As Facebook tries to keep you wishing your friend “Happy Birthday!” with a sidebar, you eventually get comfortable with screen to screen conversations. Surprisingly, people are not experiencing cultural shock with the transition from one-on-one talking to screen-to-screen chatting. They…
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Couples experiencing problems in their relationships often put their troubles down to a lack of communication. Therapists will often advise their clients that communication is the key to a successful marriage or relationship. Some of this advice might be that…
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You are quite brilliant in your chosen field. You have the strong analytical, problems solving and technical skills that you need for your professional life. But your career has not taken off. It is not developing the way you had…
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Communication between couples is absolutely essential for a healthy and happy relationship. But communication breakdowns are incredibly common and can happen to even the closest of couples. Bu this does not mean that the relationship is doomed; there are so…
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Relationships are complicated, even under the best of circumstances. It’s hard work, the hours are long, and more than that…it’s ever evolving. Very seldom are two people at the same place in maturity, emotions or like-mindedness. So often that’s why…
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It’s happened again: Your Aunt Sally has decided to tell you for what feels like the millionth time why you should lose weight. Or maybe it’s advice on how you can improve your career, your hairstyle, how you’re raising your…
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Language is at the core of what differentiates animals and humans. The ability to communicate information to another involves both verbal and non-verbal clues. In order to effectively transfer meaning to another requires saying the right thing in the right…
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Email is a convenient form of communication for both work and personal use. There is email protocol to follow, however, to ensure that your email outreach is not sending the wrong message. It is all too easy to form the…
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When someone sees an opportunity to offer advice, often this is given without a thought for consequence. For example, is the advice actually wanted? Is it useful and constructive? Would the person to whom advice is being given ask for…
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Most people have to deal with a difficult boss at one of their jobs. A boss who wants everything done at the same time, does not know how to delegate work, never takes anything seriously or has no sense of…
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In February 2007, Uganda’s President Museveni hinted at the introduction of a legislation that would punish people who intentionally spread HIV. This was at the end of a two-day conference on child and human trafficking organised by Restore International. Never…
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At what point do people become adults? At five years old, kids thought being “grown up” meant wearing high heels and stay out past eight at night. At twelve years old, adulthood meant actually liking vegetables and kissing with the…
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The essence of a successful marriage, only endures long after the “I do’s” and the honeymoon ends if there is effective communication before and during all the above. It’s more than love, which builds the very core of a marriage….
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One facet to living a balanced life involves skillful communication; one component of skillful communication is learning how to effectively say “no.” Because pleasing others and being congenial feels good, saying “no” to a request can be difficult. Often you…
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One important component of skillful communication is active listening. There is no better occasion for putting your active listening skills into practice than when attempting to have a conversation with a know-it-all. Unfortunately, know-it-alls are oftentimes also compulsive talkers, so…
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Mel Gibson starred in a fanciful comedy entitled What Women Want, where his character gets struck by lightening in his bathroom and wakes up with the unique ability to hear the thoughts of women. Everywhere he went he heard the…
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Confrontation is a given in any relationship. The closer the relationship the greater the potential is for hurt feelings. Just the same, those with solid relationships have the best chance at overcoming or avoiding any long term damage. If you…
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Body language communicates as clearly as verbal conversation what a person is thinking and feeling. Sometimes body language might even contradict the spoken word, revealing unacknowledged hidden feelings. A person could be saying yes and inadvertently shaking his head back…
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Communication involves more than just what one says. Body language, and other non-verbal behaviors, embellishes words and allows others to better interpret or understand what you are attempting to convey. Your interactions with others are influenced by non-verbal cues, sometimes…
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It’s strange how the relationships between siblings can be so difficult sometimes. One would imagine that, with the same background and the same parents, siblings would always have something in common, though the reality is often that’s all they appear to…
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The silent treatment, otherwise known as a quiet temper tantrum, is one thing some people do in order to get someone to do what they want. It is a very immature way to handle being angry and only hurts the…
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All of us, at all times, display body language whether we are aware of it or not. Most of the time, this does not present a problem – however, there are occasions when our body language can be viewed as…
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Being insulted in public in front of your friends, work colleagues and even foes is very embarrassing and tends to leave your face flushed red with anger, your blood boiling and your fist ready to plant nicely on the person’s…
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A lot of communication, both personal and professional, is done by email. It is essential that people recognize how vital it is to use this form of communications efficiently. It is too easy to create habits whereby the receiver of…
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Annoying People, they are everywhere, your neighbours, your co-workers, it seems everywhere you go you will find at least one that just gets on your nerves. It seems that it is a fact of life that there will be some…
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Given the prominent role that social media plays in modern lives, most individuals are both witness to and participants in a thread of conversations every day. Many disputes and disagreements can be observed via social media, and it is quite…
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You know you have said something hateful or done something hurtful. You know that you have created a void in a lifelong friendship or relationship. How can you fix what has happened? It’s simple – apologize. Why is that so…
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College life can be tough on relationships. Many high school sweethearts find, to their dismay, that they did not get accepted to the same colleges. College sweethearts find out that they did not get accepted to the same graduate school…
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