4 Simple Tricks to Keep a Conversation Going!

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Strik­ing a con­ver­sa­tion can be dif­fi­cult for some peo­ple when they are not “trained” to do so.  Most of us believed that it is the per­son­al­ity or a gift given dur­ing birth!  Per­son­ally, I feel that the belief holds cer­tain truth.  Of course, learn­ing some con­ver­sa­tional skills can also assist an indi­vid­ual lack­ing in con­ver­sa­tional skill improve his abil­ity in keep­ing the con­ver­sa­tion going.  At times, we run out of things to say and there is an empty silence that fol­lows when topic runs dry.  So, how do we cope with run­ning out of topic and keep­ing the con­ver­sa­tion going? Read the rest of this entry »


How to Get People Talking?

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Do you find your­self accept­ing the idea of attend­ing net­work­ing ses­sions or social gath­er­ings (or any other types of gath­er­ings)?  Why is that so?  The prob­lem lies in the neces­sity to talk to peo­ple.  Strik­ing con­ver­sa­tion can be dif­fi­cult to them.  Not to men­tion the need to main­tain the con­ver­sa­tion.  Most feel there will be a prob­lem when top­ics run dry, the con­ver­sa­tion becomes dif­fi­cult to fol­low through and the silence will make them feel uncom­fort­able.  It is def­i­nitely a prob­lem but how do we over­come this prob­lem?  Today, we will share with you five con­ver­sa­tional tips to get your part­ner and you feel­ing happy and inter­ested through­out the entire con­ver­sa­tion! Read the rest of this entry »


4 More Reasons You Should Be Delegating Your Tasks!

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Behind the suc­cess of per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity is your abil­ity to del­e­gate tasks out.  They can be any­one, such as your col­leagues, cus­tomer or even your bosses (sur­prised?).  Del­e­ga­tion allows you to focus on your strengths.  When you are not del­e­gat­ing, you may be doing work that may be counter-productive as you step into a steep learn­ing curve or your resis­tance to start mak­ing progress in the task.  When you feel unhappy work­ing on the tasks, you become unwill­ing to pick up new things and this becomes the real show-stopper for any pro­gres­sion! Read the rest of this entry »


Get People to Absorb Information the Way You Want It!

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How do you get peo­ple to absorb infor­ma­tion in a dis­cus­sion?  How do you drive your mes­sage across (that is easy) and reg­is­ter them in their heads (this is hard)?  How do you get them to do what they are sup­posed to do (as intended and planned) after the meet­ing?  The prob­lem is peo­ple have dif­fer­ent agenda, dif­fer­ent ways of think­ing and dif­fer­ent under­stand­ing.  At the end of the meet­ing, they may not digest what you had intended to deliv­ered.  They may have a mis­in­ter­pre­ta­tion of what you intended to say.  All these can be attrib­uted to var­i­ous rea­sons, such as poor pre­sen­ta­tion, poor deliv­ery, poor speech, etc.  One of them is preva­lent in all human pre­sen­ta­tions is not absorb­ing infor­ma­tion fully in the dis­cus­sion Read the rest of this entry »


What Customers Really Want!

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Cus­tomers, either you really love them or you really hate them!  They are your salary, your organisation’s profit.  You need them to sur­vive! Yet cus­tomers are the peo­ple that give you the pain in the neck most of the time.  After meet­ings and meet­ings but they just give you new require­ments, new ideas and what do you know, new trou­bles for you to solve!  It does not apply only to the buy-and-sell rela­tion­ship.  Any­one can be cus­tomers to you.  What do your cus­tomers really want?  Are they always giv­ing you prob­lems?  How do we address their prob­lems and deliver what they really want? Read the rest of this entry »


6 Mistakes to Avoid in Emailing

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Often, we see peo­ple make mis­takes dur­ing email­ing.  You would have def­i­nitely seen some of them dur­ing your course of work.  These mis­takes although they look small but can have a detri­men­tal effect of your image when it is being com­mit­ted over and over again.  Gen­er­ally, the recip­i­ent will think that the sender is care­less, never reviews his email con­tent or plain rush­ing for time…  Today we are shar­ing with you mis­takes you should avoid and not end up in your organ­i­sa­tion list of care­less email senders! Read the rest of this entry »


4 Ways to Beef Up Communication Skills

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Com­mu­ni­ca­tion lies between the key link between peo­ple and get­ting work down.  It is essen­tial that we become pro­fi­cient in com­mu­ni­cat­ing.  How­ever, not all of us are born with the tal­ent in com­mu­ni­ca­tion.  We strug­gle to under­stand and even con­vey our mes­sage to the other party.  The lack of com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills becomes a break­down between two par­ties and some­times being mis­in­ter­preted result­ing in mis­un­der­stand­ing or mis­aligned goals.  By focus­ing on lev­el­ling up our com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills, we can bet­ter under­stand, bet­ter con­vey the mes­sage between two par­ties.  Here today, we give you a dif­fer­ent view point on how to beef up your com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills that touches on the tech­ni­cal aspect instead of the con­ven­tional “empa­thetic lis­ten­ing”. Read the rest of this entry »


Win Any Argument!

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Our prin­ci­ple is that we do not want to get into any argu­ment.  That’s the first thing every indi­vid­ual should aim for in any work­place.  How­ever, that is not the real­is­tic case where in any organ­i­sa­tions, there will be fiery indi­vid­u­als are all out to con­sume you with their anger and hatred.  If there is a need to fight back, you will need to fight back and get back your rep­u­ta­tion and dig­nity.  We have 10 tips for you to counter-strike and win any argu­ment.  We hope that you can put it to good use instead of start­ing a fight with some­one else at work Read the rest of this entry »


10 Top Tips to Improve Communication!

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In a office or any work­place envi­ron­ment, it is essen­tial to com­mu­ni­cate. Our abil­ity to com­mu­ni­cate with any­one and every­one, be it our clients, cus­tomers, co-workers and supe­ri­ors can enhance your over­all effec­tive­ness and pro­duc­tiv­ity. If com­mu­ni­ca­tions were done wrongly, it can even sab­o­tage our progress! Most of the times, our abil­ity to com­mu­ni­cate can make the dif­fer­ence in our pro­duc­tiv­ity and suc­cess in the office. Here are 10 ways to enhance your ver­bal effi­cacy at work: Read the rest of this entry »