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The Tools of Productive Communication
- June 14, 2018
- Eric Douglas
This post contains three tools that will help you re-learn how you communicate.
This post contains three tools that will help you re-learn how you communicate.
The word communication literally means “to make common.” At its most basic level, it means letting your needs be known. At its highest level, communication means building strong, trusting relationships with people whose perspectives are very different from your own. The educator and psychotherapist Virginia Satir wrote, “Once a human being has arrived on this …
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Change happens because people talk. Conversation is the work that people must do to change. The problem is, most leaders forget that their role is to create forums where people can talk about their work, ask what could be improved, and listen to their suggestions.
People often ask me what the secret is to high-performing organizations. I surprise them by saying: “Talk.” As consultants, one of the first things we look for is the level of talk, the quality of talk, and who’s doing the talking.
Here are 10 Straight Talk communication styles images drawn from our blog posts.
Now that you’ve learned about your style of communicating and how to identify the styles of the people around you, how can..
In file cabinets, photo albums and desk drawers, most of us have more photographs of ourselves than we will ever have time to sort through.
The word communication literally means “to make common.” At its most basic level, it means letting your needs be known. At its highest level, communication means building strong, trusting relationships with people…
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.” – Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities Understanding your style of communicating would be relatively easy if you limited yourself to one of the four basic styles. However, depending on the situation, you …
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When you take the Communication Styles Profile, the first payoff is discovering the styles of communicating you use most often – Director, Expresser, Thinker, and Harmonizer. We tend to use two of these styles more than the others. But we have within ourselves the ability to use any of these styles in different situations. Directors …
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