by Judith Perle | Mar 13, 2018 | Networking
I’ve just read an academic paper entitled ‘Who gets the top jobs? The role of family background and networks in recent graduates’ access to high status professions’ – written by academics from the Universities of London and Cambridge, under the auspices of the...
by Judith Perle | Feb 25, 2018 | The words we use
I’ve recently taken up yoga, and have been to an excellent beginner’s course. While changing in the dressing room, I idly read the notices advertising future sessions. To my surprise, last week I recognised one of the teachers’ names – a woman who came to a workshop I...
by Judith Perle | Feb 7, 2018 | The words we use
The language we use matters. Not just in terms of getting things grammatically correct (though that is important too) but in terms of the image we create in the listener’s or reader’s mind. Selin Kesebir of London Business School has done some really interesting...
by Judith Perle | Apr 7, 2017 | Presentation Skills
A gem I picked up recently – almost short enough to be a tweet! When making a presentation, bear three things in mind: 1. Simplify complicated ideas 2. Emphasize the benefits 3. Try to influence your audience to take...
by Judith Perle | Mar 30, 2017 | Body Language
Attitude is all-important. If you approach things with a positive frame of mind, there’s nearly always a useful ‘takeaway’ to be found. An example: Yesterday I went to a ‘free’ seminar on presentation skills which was, as I suspected, mainly a selling exercise. Since...
