Beyond Conscious Metaphor For the last several months we have been discussing tips for improving your effectiveness for important communications. My March 18, 2013 post reviewed the first six of my twelve “tips” for effective communication. Since that time, among other posts, I have posted three additional tips on my seventh, and perhaps most comprehensive…
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…
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…