When people participate in Turpin workshops, individual members and teams enjoy a host of secondary benefits beyond greater comfort with their own communication skills. Managers...
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March 29, 2022 0 Comments
It’s such a tired old saw: “Dress for the job you want, not the job you have.” Tired or not, there’s wisdom in it, but...
read more16 Signs Your Company Should Invest in Communication Training
March 14, 2022 0 Comments
We’ve been talking recently about our collective experience with communication challenges in the various places we’ve all worked. One topic that keeps coming up is...
read moreWhat People Get Wrong About Executive Presence
November 10, 2021 0 Comments
What We Assume An episode of This American Life from several years ago featured “Chainsaw” Al Dunlap, the CEO who was brought in to restore...
read moreWhen Team Presentations are a Market Differentiator
November 3, 2021 0 Comments
When people participate in Turpin workshops, individual members and teams enjoy a host of secondary benefits beyond greater comfort with their own communication skills. Managers...
read moreManaging Conflict in Virtual Meetings
October 4, 2021 0 Comments
This article was inspired by a question posed by a client in a recent virtual workshop. She asked: If you are part of a virtual...
read morePresenting at Conferences to People You Don’t Know
July 28, 2021 0 Comments
If the audience for your business presentations is usually the same group of people—your internal team or a well-known client group—your assessment of them can...
read moreHybrid Meetings: Being a Productive Participant
July 26, 2021 0 Comments
In our first post on hybrid meetings, we talked about best practices for managing focus when leading meetings with some people in the room and...
read moreHybrid Meetings: Projecting Professionalism
July 2, 2021 0 Comments
One of the many interesting observations from the pandemic is the evolution of people’s Zoom backgrounds. Initially, everyone was excited to play with the virtual...
read moreDry Runs: The Key to Training Readiness in the Virtual World
August 14, 2020 0 Comments
In the post-pandemic world, the communication skills training we deliver takes place in both virtual and face-to-face environments. Surprisingly, as the pandemic wore on, we...
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