Category 'Confidence'

  Billionaire tycoon Warren Buffet famously remarked; ‘improve your value by 50 percent by learning communication skills’. Buffett’s point is that mastering the art of public speaking is the single greatest skill to boost your career, business or even life! You might be thinking, “That’s great, but I have a fear of public speaking.” That’s…

‘The Morning Game’- Billal Jamil     In this article we cover How we can prepare our Mind to Be Confident, Positive and Successful How to overcome the greatest barrier to building momentum Why your morning routine presents a huge opportunity for consistency And why the Mindset is an essential precursor to Confidence, Success and…

    It’s Business 101 we’re told; ‘You MUST attend Events? ‘BUT so many of us don’t. Why? Google “the fear of networking” and the number of hits – 1,970,000!  That fact alone tells you that many of us do FEAR Networking…. Costing you and your business potentially £1000s in lost connections and opportunity! So here I…

Does the thought of public speaking fill you with fear? Do you panic when you have to present your services to an audience? Have you lost sales or clients because you haven’t put your message over effectively? How often have you sat in a meeting, at a seminar or conference trying to stay awake while…

Imagine… You are working amongst people who are hostile to you and your values. You are tired, run down, stressed. Your workspace in noisy, ugly, disorganised Are you going to be able to work at your best and most creatively in these conditions? How does it make you perceive challenges, as something to be feared,…

1. Be a Know It All! When you feel familiar whether it be your material, the room or the audience you will naturally relax. We know this as fact. So the professional speaker must invest in getting the edge by… Finding out the outline of the day – we call this the running order but…

We are told in the personal development industry to aim big,  dream, to set a vision… and more. But is it realistic? Does it deliver? I recall rolling eyes, sighs, looks of  ‘Yeh..ok mate..dream on’ variety when I’d replay lofty ideas amongst my peers, friends and family. In our own seminars I cite a story…

When I first started working as a professional speaker – I worried a lot about many things but mostly about my knowledge, subject expertise and content. Like most people I feared not knowing ‘my stuff’ – appearing stupid or ill informed. In fact there was a genuine insecurity that someone in my audience would know…

I took the call; it was a call no husband wants to take. The voice on the other end told me my wife had been in a car accident on a duel carriageway near Wakefield. The car was a total right off… my wife was ok, shaken and bruised but she was ok. In 15…

You can communicate with confidence. We all have the tools at our disposal. It just takes a little bit more effort for some of us to use those tools. With the right know-how and training behind you though, you could be communicating like a pro in no time at all. The DNA of good customer…