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What Do You Mean Communicate?
Several times a day I hear people talking about failure in communications. Whether it is between individuals in a private conversation or between a supervisor and an employee or in a work group, there...
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Do You Understand What I Mean?
You may be too young to remember the movie “Cool Hand Luke”, but probably you have heard the infamous line from it; “What we have here is a failure to communicate.” Whenever I’m working with a group it...
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Communication Increase = Potential Conflict
Since communication breakdowns many times lead to conflict, the increase of communication may ultimately end up in more conflict. Therefore, to avoid this potential increase in conflict, perhaps we...
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Effective Communication is Vital
“We have a communication problem.” I hear it time and time again. From workshop experiences to consulting interactions to just causal conversations. It appears people are very interested in...
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At the Heart of the Matter
But just how often do people really stop and think about what it means to have a communication faliure? Does it mean something like; I’m not getting what I want, therefore, you must not be hearing me?...
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We Need to Talk!
We need to talk. What does this statement conjure up in your mind? Do you immediately respond with; great I can’t wait! Or do you start thinking; I wonder what this is all about? Does it depend on who...
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