Category: FAQ-Communication General & Media

Why Is E-mail More Prone to Creating Unnecessary Conflict?

If you have any experience on the Internet or using your company’s internal email system, you probably realize that there is a great deal of very poor confrontational communication that occurs in the electronic medium. Why is that the case?…

Sweetspot: Communicating Positively and Negatively

Avoiding Overly Positive and Overly Negative Communication The Sweet Spot Between Overly Positive and Overly Negative Communication: Glass Empty, Glass Full You’ve heard the phrase: “There’s two kinds of people. Those that see the glass as half full, and those…

The Three Boorish Buckets Of Social Media Comments

Feedback To Dumb As Rocks People When The People Who NEED The Feedback Are The Least Likely To “Hear” It It’s an odd world. It seems that the people who really need to hear how they are perceived by others,…

How can understanding different types of conversations make me a better communicator?

When most people talk and interact, they don’t usually think consciously about what they are trying to achieve, the kind of conversation they want, and think about those things from the perspective of the other person. But the truth is…

Is it possible to NOT communicate?

Is it possible to NOT communicate? It’s impossible to NOT Communication Common usage of language contains phrases like “He doesn’t communicate with me”, or “He’s uncommunicative”, giving us the impression that it’s possible to NOT communicate. In fact, that’s impossible….

So Much For Social Media Dialogue: Why No Questioning

Feedback To Dumb As Rocks People Why Is There So Little Questioning Used In Social Media Conversations? The other day, I was involved in a conversation with a person trying to get his new business service going, and I commented…