What’s your walk-on music?

Penny Haslam 9th October 2019Blog, Coaching & training, Make Yourself a Little Bit Famous, Make Yourself a Little More Confident, Other recommendations, Penny's news, Recommendations, Your speaking, Your visibility

I met a friend while I was out walking the dog this week who told me she’d just been for an audition but had got nervous and a little intimidated by the other performers – the competition.

I said she needed some ‘walk on music’ to…

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.

Tricks of the trade

Penny Haslam 8th July 2019Blog, Coaching & training, Make Yourself a Little More Confident, Penny's FACE, Planning, Your speaking, Your visibility

Years ago, I found myself in a car park outside the BBC’s Television Centre, in front of a large broadcast camera, reporting on a story about a flood. It was fake news because I was actually taking part in a practical exercise for a rare BBC trainee…

Erm…

Penny Haslam 4th July 2019Blog, Coaching & training, Make Yourself a Little More Confident, Your speaking, Your visibility

I received an email with an agony aunt style question this week, from someone who’d attended one of my half day sessions for boards, about stepping up as ‘brand ambassadors’. She wanted helps with a common problem…

Smart engagement for Maria

Penny Haslam 16th June 2019Blog, Coaching & training, Make Yourself a Little Bit Famous, Make Yourself a Little More Confident, Smartphone videos, Your speaking, Your visibility

Last week I ran my one-day ‘Make Yourself a Little Bit Famous at Work’ workshop, at a big company. I set up a choice of activities in the afternoon, you could take part in a panel discussion, deliver a short talk or make a video on…

I’m a writer! Plus 27 Tips from the book Tip #1

Penny Haslam 14th June 2019Author, Blog, Planning, Tips from my book, Your speaking, Your visibility

I’m a writer! I’ve done it! I’ve handed in my homework. The final draft of my book has been completed and is now being turned into something real, on paper. It’s good to get my weekends back frankly…

“Confidence comes from knowing you’re doing the right thing.”

Penny Haslam 5th June 2019Blog, Coaching & training, Make Yourself a Little Bit Famous, Make Yourself a Little More Confident, Radio recommendations, Recommendations, Your speaking, Your visibility

“Confidence comes from knowing you’re doing the right thing.” That’s what the writer and broadcaster Stuart Maconie remarked recently in Radio 4’s The Confidence…

How to plan your content. Fancy whittling?

Penny Haslam 5th February 2019Blog, Coaching & training, Make Yourself a Little Bit Famous, Make Yourself a Little More Confident, Planning, Vlog, Your speaking, Your visibility

The attendees on our latest smartphone video course admitted they were held back from ‘getting out there’ because they didn’t have a plan.

They struggled to think of what they might talk about.

Why You Need Confidence Control Pants

Penny Haslam 21st January 2019Blog, Coaching & training, Make Yourself a Little More Confident, Vlog, Your speaking, Your visibility

Being called a ‘control freak’ isn’t meant as a compliment, is it? I remember Tony Blair in the 90s being labelled a control freak for wanting to know everything that was going on in…