Have Words Will Write
Originally, I was tempted to have a signal blog post around better communication. Transferring ideas from one person to another has so many complex factor, I have decided to make it a category and periodically write shorts posts focusing on one aspect of improving communication skills.
My observations over the past few weeks has given me new insights to how team members can influence each other. When a team works at its best, the team as a whole functions in combination of a lifetime observations and experiences. In my life, where I had to deal with various groups of people tasked …
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In my travels this weekend, it came to my attention how we all love conflict. It can be either reciting a personal experience or viewing a sporting event, i.e. the Paris Olympics. Granted, some of my conversations this past week have been boring. They were told me to impart information and help my understanding. However, …
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“Sherlock Miller confidently walked into the hotel’s lobby, but confused as to why he got the call.” It took me more than a month going through countless rewrites to get to the finished that one sentence. The idea originated when I read and later heard the author used the phrase Confident Confusion. The phrase Confident …
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This morning, watching the morning news, my thoughts stuck on how much violence and conflict we have in our lives. School shootings, murders, and even thefts surround our daily lives. When it comes to sporting events, movies, televisions shows, and books, all must have some element of conflict and violence in them to be successful. …
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Summer travel means more people moving about. A lot of those people rush off to a relaxing vacation. After a few days, they hurry back home to get back to work and their daily grind. Getting lost while rushing from point A to point C, having to ask directions. Signs become a blur. The meaning …
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“Jeff, have you seen my keys?” Deb asks, looking Jeff straight into his eyes. “No, where did you see them last?” Here we have a simple question and answer. The readers can imply emotion in the text, but without knowing what has come before and after, they will not know the emotion of the …
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Two powerful, simple words our parents taught us in our formative years. As we grow older, many of us stop saying thank you. We may still feel a level of gratitude, but the verbal expressions slip out of our vocabulary. I know for myself I had stopped saying thank you even though I felt gratitude …
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