English Communication: The Clarity is Simple
English Communication: The Clarity is Simple All of life is relationship. Love, compassion, helping, encouraging. Hope, faith. A year ago, April 2, on his birthday, my beloved passed. I, more than anyone, know which words were his. Which ideas sprang from his fertile mind. Where the science is that he was chief architect for. Our […]
KISS
KISS Keep it simple.
English Speaking – Grammar, Pronunciation, And Magical Changes in Words
English Speaking – Grammar, Pronunciation, And Magical Changes in Words Once my genius linguist and priest pointed out that “grammar is in the pronunciation,” I starting seeing so, so many instances of this. Some of my favorites are suffixes and prefixes. Those are the little syllables that we put on the end of the […]
Job Advancement
Job Advancement As executives reach middle management and above, the primary criteria for advancement are communication and motivation skills rather than basic job performance.
Conclusion for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning
Conclusion for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning The natural tendency of human beings is to: Justify on facts, but buy on feeling Justify with business reasons, but buy for personal reasons Justify with logic, but buy on emotion
Presentation Skills: The Pause – The Silent Moment that Packs a Punch
Presentation Skills: The Pause – The Silent Moment that Packs a Punch “Pauses can achieve an effect that no combination of words could ever accomplish!” -paraphrased from Mark Twain You’ve seen master comedians break up a crowd with a well-timed pause. Today’s young comedians study the great– the late Jack Benny, Johnny Carson. The well-timed […]
Communication Skills and Changing Times
Communication Skills and Changing Times Times have changed. Yesterday, the most qualified person got the job. Today, among equal qualifications, the best communicator gets the job.
Communication Skills
Communication Skills According to a survey of faculty members at engineering schools: Opinion of the faculty members was that 15% of an engineer’s future success depends on his or her engineering skills, while 85% depends upon communication skills.
Presentation skills: Great Tips for Using Notes for a Presentation
Presentation skills: Great Tips for Using Notes for a Presentation Ah, I was delighted to get this information: Experienced speakers often discipline themselves to write their entire presentation first. Then they work backwards and reduce their manuscript to shortened notes. I loved finding that information because most often that is exactly what I do. […]
Presentation Skills: What to Do About Misspeaking?
Presentation Skills: What to Do About Misspeaking? Mistakes happen all the time. You mean to say one thing, but a glitch of the tongue brings something else out of your mouth. While campaigning for the presidency, Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis referred to “modern musicians” instead of “modern munitions.” Jimmy Carter once referred to himself as […]