by JoJo Sutherland | Jan 10, 2018 | Giving Back, Uncategorised, Workshops
I was recently invited to give a talk to primary school children about comedy and performance. The request was for it to be insightful and inspiring, so no pressure… What I didn’t expect was how comparative it is to when I work with company boards and...
by JoJo Sutherland | Dec 4, 2017 | Business events, Gender Diversity, Uncategorised, Workshops
How many people work for you? About half on a good is usually the answer – having a workplace environment where everyone gets on can be difficult to achieve but team building sessions can work and they don’t have to involve muddy fields or catapulting...
by JoJo Sutherland | Oct 8, 2017 | Confidence, Pitching & Presentations, Public Speaking, Wellbeing & Mental Health, Women In Business, Workshops
How do you maintain staff morale when staff have to deliver and deal with difficult situations every day? How to deliver bad news; Some people’s working day never seems to have any escape from delivering bad news or having to negotiate with people under...
by JoJo Sutherland | Jul 23, 2017 | Confidence, Pitching & Presentations, Uncategorised, Workshops
There was a survey done of people’s top ten fears: Number 2 was dying, number 1 it was fear of public speaking! There it is – people would rather die than speak in public. Stand up comedy is public speaking as an extreme sport, so we have some tips and...
by JoJo Sutherland | May 23, 2017 | Confidence, Gender Diversity, Networking, Pitching & Presentations, Uncategorised, Women In Business, Workshops
Having run a successful pilot workshop with Ernst & Young staff and clients in Glasgow, The Stand up and be Counted programme was then rolled out to business women and staff in Edinburgh. Statistics show that almost four in ten businesses in G7 countries have no...