Twelve Tips for Effective Communication – Tip Five: Communication is Not Just Speaking So far in our on-going discussion in which we will ultimately offer “Twelve Tips” for effective communication, we have discussed four ways to help you improve your communication skills when they may really matter. The first point we discussed was to set…
Twelve Tips for Communication Tip Four: Listen Comprehensively – the Many Levels of Listening Listening involves more than just hearing. In this post, our focus is on understanding comprehensive listening: listening in the broadest and most powerful sense. This concept expanding listening from one of simply hearing another, to one of receiving information from another…
Tools for Effective Communication: Third tool: Understanding Styles. So far, we have discussed two tools designed to help you approach an important communication: setting a goal for the outcome and planning the communication before jumping into it. Perhaps most of us intuitively feel that the best communications seem easy and natural. They happen almost automatically…
An Update on Recent Activities If you have checked in to look for blog updates since mid-summer, you will have undoubtedly noticed that there was silence. For those waiting for the next posting on relating to the “Twelve Tips for Effective Communication,” it will be posted very soon! The truth about the delay in recent…
Preface: The following is a book review co-authored by professional colleagues, Monique McKay and Robert Creo. Ms. McKay and Mr. Creo are the co-founders of the Master Mediator Institute, which is a non-profit organization that allows mediators, executives, negotiators and advocates to connect with leading scientists and academics to explore cutting edge theories about human…
Have an outcome in mind and a plan to get there. – Any important communication warrants advance planning. You wouldn’t build a house without a floor plan. Don’t have important meetings or discussions without a communication plan. My last posting was the first in a series on our tips for communication and focused on setting…
Twelve Tools for Effective Communication Introduction In the coming weeks, we will be posting a series of articles expanding on our concept of twelve communication tools. These tools are designed to help a person plan for and effectively execute an important conversation. Of course every communication does not require extensive planning to execute or to…
There are two new articles posted in our Articles section of our website! One article includes the full text of the series of recent postings regarding leadership and leadership models. The second is a high-level summary of our upcoming series of Blog articles on Effective Communication. Watch in coming weeks for more detailed discussions on…
Leadership in Context – Final Installment The FIVE “Cs” of Leadership; An overview of the attributes of leadership (continued) In this final posting on the current topic of leadership, I complete our review of some of the different approaches to discussing the traits that are commonly identified with an effective leader. Those of you who…
Recent Activities You may have noticed that my next posting on leadership has not yet appeared on our blog. Frankly, this is because, as the blog’s principal editor, I simply got too busy. My apologies to anyone who has been waiting for the next posting! It will be posted today! Meanwhile, here is an update…