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Communication: Improving Communication
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Fear is powerful. It is able to close our eyes and ears...and, sometimes, even our mouths.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet It is interesting to observe, of all our faculties, our mouths are often the last to give in.
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Biting your tongue just before it expresses something quite right but nonetheless doomed to be poorly received – that’s a good thing.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet You can choose to adjust your personality so it is more pleasing and less annoying. Sometimes, the choice involves biting your…
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The thicker the explanation the less absorbent the message.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet If that explanation you're hearing just don't make no sense and the explanations that follow make even less sense... methinks…
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How do we rebuild trust? One small, well-thought-out, personal, positive step at a time.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Maybe you care about the damage trust has experienced? Maybe you want to repair that damage? Maybe you do not know how?
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People know what's going on in my head...my thoughts are important to them...time for my wake-up call.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet If you think communication is easy and yours is very successful, you're dreaming.
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People pass lie detector tests 2 ways: telling the truth and lying while believing the test won't work.
The Thinking Behind the Tweet I am pleased to confirm I have no first-hand experience to prove this is a fact. I am basing this tweet on things experts have…
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Plan to repeat, repeat, repeat...that's one key to teaching, inspiring, & influencing people.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." Benjamin Franklin When we observe repetition, we…
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No means No! (...well maybe we need to think a bit more on that!)
The Thinking Behind The Tweet When I was a kid I heard the word "No" so much I expected to hear it, as a matter of habit . When I was a kid I was told to say…
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If you want to influence others, communicate your interests before making requests.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet 2 important things to Communicate: Interest - WHY I'm doing something. Intent - WHAT I'm wanting to do. Communicating our…
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Invest the time it takes to understand people. Understanding provides for trust, motivation, & leadership.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet In part, inspired by a re-reading of Michael Gerber's ' The E-Myth Revisited '. Pick a demographic - learn its psychographics …
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Communication band-aids don't solve the discomfort of negative thinking.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Shape up, Man, you gotta improve your attitude! Great advice in theory - useless advice in reality. If you want to help people…
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If we just had some clone spray then we could all communicate better.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Expanding on the good work of Thought Tweet #718 ... When people don't 'get us' [or 'get it'] we could clone-spray them. Then…
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Communication Russian Roulette: shooting off your mouth, ignorant of what your brain has placed in the cylinder behind your muzzle.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet You meet people whose brain-to-mouth filters fail on a regular basis. And you see the damage happening in real time: damage to…
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Communication is like a paper-towel paradox: the thicker the explanation the less absorbent the message.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet If it don't make sense and the explanations that follow make even less sense... methinks the person doth protest too much …
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Ancient communication wisdom: Catcheth thou and stoppeth thou before thou doth protest too much.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet There's a good reason why Shakespeare put that " doth protest too much " line in Hamlet. Many people are unable to express an…
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Loose lips sink ships…Loose cannons sink 'em too.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Loose Cannons Fire At Will...and they fire at pretty much everyone else within earshot and nearshot . Loose cannons get…
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May your ego refuse to jump over molehills to join the mule trains climbing all those mountains!
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Sometimes those little voices in our heads goad us into thoughts and actions that really defy logic. Deep down we know the…
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Respond to cries for help with listening ears, seeing eyes and thinking brains...rather than with your cries for help..
The Thinking Behind The Tweet As Eckhart Tolle said, “ Most people respond to a cry for help with a cry for help ”. You can find plenty of opportunities to…
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People want to hear positive messages…give them what they want...deliver some positive messages.
The Thinking Behind the Tweet We tested positive and negative marketing messages. We tried both " in these tough economic times " and " to build for the…
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Talking Russian Roulette: shooting off your mouth, ignorant of what your brain has placed in the cylinder behind your muzzle.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet You meet people whose brain-to-mouth filters fail on a regular basis. And you see the damage happening in real time: damage to…
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If you want to be a leader in your industry sector, return phone calls and respond to e-mail.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Successful people seem to have more time . Also, with the current trend of slackening business etiquette, returning phone calls…
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When people tell you they are giving 110%, do you think they are talking in superduperlatives?
The Thinking Behind The Tweet When I was a child neighbourhood parents had a habit of stopping me and asking me to answer math questions. [At one point I…
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Listen to what people say...are their words the words of Victims or Initiators?
The Thinking Behind The Tweet We do better with people when we understand them...as Stephen Covey taught - 'Seek First to Understand'. We all go through ups…
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Leadership is about meaningful stories well told and important actions well done.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet When good-to-great leaders tell inspirational stories , their stories are laced with personal values and visions of better…
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Influencing Powerful People - #4
Here's another quote from Dirk Schlimm: “The genius, who sees opportunity with outside-the-box ideas, gets easily frustrated if he or she feels surrounded by…
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Being Right, Being Wrong, & other ways to Annoy People
We can annoy other people so many ways...from being 100% right to being 100% wrong and pretty much everything in between. It's relatively easy to understand…
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Criticism, Adrenalin Spikes & Improving Relationships
Some people naturally repulse criticism. These people may show outward signs of their repulsion. These people may not show outward signs, or their repulsion…
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Conflict at our offices: is it a foe or a friend?
Some people complain about the interpersonal damages done by office conflict while others applaud the value office conflicts have injected into innovative…
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Here I go...Telling you about Asking
I’m telling you that you must cut down on telling people what to do and start asking more questions. Isn’t that oxymoronic ? Isn’t that the pot calling the…
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People. Icebergs.
When we observe people, we observe the equivalent of the tip of the iceberg. We observe people's Actions. We observe their vocal actions, their body…