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Written by: Peter deLisser

What Communication Habit(s) are you Addicted to? - Click To Read Article
Contrary to physical addiction, most communication habits fortunately can be eliminated by discovering their roots - and by mastering a new communication behavior.

Accept Responsibility in Every Conversation - or Be a Victim - Click To Read Article
Our choice in every conversation, every day, is to accept responsibility for the result or be a victim. Accepting responsibility requires three skills: Planning Every Conversation, Speaking the other Person's Language, and Using Responsible Listening to Control the Conversation.

Trust-Building Communications - Click To Read Article
The Speaking and Listening skills needed to develop trust in every conversation.

High Impact Communication: Tips to Fast Track Your Career - Click To Read Article
This article describes tips that were presented in a business association's Strategic Solutions Workshop. It provides Three Quick tips, Three Career Essentials, Mandatory Communitcation Skills, and Action Plans to Fast Track a Career

Our Greatest Gift to Ourselves - and Every Other Human Being - Click To Read Article
The greatest gift to ourselves is to be able to Listen to most of the people who judge our characters or give us solutions we didn't ask for, and respond respectfully - at work, and at home. The new definition of Skilled Listening - "It's the SPEAKING we do to prove to people we understand what they said." The article provides exercises for the 4 Fundamentals of S.A.F.E. Listening.

100% Responsible Listening Turns Fantasy into Reality - Click To Read Article
Published in International Listening Association’s THE LISTENING PROFESSIONAL. Skilled Listening IS the difference between Fantasy and Reality.

Parents Can Accelerate their Children's Ability to Learn - Click To Read Article
Parents can accelerate their children's ability to learn and resolve conflict constructively - by mastering the Skills of Listening. Will Rogers accurately describes the fact that most parents have never evaluated their ability to listen to their children. He says, "The trouble with people is not what they know. It's what they know that ain't so." The fact is that 95% of parents may not listen to their children.

Our Quality of Life Depends on the Quality of Our Communications - Click To Read Article
The choice we make between developing a trusting or dis-trusting communication environment determines the quality of our lives. Our use of power, emotions, and knowledge determines the result. Our self-esteem grows or shrinks on a daily basis.

Leaders Lead, Executives Execute - Responsible Communications Is The Difference - Click To Read Article
Peter Senge starts the article with this quote: "Leadership shows up when no one in the room knows who has the authority." Obviously the leader has the authority, and therefore in his/her communication does not have to "prove it". This article provides 5 ways leaders can maintain authority and still be respectful of every participant.

Accelerate The Quality of Every Meeting -The Easy Way - Click To Read Article
Courageous Participation Pays Off - For Everyone. Each team member accepts 100% responsibility for the result of each meeting. The success of the meeting depends on time spent - 50% prior planning, 15% conducting the meeting, and 35% participants' follow-up.

Make Every Conversation a Sales Call - Click To Read Article
Sales people are the best communicators in the world. Why are they the best? Because the average business manager has to handle up to 200 messages a day - face to face, voice messages, emails, telephone and video conferences, staff and team meetings. They do so with no planned format for success. Sales executives handle the same 200 messages but they have a format for success. It is called Make Every Conversation A Sales Call. Their format starts with the basic facts of life.

Making the Internal Sales Call Easy! - Click To Read Article
The Challenge of Making the Internal Sales Call. After a sale is made, sales people have to justify results with internal lawyers, house physicians, and financiers.

Which Did You Do - Lose Your Temper or Self-Confidence - Click To Read Article
Communication Fact - If we either lose our temper or self-confidence, we can learn nothing in a conversation. 95% of business people do one or the other in most of their conversations. Why? Robert Frost says, "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing our temper or our self-confidence." Which do you do?

Soft Skills, Hard Numbers - Click To Read Article
Leaders know they need the "soft" skills but the book-keepers require "justification" for the results. However, in this "soft" economy with reduced staff, every conversation contributes to the "bottom line".

Who Labeled Your Kids! - Click To Read Article
"I'm damn mad at you! You're asking me to change three generations of family communications."

My Boss is a "Screamer" - Click To Read Article
Anyone whose boss is a screamer knows what it feels like to have his/her self-esteem attacked on a daily basis. It is emotionally draining and spiritually de-motivating because tantrums (the things children do when they can't get their way) attack the four elements necessary to build our self-esteem.

The Best Kept Secret In Business! Team Managed Meetings Save Time, Energy, and Build Relationships - Click To Read Article
Meeting Leader: "Welcome to our Team Meeting." I Accept 100% Responsibility For My Participation- MAYBE! The Job of A Facilitator Team Managed Meetings Are A Company's Great Asset





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