This article first appeared in Bid Solutions’ Bidding Quarterly periodical in November 2023. I found it a wonderful challenge to pivot into bid consultancy after 20 years’ civil engineering and […]
Corporate Identity, Communication and Consistency
I’m using this post as an opportunity to consider the importance of corporate identity and communicating it in a consistent style across all of an organisation’s outgoing media.
What Makes A Presentation Compelling?
What do you understand a compelling presentation to be? What makes it compelling? What is it about a presentation that makes you want to stay and keep hearing more? We […]
Do Speakers Always Seem Authentic?
In previous blog posts, we’ve looked at how to present without notes (http://mercury-cs.co.uk/how-do-people-present-without-notes/), communicating strategy (http://mercury-cs.co.uk/strategise-and-communicate/) and how not to spoil an otherwise good presentation (http://mercury-cs.co.uk/dont-spoil-a-good-thing/). This time, we’re having […]
What Do You Value?
In personal coaching, we pay particular attention to our clients’ values and beliefs because they guide our clients’ actions, which are based on their decisions, both conscious and subconscious. Values […]
Making A Positive Difference Via Coaching
Making a positive difference to someone’s motivation for achieving their life and work goals is a very satisfying thing to do. This lovely message came to us by text earlier […]
How DO People Present Without Notes?
The Labour Leader, Ed Miliband, is being praised by the media this week for delivering his hour-long conference speech without using any notes. This is a skill that public figures […]
Take the Coach to Your Future
Coaching is a conversation between two people, the coach and the client. The objective of the conversation is for the coach to help the client to achieve a stated goal […]
Mind Your Ps and Qs
What’s important when submitting a pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) or tender? The client, your reader, will want to know that you have the experience, credibility, capacity and genuine desire to deliver […]
Do Businesses Plan To Their Strategies?
Strategic planning is generally taken to be focused on medium- to long-term business success – ie. three years and longer – and aims to move the business in directions that […]
Strategise and Communicate
Even the most researched, planned, analysed and practical strategies are not going to be effective if they’re not made relevant, important and personal to the people who will play key […]
Clear As Mud?
Have you ever read something and wondered what on Earth the writer was trying to convey, even after reading two or three times?
Don’t Spoil A Good Thing!
A presentation by a subject matter expert was spoiled yesterday by some shortcomings that could have been avoided. The following are some of the issues that we identified throughout the […]
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