Showing posts with label communication skills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label communication skills. Show all posts
Monday, December 15, 2025

Be a Martyr?

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Monday, July 7, 2025

The Unseen, Part 2

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Saturday, May 3, 2025

A Taxonomy of Bores by Joseph Epstein

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Wednesday, March 12, 2025

On Feedback

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Monday, February 17, 2025

Microsignals: Subtle ways we show that we like or don't like someone

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Friday, November 24, 2023

A Mock First-Date Conversation (Example 1)

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Friday, August 7, 2020

Getting Respected: The HUVA technique can help

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Many people wish they got more respect. One tactic that can help is HUVA, d eveloped by Dr. Mark Goulston...
Thursday, November 14, 2019

The 20-40 Rule: The case for talking less than your share.

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The 20-40 Rule: Speak a little less than your share. My PsychologyToday.com article today makes the case for why that's wise.
Saturday, January 27, 2018

Real Acting: Tips for acting on- and especially off-stage

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We tend to think of acting as something done on stage, in the movies, or on TV. But we’re all acting, all the time: at work, in relation...
Monday, September 11, 2017

A Kinder, Gentler Approach to Kim Jong Un

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Today, C-SPAN broadcast the United Nations’ unanimous Security Council vote to increase sanctions against North Korea and its nuclear-th...
Friday, April 7, 2017

Ways of BeingTactful...and When Not to Use Them

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As t oday's PsychologyToday.com contribution, I list times when it's wise to be direct but opine that various degrees of sugar-coa...
Sunday, November 20, 2016

Toward Constructive Conversation with The Other Side

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In the abstract, everyone asserts belief in constructive dialogue, in the free marketplace of ideas. But the nation has become very pola...
Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Communication Lessons from the Trump Win

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No matter how you feel about the outcome of the presidential election, it certainly can’t hurt to try to derive lessons from it, includin...
Monday, October 31, 2016

The Power of Silence

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In conversation, we underestimate the power of silence. In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I offer examples, both in one's work ...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Changing Someone's Mind

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The American Psychological Association ranked Leon Festinger the 5th most influential psychologist of the 20th century.  I was taken b...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016

My Favorite New Thoughts

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Every time I get what I believe is a fresh thought on my PsychologyToday.com's blog's theme--How to Do Life--I archive it as a Tw...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

A Fight Between Business Partners...and Lessons Learned

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My PsychologyToday.com article today offers a contentious dialogue between two business partners that offers lessons on business and on c...
Monday, September 21, 2015

Three Keys to Effective Conversation

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My PsychologyToday.com article today offers three potent, easy-to-explain, harder-to-implement conversation rules.
Wednesday, September 9, 2015

In Praise of the One-Second Pause

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Waiting one full second after someone finishes talking yields remarkable benefit to the speaker and to you. I flesh it out in my Psycholog...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

So You Met Someone You Might Want to Date. Now What?

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In a recent PsychologyToday.com article , I described how I helped a client develop a plan for meeting Mr. Right. A reader aske...