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Truth Lies and Good Communication Skills
Raise your right hand and solemnly swear… VoicePro, Communication Skills It seems like building a strong team would be easier if everyone had to take that pledge when they walked in the office door each morning. It seems like effectiveness would be higher. It seems like more work would get done more quickly. Yes, it […]
The 5 Great Communication Skills of The Top 10%
Did you see the recent news article about the top 10% of workplace performers? It’s from a survey done by Bloomberg Business Week. Let me get right to the punch line: a full 90% of those surveyed thought they were among the top 10% of performers in their company. Funny. And not funny at all. […]
5 Communication Skills Tips for Becoming a PowerPoint Outlaw
Your PowerPoint presentation will be outlawed if a start-up political party in Switzerland has its say. Okay, maybe they’re not really all that serious, but we appreciate the point of view at VoicePRO®. The group laments that millions of people worldwide “are obliged to be present at boring presentations” at a cost of billions of […]
9 Communication Skills Tips to Enter into Dialogue Instead of Debate
In the United States, it’s often assumed that debate is the best way to settle disputes. In a debate, the objective is to win. Courtroom lawyers argue for opposing sides, and at the end of the trial one wins and one loses. In Congress, nonstop debates all too often end in stalemate. Political candidates search […]
8 Team Building Skills For Uprooting Negativity Kudzu
Negativity and pessimism can creep into organizations like thatkudzu vine you see gobbling up trees all over the southern US. First, there are just a few tendrils, but in a matter of months they’re choking out the sunlight. Tough economic times and the workplace changes they bring are “fertilizer” for the kudzu of negativity. And, […]
Executive Presence: Is It Too Late To Be A Born Leader?
I read an interesting article yesterday by a fellow author, Sally Williamson in Training Magazine. In researching her book The Hidden Factor: Executive Presence, she surveyed some 400 C-level executives. Her findings will ring true to you, I’m sure. 89% said executive presence is a factor in career success, and 78% said the lack of it […]
6 Communication Skills Strategies to Help Get You Over The Long Haul
I participated in an event not too long ago that I was, frankly, surprised to be involved in. I have been a fitness runner for a few years and last winter my sister-in-law, also a fitness runner, suggested we set a goal for ourselves in order to ratchet up our effort. The Goal…the Rite Aid […]
Effective Body Language is Critical for Good Communication Skills
Updated: November 26th, 2018 Did you watch the Tiger Woods apology press conference? Did his posture and eye contact tell you more than his words did? How about looking at photos of the Health Care Summit in February 2010? At any given click of the camera, you could see which politicians were winning and which were losing […]
Ten Tips to Executive Presence
Businesses grow best when their leaders are growing right along with them. Leaders who communicate their ideas and present themselves in powerful ways realize the best results. The following “Ten Tips to Executive Presence” are based on the skills we teach our clients in our Executive Presence courses. We encourage you to put our tips into your […]
Women managers balance the yin and yang of good communication skills
Have you seen The White House Report Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being? It got a lot of media coverage during International Women’s Day in March and I found it to be fascinating reading. Here’s a fact from it that may change the world…or just your career: Women now hold 51% of […]
