Category: FAQ-Communication-Practical Tips
From here you can access many practical communication techniques and skills to help you improve your communication and relationships at home and at work. Tips and suggestions apply to face-to-face one to one communication, written communication, and other media.
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…
What Is Mirroring?
Mirroring – A Communication Tool For Generating Rapport What is mirroring mean in terms of communication? Mirroring is a communication technique that is often attributed to the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), but like many techniques from NLP, it was…
What is Appreciative Inquiry?
Appreciative Inquiry is based on the idea that there is a difference between various types of communication (e.g. advocacy versus inquiry) and that if we truly want to understand how something works, we need to put aside judgments of what…
What is “message chunking”?
When communicating, we need to be aware that the other person can only listen to, process and understand so much information without hitting information overload. It takes time for a person to hear and assimilate what is being said (or…
What is “expressing conversational intent”?
When most of us have conversations, or attempt to communicate, we rarely a) formulate our intent or goals for the conversation even to ourselves, and b) even more rarely explain our intent or goals for the conversation to the other…
