Category: Women In Business

Statistically the odds are good that there is not a single person reading this (or any of their friends) who has not tried at one time or another to change their partner. Whether you are still with the partner you tried to change is not relevant – that you tried to change them is. Human…

There is no shortage of written work on the difference between the introverted and extroverted personality style.  From their tendencies in work, play and relationships to which is a ‘better’ way to be there are many theories.  Interestingly, despite this abundance of information, most people are still getting it wrong. Join Ovation Communication Experts Shona…

Words have the power to heal, the power to motivate and uplift and words have the power to influence and change.  Though we all know this to be true, most of us think of great speeches of history, moving monologues in movies or rousing oratory as something that others who are far more skilled with…

 Perhaps for many people in their ‘normal life’ there isn’t really a need to consider the difference.  However, there are few in this time of pandemic who would likely consider their life to be even close to what was once normal.  Most people’s lives ebb and flow to some degree – there are some stressful…

In times of extreme stress like we are currently experiencing, we can find ourselves overwhelmed by a confusing array of feelings and thoughts. ‘Confusion’ is the key word – we can experience so many conflicting reactions that it’s hard to make sense of any of them. Unfortunately, we often react or take action without fully…

Effective communication is a vast field fraught with a seemingly limitless number of landmines – and that is on a day where it’s ‘business as usual’. Well – currently it is not business as usual and the potential pitfalls of interpersonal communication loom large in many relationships, partnerships and corporations. In times of stress it…