Author: admin | Filed under: Communication | Tags: Communication, conversation, Influence, Sales | No Comments »
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 »
Author: admin | Filed under: Communication | Tags: Career Advice, Communication, conversation, Influence, Technqiues, trust | No Comments »
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 »
Author: admin | Filed under: Career Advice, Personal Productivity | Tags: Communication, delegation, Personal Productivity, Success | 1 Comment »
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 »
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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 »
Author: admin | Filed under: Sales | Tags: Communication, customer, Sales, Technqiues | No Comments »
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 »
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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 »
Author: admin | Filed under: Communication | Tags: Communication, Technqiues, vocabulary | No Comments »
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 »
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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 »
Author: admin | Filed under: Communication | Tags: Communication, Influence | No Comments »
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 »