You need to be ready to become an advocate. To find out if you are, all you have to do is answer three quick questions: 1. Do you want to feel more confident when communicating? 2. Do you want to…
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Improving your ability to communicate effectively with others is one of a number of key interpersonal skills. These posts contain tips on how to develop this vitally important life skill.
5 Steps to Becoming an Advocate for Yourself
Posted in Communicating, Guest Posts Tagged with: Confidence, Inter-Personal Skills, Personal development
The Language of Love: Free Download
Just imagine sharing such a deep and everlasting passion that – even after 30 years together – your heart still skips a beat whenever you see each other. Envision everyday life with someone that thrills you so much that they’re…
Posted in Communicating, Free Download, Relationships Tagged with: Free Download, Inter-Personal Skills, Love
Body Language: 12 Quick Tips
Your body language says a lot about you. If I see you walking with your head held high, chest out and eyes forward then I will think that you are a confident person (or feeling confident in that moment of…
Posted in Communicating, Relationships Tagged with: Body Language, Inter-Personal Skills, Soft Skills
Your Image: First Impressions
Its quite remarkable how quickly and abrasively people formulate opinions about others merely based on appearance. At times, there is presumed intersectionality between style socioeconomic status and background. For instance, a girl walks into a designer boutique store, wearing some…
The Brain-Dead Teenager Dilemma
Recently, I was teaching a Train the Trainer workshop for my old company and someone told me that the subjects I had selected at random, for people to use in their presentations, could have caused offense to some people. She…
5 Stupid Conversations I Don’t Want to Have Again
There are certain things that people, say again and again, without thinking and, these days, I am trying to avoid commenting about them because I want to choose to walk down a different street. As I have said previously, the…
Posted in Communicating, Life Lessons, Personal Development Tagged with: Inter-Personal Skills, Self Growth
For the Apostrophically Challenged
A marketer with whom I am working at present is in the process of setting up a free gift page for my subscribers. It is a free audio program and I will be telling you more about it in the…
Conflict Management: How to Get an Attitude Adjustment
Gordon Ramsey is notorious for taking failing restaurants, shaking things up, and helping the owners make them successful. He does this by being blunt, and by not being afraid to confront serious issues. If you’ve ever watched “Kitchen Nightmares,” you’ve…
Posted in Communicating, Management & Leadership, Teamwork Tagged with: Conflict Management, Inter-Personal Skills
The Games People Play
A number of years ago, I remember attending a workshop in which someone introduced me to the concept of transactional analysis. It is an interesting idea and a useful tool for thinking about conversation and how and why our communication…
Posted in Communicating, Personality, Relationships Tagged with: Customer Service, Inter-Personal Skills, Personality, Soft Skills, Transactional Analysis
Office Politics & Power Networks
As I begin this post, I realise that my title includes two of the most boring words in the English language: office and politics – yawn. Who knows, for that reason, perhaps this article will never be read. However, I…
