Do you have good listening skills? Listening happens to be a key strength of good communicators. If you want to develop good communication listening skills, there are some steps you have to follow:

1) It would help if you feel empathy for the other party when you are listening. You will be able to absorb what the other person is saying better if you have empathy because the content will be close to your heart.

2) Empathy is also important because if you have...

Persuasion is one of the most important forms of influence. Without persuasion, after all, we might not get very far in our relationships. Using it appropriately, though, is the key.

1) Taking A Lesson From Marketing Companies

The art of persuasion surrounds us. We are persuaded to buy one brand of laundry detergent over another. We are persuaded to choose one partner over another. Why, though, are we persuaded one way or the other?
Companies have spend...

As technologies change, communications change. For a while, blogs were considered the hottest new form of communication. What about blogs is innovative? Does blogging work? Are blogs really going to be the mode of communication for the next hundred years, or are blogs simply a flash in the pan?

To give you an idea of where blogs fit in the scope of communication, I've sketched out roughly how communication had developed over the years.

One to Few
--Before the...

What happens when you step off the edge of a thirty story building's rooftop with nothing to keep you in the air? Gravity drops you like a rock. It's an immutable law. This law will never be broken.

Here's another one. Energy can't be created or destroyed; it may be transformed from one form to another, but the total amount of energy can never change.

You may be wondering what this has to do with becoming an expert at something. Read on, you'll begin to see what...

What do you mean when you say you are on a particular type of diet? Or when you say that you exercise diet control? It simply means, your body has certain unwanted stuff within the system, which needs to be expelled. Alternatively, it also means that your body has the short supply of certain things most wanted by it.

You control both above situations through diet. Your correct diet can build you. Your wrong diet can break you!

When a person is suffering from...

In life, you become what you believe you are. We've all heard the term ‘self-fulfilling prophecy'. We talk about self-defeating attitudes, self-sabotage and courting failure. We believe that self development means erasing those negatives.

Somehow, in all the talk of negatives and defeatist attitudes, we neglect to look at the flip side of the personal self development equation - the Universal Law of Attraction. The law of abundance attraction is the base belief behind the...

Skin cancer prevention measures can actively reduce your chances of developing skin cancer if you implement them in your daily routine. The most common form of cancer in the United States, tens of thousands of Americans contract skin cancer every year.

Skin cancer comes in three forms: basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and malignant melanoma. Of the three, melanoma is the most dangerous and life threatening. Skin cancer claims the lives of approximately ten...

In my opinion, any diet that doesn't allow for desserts, at least once in a while, is a diet that is doomed to fail. I know there are diets out there that are designed to help you get rid of sugar cravings and therefore ban sugar from your diet. But even if you are on a sugar free diet, either because you choose to be or because you need to be because of a health issue such as diabetes which makes avoiding sugar part of your everyday life, I think dessert should be part of every diet...

Transition From Campus To Corporate

One of the biggest challenges every student goes through is the transition from college to corporate life. All of a sudden, there is a transition from assignments & mid-semesters to team work and deadlines.
There is a vast difference in the way professors and managers operate. Professors are focused on enhancing learning quotient. They look at improving subject matter understanding; evaluate on the overall learning ability and...

There is no denying the fact that ‘Faith integrated upon a religion may perhaps be idiosyncratic conviction in a god or gods’ which exist in the sore traditional activity of human being as one is supposed to activate one’s perpetual faith by continuous supplication as a tentative flow. Some religions have many gods; some have only one and even some religions are theistic; others are not, even though these are popular and remarkable traditionally in some particular...