The Importance of Space!

You may not realise it but space is a really important factor when you are communicating with someone. The amount of space you give someone often depends on your relationship with them. For example, you may get really close to your boyfriend / girlfriend when you are speaking to them as this is a sign [...]

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Non Verbal Communication – Are you aware of your body lanuguage?

OK so you are just about to go into a very important business meeting and you need this client to sign on the dotted line. To ensure that you get the successful outcome you need to make sure you verbally impress the client but also your body language needs to be telling the client the [...]

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Penpals

Do people still have ‘penpals’ or is it all done via email these days?
I can remember the rush of excitement if a letter landed on my doorstep.  Working out who writing it was, seeing where the postmark was from. Opening the envelope and then seeing the amount of pages that someone had actually taken the [...]

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Wot no Paper?

Call me old fashioned but what has happened the standard pen and piece of paper and writing.  I’m scared that over time, kids of today are going to loose the ability of writing and stringing a sentence together normally.  All eveyone seems to use these days, is text – as already talked about in my [...]

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Predictive or not?

Sending text messages,  no matter whether it’s dating or not is a true form of art.  If you’re down with the kids then there are abbreviations are absolutelt baffle me.
Where the art of English going?  I’ve even received a few emails from friends which have text talk in them and these are friends which really [...]

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Dating by text continued…

OK, so you’ve met someone on a night out, after a few glasses of wine.  You arrange a date, place and time by text.  You chat all week and flirt like mad, by text.  You buy an outfit and turn up for your date, texting first to make sure he’s there before you walk into the [...]

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Dating by text…

This is really showing my age now (although I am only 35) but when I was first dating in my late teens and early 20’s – dating was so different.  You actually wrote someones number down and called them to have a chat and arrange a date.
It’s all done by text these days.  I’m not [...]

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Christmas Communications

It’s getting very close to that time of year again when everyone remembers family they probably haven’t spoken to all year and a most people run around like headless chickens buying spending a fortune buying premium Christmas cards all sorts of presents that may not even be needed or wanted because everyone else is or [...]

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Negative Body Language = Poor Customer Service

Can you imagine walking into a bar and the bar-person is slumped over the pumps talking to some friends?
You approach the bar and stand there, unattended while they continue to talk, eventually you interrupt and ask to be served. The reaction you get is a look like you have just swore at them, and [...]

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Motivation – Fear or Inspiration

We will all have been in situations in our life where we have been taught/mentored or managed in various different styles. The way this person communicates with you will have had varying responses and reactions, both positive and negative. The two main forms of motivation intrinsically for a person are in the [...]

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