Damian Counsell

Stealing another speaker’s ideas

I gave a talk about better public speaking, and used the face of a clock as a mnemonic for all the essentials. Later I was   →

The Sky nightmare

I have a subsciption to Sky TV, and have been paying by direct debit. Needing to change those details, I found a letter I had   →

Introducing a speaker

Introductions are launch pads The Introduction is an essential part of speechmaking. If you are the chairman of the meeting, or if you are the   →

What is the real meaning behind what people say?

You are a communicator — that’s why you are on this page. So you can have fun thinking about the real meaning of the statements   →

August

What’s it like for you in August? Because things tend to slow down a bit this month, I was tempted to write this: AUGUST August   →

Lose those labels

We all carry around labels from the past — labels that define us in ways we’d rather forget. We carry them like dead weights hung   →