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Feb 19 2009

David J. Parnell’s Professional Series on Sensory Acuity | Part 3 of 3| Sensory Acuity Strategy

by admin on February 19, 2009

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 saying. Unfortunately this is very difficult to know for two important reasons: 1. We have developed incredibly powerful subconscious and automatic social mechanisms that help us to facilitate the flow of conversation. Head nods, “uh-huhs” and “mmm’s” are a few of the automatic and more often than not, meaningless recognition gestures that we use. These types of gestures are generally for the purpose of buying time and keeping rapport while communication is [...]

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Aug 19 2008

The Blueprint of a Speaker | Part 2 of 4 | Conceptual Planning

by admin on August 19, 2008

When two people are communicating with each other, it is very safe to say that there is a joint action taking place. What this means is that the two or more parties are aware of some goal of the joint activity and of some form of common ground. Now what that common ground may be is anything from trying to sleep with each other to trying to move outside to a parking lot to fist fight. Never the less it is important to realize that communication is a two-sided transaction based on mutually shared information. Now you may be saying [...]

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