Dialogues - Essential to Good Relationships
Good relationships are a product of good communication, and great dialogues. That is why the most important requisite for dialogue is that both parties be equal. In dialogues that promote good relationships, both partners must learn 5 great truths: 1 - I am not you. Both parties learn that you both know each other much less than you thought. In a long-standing relationship, one partner is always claiming something in relation to the other one. It's like you're both aiming to colonize the other. Each partner is secretly convinced that he or she is somehow the better of the two.
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Non-Verbal Communication - Sight Over Sound
Have you considered the weight that your non-verbal communication has on the image you project at the office or in business? Your non-verbal messages account for seventy percent of your communication, with your verbal messages coming in a distant second at twenty percent and your message tone accounting for ten percent of the weight of your communication. The moment you walk into a room people size you up--from head to toe. When you extend an interviewer or business prospect a limp hand shake or can't look them in the eye, they form an opinion of you.
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The Art of the Pregnant Pause - An Essential Tool of Communication
When effectively used, not many words can match the power of a few seconds of silence to create an effect. A pause in the conversation can be used to impress, it can be used to control, it can be used to attract attention and it can be used to dominate. Silence has the power to create such an atmosphere of uncertainty and expectancy that most people find it almost unbearable. Simply stop talking for a few seconds in the middle of a sentence and see people either rush in to fill the void or grow more uncomfortable by the seconds. Barack Obama is a master at using silence as a most effective tool.
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CRM - A Clever Way to Manage Your Customers!
For individual businesses, managing a varied number of brands and also different types of customer service propositions is often hard and time consuming! Moreover, with the huge number of acquisitions and mergers (now common in all sectors) companies are required to deliver a consistent high level of service while also professionally taking care of the entire customer process. Of course, the consideration is how to offer complete customer satisfaction at an affordable cost. Now, companies can use a customer relationship management system to assist in delivering complete customer satisfaction in a cost effective way.
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Are You Multi-Tasking Your Relationships Away?
I spent years as an exceptionally proficient multi-tasker. Rarely would I actually stop long enough to focus on one thing or one person at a time. My inability to slow down, took its toll on my relationships. I could never relax, because I was always doing so many things at once and consequently never enjoyed any of them. My daughter never felt like I listened to her because she I never gave her my full, undivided attention when she talked to me. I was always doing at least two things at once. One of the ways we can improve our relationships is to learn how to give our undivided attention to the person we're with.
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True Communication Involves More Listening Than Talking
Sometimes all a person really wants is a sounding board to listen! If afforded the ability to vocalize their point you will find a person is more than capable of coming to the correct solution on their own. The comfort that is found in "sounding off" and truly being heard has a remarkable ability to offer the speaker all the necessary information to get to the idea solution. The energy transmitted through listening is even more powerful than any words of encouragement or resolution could ever provide. Some people do not understand what communication is all about.
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Communication Differences Between Men and Women
Marriages can be very difficult if husbands and wives don't really understand each other. I guess you wonder, how can we understand each other when we're both so different. Our differences are precisely what we need to focus on when trying to understand each other. This is a sure way for each half of the couple to begin to learn how the other half thinks. Here's a good example. When men and women are faced with an issue, you'll find they have very different ways of handling it. Ladies have a tendency to approach it from different angles trying to sort out the best approach.
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How to Open a Man Up and Get Him to Connect With You
It is difficult for women when men shut down. Many women don't have the skills to open a man up and get him connect fast. Men are experts at stone walling. If your man closed himself off from you, here's a way to get him to open up. The easiest way to do this is to remember that men respond through the physical. You can talk with a female friend for hours being at a distance or from across the room and you'll still feel connected. In order to connect with your man, you have to touch and talk. Use the touch and talk technique to increase his feelings of desire to want to connect with you.
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