Who wants to be famous?

Penny Haslam 15th April 2020Blog, Make Yourself a Little Bit Famous, Penny Haslam Podcast, Speaking

Occasionally, when I’m speaking, there will be someone in an audience, or a delegate on one of my courses, who will scoff at my phrase ‘Make Yourself a Little Bit Famous’. I know, who would do such a thing?

Penny Haslam – Author

Penny Haslam 14th March 2020Author, Blog, Make Yourself a Little Bit Famous, Speaking, Tips from my book, Your visibility

Make Yourself a Little Bit Famous – By Penny HaslamPower Up Your Profile And Get Known For What You DoDo you shy away from the spotlight for fear of feeling …

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Buy yourself some confidence

Penny Haslam 24th January 2020Blog, Confidence, Make Yourself a Little More Confident, Speaking

Probably because I talk about confidence at business conferences, the word itself tends to leap out at me on a regular basis.Yesterday, I did a double take when I went past a cash machine…

Change and Challenge Can Impact on Your Words

Penny Haslam 1st November 2019Blog, Make Yourself a Little More Confident, Motivational speaker, Penny's news, Speaking

Last week I delivered a 1.5hr session on confidence to a group of 70 leaders at an insurance business in London. They were gathering together after an 18-month period…

A ‘journey’ of discovery

Penny Haslam 3rd October 2019Blog, Coaching & training, Event host & moderator, Make Yourself a Little More Confident, Speaking, Vlog

I thought the place was familiar. Last week I chaired a leadership conference at the same venue I’d delivered my first ever keynote. I had an ‘ooh, that was then, this is now’ moment of joyful back-patting. Always worth thinking about…

Bolster confidence by recalling a positive experience

Penny Haslam 23rd September 2019Coaching & training, Make Yourself a Little More Confident, Motivational speaker, Speaking, Vlog, Your speaking, Your visibility

Now I don’t know what age you are, but you’ll have surely understood by now that age breeds experience and the older you get the more of a know-it-all you become – I would hope so anyway.

Can you imagine winning the lottery?

Penny Haslam 2nd August 2019Blog, Coaching & training, Make Yourself a Little More Confident, Speaking, Your speaking, Your visibility

You can? Well done, you are human – you have an imagination. Our minds work on images without us really trying and we are always visualising stuff, bad and good: we imagine the worst, we imagine winning the lottery.

Sometimes I can live without my own teabags…

Penny Haslam 28th May 2019Blog, Coaching & training, Event host & moderator, Planning, Speaking, Vlog, Your visibility

Now, it’s embarrassing to admit, but I take my own teabags with me whenever I travel abroad. Not only do I hate the ubiquitous presence of Liptons (who have conned the world into thinking that’s actually…

SLOW down…

Penny Haslam 6th December 2018Blog, Coaching & training, Make Yourself a Little Bit Famous, Make Yourself a Little More Confident, Speaking, Vlog, Your speaking, Your visibility

Setting out to make yourself a little bit famous – on panels, speaking at events, making your own video or even appearing on TV and radio – can feel daunting. Nerves can wreak havoc with our performance and…

Using humour when speaking

Penny Haslam 22nd November 2018Blog, Coaching & training, Humour, Make Yourself a Little Bit Famous, Make Yourself a Little More Confident, Motivational speaker, Planning, Speaking, Your speaking, Your visibility

I had a lovely ‘thanks for a job well done’ email from a client this week after I had been the MC at their annual leadership event…“You made a positive lasting impression. Your energy…