The stories are in there. Somewhere. Last month we delivered a course designed to help a major organisation story-find. Because before you can tell stories, you have to find them, right? So we did a crash-course in enabling comms folk - and a few others - to be reporters.   The benefits are clear. Entrepreneurial, curious, output-focused, multimedia, contact-forging, fact-based, people-people, fast, insight-hungry… imagine if you could deploy the skills of the reporter in you

Complex or simple comms? Actually, there's space for both Alan might be capable of more processing capacity than you think... One of the things I very often find myself saying to the leaders I coach is, ‘think about who you’re communicating to… and think about what you want to happen’. One of the things I do not say very often is, ‘make your content more technical/complex/ sophisticated’. In fact, it’s often the reverse; make it more accessible, easy to engage with and diges

Our new research focuses on the effects of filler words - on us, and our audiences - and what we can do to eradicate them RECENTLY I was...

How a chance meeting in the 1970s changed the world's political leaders for the worse - starting with Margaret Thatcher Pic: Allan Warren...