The SIXCOMMS Podcast

Send us Fan Mail This is for you if you would like to ensure the spaces and meetings you facilitate and lead allow all voices to be heard.  It highlights the needs of the neurodiverse community. About our guest: Nikki Smit is a neurodivergent occupational therapist with over 13 years’ experience, dedicated to inclusion and trauma-sensitive care. With a deep passion for demystifying neurodiversity...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a special series ‘Conversations That Count’ featuring Singapore-based professionals. This sunny island has been my home since 2009, so I’m excited to shine a spotlight on the inspiring residents I share this sunny island with! About our guest: Montse Castells, is originally from Barcelona and has lived in London, Hong Kong, and now Singapore for 17 years. She loves natu...

Send us Fan Mail If you would like to show up more confidently on camera, this episode is for you! Renee Ismail, is a self-taught videographer and founder of PeachyPixx Productions, where she’s been crafting videos for the past decade. As a YouTube Creator, she finds joy in guiding fellow business owners through building an authentic presence on the platform through genuine relationships with thei...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the final episode of our special series, co-hosted by Melanie Staunton of Communicate! In this episode, we welcome adventurer Rob Lilwall who helps us  unpack our podcast journey; our version of climbing Everest! About Our Guest Keynote speaker and facilitator Rob Lilwall has been empowering individuals and teams across the globe with his riveting speeches and workshops...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we share our key learnings from a challenge set by our previous guest, Simone. She invited us to participate in a friendship audit, where we reflected on how we felt after interacting with different people. One of the things we discovered, is that it’s important to take the time to consider how interactions with others in your life make you feel. Additionally, it...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the ninth episode of our special series, co-hosted by Melanie Staunton of Communicate! In this episode, we welcome the brilliant Simone Heng to the SIXCOMMS Podcast. We'll be exploring the topic of: The Importance of Human Connection. About Our Guest Simone Heng is based and was born in Singapore with over 15 years of experience as a communicator.  She is a human c...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we share our key learnings from a challenge set by our previous guest, Csaba. He invited us to participate in a Global DISC Assessment and then debrief the results. One of the things we discovered is that despite having grown up in different countries, Lisa and I are very similar! Completing a Global DISC Assessment is a great way to boost self-awareness around yo...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the seventh episode of our special series, co-hosted by Melanie Staunton of Communicate! In this episode, our guest is Csaba Toth and the topic is: Understanding and Navigating Cultural Norms. About Our Guest Csaba is an entrepreneur, coach, Forbes Coaches Council and Harvard Business Review Advisory Council member and the founder of ICQ Global, the leading experts in m...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we share our key learnings from a challenge set by our previous guest, Jacqueline. She encouraged us to experiment with using a clean set up and also to try using clean questions.  And the results were astonishing! One of the things we discovered is that using a clean set-up can help clarify the outcome you want to achieve. We also learned that it enables you to i...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the fifth episode of our special series, co-hosted by Melanie Staunton of Communicate! In this episode, we have the pleasure of welcoming the incredible Jacqueline Surin to the SIXCOMMS Podcast. We'll be exploring Strategies for Difficult Conversations. About Our Guest: Jacqueline Surin  Jacqueline is an accredited Clean Language Facilitator and Systemic Modeller....

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we share our key learnings from a challenge set by our previous guest, Chris.  She encouraged us to carry out 3 tasks using different AI tools - Canva Magic to create a social media post, Opus Clip for video editing and Otter AI for taking meeting notes.  And let us tell you, the results were very interesting! One of the things we discovered is that AI is a huge t...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the third episode of our special series, co-hosted by Melanie Staunton of Communicate! In this episode, we have the pleasure of welcoming the incredible Chris Edwards to the SIXCOMMS Podcast. We'll be exploring the question: “Does AI Help or Hinder Our Communication Skills?” About Our Guest: Chris Edwards  Chris is an award-winning entrepreneur, who founded her fir...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we share our key learnings from a challenge set by our guest, Veronica. She encouraged us to ask three people - a friend, family member, and client/collaborator - for feedback. And the results were eye-opening! One of the things we discovered is the importance of keeping open lines of dialogue. By creating a safe and positive space for sharing, conversations becam...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the first episode of our special series, co-hosted by Melanie Staunton of Communicate! In this episode, we have the pleasure of welcoming the incredible Veronica Llorca Smith to the SIXCOMMS Podcast. We'll be delving into the topic of "How Can We Capitalize on Constructive Feedback?" Before we dive in, if you haven't already, we highly recommend chec...

