Have you ever talked to someone about their short and curt communication style and heard them say, “I don’t have time to worry about that”? Let me call BS on that (Belief System). When someone is uncivil, or their tone is not connecting, our brains are hijacked. The reptilian brain…
I don’t know about you but I work in an interdependent world; A world where I rely on others and they rely on me to get things done. For some time now I have been observing a trend. People will commit to an action; it could be any number of…
I was reminded recently of the comic strip character, Pig Pen from the strip Peanuts. He was the little kid that walked around with a cloud of dust surrounding him. http://www.peanuts.com/characters/pigpen/#.Vn6WKvnEXIV I worked with someone like that a few years go. Only it was not a cloud of dust. It…
Interesting distinction can you see it? All too often we say what we think others want to hear. Sometimes to avoid confrontation, sometimes to pursue, and agenda. And even though we say the right things, the right words, and perhaps even the right tone, we get a response that is…
I was speaking with someone recently about communications and formulas for communication. (Look up messaging on the web and you will find countless conversation/selling “formulas”). In the course of the conversation we agreed that people will “feel” it when we are following a formula or script. Think of your own…
People today seem to be more sensitive to time. Sometimes it’s because they do not manage time well and sometimes it’s because they are just crazy busy. Yet many people continue to write long emails and take one hour meetings when 20 or 30 minutes would do. The result is…
