What is speech? What’s the big deal about being able to talk? Very rarely do we stop to think about how amazing the ability to speak to someone really is. Could you imagine a world where there were no language, no writing and no other form of communication outside of grunts and yelling and [...]
Imagine you’re having a conversation with someone and they ask you to tell them about the movie “Hitchcock” that you saw last week with Will Smith. For you to even begin your thought sequence, your mind wants to recall the name “Hitchcock” on the cover of the DVD box from Blockbuster. In order to do [...]
The term Eye Accessing Cues refers to the positioning of the eye balls in certain areas when “accessing” information internally. They are based on certain criteria that generally revolve around the VAK predicate system with the addition of a category for raw information. It has been a strong buzz term for years at this [...]
Today we are going to finish our 4 part professional listening series by talking about quality listening habits that you can begin developing right away and we will look at skill preparation and development at the Macro and Micro levels.
First let’s talk about developing quality listening habits. There is simply no silver bullet for doing [...]
In revisiting part 1 of our series, effective listening is really about gathering information and the trick is in focusing your attention in a way to acquire the appropriate information. So what is the appropriate information? To help focus your mind let’s define “appropriate information” as whatever information will help advance your own interests in [...]
As we determined in the previous post, when we reduce “listening” down to its purest form, it is the process of gathering information. When a communicator begins to CONSCIOUSLY determine for what purpose the information is being gathered AND what information specifically is being gathered is where they truly become an effective listener.
Before going any [...]
If you are going to effectively communicate with someone it is imperative that you ensure that they are both hearing and understanding what it is that you are say. This is difficult to know for two reasons:
We have developed incredibly powerful subconscious and automatic social [...]
