10 Communication Skills You Need for Life and Work
Whether we like it or not, communication lies at the heart of everything we do. More importantly, the strength of our communication skills influences our success at work, at home, and in our relationships. In our experience, everyone believes they are great communicators. Spoiler alert! Most aren’t . In our overly connected, over-scheduled worlds, we all have everything BUT real-time, face to face conversations – especially if conflict, or the possibility of conflict, is involved. We have learned that people feel real-time conversations take too long, are uncontrollable, and require actually talking to someone. Face to face. In real-time. It’s 2020, who wants to do that? Email, SMS, and social media are now the go-to forms of communication as they are faster, controllable, and done in the comfort of our solitude. Especially when conflict, or the feeling of conflict, is involved, they are the preferred modes of contacting people. Sound familiar? Don’t worry, you are not alo...