In one of my recent seminars we were talking about the power of using all the Omni-linguistic tools to really build relationships, and we had two sides of the room disagreeing about when does one stop being authentic if you start speaking to someone, not in the way you would prefer, but in the way [...]
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The other day after finishing a program on Omni-linguistics, one of the attendees came up to me and said she had a great idea. “Everyone,” she said with conviction, “should wear a wrist band (noting a specific color) each day that shows the language they are going to speak that day; how they want to [...]
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Have you ever noticed how some people you just like instantly, you cut them slack, feel better in their presence and overall are happier when they’re part of your life. Then there are others who you would gladly walk half a mile to avoid, if only you could.
Human nature being what it is, there are [...]
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Finally, we get to the style that needs almost no introduction. After all my blogs on behavioral styles, talking about Judges, Meteors and Rocks…we get to the style that really doesn’t need defining. Everyone can probably tell you most of the characteristics of this last style, the Detailer. We all know someone who must have [...]
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Since this is the week of Valentine’s Day I want to talk briefly about connections. Seems to me we often think of connections in romantic terms, but right now, especially when we have to be our most resilient and creative to be successful, it would seem building business connections would be a pretty smart thing [...]
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For the last couple of weeks I’ve talked about something all of us know but sometimes forget, the power of treating people the way they want to be treated. It doesn’t matter if we’re brilliant, educated or charismatic if we alienate someone who doesn’t like how we treat them. AND, we can be treating [...]
Last week I talked about the education one can get watching people in an airport. We are all “hardwired” differently, and it’s an ongoing process to figure out what people need and the smartest way to communicate with them. At the end of the week, after working in rain soaked California, I ended up spending [...]
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Not long ago someone told me about a doctor in her area. Seems this physician had absolutely no people skills and therefore was abrasive to all his patients. BUT he was a fine physician. So he and his office created a working scenario: immediately after he left the examination room, his assistant came in. Now [...]
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Like me, you’ve probably heard different stats on what percentage of work-related problems stem from communication issues. Some reports say 70%, others put it as high as 90%.
Regardless of statistics, when people can’t work toward the same vision or get along with each other, they typically aren’t able to find a common language to communicate [...]
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
I don’t have the luxury of being around my two year old grandson nearly as often as I’d like, and so every time I’m with him I marvel at how he approaches his little world.
During the holidays my daughter and I took him to a children’s museum in San Antonio, which had this amazing [...]
