message will be received loud and clear. The key to a stellar performance is to strike a balance between three delivery components. Visual—how you lookVoca...

The power of communication played a key role in changing perceptions among a 300-strong audience in a recent Oil and Gas Council webinar on the future of oil and gas frontier exploration. The audience were asked for their initial view on: ‘There is No Future for Frontier Exploration’ with 56% voting against the motion, 23% in support and 21% undecided. At the end of the discussion...

It is often said that out of crisis comes opportunity. For the advancement of organizational risk management systems, that time is now! The issues we have witnessed in recent months around covid-19, social unrest and economic uncertainty have affected all markets and companies around the world and challenged our ways of living and working. Many companies will already be using a ris...

We find ourselves at the halfway point of a tumultuous year, with COVID-19, civil unrest, racial injustice and a sharp economic downturn as just a few of the challenges countries around the globe are facing. Spoken Word experts share what steps companies need to think about now to get ready for the second half of 2020. “I think the biggest thing corporations will face this fall will b...

Credit Management professionals across the world have been given top tips from Spoken Word on how to calm the nerves and become an effective public speaker. Over the last four months, a series of training articles have been published in Credit Management, the magazine of the Chartered Institute of Credit Management and largest recognized professional body in the world for the credit ma...