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Personal growth

5 Ways to Navigate Awkward Conversations

October 30, 2021 by Jack Witt
Photo by Bernard Hermant on Unsplash

Awkward conversations test the limits of your social skills and can confirm what you suspect about yourself… you’re not great with awkwardness. Here’s 5 tips that will help you improve yourconversational skills.

Categories Communication, Interpersonal Relationships, Personal growth, Social and Emotional Intelligence Tags awkward conversations, communication, communication skills

Refueling Your Social and Emotional Reserves

September 17, 2021September 17, 2021 by Jack Witt

So, what can you do when you find yourself “peopled-out”? How do you replenish your depleted social and emotional capacity? Here’s a handful of ideas that have worked well for me.

Categories Interpersonal Relationships, Personal growth, Social and Emotional Intelligence Tags Peopling

Jedi Ways to Succeed at Trying

February 20, 2021January 2, 2021 by Jack Witt

“Do. Or do not.  There is no try.” Excuse me Master Yoda, but I beg to disagree.  I understand the idea that anything less than 100% commitment is likely to be met with less than 100% success.  There is value in challenging ourselves to act rather than ponder; to actually land the plane as opposed … Read more

Categories Interpersonal Relationships, Lifestyle, Mindsets, Personal growth
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Work-Related

Marriage creates some odd relationships as individuals are artificially grafted into an existing family tree… for better or worse.  If you think about it, the workplace creates its own artificial relationships; we are, for better or worse, work-related.

I try to write about things that are interesting and yet helpful in providing clarity to the dynamics of workplace relationships.  The greatest help I’ve received through the years has been on occasions where someone gave voice and vocabulary to things I knew were happening, but I just couldn’t identify them very well.

Please post a response and contribute your thoughts to conversations I believe will help us all improve.

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