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Communication Skills Part 2 – Assessments, Assertions, Declarations

Hi and welcome to this video. In this video I want to talk about the second part of communication skills. In the last video, Communication Skills Part 1, we talked about the speech acts and the first three speech acts. They were: Requests Offers Promises And so in this video I want to talk about the second half of the speech acts. And the second half includes:

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Importance Of Communication Skills

Hi and welcome to this video. In this video I want to talk to you about the importance of communication skills. Communication skills make a whole world of difference in how you show up in the world and how satisfied you are with life and in life. And I don’t say this lightly! Every day, we communicate with other human beings around us. And that includes our family, our spouse and partner, our friends, our peers, our coworkers and colleagues.

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Communication Skills – Part 1

Hi and welcome to this video. In this video I want to talk about communication skills because I think that communication skills are very much at the heart of everything that we do in our life. Every day we have so many different interactions and so many different conversations with other human beings. We ask our friends, our family, our coworkers, friends and peers for help to complete projects, start new projects, go to a movie, have dinner, and plenty of other examples.

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Non Verbal Communication Skills Include The Body AND The Emotions!

Hi and welcome to this video. In this video I want to talk a little bit about… non verbal communication skills. Non verbal communication skills have a lot to do with the way we communicate with others and getting things done. When I ask you what non-verbal communication skills are, you might probably say: “The way that the body moves” or “The gestures that I make” or “The way that I speak.

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Define Leadership By Managing Conversations

Let’s take a moment here to actually define leadership. It’s easy to go into the dictionary and look for a definition. And a few of the definitions that show up are: One who actually is in the position or office of a leader One who has the capacity or ability to lead One that gives guidance and direction Another definition of leadership is “the capacity of someone to lead.

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Welcome And A Few Announcements

Hi and welcome to the new look of the website. I’m slowly migrating data from the old site onto the new site so please bear with me as you see some of these changes in navigation and changes in the backend and all sorts of other changes! If there is anything that you see like navigation issues, missing images, broken links and so on, that I missed, then please let me know and I will get to it!

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Your Inner Emotional Intelligence Book Is Your Body

In his emotional intelligence book titled, “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ” Daniel Goleman suggests that the quality of being emotional itself is intelligent. And that’s where I come in when I work clients. Sometimes we’ll start by exploring emotions and other times we’ll explore the physiological component of emotions. It’s very interesting that even though there may be a variety of different emotions that we may experience, the common understanding lists only about six basic emotions.

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Different Emotions – Are Only 4 Available?

I want to talk very quickly about the different emotions that are available in daily life. One of the reasons that I like to talk about emotions a lot is that as human beings we are always in an emotion. We may not know what emotion it is but we are always in an emotion. Did you know conventional wisdom suggests that there are only about six basic emotions?

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5 Effective Leadership Skills To Embody

What is needed to embody effective leadership skills? It can seem a bit like magic but I want to invite you to consider that it is an art. Leadership is a broad field and it is studied by universities around the globe. There are certain traits though that most great leaders seem to have despite their different circumstances. Each of these skills are things anyone can learn, and together they help form critical pieces of the effective leadership skills puzzle.

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The Business Value Of Team Building In An Organization

The greatest assets of any organization are its employees. In fact, the success of every organization is directly proportional to the hard work put in by every employee. However, no employee can work alone; every employee depends on their colleagues to contribute efficiently to the organization. Employees need to assist and obtain help from each of their workmates to help accomplish the assigned tasks. It is a proven fact that although skilled people are required to help improve the performance of an organization, it is proper teamwork and team spirit, which can better productivity and generate excellent results.

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