How To Stall For Time When Answering a Question
It’s one of the most common situations in business. You’re focused on a specific task in front of you, intent to finish on time, and someone comes along to ask
Questions & Listening
Posts under Questions & Listening focus on writing, positioning and asking questions of the stakeholder audience, including the different types of questions, the positioning of questions, and most of all, active listening skills to receive and interpret messages in the overall scope of communications. Please use the Search bar to scan for other relevant words or tags.
By Andy Eklund
How Do You Ask a Question?
Sound dumb, doesn’t it? I mean, come on: How do you ask a question? Is this a serious question? No, I’m not talking about , or even . Those are types
What Makes a Good Question Good?
Jump to Nine Types of Bad Questions Working in a professional services firm for much of my career, and then later as a teacher and instructor, I’ve learnt the power
Listening to Understand vs. Listening to Reply
Listening is arguably one of the most difficult skills in communications, and we’re getting worse at it. In 2006, Dr. Ralph Nichols – who established the first study in the
Gestures: Dramatizing Your Words
This post is #6 in a longer series of articles based on a presentation I gave to the Public Relations Insitute of Australia on “How To Make Your Audience Listen Better.” The Introduction to
Presentation Skills: Eye Contact
This post is #6 in a longer series of articles based on a presentation I gave to the Public Relations Insitute of Australia on “How To Make Your Audience Listen Better.” The Introduction to
Empathize With Your Audience
Empathizing with Your Audience is Post #4 in a series from a presentation entitled 11 Great Creative Slip-Ups: The Most Common Mistakes in Brainstorming. The introduction to the series begins
How to Break Your Presentation with Conversation
This post is #5 in a longer series of articles based on a presentation I gave to the Public Relations Insitute of Australia on “How To Make Your Audience Listen Better.” The Introduction
What Good Listeners Do
Good listening is not a passive activity. In truth, good listeners can actually improve the communication dynamic between the Sender and Receiver. That’s why I like this simple device of
The Rule of 3s in Communications
The Message House Explanation Download It’s one of the oldest rules in communications, simply known as The Rule of 3s. In 1956, psychologist George Miller at Princeton University concluded from
Three Types of Audiences
This post is #2 in a longer series of articles based on a presentation I gave to the Public Relations Insitute of Australia on “How To Make Your Audience Listen Better.” The Introduction
Get To The Point
This post is #1 in a longer series of articles based on a presentation I gave to the Public Relations Insitute of Australia on “How To Make Your Audience Listen Better.” The