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 both informal and formal speech (including presentations, speeches), people listening to you will tend to…
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.
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 improve intimacy, rapport in face to face communication, and even improve public speaking and connecting…
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 not originated within NLP, but was “borrowed”, in this case from, Virginia Satir, noted family…
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 other people are saying, and try to truly understand what they have to say. Generally,…
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 person. This is unfortunate because being aware of our own intent, and being able to…