Christine Porath asks the viewers a vital question at the beginning of her Ted Talk on civility: Who do you want to be? “Who do you want to be? It's a simple question, and whether you know it or not, you're answering it every day through your actions. This one question will...
This month, Nike launched its 30th anniversary “Just Do It” campaign featuring the former NFL star and Black Lives Matter activist Colin Kaepernick who was the first NFL star to ‘take a knee’ during the singing of the national anthem in protest of police brutality and...
Imagine that you tomorrow you are attending the interview for your ideal job, you are scheduled tor the presentation to deliver to gain a new contract, or you have a difficult meeting organised to solve an issue. You have done all your research but you...
When Rachel Shenton signed her acceptance speech at the Oscars ceremony earlier this month, she was focused on sharing this joyous occasion with one little girl in the audience, 6 year old Maisie Sly from Swindon, the profoundly deaf actress who starred in The Silent...
I recently spent two very entertaining evenings watching auditions for an upcoming comedy at my local theatre. There are a lot of very talented amateur actors in the North West! The focus on body language in characterisation reminded me of Amy Cuddy’s excellent TED Talk “Your...
It took one journalist to write one article with testimonies from a group of women whose voices had been silenced for years, to open the lid on the culture of sexual aggression led by Harvey Weinstein in Hollywood. His subsequent downfall has been swift as he...
The Advance team have produced two new podcasts to help stimulate your creativity and enhance your customer service excellence skills. Creativity Heather Wright and John Bullock discuss the important link between creativity and motivation in the workplace in their new podcast. Heather explains that people need more...
One of the questions I am asked constantly is “How do you do it?” For some people, this is facing their biggest fear and their most difficult goal - speaking in public. To be fair, I have been delivering speeches since I was at school. It...