Listening - The No. 1 People Skill. Listening is probably the No. 1 people skill.
People have important things to say to you, but if you don't really understand what they're trying to say, you won't "get it. " Which means that you'll be saying and doing things without knowing what's going on. And people may think of you as a lousy listener. Whether you're interacting in your role as a spouse, parent, manager or friend, breakdowns and barriers to communication will keep you from being successful. There are lots of videos on effective listening floating around in the YouTube videosphere, but most aren't very good. While it takes a lot of practice to become an effective listener, the concept is simple. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. If you'll focus more on understanding what people are trying to say and less on telling your own stories and making your own points, you'll be amazed how much it will benefit your relationships. Post by Dennis E.
Communications Innovation: Brand Journalism and Cisco’s Corporate News Site. Brand journalism.
Depending on what hat you wear in your organization, you’ve likely heard, read or even followed the buzz around this relatively new trend in communications. Maybe, you’ve even tried it. “At it’s most basic level, brand journalism involves honest brand storytelling that invites audiences to participate” says Kyle Monson, former tech journalist and editor at PC Magazine in a his article Dispelling the Darkness with Brand Journalism. While brand journalism, or brand content as some prefer to call it, is talked about quite a bit, it is not as easy to find it in practice. I know this, because I lead the content efforts on The Network, Cisco’s technology news site. Several months ago we started “experimenting” with brand journalism (although, at the time, we really didn’t call it that…we just saw an opportunity and went for it).
So that is the “brand storytelling” Monson refers to. I’d say The Network is onto something. See for yourself what we are doing.
Edward Tufte. Edward Tufte is a statistician and artist, and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Statistics, and Computer Science at Yale University.
He wrote, designed, and self-published 4 classic books on data visualization. The New York Times described ET as the "Leonardo da Vinci of data," and Business Week as the "Galileo of graphics. " He is now writing a book/film The Thinking Eye and constructing a 234-acre tree farm and sculpture park in northwest Connecticut, which will show his artworks and remain open space in perpetuity. He founded Graphics Press, ET Modern gallery/studio, and Hogpen Hill Farms LLC. Visual Display of Quantitative Information 200 pages Envisioning Information 128 pages.