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Entries for the ‘Communicating’ Category

The Christmas Close

Two weeks ago while skimming the radio channels, it hit me. According to one radio station, it was about time I start dreaming of a White Christmas.
What? Isn’t it still November? Now there is a time and a place for everything but here we are, still a week BEFORE Thanksgiving, and Christmas music still doesn’t [...]

How to Value a Friendship

“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.
-Robert Southey

Do you look at your customers as friends? And do they see you as a friend? And what is your definition of friend? Well, the dictionary describes a friend as a person you [...]

Team Building

Team building (skill building) programs improve the way your team members interact and solve problems and overall leads to better efficiency. The results? Higher and improved morale and productivity.
Team building helps to also decrease stress, turnover and operating costs.
A happier team means an effective team. An effective team is more [...]

Setting an example…

“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.”
-Albert Einstein
If you are to influence others, the only way to have a lasting impact is by demonstrating through your own actions that you believe what you are communicating. If you sell Ford Cars for living, don’t drive a BMW. [...]

The Communication Zoo How to Talk to the Animals

People are animals and each breed has a different mood.  Each breed also likes to hang out with other animals that look, act, “talk” and smell just like them. So to sell to, or influence other animals, you often need to look like them, act like them, talk like them, and sure…even smell like them! [...]