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We're not your average training and coaching consultancy. Speak First has been helping organisations like yours to become more successful and more profitable for more than 30 years. We’re one of a handful companies specialising in communication and management training that’s able to deliver consistently around the world – using expert local trainers to adapt the content to the local culture.
The Cape Flats Youth Development Programme (C.F.Y.D.P.)
On this blog, we recently shared details of The Floating School project in Bangladesh sponsored by the Speak First Foundation. This initiative ensures children have access to quality education ...
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“My life’s mission is to help people” says Amanda Vickers, Speak First CEO. A mission she has been passionate about since an early age and throughout her professional career, Amanda fiercely ...
12 Keys to Delivering Great Virtual Presentations
What comes to mind when your people think about delivering a virtual presentation? Awkward and boring or engaging and time efficient? What would it take to ensure the latter? These 12 keys to ...
7 Secrets for Sales Management Success
Every organisation relies heavily on the revenue generated by its sales function. This means Sales Managers play a pivotal role in achieving the company’s goals. Are your Sales Managers ready to meet ...
How to get your message across in a teleconference
Like a lot of people I now spend much of my business life on teleconference calls. Some of them can be productive, but a lot of them result in frustration as you can’t hear what others say, people ...
Delegating - how can you do it effectively?
As the calm of the summer break becomes a distant memory, I’ve already started to find myself going ‘I wish I had someone else who could pick up some of this work’.
Refusing requests – saying ‘No’
At Speak First the summer break is well and truly over. For those of you who work in L&D and HR you’ll no doubt be gearing up for a very busy autumn period and the pressure that can come with that. ...
The Four Pillars of Social Selling
Prospecting used to be time-wasting and time-consuming – but it’s much easier and faster now because of our social, connected world. I’d imagine most of you reading this are on LinkedIn, with your ...
5 hot tips to get your team working together
August is a time of year where, for most of the world, things shut down and people take a well-earned break. Offices are usually half-empty with staff away on holidays.
10 essential elements to communicating with people from other cultures
Culture is a fascinating thing. We all have one, we’ve all grown up in one and some of us have even grown up in several different ones. The environment, values, experiences that form the basis of ...