As everyone will have noticed, it’s been a bit hot and sticky recently. This means several things:
As Brits, we naturally fall into reminiscing about the good old days, when it just used to rain miserably
We notice that it’s more likely to be sunny on weekdays and rain at weekends (this is in fact true, and [...]
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I remember writing about this last year – I can’t believe a whole year has gone by already!
Anyhow, last Friday, I was back up at DeMontfort University, Leicester, to act as one of the judges in Fox’s Lair, which as you might have guessed is loosely based on TV series Dragon’s Den. Students on business [...]
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This month I was lucky enough to work with Neil Mullarkey, one of the founders of London’s famous Comedy Store, occasional panellist on QI and all round comedy genius. Neil is rarely on TV (I suspect of his own choice), but quite astonishing live.
Anyhow, the relevance of this is that he’s conjured up a rather [...]
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Last week, my good friend Matt O’Neill hosted his regular event for internal comms professionals. He’d decided to try out a new format, which has been gaining some traction in recent years (although apparently it’s been around for ages).
Called “Pecha Kucha”, the deal is: all presentations must be 20 slides long, and the speaker may [...]
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