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 »


Slow Down and Win Customer’s Heart!

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Mov­ing too fast is rarely the way to win new cus­tomers and keep­ing the exist­ing ones.  Cus­tomers are sel­dom impressed the man­ner you are han­dling their needs in a fast man­ner.  The eas­i­est way to make any­one feel spe­cial (but almost fully neglected) is to give them your time and undi­vided atten­tion. By slow­ing down your pace, and giv­ing each cus­tomer and col­league more atten­tion, tak­ing time to work out what both of you truly need, you get bet­ter results than rush­ing through a time­line and hurry on to the next “wal­let”. Read the rest of this entry »


100% Resolution Conflict Manager!

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Con­flict is com­mon in our every­day life.  Not even men­tion that con­flict can hap­pen at work.  With dif­fer­ent agen­das and inter­est going on in the organ­i­sa­tion, it seemed an up hill task to resolve con­flicts here.  How­ever, for all con­flicts (the purest ones that has no polit­i­cal agenda which are eas­i­est to solve), there lies the same com­mon prin­ci­ple that is used to resolve them.  In our post today, we will present tech­niques for you to resolve con­flict in the office and life. Read the rest of this entry »


5 Shocking Truth to be Successful in Influence!

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Being influ­en­tial is not just about the tech­niques.  We can learn tech­niques any­where.  We can get it on the inter­net, from the books, from con­ver­sa­tion with peo­ple, col­leagues, bosses, etc.  At a deeper level, being influ­en­tial works on sim­ple prin­ci­ples that is sim­i­lar to being an effec­tive per­son.  We are reveal­ing 5 shock­ing truths about influ­en­tial peo­ple and how you can apply them in your daily life to be a bet­ter per­son! Read the rest of this entry »


My Boss Always Rejects My Ideas!

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Have you always had all your ideas being rejected by your bosses?  You get worked up and fire your com­plains to your col­leagues at the pantry of how stu­pid your boss can be.  At times, you pon­der the real issue your boss is uptight about?  Some­time, you are just clue­less of their rejec­tion.  There are 9 rea­sons why your bosses reject your pro­posal.  It is not some­thing of com­pli­cated rocket sci­ence and is eas­ily under­stood. Read the rest of this entry »


How to Influence Your Colleagues Your Ideas?

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We can design hun­dred and one ways of influ­enc­ing your bosses, col­leagues and cus­tomer but they may not work as effec­tively.   You will be wast­ing effort by gen­er­at­ing vol­u­met­ric attempts to get them influ­ence.  The key thing behind influ­enc­ing exter­nal par­ties is to under­stand what is impor­tant to them.  And one of the more impor­tant things asso­ci­at­ing to impor­tance to them is how they make a deci­sion in their men­tal model. Read the rest of this entry »


4 Sure Ways to Influence Your Colleagues!

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After under­stand­ing the basics of influ­enc­ing peo­ple, you want to get down to busi­ness and make them be influ­ence by your ideas, pro­pos­als, offer­ings or get them to work.  You can tar­get their con­cerns, such as mon­e­tary, emo­tional, explicit and implicit ben­e­fits and reward them accord­ingly.  How­ever, you can also use the direct oppo­site of the list to influ­ence them to work.  We advise you to avoid doing as it will hurt you in the long run. Read the rest of this entry »


Influence and Win All Your Colleagues!

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It is essen­tial to influ­ence your col­leagues to get things done.  How do you win and cap­ture their heart and mind so that they can work things for you?  Do you exert your author­ity or do you use unscrupu­lous meth­ods to make them work?  Using neg­a­tive meth­ods (as what we pointed) will only bring you fur­ther from get­ting closer to your col­leagues.  Yes, you may have got­ten what you want.  But this will man­i­fest into neg­a­tive sen­ti­ments towards you in future.  You may not be able to have their full sup­port in future.  There­fore, it is pru­dent and wise that you need to win your col­leagues heart using the right meth­ods!  Find out more with our tips here. Read the rest of this entry »


How Do You Get Your Peers to Like You?

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The way to influ­ence your col­leagues is to get them to like you.  That’s the basic right? Regard­less of it is your supe­rior, sub­or­di­nates or your peers you will need them to like you before you can get them to believe what you are propos­ing.  Objec­tively, here, we are not show­ing the meth­ods to be a first class boot-licker nor are we rec­om­mend­ing you to brain-wash your­self to what the per­son you are influ­enc­ing is.   We are offer­ing you meth­ods that will make you gen­er­ally pleas­ant, approach­able and lov­able by your peers.  How do you do that? Read the rest of this entry »