It’s not about trying to win come hell or high water. Some people are experts in delivering the perfect knock-out verbal punches. Maybe you’ve noticed. They have the just-right poison of cocktail of words. They drop these bombs to you and you stand there, powerless and hurt. I was in a company meeting the other …
Category: Communication
How To Be Confident(Even If You’re a Shy Person)
4 tips that can help you. Imagine you have lived your whole life in a warm environment. And now you are forced to live in an opposite environment. The big problem you will encounter when you try to live in the new environment is how to live. And how to get used to this cold, cold …
9 Exercises to Develop Your People Skills
Become a master of people skills. You stare at your colleague who is talking to the whole group, not listening to a word he’s saying. You try to be like him — someone who is interesting and always seems to have people around him. “Why can’t I interact with others like him?” You start fiddling with your phone …
6 Effective Communication Habits Most People Forget
Conversations are not about “winning.” They are about learning. Everybody wants to be granted the gift of feeling understood. Everybody wants to be listened to. Everybody wants someone who does not attempt to “help” or “make” the other person feel better. Who does not try to fix a problem or thinking about a solution. You …
I Am Slowly Learning That I Don’t Have To Be Aggressive To Communicate With Others
We are the ones who kill our communication. It is not the other person who makes us passive-aggressive. It is not the fault of our co-worker who made us retaliate in kind. It is not our partner’s fault that we have lost ourselves amid aggression. Aggression is an inside job. I’m not sure why, but …
Are You Too Afraid To Be Assertive?
Acting in disregard of the other person. Paying for it. Speaking without care for the feelings of others. Never communicating healthily. Arguing all the time. Hearing but not listening. Judging and passing blame quickly. Wanting to win every argument – even if it costs you that person. Being impulsive all the time. Using passive-aggressiveness as …
How To Easily And Quickly Improve Your Communication Skills: 8 Essential Ways
“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.” – Henry Ford Be willing to learn from others – if you want to develop your communication skills. Emerson said, “Every …
Conversation Vs Confrontation: Which One Are You Having?
· In confrontation: your intention is to attack, not to communicate. · In conversation: you have the intention of communicating, really communicating with the other person. To listen, to learn, and to understand the other person you have to have conversations – not confrontations. The only reason you feel like you are having difficulties understanding …
Arguing With Others is “Boring”
It starts with you trying to have the last word, a single sentence was thrown out there to attack that person or a verbal attack that has the intention of making you feel good about yourself and the other person bad. Out of this intention, an argument is born. You forget that the other person …
Want to Have an Empathic Communication?
If you are in your office and you are having conversations with your colleague, think of understanding that person first rather than to be understood. The late Steven Covey who has written an excellent book on the seven habits of highly effective people said that empathic communication is the best way you can get your …