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.
I recently watched an episode of “Naked and Afraid” on the Discovery Channel. Yes, I’ll admit to being a fan of the show. The sociological landscape gets really intriguing when you set a male and female who are total strangers, in the middle of some uninhabitable region on the earth, without supplies of food and … Read more
I regularly use customized 360 assessments in my consulting practice. After a couple meetings with the client and some candid conversations with peer, up-line and down-line employees, I design a set of questions that cover eight different quadrants having to do with workplace relationships, leadership, and communication. A specified number of participants complete an anonymous … Read more
The word drama gets tossed about regularly these days. Nobody wants it and yet, like rubbernecking the scene of an accident on the highway, most of us have a hard time looking away. When we get too close to a person acting out their drama it can be quite easy to get sucked in and … Read more
In promotion of the release of the Peanuts Movie two years ago, 20th Century Fox put a voice-changing machine on their website where you could record and phrase and it would convert it to sound like the “wha, wha, wha” voice of Charlie Brown’s teacher. I’d link the page here, but sadly they have taken … Read more
I spend a lot of time on the road these days and while I like traveling by car because of the solitude it affords; mind-wandering time is not always that helpful for me. When my mind wanders I tend to think through anticipated conversations. You know what that’s like, right? This practice is especially true … Read more