Send us Fan Mail Gary Pratt is the co-founder of an innovative sensor technology start-up and previously, an Entrepreneur in Residence and Teaching Fellow in Entrepreneurship at the University of Bath. He is also the co-founder of the Outside/community and Walking Leaders, where he serves as a mentor, facilitator and guide on walking expeditions intended to cultivate creative/outside thinking in b...

Send us Fan Mail Kirsty Lewis is the founder of the School of Facilitation. She has a passion for all things learning and workshops, right down to the best type of marker pen to use! She likes nothing more than helping her clients create and deliver learning that has us, the humans, at the heart of it. In this episode, we talk about how we can get the most out of our weekly team meetings. You will...

Send us Fan Mail Claire Bown is a trainer, facilitator and museum educator in Amsterdam. Claire loves teaching people techniques and tools such as slow looking and thinking routines to help them engage and connect with art, audiences and ideas.  In this episode, I ask Claire: What are thinking routines? What are the benefits of using them when facilitating a meeting? What are her top 3 favourites?...

Send us Fan Mail Connection is the focus of this episode and how we can connect with others by sharing our story.  This episode follows on from the last one, episode 38 How to Use Storytelling to Enhance our Networking Skills with Ana, so please do tune into that one if you haven’t already! Public speaking was something that Antonia skillfully avoided for 21 years! In her previous career she had a...

Send us Fan Mail In-person networking events are an essential part of running a successful business; getting out there and connecting with other entrepreneurs, potential collaborators and clients.  However, the mere mention of  “networking" and "elevator pitch" make me feel somewhat uncomfortable and I know I'm not alone in this!  So I wondered  if we approach networking as an...

Send us Fan Mail We have access to so much information and data at our fingertips! So it's a common challenge when writing at work or preparing a presentation to not be able to decide what information and data to use. It all seems important!   So how do we decide what to include and what to leave out? How do we make sure that what we are saying is detailed yet concise and clear for our audien...

Send us Fan Mail Mary says: “If you imagine yourself as the battery of a mobile phone, you wouldn’t dream of not charging that mobile phone every day, but how often are we being pro-active about charging ourselves?” And, “it’s not being sel-fish to take care of ourselves it is being self-full” and the more we communicate compassionately with ourselves, the better chance we have to communicate comp...

Send us Fan Mail Honing your communication skills is something we never stop learning, and getting feedback on what our strengths and areas to improve are is an essential part of that learning process. However, who can genuinely say that they embrace feedback openly and positively? Who considers it a welcome part of their professional development? I would say, very few of us do! So how can we get...

Send us Fan Mail Being curious about different cultures is what Febronia and I have in common, so it was a pleasure to talk to her and hear about her personal and professional experiences in working and communicating with a range of people with diverse cultural backgrounds.  It is her insatiable curiosity that drives her to connect with others, fuelling valuable conversations that lead to greater...

Send us Fan Mail This episode came about because both Mush and I listened to the interview between Steven Bartlett and Julian Treasure on The Diary of a CEO Podcast.  The title of that episode was: How to Speak so Everyone Hears You.   In fact, unlike the title, a lot of the episode talks about the need for us all to be better listeners. Both Mush and I agree with Julian Treasure that in formal ed...

Send us Fan Mail Both Nick and I love this quote by Stephen Covey which is "seek first to understand, and then to be understood,” this is critical when trying to develop positive relationships and essential when negotiating. Nick shares that nowadays the phrase, people do business with people they know, like and trust needs to be extended to people invest in other people when they believe you...