Speak First Blog
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.
Why Critical Thinking Is Important and How It Can Help You
You may have read our blog a few weeks ago about three modes of thinking and getting creative. This week we will be focusing on the important skill of critical or convergent thinking.
Virtual Presentations: 6 Steps to a Brilliant Delivery
As organisations all around the world began working from home, almost entirely overnight, we entered a new virtual age. Everything now is virtual, from team meetings, university classes, client calls ...
It's Good to Talk: 5 Practical Steps to Managing Difficult Conversations
There are many different types of difficult conversation that you can have, and what’s considered difficult will be different for each of us. For managers, it could be having to give negative ...
12 tips for reducing stress at work
A worrying study has shown that stress is related to 54% of long-term absences from work.1 So, clearly, how we deal with workplace related stress and our mental wellbeing is a very important issue ...
Leadership in uncertain times: Finding your way through ambiguity
The visceral sound of a Formula 1 engine sets pulses racing, energising and engulfing the senses as a race gets under way and throughout the various challenges bend by bend vying for positions ...
The Dos & Don'ts of working from home: 7 practical tips
More people than ever before are working from home. It offers flexibility and convenience for employees, while businesses can benefit from hiring people who wouldn’t be able to travel to the office ...
Taking a look at our virtual learning solutions
More and more people are working remotely away from their offices, or flexible hours to suit their busy personal lives. This creates many new and exciting opportunities for their organisations but ...
Why does creativity matter?
Many of us relate creativity to artistic endeavours or even as a way to relax. But how does creativity relate to our work or even corporate working life?