Thoughts & Insights

To continue our celebrations of the 75th Anniversary of Desert Island Discs in 2017, we are casting away another member of the PS Programmes team this week to the far-flung sandy shores of the BBC’s mythical desert island. Before we introduce this week’s castaway – a...

To continue our celebrations of the 75th Anniversary of Desert Island Discs in 2017, we are casting away another member of the PS Programmes team this week to the far-flung sandy shores of the BBC’s mythical desert island. Our castaway this week is... Ross Edmonds...

To continue our celebrations of the 75th Anniversary of Desert Island Discs in 2017, we are casting away another member of the PS Programmes team this week to the far-flung sandy shores of the BBC’s mythical desert island. Our castaway this week is... Rasheed Ogunlaru...

We’re huge fans of Desert Island Discs and to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the iconic show in 2017, we are casting away a different member of the PS Programmes team each week to the far-flung shores of the BBC’s mythical desert island, never to be seen again....

Eric Coates’ By the Sleepy Lagoon orchestral and the sound of seagulls have, since 1942, been transporting radio listeners to the far-flung sandy shores of a mythical desert island where more than 3,000 guests have been cast away. Seventy-five years since Desert...

In our third and final instalment of our series on charisma, we’re going to give you some tips and tricks on how to inject more charisma into your stage presence and suggest an approach to speaking that may be new to you. The story so far… We’ve explored what makes...

In our previous blog we set a series of questions to find out whether you might need help building your charisma, and if you haven’t read the article, take a look at our 'charisma help' questions. Let’s return to the last question on that list: ‘Are you suspicious of...

We are nearly three weeks into 2017. How many resolutions have you kept? It's easy to make a bold proclamation about doing more exercise, being more careful with money or quitting a bad habit on New Year's Eve (we blame the champagne) but if you don't know how to do...

The writing was on the wall for the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, and I had an inkling that all might not be well when I returned from the Sibos financial conference in Geneva last week. As the plane prepared for takeoff, the cabin crew advised passengers that ‘all...

After a summer of political upheavals, parliament itself could be about to move. Yes, the dingy, ‘asbestos-riddled’ Palace of Westminster is in need of a refurb and current proposals would see MPs dispatched to Richmond House and Peers moved to the QEII Conference...

It's not in the remit of this blog to take party lines, and so we are approaching the US elections with, if not cool detachment, then certainly warm fascination. Donald faces Hillary in November, and depending on your pollster you can find the election predictions...

Following the Brexit vote on Thursday, it’s hard to know what to write now. And as the fall out from the vote has spread, from the annihilation of the Labour front bench to the calls for Jean-Claude Juncker to resign my response has gone from a sort of ‘keep calm and...

The more complex the machine, the more likely it is to go wrong. And with that thought in mind, we’ve been through a forehead-furrowing number of airports in the last few months as conference season really gets underway. As millions of people go through the system,...

The punishing heat of the long Australian summer has given way to a cooler slant of sunshine, punctuated by downpours in Sydney, NSW, but nothing that could stop the crowds of tourists from hopping between the cafes around Darling Harbour. Darling Harbour, if you...

As a million advertising and sales gurus will tell you, 'instil fear in the customer and you’ll create demand'. Whether you find being given the hard sell intimidating or an imaginary audition for QVC, this sales technique doesn't float our PS Programmes boat anywhere...

The date for the UK’s historic referendum on continued membership of the European Union has been set, and those of us who are politically neutral by profession are going to have to watch our mouths closer than usual. Neutrality is sometimes an uncomfortable place to...

Dispatches from the Gorkana & Eventopedia Crisis Media Management Masterclass – February 2016 - Nadine Dereza, Media Director, PS Programmes Nadine and Ian took a PS Programmes team trip to the Langham Hotel in London on Tuesday 9 February to deliver a crisis...

In Part 1, I looked at the questions: What’s the job? and What’s your budget? The next two questions focus upon the right fit and the right avenue for finding and gaining the greatest value. 2. Does the face fit? Once you have a selection of potential candidates in...

As presenters and speakers, we often take the process of getting booked for granted: we are usually the last to know about a great deal of planning that has gone into an event. But long before we turn up with our presentation slides/visuals on a stick or have a chance...

David Bowie wore many outfits, but the one that never really fitted was nostalgia. Posted on social media timelines following the news of Bowie's passing were endless YouTube videos from a long career, including a recent performance of Heroes that (leaving aside that...