by Sharon Ferrier | Jan 30, 2026 | Confidence,Persuasion,Speaking, Presentation skills, Public Speaking
Mark was worried. He had worked his way through the organisation over 20 years and was now in a senior role in the Workplace Health and Safety team. He called me because he had to deliver a presentation to more than 60 team leaders, and he had never presented formally...
by Sharon Ferrier | Oct 27, 2025 | Confidence,Persuasion,Speaking, Presentation skills, Public Speaking
I applied for a TEDx talk. đŸ™‚ I got shortlisted đŸ˜ƒ I didn’t make the final cut. đŸ˜• But this idea? It’s too good not to share. Introducing The Goldilocks Triangle, a framework for communication that’s not too soft, not too hard, but just right. Passive is too...
by Sharon Ferrier | Jul 7, 2023 | Public Speaking
Oooo, Ahhh, Ummm, kind of, like, you know? We all have them, these little meaningless filler words, also known as verbal graffiti. An occasional one here and there is not a problem (after all, we are humans not machines…) but they become a problem when: The audience...