ADRg Ambassadors are now gathering nice momentum. After launching ourselves last year as the world’s first Ambassador-level mediation and consultancy panel, we have now reconstituted the group formally into an LLP. The plan is steadily to build the ‘brand’ by emphasising the way we can contribute to high-level corporate diplomacy. One way […]
I have written a piece for Financier Worldwide on the dark arts of negotiating in central and eastern Europe: The implicit view is that it is the outcome, not process, which really counts, and that the value of different outcomes can be measured. However, based on my experience as a […]
Poland’s Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski last week bcame the first Western Foreign Minister to visit Benghazi and meet the anti-Gaddafi leadership. Here at Project Syndicate are some of his conclusions: Peoples in transition from authoritarian rule – peaceful in Poland in 1989, bloody in Libya today – grapple with decisions […]
The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee today published a searching report on the Role of the FCO in UK Government. Here it is. And here is my own trenchant evidence, submitted in writing. I am not, it seems, grand enough these days to merit giving oral evidence. Sob. But read […]
Last week I was back in stunningly expensive Geneva to give an ADRg Ambassadors training course on Mediation, Diplomatic and Communication Skills to an international organisation. One of the exercises that captured the imagination of the course participants – mainly international technical specialists of differing levels of seniority – […]
Here’s an unexpected bonus: a series of pictures of the now (mainly) decaying bombastic communist monuments erected across Yugoslavia in the Tito era to commemorate supposedly heroic Partisan achievements or sites of Nazi and other war crimes by the Communists’ opponents during WW2: In the 1980s, these monuments attracted millions of […]
Back in deepest Oxfordshire, after a week in which I gave five set-piece presentations. One was at a Wilton Park conference on the general theme of Russia and Social Media. The second was at TEDxWarsaw, a coaching session in public speaking for some of the speakers at the main event. Then […]
I am still in deepest Warsaw, poised to give Polish officials training tomorrow and Tuesday in Speechwriting. On Thursday I swung by TEDxWarsaw, having given some speech-coaching to several participants the night before. One of the points I made was that a presentation at an event like TEDx is not […]
Here’s something I sent to the Evening Standard – not sure if they used any of it: Perhaps the most difficult moral and legal question of our time is this one: “who is my neighbour?” Domestic law has moved a long way from an earlier tradition that what went […]
Let’s try some SEO fun! Speech-writer. Writing speeches. Writing good speeches. Expert speech-writing. Public speaking expert. How to start a speech. Professional speechwriting. Speechwriting training. Public presentations training. Perfect public speaking. Yesterday I received a message through the site from a European parliament asking about training in public speaking for […]
