Category: Articles

Applying Bacal’s Law of Meaningless Utterances – Understanding language and communication – meaningless utterances

Amazing Language_ Much of what we say means nothing at all Applying Bacal’s Law of Meaningless Utterances People say all sorts of things, and make all kinds of statements. Some of those are very meaningful, even profound and worth paying…

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Ten Tips On Using Relationship Quizzes To Understand Yourself And Your Partner

There are tons of quizzes online (below is a list and links to a number of self-assessment instruments you can use free of charge) and in magazines that can help you better understand yourself and your relationships, but you need…

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Why Companies Can’t Prove The Value Of Employee Engagement

In a perfect world, it would be important for companies that invest in anything to be able to evaluate whether that investment returns value to the company. Companies evaluate their marketing strategies, in terms of business results, assessing different channels,…

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You Know You Are A “Real Writer” When….

People write for all kinds of reasons. Some do so because they feel it’s a good business strategy to create blog posts. Others write because they have a passion about a particular subject. There’s one element that will help you…

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Eleven Pillars Of Radical Customer Service

So long as you do what everyone is doing in customer service, you have no chance at using customer service as a competitive advantage. The basic principle behind radical customer service is simple, and applies to many other areas in…

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How Good Does Voice Recognition/Artificial Intelligence Have To Be To Be Useful For Customer…

Q: Since Watson’s successful debut on Jeopardy, there’s been a suggestion that computers can do natural language processing to improve customer service. What do you think? Robert: I think it’s fascinating, and promising to imagine a computer can handle and process customer…