I read COSMO
COSMO sells its magazine to us with the You Don’t Know approach, and you need to find out.
Thank You In Advance
Q. Can you say “Thank You” … in advance … to convey your appreciation?
Habit 5 “Seek first to Understand before being Understood”
From Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Habit 5 “Seek first to Understand before being Understood”
Partial Delivery where “2 out of 3 isn’t good”
Meatloaf sang “Two out of Three Ain’t Bad”, but in communications, business or personal, you’re only get 2/3rds of the content delivery.
Conversation Starter: “Did you get my Email?”
Email delivery systems are very reliable these days. Other than firewall capabilities of blocking (large) file attachments from brand new email addresses, most ‘good’ emails make it to your Inbox (worst case the Spam folder).
Black Box Model of Communications
The Black Box Model of Communications has 4 components: Input, Output, Noise and Loss.
Corporate Strategy requires People
Quote — “The predictor of good strategy is the quality of the relationships experienced in the process,”
Huffington Interrupted
‘Interruptive’ communications is a sign there’s something wrong in your relationship; and it may border on abusive communications. Although I can’t religiously defend the Interuptee, I’d wager that the Interruptor might need an internal examination.
Ladies only. “Just” Do it.
If you Google this string ‘females who use the word just’ you’ll encounter quite a few opinionated links+articles. Spend 57 seconds on the video first, for the appropriate context.
“I Remember” the Emotion
A tidbit to help you become Emotionally Aware during a conversation.
