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The Voice Practice

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Set up in 1993 by the international voice coach, Janet Howd, the Voice Practice helps to unlock the vocal confidence and self expression necessary to create and deliver high quality performance under any circumstance. She has written articles on voice and presentation for expert publications and for the Times Higher Educational Supplement. She sets out her approach succinctly in: Breath of Life or Kiss of Death? Your Voice and Your Presentation. A paperback book published in November, 2002. A skilled ins...

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The Voice Practice

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At the Voice Practice we help clients to keep their heads above water as they engage with an audience. We know about performance. We know about presentation. We know about voice. We also know how to share that knowledge effectively. How we do it. Sessions are designed to help clients to perform with confidence whether briefing a single colleague, addressing video conferences or giving formal lectures.

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Travels in Peru

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Flights to New York. Flights to Las Vegas. Until you stop travelling, you can never really say that you have been travelling.". Writes Ian Barfield on his first major trip abroad. The alarm went off at 5am. Pity I didn't hear it. He was right. With less than an hour and a half remaining I arrived at Heathrow Terminal 4. Seamus saw me as far as the passport control. We said our farewells and I exclaimed in my best Arnie voice, "I'll be back! Oh, no" I muttered to myself. Well actually it was a lot mor...

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The Wendell Baker Story

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Movie review: The Wendell Baker Story. Movie review: The Wendell Baker Story. I chuckled, I smiled and I covered my eyes on occasion, and left the 49th The Times bfi London Film Festival showing of The Wendell Baker Story with a big feel-good factor. The Wendell Baker Story is not going to take the world by storm, but it will get extremely positive word of mouth advertising. It is a charming, lovely, funny, touching and unusual movie. Wendell soon befriends residents Boyd (Seymour Cassel) and Skip (Harry...

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China - 3 Weeks in the cold.

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Flights to New York. Flights to Las Vegas. Into China - 3 Weeks in the cold. The trick to travelling is not to get too worked up about it. My three weeks in China, partly with flatmate Rick, was a cold, sometime frustrating but a totally unforgettable experience. Location map of China. I've been to China before, some four years ago, so I am looking forward to seeing the ch-ch-chch changes, as David Bowie would say. Anyway, I get invited out to Morocco when the expedition gets there, who am I to say no?

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Romania Vlad the Impaler (Dracula)

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Flights to New York. Flights to Las Vegas. In search of Vlad. In search of Vlad the Impaler,. Written by Seamus Waldron. Jump straight to Dracula. Why, oh why do I always get a flight that leaves at a ridiculous time in the morning? If it wasn't for the fact that I know I can leave my house and be in duty free within an hour, I would be panicking at this point. I forget to get money from the cash-point! I say, slapping my hand to my head. I didn't get insurance"; says Julian. Here's a trick I do the mome...

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News & Ideas

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Duane Dike on Leadership and Culture. Michael Jones on Living Sytems. David Livermore on CQ. James M. Kerr. The City of the Future. Managers don’t have any role in creating a sense of meaningfulness at work, new research suggests. But bad management can certainly destroy it. The flip-side of ethical conduct. Doing what right - as opposed to what's profitable - isn’t always easy. What’s more, new research has found, ethical behaviour can also have an ugly flip-side. Taking the fight to ISIS. Public compan...

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How to handle a Q&A session

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Duane Dike on Leadership and Culture. Michael Jones on Living Sytems. David Livermore on CQ. James M. Kerr. The City of the Future. How to handle a Q&A session. Raised hands from Shutterstock.com. Much has been written ( not least by me! About the type, amount and quality of material that constitute a good presentation and the best way to go about delivering it. But far less attention has been paid to the thought and preparation that must go into handling any question and answer sessions that follow.