Author: Robert Bacal
Is It Really Possible To Read People Like A Book?
Common Myth About Reading and Interpreting Non-Verbal Communication Is it really possible to “read” non-verbal communication behavior to get a jump or advantage in understanding an individual? The answer is mostly no. That’s a myth developed by marketers and sales…
What Are the Six Different Categories of Types of Non-Verbal Communication?
There’s more to non-verbal communication than most people think Most of us know just enough about non-verbal communication to be dangerous, and end up over-simplifying it. There’s a lot more to it than most lay people understand. There are actually…
What Is Tactile Communication? (The non-verbal primer)
We communicate a great deal through our physical contact, or lack of it, with others Tactile communication refers to what we communicate through the sense of touch — through touching, or not touching each other in various ways. Touch may…
Understanding the Less is More Principle of Effective Communication
In informal speech and communication, people have a tendency to talk, and talk, often is a slightly disorganized fashion, since informal speech is not the kind of thing you can plan out. It may surprise you to know that in…
What is “self-disclosure”? – Bacal’s Personal & Work Growth Shop
Self-disclosure is a simple (at least on the surface) approach to communication that involves sharing information about yourself, history, present, emotions and thoughts. Originated and explained by Sidney Jourard, a Humanistic Psychologist, this simple approach, at least used skillfully, can…
Why are some presenters and public speakers boring and others not?
There are lots of things that separate the boring speaker from the interesting one. We’ll focus on one. All human beings are hard-wired to react to change around them. It’s an evolutionary device that helps protect us from threat in…
