During my school years, I would often read biographies of the famous and the notorious, with the likes of Napoleon, Churchill, Stalin and Hitler topping the list. One perspective was never enough, so it was always important to read at least two authors on one and the same subject, hoping for a more...

I started reading in English when I was about 15, roughly one year after I first came into contact with the language in any meaningful sense. Not that there was much choice at the time in public schools of the day. Learning Russian was still in the obligatory department. Years later, I would go to...

People often think that public-speaking training is all about continuously rehearsing trust-building gestures, whether on stage or in camera. And yes, watching politicians speak provides more than enough arguments in support of this line of thinking, but there's much more to this story than meets...

Public speaking and stress are generally believed to be brothers and sisters. I'm sure you have heard many comparisons and analogies over the years, some of them credible (and completely relatable) and others more on the far-fetched side. While it is obvious that not everyone may be interested in...

Exactly 10 years ago, on 5 October 2011, one of the world’s most iconic business leaders and visionaries passed away. His legacy is that of a brilliant futurist, a wonderfully intuitive design guru, but also a hugely impactful public speaker, who has shaped an entire generation of public speakers...

Hackathony to jeden z najciekawszych formatów eventowych na rynku. W największym uproszczeniu polegają na zaproszeniu do wspólnego poszukiwania rozwiązań do konkretnych wyzwań i problemów nakreślonych przez organizatora hackathonu. Po jednej stronie jest firma, instytucja lub organizacja, po...

Politicians are among the relatively few professional groups where reliance on public-speaking training and body-language coaching are a given. One of their key motivations, of course, is to improve the overall likeability,  general appeal and the so-called public image. Maybe even conjure up a...

Politycy to jedna z tych nielicznych grup zawodowych, które bardzo chętnie sięgają po szkolenia z wystąpień publicznych. Powody zdają się być w większości dość oczywiste: techniki prezentacji, wizerunek, przemówienia, argumentacja i techniki negocjacyjne od wieków mają swoje honorowe miejsce na...

Given today's near-universal access to knowledge and an infinite number of sources and options for accessing it, a new type of intelligence seems to be emerging in the last few years, maybe decades. Time management and prioritizing sources of information have always been important. In today's...

At a time when so many of us have been forced by circumstances to come to terms with online conferences, daily home-office video calls and countless other forms of online communication, the quality of your presentation skills has never been more important or relevant than it is today. Here's a few...

Przyzwyczailiśmy się do nich. W szczycie sezonu potrafiliśmy bywać nawet na kilkunastu miesięcznie. Konferencje, kongresy, meet-upy, warsztaty i rozmaite inne formy spotkań (branżowych), w których oprócz wymiany doświadczeń, zdobywania kontaktów i wiedzy liczyło się też wspólne doświadczanie, bycie...

Do you think you know your strengths and weaknesses as a public speaker really well? More than 300 conferences, congresses, debates and public-speaking workshops later, I have come to believe that, in a lot of cases, the answer to this simple question can be surprisingly complex and have some...

Are you running a small company or a freelance businesses you have grown from scratch and perfected over the years? Do you think there is good reason to believe you might be facing a highly-probable scenario where your costs over the next few months will stay more or less the same but your...

It's almost flagrantly insensitive to even ask a question like this at a time when thousands of people die of what some continue to undermine in the face of facts and figures, portraying COVID-19 as a flu-like infection at best and criticising the international media (and governments) for blowing...

Here's a quick research question or two: Are you an event agency or organiser whose conference, industry congress, concert, festival, exhibition or fair already been affected (aka cancelled or postponed) by the coronavirus frenzy? Have you already experienced any quantifiable coronavirus impact on...

Nieważne czy oglądasz właśnie CNN, BBC, EuroNews, czy lokalne kanały informacyjne, takie jak TVP Info, TVN24, czy Polsat News - szansa na to, że w każdym z nich co kilka minut usłyszysz o wydarzeniach, kongresach i koncertach, z których organizacji albo zrezygnowano, albo zostały przeniesione na...

Looking from an outsider's perspective, you'd probably imagine that adding a tourist attraction like a tethered balloon (capable of taking visitors as high up as 300m!) in a historical city like Kraków, would most likely make a lot of people happy, offering them an opportunity to enjoy unparalleled...

Think "public speaking skills"! What are the first associations that come to your mind, your very first memories, lessons learned or surprising discoveries? A lot of people believe that public speaking is all about the stage, the cameras and microphones, the PowerPoints and the Keynotes of this...