Month: May 2020

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The Secret of Effective Communication

The Secret of Effective Communication (2) – Listen to Understand

Today, on the secret of Effective Communication, consider how you listen to people. Sometimes in the middle of an argument you hear a party say “you are not listening to me.” You probably want to retort “I’m not deaf, I heard you the first time.” Hearing and listening are sometimes used synonymously but in real…
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Secret of Effective Communication

The Secret of Effective Communication (1) – Speak in their Language

Communication is an act of exchanging information. It does not end at talking and listening. Effective communication involves listening empathically (with intent to understand the speaker) and speaking in the language that the listener understands. I will talk about the act of listening in my next post. In this post, I will talk about how…
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Emotional intelligence

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE (EQ) - Practical Applications

You are most likely familiar with the word ‘Intelligence’. It is one adjective everyone would like to be described with. It is an ability to learn fast, understand, think critically and apply knowledge appropriately. To measure this ability, psychologists came up with a test for it and name it Intelligence Quotient (IQ). While IQ is…
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