Category: Relationships

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What You Don’t Say Determines The Quality Of Your Communication & Relationships

We know that “good” talk smooths and builds relationships, whether with family, or friends or in the workplace. Supportive listening and compliments are important in building a good foundation of trust and mutual respect. Yet there’s the other side of the…

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Applying Bacal’s Law of Meaningless Utterances

Uncovering empty words, meaningless phrases, and other bullshit people fling.about People say all sorts of things, and make all kinds of statements. Some of those are very meaningful, even profound and worth paying attention to. But a good percentage of…

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Can Praise Be Condescending and Toxic? You Bet

When praise and compliments are toxic even when you mean well It’s probably fair to say that all of us appreciate and need praise from others. Or positive feedback, whether emotionally based or task based (see The Uncommon Art of…

Fighting Verbal Abuse: Step 1 — Knowing You Are “Under Attack” (Free Version)

The contents of this article is available in printable pdf format, so you can print it and keep it close by. Identifying Subtle Verbal Abuse Learnbytes is jam packed with the same content presented here. Click to order and download…

The Ten Commandments For Communicating “Peacefully” With Even Difficult People

Change your communication, change your relationships at home and at work. We live in an environment where even our leaders are demonstrating insulting, confrontational behavior, and that has spread to the general population. We currently live in a very aggressive…

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Keys To Stopping Bullying and Difficult Behaviors

When a bully figures out his/her nasty ways aren’t working, they tend to move on. Here’s how to send the message, “It isn’t going to work with me” It Isn’t Going to Work with Me One interesting thing about difficult…