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Is there ONE skill set that will increase your career success? Yes. People who communicate well are much more likely to be promoted, receive hire pay, and get better job offers. This section will help you learn to communicate more effectively.


3 Easy Steps to Low Stress Communication

 By Peter Murphy - Life is all about choices. And so is the way you communicate. You can fill your days with frustrating high stress communication or you can have days of low stress effective communication with your peers. (Added: 20-Feb-2006 Hits: 1665 )

Business Spirit Journal Online - Truth or Consequences - Steve Whiteford

 By Steve Whiteford - When I suggest that people in corporations refine communication by speaking their truth, by the expressions on their faces, you might think I've announced the arrival of Godzilla. Yet, this simple-but-powerful practice might be the answer to most workplace communication challenges. (Added: 4-Sep-2003 Hits: 1166 )

Get Your Point Across without Being Rude

 By Sarah Fenson - Is your communication style a little rough around the edges? Two communication experts suggest five techniques for saying what you mean without making enemies in the process. (Added: 20-Feb-2006 Hits: 2562 )

Please Hallucinate the Way I Do

 By Daniel Robin - A study of expert communicators has provided a powerful set of distinctions to help us notice and adjust for our human tendency to interpret, distort or delete, generalize, and make assumptions. This article looks at the ways that we tweak information. We all tend to fill in the gaps from our own experience. This is also known as hallucinating. (Usually this type of hallucination doesn't involve seeing elephants in pink pajamas ... however, you never know ...). (Added: 5-Aug-2002 Hits: 1957 )

Rapport: the Link to Gaining Cooperation

 By Daniel Robin - Rapport is the condition of being in sync, in tune, on the same wavelength. I’ve heard it said that with enough rapport, anything is possible; without rapport, practically nothing is possible. In business, rapport is needed to coordinate action and exchange information. Rapport is at the foundation of all our relationships. Ironically, most business decisions are based on rapport, not on technical merit or the best idea. (Added: 5-Aug-2002 Hits: 1676 )

Identifying Subtle Verbal Abuse Helpcard

 By Robert Bacal - Verbal abuse -- most of us know the obvious "in your face" kinds of verbal abuse like yelling, sweating or outright insults. There's another kind of verbal abuse; the kind that's less obvious, and occurs on almost a daily basis. SUBTLE VERBAL ABUSE is abuse that is under the surface, and it's no less damaging to you and your relationships than the more obvious types. (Added: 6-May-2003 Hits: 1350 )

Giving and Receiving Feedback

 By Phil Rich - Feedback is a type of communication that we give or get. Sometimes, feedback is called "criticism," but this seriously limits its meaning. (Added: 25-Feb-2001 Hits: 2850 )

Finding Your Writing Voice

 By Susan J. Letham - Here's a great discussion about communicating with the written word. Find out how to find your writing voice and why it is so important to do so. (Added: 28-Nov-2008 Hits: 626 )

Getting Heard By Your Boss

 By Robert Bacal - Like landing a plane, getting heard is all in the approach. Set it up properly and you get a smooth landing. Mess up the approach and it doesn't work very well. First, some general principles to help you get heard (Added: 17-Oct-2000 Hits: 2144 )

Violence And The Power Of Words

 By Robert Hetrick - Have you been hurt by violent words? Most of us have. When verbally assaulted, we recoil, and sometimes, we counter attack. We perceive the attack as coming from outside ourselves. But, in truth, the attack also comes from within. It comes from the meanings we add to the speaker's words (Added: 25-Feb-2001 Hits: 2423 )

Ch 1: Building Your Career Success with Communication Skills

 By na - Forty three slide presentation on how to increase your career success by learning better communication skills. (Added: 11-Oct-2011 Hits: 91 )

Communicating with Credibility

 By Christine Zust - Credibility. How do you get it? More importantly, how do you keep it? Gaining credibility takes years to achieve, and maintaining it is a lifetime goal for any leader. One wrong move can erase in an instant many years of hard work. Communicating with credibility is an art form, one which you can master by using a few simple guidelines. (Added: 21-Apr-2001 Hits: 3787 )

Creativity, thinking and listening

 By Nick Heap - Listening to others is often the most effective thing you can do to develop their thinking and creativity (Added: 28-Nov-2000 Hits: 3579 )

Strong Communication Skills Lead to Career Success

 By Kathleen Call - Short article discussing importance of communication skills to career success. A few little exercises included. "Knowing how to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, has become a critical aspect of success not only in the legal field but the overall business world as well. In fact, what you say and how you say it can make or break your image in the workplace. In a survey commissioned by our company, nearly half (49 percent) of those asked said a person's communication style has the greatest impact on his or her professional reputation." (Added: 11-Oct-2011 Hits: 163 )

The Meaning of Your Communication Is Its Effect

 By Daniel Robin - In communicating with other people, what matters more: what we intend to convey, or the actual response we get? Who is responsible for your communication? The meaning of our communication is not what we think it means. It is based on the response we get from the other person. It is pointless to insist on a meaning that is lost on the listener, especially when the response you get is entirely separate from your intent. (Added: 5-Aug-2002 Hits: 3671 )

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