5 Secrets To Becoming a Communication Expert. Do you want to be a better communicator? Who doesn’t? Not all of us are blessed with an innate ability to express ourselves through words. In fact, public speaking consistently ranks as the number one fear humans have. We fear public speaking even more than death! It’s no surprise, then, that many of us have trouble communicating well on a day-to-day basis. If you’re one of these people who really has to work hard to communicate effectively, then you know how much of a struggle it can be.
Poor communication only leads to conflict and far too much drama. So if you want to change your life and communicate more effectively without ending every conversation with an argument, then check out these ways you can become a communication expert in your own life. 1. It’s easy to forget about your audience, especially when you’re talking about yourself. The National Criminal Justice Reference Service talks about how effective communication involves tailoring your message to your audience: 2. 3. 4. 5. The Right Way to Disagree With Your Boss. By Marcus Williamson Part of the reason happiness often feels so elusive is that we don’t spend time really focusing on what we need in order to cultivate that happiness. When we’re bogged down at work or flustered with unsuccessful attempts, more often than not we mostly just wallow in those feelings of frustration and hopelessness, rather than taking a moment to question what needs to change.
Change that. Take the time to explore what you really need to make yourself happy. Beyond facilitating a lighter experience traveling through life, happiness leads to increased productivity, more engagement with work, and richer creativity. Over on Thought Catalog, Ko Im offers a series of prompts to help you discover patterns that point to how to do more of what makes you feel happy. A few favorites: What is the best thing that happened to me? By considering open-ended questions related to what makes you feel upbeat, fulfilled, and inspired, the wheat will start to separate from the chaff.
[via] The Communication Style You Need To Break Into The Boy's Club. Men and women just don’t speak the same language in business. "When a woman speaks in a professional setting, she walks a tightrope," write Sheryl Sandberg and Wharton business school professor Adam Grant in a recent op-ed in the New York Times. "Either she’s barely heard or she’s judged as too aggressive. " A recent study by a Yale psychologist Victoria L. Brescoll found that male executives received 10% higher ratings of competence from their peers when they spoke more, while female executives who spoke up received 14% lower ratings.
As a result of this fear and disparity, women tend to listen more, seek consensus, and give approval, while men often speak more forcefully. But you can overcome those obstacles and hold your own by adjusting your speaking style—keep your strengths as a female, but learn from the world of men. Here are five ways to break into the boys’ club: 1. Here’s the paradox: The more you seek approval, the less likely you are to get it. 2. 3. 4. 5. Tannenbaum.pdf (Objet application/pdf) Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Model of personality types A chart with descriptions of each Myers–Briggs personality type and the four dichotomies central to the theory. In personality typology, the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is an introspective self-report questionnaire indicating differing psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions.
The test attempts to assign a value to each of four categories: introversion or extraversion, sensing or intuition, thinking or feeling, and judging or perceiving. One letter from each category is taken to produce a four-letter test result, such as "INTP" or "ESFJ".[2][3] The MBTI was constructed by two Americans: Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers, who were inspired by the book Psychological Types by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung.
Isabel Myers was particularly fascinated by the concept of introversion and she typed herself as an INFP. History[edit] Briggs began her research into personality in 1917. Concepts[edit] "leadership styles" Instructional Leadership.