"I know that
you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize
that what you heard is not what I meant." ~ Robert
McCloskey
How To Achieve High
Visibility In Your Target Market
10 Strategic Tips by
Glenn Ebersole
Strategic Tip
#2: DO commit to be and be a
rapport builder. High visibility people develop rapport with
almost every individual with whom they come in contact. Highly
visible people are communication builders.
Humorous Business Plan
Financial Success
Values
being created:
"The greatest luxury
of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good
advice."
–
Sir Arthur Helps.
12 Tips for Global Business Travelers
Expect
your meetings and negotiations to be longer than anticipated. Build
more time into schedules.
Humorous Business Plan:Great Communicator
Targeted Market:
"I like to talk with people who
express my thoughts clearly." – Unknown.
Kids Little Instructions on Life
"Never tell your little brother that you're not going to do what
your mom told you to do."
–
Hank, Age 12...
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Humorous Business Plan:
Successful Marriage
Marriage management skills:
"A good marriage would be between a blind
wife and a deaf husband." – Montaigne...
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Humorous Business Plan:
Success in Love
Funds
required and uses: "Money will say more
in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years."
–
Henry Fielding.
Effective Speaking
Perhaps the greatest single stumbling block to real communication is the
one-sided nature of speaking. Most of us think
of "communicating" as a one-way process. Two monologues do not make a dialogue,
however. Exchange between you and your targeted prospect is the key to effective
communication. So, listening is an active pursuit for selling your ideas.
What makes people listen? The three basic factors are:
Self-interest;
Who's speaking; and
How they say it.
Understanding the basic principles of how we communicate and why we
listen - what works, what doesn't, and why - starts you on the road to a
realistic appraisal of what you want to say and how you plan to say
it...
Be a team player.
The most valuable single factor that contributes towards high levels of
excellence and quality in a
team,
stem from an individual team member's ability to work with others, i.e.
his or her levels of cooperation and
communication. These "social intelligence" skills include the
ability to
persuade,
negotiate, compromise and make others feel important...
Often we have too much difficulty
listening to other people because3:
we "know" what we are going to hear;
we are seeking confirmation, not
information;
what's being said is getting in the way
of what
needs
be said.
10 Rules of
Effective Listening
By:
Linda Eve Diamond
Rule #1: Stop Talking!
You can't multi-task speaking and
listening. If you're talking, you're not listening. This rule
also applies to the talking inside your head. If you're thinking
intently about what you want to say, you're not listening to
what is being said.
12 Active
Listening Tips
Be aware of biases and
perceptions.
Control your biases and validate your assumptions.
Encourage the speaker,
provide
feedback
and paraphrase to show you are listening.
Socratic Questions
Socratic questioning is at the heart of critical thinking –
they enhance your critical thinking skills. Socratic questions
challenge accuracy and completeness of
thinking in a way that acts to move people towards their
ultimate goal...
Communication skills: verbal, both one-on-one and with a
group, and written...
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How To Present
with Passion
No matter what you are, we are all in sales.
Selling
is a
transfer of emotions.
When you speak, do your listeners sense how strongly you believe in what
you're saying? If you want people to give you their undivided attention and
feel compelled to heed your advice, they must hear and see in you an
unwavering commitment to your message.
5 Ways To Be an Unfair
Critic
Speak in absolutes. That film you saw last night is "the
worst movie I've ever seen in my life." Heap as much negative
thoughts in one sentence as possible.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or
clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and
hit it again. Then hit it a third time − a tremendous whack.
The power of the pen to
change the world should not be underestimated, as words
based on
truth can conquer the forces of vested interests and their
apologists.