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Do you feel people avoid you, or are not interested in what you have to say? Do you feel you are not taken seriously, nor respected? Perhaps you need to brush-up on your conversation and communication skills!
Being a good conversationalist means more than having a “gift to gab”. In fact, often it is those who talk effortlessly, are the worst communicators. In order to effectively communicate and converse, one must have social awareness, sensitivity, self-control and discretion.
Through conversation, we have the ability to command an audience or we can turn people off. We can gain respect, or lose it. We can confirm credibility, or damage it.
Learning how to successfully communicate and converse can build and maintain healthy relationships in all areas of life.
Continue reading Communication and Conversation Etiquette
Text Addiction Questions
Are you addicted to texting? Take this test to find out. If you answer ”yes” to at least 5, you may want to consider if it’s effecting your credibility.
- Do you automatically wake up during the night just to check your messages?
- Do you check your text messages as soon as you awake?
- Can you go more than 30, 15 minutes, without having an urge to check your texts?
- Even if you think you shouldn’t (during a presentation, a business meeting or engaged in conversation with others) do you discreetly pull your phone out (when no one is looking) to read or send a text?
- Do you feel if you text while holding your phone on your lap, or under the table, where no one can see, it’s permissible?
- When you’re out socially with co-workers, friends or family, do you spend half your time texting other people?
- When driving, is your cell or I-Phone on your lap, or setting on the seat next to you, so it’s easily accessible to receive or send texts?
- Do you text and drive, thinking you’ll never be a statistic?
- When you don’t receive a text for several minutes, do you think, “Who can I text?”
I have observed over the past several years the increasing lack of Continue reading Are You Addicted to Texting?
It’s that time of year again, when beautiful autumn colors begin to resonate, apples and cider fill our markets, hot chocolate and donuts fill our tummies, and houses are festively decorated with corn stalks, scarecrows and pumpkins. These are signs of fall.
For children, it signals that soon, for one night, they will transform themselves into their favorite superstar or cartoon character. Then, parading from door to door, saying those all familiar words, “Trick or Treat”, with anticipation of what they will receive. Continue reading Happy Trick or Treat as You Sweetly Teach
Once someone learns they have cancer, often the reality of the news doesn’t truly sink in at first. They hear the words, yet, it may take hours, days or longer before they truly understand and feel the impact of the news.
Fear is a common feeling. Then anger can follow. A person’s perspective and thinking can become clouded, and emotions filled with anxiety.
When you’re the recipient of such news from a family member, friend or co-worker, your response is very important.
When a woman grieves over her loss of health, and potentially other physical features, it is important to be sensitive about what you say and do. A woman can be extra sensitive.
Sometimes people will avoid the person with cancer, because they don’t know what to say or they don’t want to say the wrong thing. However, this is not the time to avoid, but to embrace, quietly and supportively.
The following tips will help as you interact with a family member, friend or co-worker who has breast cancer. Continue reading Support and Grief Etiquette
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