Category: FAQ’s and KNOWLEDGE BASES
The FAQ section (Frequently Asked Questions) provides shorter answers to common questions on topics relevant to this site: communication, planning, conflict, leadership and more coming. Available FAQ’s are accessible here.
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…
What is “attentional pacing”, and why is it so important to public speaking?
We explained that conceptual pacing has to do with how fast you go through difficult and easy content. Attentional pacing is related to that, but has to do with how much change you introduce into your speaking. It’s not a…
Should you memorize your speech?
Memorizing your presentation or speech may seem to make sense but it’s almost never a good idea. First, when you write a speech on paper, memorize it, then deliver it orally, you are delivering words that were actually meant to…
