by Seb Wals | Apr 1, 2025 | Article
1st April 2025 — The International Bureau of Speechwriting (IBS) has issued an urgent warning to all public speakers: the use of humour in speeches may be more hazardous than previously thought. The IBS asserts that it can be difficult to digest. According to the...
by T3mpl4r4dv150r5 | Dec 16, 2024 | Article, In Conversation
Revisiting the foundations of persuasive communication and why Aristotle is as relevant today as ever. At Templar, we ask our clients to think about their core communications objectives in three dimensions. First, the substantive content they are communicating and...
by T3mpl4r4dv150r5 | Nov 20, 2023 | Article
If you want to have genuine impact when you write or present, there are certain words you’d do well to avoid. They’ve lost all meaning and will only act to obscure your message and turn people off. A stubborn myth persists in corporate life that if we don’t use the...
by T3mpl4r4dv150r5 | Sep 20, 2023 | Article
On World Peace Day it feels appropriate to look at ways to handle difficult conversations with clients and resolve conflict at work. DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS are an unavoidable fact of life. And yet most people do their very best to avoid them. Whether it’s an unhappy...
by Seb Wals | Apr 28, 2023 | Article
A free press is a blessing for democracy. But too few people in business truly understand what motivates the media, and so too often end up falling foul of this capricious friend. Templar consultant and former financial journalist, Charlie Corbett, shares seven rules...