Clearly many people are struggling with stinkin’ thinkin’ right now. Just take a look at the news, Facebook, Twitter, and so on. Stinkin’ thinkin’ is stripping away our motivation. (I feel it too, so maybe this week’s article is more for me than it is for any of you?!) LET'S GET MOTIVATED BY CHANGING HOW
Some of us can remember life before email. And others can’t remember, or possibly imagine, life without email. Has our use of email gone too far? Perhaps it has. Are we too dependent on email? Perhaps we are. Recently, I received an email asking me if I was willing to write a letter of recommendation.
DON’T STOP AT THE VIDEO … KEEP READING FOR DRIVER TIPS. Meet Davide. Davide likes results. He infrequently spends time chit-chatting with co-workers, because he thinks it is a waste of valuable time. When Davide arrives at work he gets right to business – don’t get in his way. Others he works with tend to
DON'T STOP AT THE VIDEO ... KEEP READING FOR TIPS. Meet Jeff. Jeff is liked by his coworkers and is a really friendly guy. He’s the type of person who stops by his coworker’s cubicles, on his way to the breakroom, just to ask if they’d like a cup of coffee. The team really depends
Let’s say you are shopping for a new shirt for a job interview, a special occasion, or some other reason. You enter the store, look around, walk to the men’s or women’s section and then do what? Grab the first shirt you see and head to the register to pay. After all, why look through
5 Tips to exit a conversation without being a jerk. Okay, so you’re in a conversation and it’s time to exit. The conversation has lived its life, you have work to get back to, there is someone else you’d like to talk to, etc. Regardless of the situation, how can you exit without coming off
I have bad news …. No, not really. But let's talk about how to deliver bad news. https://youtu.be/ULWJ9bcnOgo Have you met a person yet who loves to be the bearer of bad news? If you have, they are an anomaly and dare I say – twisted? The reality is, like it or not, bad
Why use $50 words when $5 words will do? For example, let’s say I have this to communicate: My colleague made himself the cynosure of the meeting when he pontificated about how parsimonious his department was with their budget. Frankly, listening to him was like listening to a cacophony of screaming children. What? For real?
Listening Skills: understanding or replying? Which is better? https://youtu.be/im1i6Q31Wtg Many of us were taught the importance of paraphrasing. You know, put someone’s words into your words and repeat it back to them. The problem with this technique is that we end up doing what I call PARROTphrasing. We squawk someone’s words back to them
My tip this week my tip is SAY WHAT YOU MEAN. What’s that you say? Copyright Jesus' Gorritti. Used with permission. Perhaps the question above conjures a video in your head of being at a high school game of some kind of sport and hearing cheerleaders call out “Let me hear your [insert
